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166 I-CONNECT007 I REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2022 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE so they can design, purchase, order and pro- duce according to the guidelines the standards offer." e Awards Luncheon is always fun. e show floor was reduced a bit due to COVID, however, there was a crowd every day, with lots of activities and interviews. Jan did a great interview with Happy Holden on ultra HDI. Not surprisingly, for us the highlight was natu- rally when Jan received another award for his contribution to the Automotive Addendum. Andres Ojalil, one of the staff liaisons of IPC, had this to say about D-33AA, IPC Automotive Addendum Task Group Committee Leader- ship awardee Jan Pedersen: "Jan is an enthusiastic and productive advo- cate for the automotive electronics segment in the printed board industry. Under his leader- ship, the Automotive Applications Addendum to IPC-6012E was published in October 2021 and he is already working on Amendment 1 to address new technologies, test methods, and other needs in automotive electronics." High-Voltage Focus Group Numerous task group meetings were con- ducted, hundreds of questions answered, lunches eaten while meeting new industry partners, and lovely SoCal dinners enjoyed in the evening. Bob Neves gave a very good intro to a suggested new CAF test for above 300V designs. We decided to go for an A-Team /Task group for the new test method. e group also decided to continue collecting failure modes. e keynote speech from David Pogue, dis- ruptive tech expert, was interesting, funny, and slightly worrying. e development of elec- tronics, and the race of automation can at some points be a bit frightening to listen to. A world of drones, robots, and all sorts of technology to assist the promising race, the humans, with any hard or easy task, can cause curiosity but also questions like, "How can we make sure to maintain control?" "How can we make sure the technology doesn't end up in the wrong hands?" or "Is our ability to consider the worst outcome and prevent it, really enough?" His tag line: "It's going to be a wild ride," explains