Organizing Committee

General Chair

Ed Perkins

Technical Program Chair

Silvia Figueira

Posters Chair

Suryadip Chakraborty

Treasurer/Finance Chair

Ed Aoki

Program Chair

Paul Cunningham

Program Strategy

John Prohodsky

Plenary/Keynote/Panels Chair

Paul Cunningham

Registration Chair

Scott Tamashiro

Publication Chair

Mei-Chien Lu

Tutorials/Workshops

Suryadip Chakraborty

Local Publicity Chair

Mostafa Mortezaie

Promotion/Social Media

Eric Quon-Lee 
John Prohodsky

Young Professionals Program

Wenbo Yin

Website Chair

Ed Perkins

Sponsorship Chair

Joseph Wei

Sponsors

Joe Decuir
Mei-Chien Lu
Paul Kostek

Volunteer Co-Chairs

Mostafa Mortezaie
Rose-Margaret Itua

Local Arrangement Chair

Erik Godo

AV Committee Member

Ed Aoki

Conference Manager

Shelby Durden

Liaisons

MIT D-Lab
Anish Paul Antony
Rich Fletcher

IEEE CES
Tom Coughlin

IEEE MTT
Tim Lee

IEEE SSIT
Paul Cunningham

IEEE SIGHT
Daniel Lottis

GHTC 2018 Advisory Committee

Advisor, R6 Conferences Chair - Michael Andrews
Advisor, R6 - Tom Coughlin
Advisor, R6 Director 2017-18 - Kathleen Kramer
Advisor, R6 Director-elect - Keith Moore
Advisor - Daniel Lottis
Advisor - Ed Aoki
Advisor - Ed Perkins
Advisor - Lewis Terman

Track Chairs

Affordable & Clean Energy: Alexander Anderson & Adil Usman

Agriculture & Food Security: Joan Kerr

Clean Water & Sanitation: Bob Wubbena

Community Engagement, Capacity-Building, and Behavior Change: Satish Babu

Connectivity & Communication: Adil Usman

Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response & Recovery: Esther Obonyo

Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities: Michael Lightner

Technology Enhanced Quality Education Delivery: Bai Blyden

Technology Enhanced Healthcare: Charmayne Hughes

Technology and Applications for Poverty Alleviation: Roger Johnson

Social Science & Entrepreneurship: Anish Antony

Other United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: TBD