Sheree Wen, Organizer and Chair, New Era AI
Sheree earned her Ph.D. in engineering, physics, and statistics from U.C. Berkeley and joined IBM, where she made vital contributions to the first high-speed mainframe computers. At IBM, she served in senior management and was responsible for corporate technical strategies, worldwide manufacturing, corporate quality, and university grants.
After IBM, Sheree founded companies and established manufacturing facilities in the United States and several Asian countries. Her companies developed, manufactured, and distributed pace-setting electronics products worldwide with brands including IBM, AT&T, Unisys, and Wen. Her companies have supplied Made-in-the-USA products to federal agencies and sold through commercial outlets such as Walmart and Sam’s Clubs and various distributors worldwide. Her companies have received numerous awards and performed multiple Federal and local Governmental contracts. Boeing and NASA awarded Sheree’s quality products 5 out of 5. These companies won many awards and numerous government contracts.
Sheree is passionate about serving others. Locally, nationally and internationally.
Internationally, she served as the United States National Commissioner to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO), and was the founder and president of UNESCO Washington State. She was a board member of the UNESCO International Center for Women Artists. United States/International Committee on Monuments and Sites, Sheree also chairs many international humanitarian technology conferences.
Sheree’s commitment to community service is unwavering. Her decades-long service includes roles such as Deputy Mayor and a member of City Council, Medina, WA. In Washington, she served as a Washington State Arts Commissioner, the University of Washington Library, the Seattle International Film Festival, the Puget Sound Region Economic Development Board, Washington State, Emergency Communication working group, Sound City Association. She is the Founder of the UNESCO Washington State Center.
Sheree is active with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She served as the Chair of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Partnership, the communications policy and cyber security committee of IEEE-USA, the Chair of IEEE Government Relations, Western Region, and the Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering, region 6. She served as the chair and is now vice chair of IEEE Seattle and the Computer Society of IEEE Seattle.
Nominated by international scientific leaders, Sheree was honored with a gold medal and the Young Scientist of the Year award from the American Institute of Materials and Petroleum Engineers, AIME. Sheree was featured as a top women entrepreneur by the New York Times and as a 20th-century Asian Woman by Japan Asahi News. She was presented with the “Excellence” award by the U.S. Small Business Administration. She has more than two dozen patents and published many research papers.