Kathy Grise is Future Directions Senior Program Director, IEEE Technical Activities, at IEEE. She works directly with IEEE volunteers, IEEE staff, and consultants in support of new initiatives and is the IEEE Staff Program Manager for the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative and the IEEE Technology Navigator. Prior to joining the IEEE staff, Ms. Grise held numerous positions at IBM and most recently was a Senior Engineering Manager for Enablement in the IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center. She can be reached at k.l.grise at ieee.org.