IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - June 2021 - 89

by Ashok Bindra
IEEE APEC 2021 Conference and
Exposition Goes Virtual
s coronavirus pandemic continues
to pose risks, there are
global travel restrictions,
unknown regulation on large meetings,
and social distancing practices in
place. Taking these factors into consideration,
including the safety and
well-being of the conference participants,
organizers of the IEEE Applied
Power Electronics Conference and
Exposition (APEC) have decided to
hold APEC 2021 virtually rather than
in-person event as planned earlier.
Consequently, APEC will be presented
online from 14-17 June, 2021, on the
virtual event platform Social27, with
on demand access starting the week
of June 7. On-demand recordings in -
clude technical session lectures and
dialogues (poster sessions), industry
sessions, and professional education
seminars. In summary, APEC 2021
will be presented in a fully virtual
format with a mixture of live, ondemand,
and recorded educational
content, a virtual exposition, and plenty
of opportunities to network.
For the second time, this preA
mier
event in applied power electronics
will bring together thousands of
professionals from around the world
for online networking, learning and
strategic business development. The
technical program looks exceptional.
It includes seven distinguished
plenary speakers, technical sessions
presenting peer-reviewed papers for
the practicing power electronics professionals,
industry sessions offering
current topics in power electronics
from industry sources, three RAP
sessions, and 16 professional education
seminars.
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The plenary speakers and their respective
topics include:
■ " Auxiliary Automotive Drives Revolutionized
by Power Electronics, "
Annette Muetze, Univ.-Prof.
Dr.-Ing, Graz University of Technology,
Austria
■ " Wide Bandgap Technologies:
Enabling a Broader Power Application
Domain " Edoardo Merli, Power
Transistor Macro-Division General
Manager and Group Vice President,
STMicroelectronics, Italy
■ " The Present and Future of Magnetics
and Other Power Passives, "
Charles R. Sullivan, Professor of
Engineering, Thayer School of
Engineering at Dartmouth
■ " Native American Energy Sovereignty:
Energy Storage and Power
Electronics Benefits " Stanley Atcitty,
Distinguish Member of Technical
Staff Sandia National Laboratories
■ " Maturing Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
Fosters Standardization
(JEDEC JC-70 addresses unique
characteristics and behaviors of
WBG) " Stephanie Watts Butler, Texas
Instruments; JC-70 Chair, Peter Friedrichs,
Infineon; JC-70.2 Co-Chair
■ " Quantum Computing-The New
Computing Paradigm " Heike Riel,
IBM Fellow, Lead IBM Research
Quantum Europe & Africa IBM
Research
Likewise, the three RAP sessions
include " Distributed versus. centralized
control for microgrid and nano-grid, "
Does high level of integration make
power converters more reliable or not? "
and " Where does the expertise for the
next generation of magnetics come
from? The Magnetics companies or the
engineer designing the power supply?
According to APEC, virtual exhibit
is designed to allow attendees to
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