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Full Schedule

  • Tuesday, March 24, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CT
    Speaker Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT
    Speaker Ready Room Open
  • 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM CT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM CT
    Spouse and Guest Hospitality Room Open
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM CT
    Student Mentorship Room (Courtesy of PSMA)
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Energy Harvesting Meeting
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Industry Education Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    TC 12: Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT
    TC 6: Emerging Power Electronic Technologies
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Education & Digital Media Scholarship & Fellowship Committee
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    VP of Products Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT
    Exposition Hall Open
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    International Technology Roadmap for High Power Electronics for the Modern Energy Grid (ITRG)
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    TC 10: Design Methodologies
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Energy Management Meeting
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    TC 11: Aerospace Power
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    International Technology Roadmap for Wide-Band Gap Power Semi-Conductors (ITRW)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    TC 9: Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Lunch
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
    Lunch in Exposition Hall
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
    AI Meeting
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
    Energy Storage Meeting
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Spouse and Guest Tuesday Lunch
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Standards Committee Meeting
  • 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Student Demonstration Competition
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    MagNet Challenge
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    TC 2: Power Components, Integration, and Power ICs
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    TC 4: Electrified Transportation Systems
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    WIE Committee Meeting
  • 1:30 PM - 4:15 PM CT
    Exhibitor Presentations
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Amperesand
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    AstrodyneTDI
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    CircuitNuggets
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Helion Energy
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Infineon Technologies
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    LITEON Technology
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Lutron Electronics
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Monolithic Power Systems (MPS)
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Redwood Materials
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Robert Bosch LLC
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    SIMPLIS Technologies
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    STMicroelectronics
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    TDK Corporation
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Industry Committee Meeting
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Magnetics Meeting
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Semiconductor Meeting
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    ACE Committee Meeting
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    TC 5: Sustainable Energy Systems
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    VP of Industry and Standards Meeting
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Region 1-6 Chairs Meeting
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    SPEC Steering Committee Meeting
  • 4:15 PM CT
    Exposition Hall Raffle Drawing
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CT
    Bidirectional Devices: Will emerging bi-directional devices have wide adoption or not?
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CT
    In Power Electronics, Should the future rely more on Generative AI for Design or Predictive AI for Optimization?
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
    PELS Mentorship Roundtables (Registration Required)
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
    PELS Mentorship Roundtables
  • 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT
    IS01 - What Is the Next Killer Application for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors?
    Industry Session Chair: Timothy K. McDonald – Power Q Consulting, Inc.
    Industry Session Chair: Peter Di Maso, MBA
    Student Session Assistant: Yang Li (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven - Energyville
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT
    IS02 - AI and Digital Twins Transforming Power Device Innovation
    Industry Session Chair: Jaume Roig – onsemi
    Industry Session Chair: Stephanie Watts Butler, PhD, PE – WattsButler LLC
    Industry Session Chair: Kevin Hermanns – PE-Systems GmbH
    Student Session Assistant: Hamood Ur Rehman, PhD Student – University of Arkansas
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT
    IS03 - Capacitor Circuit Design Essentials for Modern Challenges
    Industry Session Chair: Alan J. Cooper, Ph.D CEng. MIET – YAGEO
    Industry Session Chair: Frank Puhane, B.Eng (he/him/his) – Wurth Elektronik
    Student Session Assistant: Christoph Sachs (he/him/his) – University Of Stuttgart, Institute For System Dynamics
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT
    IS04 - 3D-Power Packaging for AI and its Application in Power Systems Optimization
    Industry Session Chair: Jason Rouse, PhD, MBA – Taiyo America, Inc.
    Industry Session Chair: Vikas Gupta, PhD – ASE US, Inc
    Industry Session Chair: John Bultitude – Bultitude Consulting LLC
    Student Session Assistant: Mahery Rajemisaona – Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G2ELab, 38000 Grenoble, France
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT
    IS05 - Gate Drivers and their Applications
    Industry Session Chair: Emanuel Eni, PhD – Infineon Technologies AG
    Industry Session Chair: Yifu Zhang – Infineon Technologies
    Student Session Assistant: Hongming Zhao – Robert Bosch GmbH & KU Leuven
  • 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT
    IS06 - The Future of Powering AI
    Industry Session Chair: Minjie Chen, PhD (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Industry Session Chair: Robert C.N. Pilawa-Podgurski – UC Berkeley
    Student Session Assistant: Rajat Kumar Shukla, PhD (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T01 - Bi-Directional DC-DC Converters
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Xugang Ke (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Olivier Trescases – University of Toronto
    Student Session Assistant: Yifan Chen (he/him/his) – Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T02 - Single-Phase AC-DC Converters
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Mark DeMarie – IBM
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Logan Horowitz – CU Boulder
    Student Session Assistant: William Klaus Moreira (he/him/his) – Federal University of Santa Maria
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T03 - Data Centers
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sounak Maji, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas Instruments
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Pedro Alou – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
    Student Session Assistant: Uzair Asif (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Chicago
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T04 - GaN Devices
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Raghav Khanna – University of Toledo
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Marie A. Lawson (she/her/hers) – Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding
    Student Session Assistant: Abu Shahir Md Khalid Hasan, MS – University of Arkansas
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T05 - Inverter Modulation and Control
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Karun Potty, Dr. (he/him/his) – Lucid Motors
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sneha Narasimhan, PhD – ABB
    Student Session Assistant: Hye-Won Kang – Dankook University
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T06 - Control 1
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Xiaonan Lu – Purdue University
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Cong Ma – BorgWarner
    Student Session Assistant: Shumeng Wang – Northeastern University
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T07 - Magnetics Application
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: George A. Slama – Wurth Elektronik
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Matt Wilkowski, MSEE – Würth Elektronik
    Student Session Assistant: Ashwini Kumar Dubey (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T08 - Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles and Aircrafts
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Yu Zou, PhD (he/him/his) – GE Aerospace
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Feng Guo – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Student Session Assistant: Vafa Marzang (he/him/his) – University of Florida