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IEEE Life Fellow Manfred "Fred" J. Schindler has won election as 2027 IEEE president-elect, securing 16,421 votes against Senior Member David Alan Koehler's 13,874. He will assume the presidency on 1 January 2028, pending the IEEE Board's acceptance of the Teller's Committee report in November.
For IEEE Day, the IEEE Computer Society's San Antonio chapter under IEEE Region 5 hosted a session led by Jess J. Montgomery titled 'Beyond the Framework: Operationalizing AI Governance Where Failure Matters.' The discussion centered on managing operational risk as AI systems move from experimental use into mission-critical deployments.
The IEEE Computer Society is calling for qualified experts to apply for editor in chief positions across several of its publications. Terms for the new EICs will run from 1 January 2028 through 31 December 2029, with eligibility for a two-year reappointment afterward.
IEEE has published its 2025 Social Impact Report, detailing volunteer-led programs that apply engineering expertise to public-good initiatives worldwide. The report compiles projects previously covered by The Institute, showing how members work to raise awareness of technology's societal effects.
IEEE has broadened the offerings of its Smart Cities Technical Community, originally launched in 2013 as the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative, to give city officials, engineers and researchers access to unbiased guidance and educational resources on smart-city technology. The group aims to address recurring problems in smart city deployments, including inconsistent standards, privacy breaches and weak coordination among stakeholders.
The IEEE Computer Society's Columbia Section Chapter (Region 3) held a technical session examining how AI in software development is moving beyond simple code-completion tools. Speakers discussed the emergence of agentic AI systems capable of more autonomous roles in enterprise software engineering workflows.
IEEE Computer Society reports that agentic AI systems, which plan and execute multi-step tasks rather than just answering single requests, are now moving into real pilots and early production use across software engineering, operations, and business automation. These systems differ from traditional applications by taking autonomous actions over time, which is prompting operators to reconsider how cloud infrastructure and monitoring tools are built around them.
On October 10, 2026, the IEEE Joint Computer and Communications Society Trinidad and Tobago Chapter, led by Sachin Ganpat, partnered with the IEEE UWI student branch to mark Ada Lovelace Day. The event honored Lovelace's legacy and reportedly aimed to connect students with ideas beyond standard academic coursework.
The IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery named Daniel Reed, PhD, as the recipient of the 2026 Ken Kennedy Award. Reed is a Presidential Professor in Computational Science (emeritus) at the University of Utah and previously served as Corporate Vice President of Technology Policy at Microsoft.
IEEE is proceeding with a restructuring of its geographic regions, first announced in February 2023. Region 1 will be eliminated and merged with Region 2 to form a new Region 2 covering the Northeastern and Eastern U.S., while the current Region 10 (Asia Pacific) will split into a new Region 10 for North Asia and a new Region 11 for South Asia and the Pacific. The changes take effect 1 January 2028, and IEEE says member sections, chapters and individual memberships will not be affected.
IEEE Educational Activities, backed by the IEEE Computer Society, has released a new training program called AI Processor Architecture, Design Principles, and Performance. The five-course curriculum covers core chip design fundamentals, advanced architectures, neural processing units, emerging trends, and deployment across edge, cloud, quantum and IoT systems.
IEEE Computer Society published guidance proposing four gates that enterprise AI agents should pass before executing actions, not just generating answers. The framing uses an example of an agent summarizing a contract and posting an update, highlighting the gap between producing text and taking consequential action.