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The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) is seeking nominations for the President-Elect of the Society.

DARRYL LEE PALMER JR. May 19, 1971 – August 30, 2026 was a visionary leader in the engineering world.

Join us for a discussion exploring the complex ethical challenges emerging in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape and what these challenges mean for engineering education and practice.

IEEE Sections Congress 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, August 23, 2026: Kerala, India, Section Chair Dr Manoj BS extends welcome to ISTAS26, Heather Love, IEEE SSIT VP Conferences. 

The past three issues of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (which just achieved an impressive Clarivate Web of Science Journal Impact Factor of 5.9), are full of tremendous content. Listed here for browsing are the tables of contents, and direct IEEE Xplore links, for the three most recent issues of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society:

IEEE SSIT FORMATION WEEK 2026 MDEI Live & Upcoming Events – Reminder ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10 LIVE & UPCOMING EDUCATION EVENTS |…  Read More

The paper submission deadline for the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2026) has been extended to 29th May 2026.

IEEE SSIT congratulates Kalyan Sen, IEEE SSIT President-Elect, on being selected as the recipient of the 2026 IEEE PES Robert Noberini Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism Award.

Katina’s Brief Biography Katina Michael is professor of Strategy, Innovation and Technology at the University of Sydney Business School. She…  Read More

A. David Wunsch has developed the reviews section into a much appreciated feature of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, and we seek to continue that tradition.

iSRED 2026: International Symposium on Social Robots and Ethical Design 2026 Inamori Hall, Ito Campus, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan, November…  Read More

SSIT President Elect Kalyan Sen presided over the inauguration of the newest SSIT professional chapter in the IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section on February 23, 2026.

The International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

A recording of the February 18, 2026 SSIT Webinar, “IEEE AgeTech for Humanity: A Standards-Led Approach to Aging and Accessibility,” is now available. Speaker Dr. George Arnold, Chair of the IEEE AgeTech Initiative, was the presenter of the session, which was organized by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Education Committee.

The 13th IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2026) is designed to explore development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Immediate SSIT Past-President Luis Kun has been recognized by the IEEE Computer Society as a Distinguished Contributor.

SASIGD 2026 brings together global innovators to advance Responsible and Sustainable AI across seven tracks

The IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society has been confirmed by Scopus for a 2025 CiteScore.

The 2026 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS26) is set for October 14-16, 2026, in Kerala, India

Gisele Waters, SSIT Standards Committee Working Group Chair for IEEE P3119-2025, has been recognized with a 2025 Standards Award, the IEEE SA – Emerging Technology Award.