2020 Emerging Technologies Review

Abstract

In this special year, The Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara held three virtual workshops as part of the 2020 Emerging Technologies Review.

The ETR virtual workshops covered new developments in: Energy Efficient Clouds and Data Centers on October 2nd; Smart Societal Infrastructure on October 16th; and Food-Energy-Water on October 23rd. Each virtual workshop featured world class experts and leaders in that arena from industry, academia and government.
 

2020 Event Speakers 

Day 1: Energy Efficient Clouds and Data Centers (View Agenda)

Raj Yavatkar, Juniper Networks: The Revolution in Data Center Communications and Interconnects
Nicola Peill-Moelter, VMWare: Hunting Zombies for Fun, Profit, and Sustainability
Rich Wolski, UCSB: Energy Efficiency on the (IoT) Edge
Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook: Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware and Software Codesign
Daniel Blumenthal, UCSB: Low Energy Frequency Stabilized Coherent WDM for Data Center Interconnects
Robert Blum, Intel: The Promise of Co-Packaged Optics: Paving the Way for Improved Power Efficiency, Size, and Cost
John Bowers, UCSB: Photonic Integration for Data Centers
William Wang, UCSB: Towards Dramatically Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning

Panelists:
Tim Sherwood, UCSB
Jonathan Balkind, UCSB
Brent Gorda, ARM
Michael Haney, ARPA-E
Nicola Peill-Moelter, VMWare
Raj Yavatkar, Juniper Networks
John Bowers, UCSB
Alexis Bjorlin, Broadcom
Robert Blum, Intel
Gordon Keeler, DARPA
Kaushik Patel, Cisco
Clint Schow, UCSB