Workshop - Innovative Solutions from Scrap: Developing Technology Blueprints for Crisis Response using Commonly available Materials
IEEE IHTC 2024
This workshop aims to empower participants to ideate, design, and develop technological solutions from commonly available or scrap materials to address critical needs in crisis situations such as natural disasters, wars, and pandemics. The focus will be on generating practical blueprints and guidelines that can be utilized by communities and organizations in resource-constrained environments.
Participants will collaborate in interdisciplinary teams, leveraging their diverse expertise to create innovative solutions for real-world challenges. The outcomes will include actionable blueprints and guidelines for developing technologies using materials like car parts, electronic waste, and other scrap materials. These technologies could be applied to areas such as renewable energy, water purification, sanitation, and communication systems in emergency contexts.
11:00 – Introduction and Overview
11:20 – Case Studies and Inspiration
11:40 – Breakout Session: Needs Identification and Brainstorming
11:50 – Breakout Session: Design and Development
12:30 – Presentation and Feedback
12:50 – Wrap-Up and Next Steps
Almedin Kavaz
Chair of IEEE Region 8 Ad-Hoc on Territories in Crisis
Almedin is an electrical engineer, specializing in electrical power and energy field. Almedin is currently working as Senior Specialist Capacity & Congestion Management at Swissgrid AG. Swissgrid is Switzerland’s national grid company, responsible for operating, maintaining and modernizing high voltage grid. Almedin graduated from the University of Sarajevo, where he received a BSc (in 2014) and MSc (in 2016) having a major in Electrical Power Engineering. Almedin’s volunteering experience in IEEE began in early 2013, when he started to serve as a membership development officer at the Industrial Applications Society (IAS) and very fast grew into an influencer, serving as a University of Sarajevo Student Branch Chair (2015-2016) and as a YP Chair of Bosnia and Herzegovina Section (2016-2018). From 2018, Almedin is a member of Region 8 Young Professionals and in the period of 2021-2022 he was the Chair of the committee. At the moment, Almedin serves as Chair of IEEE Switzerland Section and Chair of Region 8 Territories in Crisis Committee.