The IEEE Medal of Honor was presented to Robert E. Kahn at the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony for pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.

The 2024 IEEE President and CEO, Tom Coughlin, and the 2024 President-Elect, Kathleen Kramer, introduce the ceremony.

The 2024 IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award was presented to Hello Robot for their work in versatile, home robots and technology having the greatest potential to provide the most overall benefit to humankind.

The 2024 IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award was presented to Mainspring Energy for the emerging technology having the greatest potential to achieve financial success in broad commercial application.

The 2024 IEEE Corporate Innovation Award was presented to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) for leadership in development and deployment of chiplet architecture designs for high-performance and adaptive computing.

The 2024 IEEE Honorary Membership Award was presented to Sung Wook Park at the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony for contributions to expand the influence of technology and to improve the ecosystem of the global semiconductor industry.

The 2024 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award was presented to Stefan G. Mozar at the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony for sustained contributions and leadership of multiple IEEE Societies and Technical Communities, and IEEE Conferences.

The IEEE Haraden Pratt Award was presented to Tariq S. Durrani at the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony for sustained leadership and outstanding contributions to the IEEE in education, technical activities, awards, and global connections.

The 2024 IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award was presented to Simay Akar for leadership and inspiration of young professionals with significant contributions in the technical fields of photovoltaics and sustainable energy storage.

The 2024 IEEE Medal In Power Engineering was presented to Deepak Divan for contributions to advanced power conversion technologies and modern electric power grids.

The 2024 IEEE Edison Medal was presented to Vincent W. S. Chan for pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.

The 2024 IEEE President’s Award was presented to Gladys B. West for mathematical modeling and development of satellite geodesy models that played a pivotal role in the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

President Tom Coughlin and President-Elect Kathleen Kramer recognize the students attending the 2024 IEEE Honors Gala.

The 2024 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal was presented to Andrea J. Goldsmith for educating, mentoring, and inspiring generations of students, and for authoring pioneering textbooks in advanced digital communications.

The 2024 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology was presented to Blake S. Wilson and Graeme M. Clark for contributions to the development of the modern cochlear implant.

The 2024 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal was presented to Palghat P. Vaidyanathan for contributions to multirate digital filter banks and sparse array signal processing.

The 2024 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal was presented to Claire Tomlin for foundational work in the design and verification of cyber-physical systems with applications to safety in autonomous systems.

The IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal was presented to David J. Kuck for pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enable many performance-sensitive applications.

The 2024 IEEE John Von Neumann Medal was presented to Christopher D. Manning for advances in computational representation and analysis of natural language.

The 2024 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal was presented to Alexander Barg for contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.

The IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal was presented to Ming-Kai Tsai for vision and leadership in the global semiconductor industry, democratizing technology access for billions of people.

The 2024 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies was presented to Constance J. Chang-Hasnain and Fumio Koyama for pioneering contributions to vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and VCSEL-based photonics for optical communications and sensing.

The 2024 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal was presented to Kam Yin Lau for spearheading high-speed semiconductor lasers and RF-over-Fiber Systems, enabling today's wireline and wireless broadband access.

The 2024 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal was presented to John E. Bowers for contributions to photonic integrated circuit technologies.

The 2024 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies was presented to Hagit Messer for contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.

The 2024 IEEE Simon Ramo was presented to John A. Stankovic for contributions to the theory of real-time and resource-constrained, distributed systems in the practice of cyber-physical and health systems.

The 2024 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications was presented to Fred Daum for research, design, development, analysis, and testing of complex phased array radar systems, making them work in the real world.

The 2024 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal was presented to Jennifer Rexford for contributions to Internet wide-area routing and software-defined networking.

The IEEE Medal of Honor was presented to Robert E. Kahn at the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony for pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.

The IEEE President and CEO Tom Coughlin and IEEE President-Elect Kathleen Kramer provide concluding remarks for the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony and an invitation to join the event next year in Tokyo, Japan.

Moderator Charles Neal (NAMIC Atlanta Region) leads the discussion with panelists Professor Vincent Chan (MIT), Tom Leighton (Akamai), and Professor Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University).

Moderator Russell Harrison (IEEE-USA) leads the discussion with panelists Carolyn Kirk (MassTEch Collaborative), Samuel Naffziger (AMD), and Ming-Kai Tsai (MediaTek, Inc.). 

Moderator Caroline Hyde (Bloomberg Television) interviews Robert E. Kahn (Corporation for National Research Initiatives), the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, for an onstage conversation about his work and career journey.

Professor and Dean Karen Panetta (Tufts University) moderates the panel discussion with speakers Eric Evans (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Anthony Vetro (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs), and Peter Vetter (Nokia). 

Moderator Armen Pischdotchian (IBM) facilitates the conversation with panelists Juraj Čorba (AIGO OECD), Professor Christopher D. Manning (Stanford University), Renard T. Jenkins (12A2 Technologies, and Professor Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley). 

The 2024 VIC Summit Master of Ceremonies Janet Wu moderates an onstage fireside chat with speakers Robert E. Loredo (IBM - Quantum) and William D. Oliver (MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics) to discuss the state of quantum computing.