APEC 2024 Plenary Session features renowned experts

The four-hour session will consist of six presentations delivered by visionaries representing industry and academia addressing topics of interest and concern to engineers engaged in applied power electronics technology.

The following is the lineup of Plenary Session presenters and their topics:

• Surgical energy: connecting power electronics to patients – literally!

Daniel Friedrichs, Senior Principal Engineer, Minnetronix Medical

• Opportunities, progress and challenges in high-frequency power conversion

David Perreault, Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Innovating for sustainability and profitability: how innovations in efficiency enable us to do good for the environment while doing well as a business

Balu Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO, Power Integrations

• The drive for silicon carbide – a look back and the road ahead

Gregg Lowe, CEO, Wolfspeed

• Fusion energy is coming: the key role of power electronics to commercial fusion

AJ Kantor, Chief of Staff and Matthew C. Thompson, Vice President of Systems Engineering, Zap Energy

• The future of AI requires efficient power delivery inside the processor

Francesco Carobalante, Director Corporate Strategy and Ventures, Intel Corporation

The APEC 2024 conference and exposition, running 25–29 February 2024 at the Long Beach California Convention Centre, continues its long-standing tradition of addressing issues of immediate and long-term interest to the practicing power electronics engineer.