IN Person ExCom 6PM to order dinner, business will start 6:45 Agenda: NH Section ExCom Meeting Agenda 1. Attendance Quorum check -- David Casper 2. approval of agenda including consent agenda Consent to approval of outstanding 2023 minutes (in the appropriate month's ExCom directory area) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10bSrj8mZMapJLPlc__rIC5zgkpe22-h4?usp=share_link Consent to approval of outstanding 2023 treasurer reports https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10bSrj8mZMapJLPlc__rIC5zgkpe22-h4?usp=share_link 3. Chairs Comments Jim will be attending Region1/2 combined Board of Govenors meeting June 2-4 Parking lot: Review of how we handle budget, and possible guidelines on spending (target March meeting) 4. Action Item Report - Jim/et al -- elevation committee 5. Chapter/Affiliate Group Activity & coordination Key action: identify one or two topics in your chapter/affiliate group area of interest and plan on which month you will try to organize an activity based on that. 6. Standing Committee Activities: PACE, Education, Student, ... 7 Old Business --- Creating SSIT Chapter -- Ed Nelson; also interested: Henry Axtmayer; Bruce Hecht; others? 8 New Business Section & Chapter Election Cycle for 2024/5 Logically organize budget structure (after approval) A document with budget/funding considerations has been set up at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KAU8FhgJJOP8Z2GvM0xBbnfmeUaj-IMDYHWi0Xxxmhw/edit?usp=share_link 9 Next Meeting -- Wed. June 21 (Virtual) 10. For the good of the order -- 11 Adjourn to forum 12 Forum topics (upcoming events, etc) Discussion of budget/re-imbursement processes ========================== Our Leadership Team: Communications and Signal Processing Chair: Open Computer Society Chair: Wei Lu Vice Chair: Sridhar Raghavan Treasurer: Baris Kazar Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Chair: Laura Wierschke Secretary: J Michael OConnor Microwave T&T/Antennas and Propagation Chair: Elizabeth H. Schenk Vice Chair: Ian Armstrong Power and Energy Society Chair: Tom Mongeon Reliability Society Chair: Michael W. Bannan Robotics and Automation Society Chair: Sridhar Raghavan Affiliate Groups Consultants Network Chair: Raj Vayyavur Life Members Chair: Alan Schecter Secretary: J Michael OConnor Women In Engineering/Young Professionals Chair: Barbara Bancroft Education Chair/Community Qiayon Yu Student Activities May Wan History Committee Jason Hui PACE Henry Axtmayer Bldg: Airport Diner, 2280 Brown Ave, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03103-6828

Having a secure and reliable system is key in ensuring connectivity for daily operations, identifying faults, communication during natural disasters and future smart initiatives. By creating a Private LTE network brings control back to the utilities from the public carriers. There are many new areas and technologies that have been enabled through use of different RF bands ranging from 600mHZ to 6.0 Ghz that will enable utilities to maintain protection and control while also gathering data to make better operational decisions. From EV chargers to AMI Meters, technology has adapted and so now do utilities. Speaker(s): Jason “J.T.” Mills, , ***CANCELED*** Agenda: Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/359098