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Jeffrey Strauss will discuss international standard-setting challenges and trends, including efforts to develop world-wide harmonized standards and anticipate and address rapidly changing technology developments, as well as related negotiation issues. He will also consider cultural differences in approaching standards setting (Japan, China, US).

Strauss is Director of Industry Programs in the Center for Technology and Innovation Management (CTIM) at the Buffett Institute, where he develops programs to raise attention in managers, faculty, and students across disciplines to key underlying strategic issues not yet fully on their view screens, including standards. This, in the form of complex and dynamic innovation challenges, is also the focus of a Buffett working group. Strauss is a member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ISO Council and Committee on Education, and the equivalent in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and spearheads National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) supported industry-academic workshops and teaching materials development. He was recently elected Vice-Chair for the Americas for the International Cooperation for Education and Standardization (ICES). He has traveled, worked and lectured in many countries, and has been with Northwestern for 30 years.