【致辞原文】

Hello everyone. 

I am Tom Coughlin and I have the pleasure to serve as the 2024 President and CEO of IEEE. 

I would like to thank the organizers of the World Internet of Things Convention for the opportunity to speak to you today. 

For those who are unfamiliar with IEEE, we are the world's largest technical professional society. Our more than 460,000 members work across academia, industry, and government with the goal of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. 

Through our highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, IEEE members from over 190 countries build communities of diverse engineering and technological professionals and inspire innovative technological solutions.

IEEE has a tremendous technical reach, with communities spanning areas from semiconductors and circuits and computers and communications to power and energy and well beyond – to explore and apply technology to solve the world’s most challenging problems. 

At IEEE, we are driven by what’s next—enabling innovation and the creation of new technologies.  Our focus is on fostering collaboration, building and convening communities, and supporting the creation and dissemination of technical knowledge.

We are witnessing rapid developments in technology such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, and more.  These innovations have tremendous potential for transforming industries, improving human health, and solving complex problems.  

But these technologies bring new challenges and uncertainties, such as ethical dilemmas and privacy concerns and create the need for foundational elements that ensure technology serves the broader societal goals of efficiency, safety, and environmental responsibility. 

Standards enable technologies to work seamlessly together, ensuring that products and services are reliable, secure, safe, scalable, and efficient. Standards are the unseen force behind today’s technological innovation and the growing circular economy.  

In the context of sustainability, standards are vitally important for several reasons. 

Emerging technologies produce new opportunities for improved energy efficiency, and support the transition to a more sustainable future, as energy availability and consumption are some of the most pressing challenges of our time.  Standards are playing a pivotal role in redefining data center resource use, providing the framework needed to make them more resource efficient and to optimize energy use, while providing required services.

Standards also support the transition to the circular economy where products and materials are reused, refurbished, and recycled.  Standards for e-waste management, recycling and material recovery ensure that valuable resources are reclaimed, reducing the strain on our environment.

Standards play an important part in establishing a framework for equity and inclusion by developing design principles and guidelines for emerging technologies that, for instance, establish safeguards for age-appropriate access and online safety.

Standards create a level playing field for innovation.  They enable different stakeholders, using a true multi stakeholder collaborative environment, to develop solutions that work together to drive progress towards the sustainable development goals.

As we look to the future, the role of standards will only grow in importance. Emerging technologies hold great potential for sustainable development.  However, their responsible deployment hinges on the establishment of comprehensive standards that address ethical, environmental, and social considerations.

Standards are the invisible threads that weave together the fabric of our digital society, ensuring that technical advancements are aligned with a sustainable, inclusive, principled, and prosperous future.

A thriving exchange of global, leading-edge viewpoints on technology and innovation is imperative as we continue to pursue IEEE’s mission of advancing technology for humanity.

I am honored to be part of IEEE’s global, technological enterprise. One that is committed to scientific and technical discovery and innovation that improves our standards of living and helps us care for each other and for our planet. 

Thank you again for the opportunity to speak to you.  I applaud the organizer’s efforts to build a platform for international cooperation in science, technology, and innovation.  I wish you a successful convention.  

Thank you.

【致辞译文】

各人好，

我很幸运担任2024年美国电气电子工程师学会的主席兼首席执行官，我是汤姆?考夫林。

谢谢恒峰g22大会的主理方，给予我今天向各人发演出讲的时机。

对于那些不熟悉电气电子工程师学会的人来说，恒峰g22是全球最大的手艺专业学会。恒峰g22有凌驾46万名会yuan，来自学术界、工业界和政府部门，致力于推下手艺生长，造福人类。

电气电子工程师学会的会yuan来自190多个国家，通过高引用的出书物、聚会会议、手艺尺度和专业教育运动，构建了多元化的工程和手艺专业人士社区，并引发了创新手艺解决方案的提出。电气电子工程师学会在手艺领域具有重大的影响力，其社区笼罩了从半导体、电路、盘算机、通讯到电力、能源等普遍领域，致力于探索并应用手艺解决全球最具挑战性的问题。

在电气电子工程师学会，恒峰g22的驱动力是推动未来新手艺的创新和缔造。恒峰g22着重于促进社群相助、构建和荟萃，以及支持手艺知识的缔造和撒播。

恒峰g22正眼见手艺领域的飞速生长，如人工智能、量子盘算、生物手艺等。这些创新具有重大潜力，可以改变工业名堂、改善人类康健，并解决重大难题。

然而，这些手艺带来了新的挑战和不确定性，如道德逆境和隐私问题。同时，也缔造了对基础要素的需求，以确保手艺服务于更普遍的社会目的，包罗效率、清静和情形责任。

尺度使手艺能够无缝协作，确保产物和服务的可靠性、清静性、可扩展性和高效性。尺度是当今手艺创新和一直生长的循环经济背后的无形实力。

在可一连生长方面，尺度之以是至关主要，主要有以下几个缘故原由。

新兴手艺为改善能源效率提供了新的机缘，并支持向更可一连的未来过渡。由于能源的可用性和消耗是恒峰g22这个时代面临的最紧迫的挑战之一，所襶uan曜荚谥匦陆缢凳葜行淖试词褂梅矫媸┱棺胖凉刂饕淖饔谩Ｕ庑┏叨忍峁┝怂璧目蚣，使其更具资源效率并优化能源使用，同时提供须要的服务。

gai尺度支持循环经济生长，促进产物和质料的重复使用、翻新和接纳。通过实验电子废物治理、接纳和质料接纳尺度，可以确保名贵资源获得充实接纳使用，同时减轻情形压力。

在建设公正和包容的框架方面，尺度施展着主要作用。它为新兴手艺制订设计原则和指南，包罗确保适龄会见和在线清静。

尺度为创新缔造了一个公正竞争的情形，使得差异利益相关者能够在真正的多利益相关者相助情形中配合开发解决方案，从而推动实现可一连生长目的的希望。

展望未来，尺度的作用将变得越发主要。新兴手艺具有重大的可一连生长潜力，但其认真任的部署取决于建设周全思量伦理、情形和社会因素的尺度。

尺度是将数字社会的各个方面细密联系在一起的无形纽带，以确保手艺前进与可一连性、包容性、原则性和繁荣性的未来保持一致。

在推进电气电子工程师学会践行人类手艺前进使命的历程中，必须促进全球领先手艺和创新看法的繁荣交流。我很是幸运成为电气电子工程师学会这个全球性手艺企业的一yuan。gai企业致力于科学和手艺的发现与创新，提高恒峰g22的生涯水平，资助恒峰g22相互关爱并关注恒峰g22的星球。

再ci谢谢主理方给予我在此讲话的时机。我很是赞赏主理方在构开国际科技创新相助平台方面所支付的起劲。祝愿本ci大会取得圆满乐成。

谢谢。