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1 IEEE: The Force Behind Innovation Joseph Wei Chair, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, SCV Vice Chair, Chair ( ), Santa Clara Valley Section Co-founder, Lab360 Hardware Incubator CEO, SJW Consulting, Inc. 1

2 Joseph Wei Joseph Wei is a co-founder of Lab360, an incubator that provides investment, and business acceleration for early stage hardware startups. Lab360 started as a client project from Joseph s consulting company, SJW Consulting Inc. a business strategy consulting firm advising C-level executives at global technology companies. Previously, Joseph held executive positions at Inventec Corp., Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), NEC, and DEC. He is recognized for his expertise in wearable, IoT, and Cloud computing. 2 Joseph is an IEEE senior member, the 2016 Chair for the Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section, recipient of the IEEE MGA Outstanding Large Section Award. He is also the Industrial Relations VP, and, the SCV Chair for the CE Society. He is an advisor to several startups, and, a mentor to Alchemist Accelerator. He has a BS in EE from Tufts University.

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Seminar in Honor of Kees Schouhamer Immink The IEEE, and its medal of honor Dirk Van Hertem Benelux section chair Rotterdam, June 16, 2017 What is IEEE? Originally: Institute for electrical and electronics