MANAGEMENT
Board of Directors
Strategy, governance approvals, budget oversight, and major partnership review.
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE / 07
Clear responsibility makes collaboration possible.
Governance, advice, operations, and project teams work as one system—each with a distinct role and a shared public-benefit standard.
GOVERNANCE · OPERATIONS · ACCOUNTABILITYFour layers, one direction.
Strategy moves into action through explicit ownership, transparent review, and working groups built around real outcomes.
ADVISORY
Advisory Council
Professional guidance, ecosystem connections, credibility, and project support.
EXECUTION
Secretariat
Annual-plan delivery, cross-functional coordination, events, and member operations.
PROJECT
Departments & Working Groups
Recurring programs, partnerships, talent development, and public-benefit initiatives.
GOVERNANCE & MEMBERSHIP
Roles, rights, and responsibilities.
The formal layer protects the mission; the membership layer keeps the organization open, useful, and accountable.
Recommended board roles
Chair / President
Board leadership, strategic direction, meeting governance, and mission integrity.
Vice Chair
Cross-functional coordination and leadership of delegated initiatives.
Secretary
Minutes, resolutions, records, governance documents, and annual filing rhythm.
Treasurer
Budget review, financial controls, and transparent sponsorship and donation management.
Directors at Large
Diverse academic, industry, nonprofit, and community perspectives for strategy and oversight.
Membership principles
Shared values, professional integrity, and willingness to contribute to education, exchange, and public benefit.
Paths for individual, student, professional, institutional, and supporter or sponsor membership.
Benefits centered on participation, learning resources, collaboration networks, volunteering, and mission identity—not commercial rebates.
Clear application, review, participation, renewal, and exit rules support a healthy organization.
PROGRAM TRACKS
Topics our community explores.
Programs can form across four connected technology and impact domains.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Foundational Technology
Semiconductors, chips, sensing, compute infrastructure, AIDC, energy, and critical hardware.
INTELLIGENCE
Models & Systems
NLP, computer vision, multimodal models, AI agents, evaluation, and safe deployment.
DEPLOYMENT
Applications
Robotics, drones, manufacturing, finance, education, healthcare, life science, and public services.
RESPONSIBILITY
Cross-Cutting Topics
AI ethics, entrepreneurship, talent, international cooperation, and policy dialogue.