About us
About the IEEE Boston Section
IEEE Boston Section serves more than 6,500 members of the IEEE, the Global Community for Technology Professionals. IEEE Boston has over 35 chapters and affinity groups covering broad topics of interest and more than 150 volunteers help create and coordinate our events throughout the year.
The IEEE Boston Section also sponsors and organizes several technical conferences per year, as well as many short courses and social events. The Boston Section publishes a bi-weekly newsletter and is active on social media including LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
The IEEE Boston Section website, www.ieeeboston.org lists all our local events. If you want subscribe to our local electronic newsletter distribution list, please send an email to sec.boston@ieee.org.
Upcoming events
3

2026 IEEE Intl. Conference on AI & Data Analytics (ICAD 2026)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, USRegistration and admission fee is required at ieee-icad.org. This conference and exhibition will emphasize the applications of AI and key AI verticals that impact technology applications and innovations. ICAD aims to provides an opportunity to learn about new research and breakthroughs in AI, gain valuable insights, grow your network, and get inspired by the brightest minds working in this multi-faceted field.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Anthony Vetro,
IEEE Fellow, President & CEO Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)
Dr. Samantika Sury
Vice President, HPE Fellow, Chief Hardware Architect, HPEC and AI Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ms. Christine Miyachi
Principal Software Development Manager and Systems Architect, Microsoft
Dr. Stefanie Chiras
Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub, Red Hat5 attendees
IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference
·OnlineOnlineHPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the field. Registration is required to attend: https://ieee-hpec.org.
2026 Distinguished Speakers
- Prof. Saman Amarasinghe (Perkins Prof EESC MIT; ACM Fellow)
- Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam (President New England Complex Systems Institute)
- Craig Connors (VP & CTO Cisco Infrastructure & Security)
- Prof. Danna Freedman (Keyes Prof Chemistry MIT, Quantum@MIT Director; MacArthur Fellow)
- Prof. Sigal Gottlieb (Chancellor Prof Math UMass Dartmouth; SIAM & AWM Fellow)
- Dave Martinez (MIT Lincoln Lab Fellow; IEEE Fellow)
- Dr. CJ Newburn (Nvidia Distinguished Engineer; NVIDIA IO and HPC software strategy architect)
- Prof. Daniela Rus (Viterbi Prof EESC MIT, CSAIL Director; AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, MacArthur & NAE Member/Fellow)
2 attendees
Past events
5

