HYBRID EVENT: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (Pavilion Room) and Zoom
9:30 am – 3 pm ET
This forum brought together AI and standardization experts to explore generative AI, its potential, challenges, and risks—and the important role for standards and regulations in supporting its responsible use.
The Panel: Generating the Future: Impact Across Sectors is not included in the recording at the speaker’s request.
HYBRID EVENT: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (Pavilion Room) and Zoom
9:30 am – 4 pm ET
Traditional standards developing organizations (SDOs) and consortia are facing common, cross-cutting issues—including an ever-quickening pace of change in critical and emerging technologies, an increasing level of politicization of standards and related standards processes at home and abroad, and the need to attract and upskill the future standards workforce. This community-wide conference brought together standards-setting bodies of all kinds—including consortia and other forums and ANSI-accredited standards developers—to exchange best practices and identify opportunities to address common challenges and concerns.
HYBRID EVENT: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (Pavilion Room) and Zoom
12:15 – 1:15 pm
ANSI Chair Phil Piqueira and ANSI President and CEO Joe Bhatia reviewed highlights of the past year, recapping accomplishments against strategic goals and describing how the Institute and its businesses are supporting the standards and conformity assessment community's efforts to innovate for the future.
Ritz Carlton Washington
Reception: 6 – 7 pm
Dinner: 7 – 9:30 pm
ANSI's Leadership and Service Awards were presented to the 2023 recipients at this banquet and ceremony in celebration of outstanding achievements in standardization.
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HYBRID EVENT: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (Hemisphere A) and Zoom
9 am – 12:30 pm
The USNC National YEP Program was launched in 2022 to provide opportunities and foster active engagement of U.S. young and emerging professionals in electrotechnology standardization. Since then, the USNC YEP Committee has been focused on identifying strategic goals and next steps to implement the program. The Committee hosted a working session during World Standards Week.
HYBRID EVENT: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (Pavilion Room) and Zoom
11 am - 4pm ET
ANSI's 2023 Legal Issues Forum (LIF) focused on two hot topics for the standards community: the copyright implications of incorporating standards by reference into legislation (IBR), and the copyright implications of using AI in standards (and standards in AI). Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania professor of law and political science, and director, Penn Program on Regulation, provided keynote remarks.
Summary: ANSI’s Legal Issues Forum Explores Two Critical Copyright Issues Facing Standards Community
U.S. CELEBRATION OF WORLD STANDARDS DAY
The U.S. Celebration of WSD is hosted by a committee of standardization community partners.
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
4:45 pm – 8 pm ET
4:45 pm – 5:30pm: Opening networking reception and exhibits
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: WSD program
6:30 pm – 8 pm: Continued networking reception and exhibits
ASTM International served as the 2023 administrating organization of the U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day, with the theme “A Shared Vision for a Better World."
Summary: U.S. Standardization Community Gathers in Washington, DC to Celebrate World Standards Day 2023
Looking for WSW 2022 proceedings? Visit the Spring 2022 and Fall 2022 event pages.
