A Virtual Corridor Event August 23-27 sponsored by PSMA and IEEE societies

SMA, a co- sponsor of the International Workshop of Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP) announces the postponement of IWIPP 2021 until August 2022 due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.  We recognize and thank Aalborg University for their commitment to hosting IWIPP 2022 on August 24-26, 2022.

Corridor Webinar series - IWIPP 2021
To maintain our charter of Industry Education, the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) together with the IEEE sponsoring societies will organize and offer a free webinar series on August 23, 25, and 27, 2021. The webinar series is a corridor event made possible by the financial support of our sponsors, with the intention of bridging the gap from the 2019 IWIPP workshop to the 2022 IWIPP workshop.

The IWIPP corridor webinar series will consist of three (3) 2.5-hour webinar sessions highlighting the most recent technology developments. Each session will address a different set of applications and technology advances. The sessions will be on Monday August 23, Wednesday August 25, and Friday August 27. Each session will begin at 7:00 AM CDT (3 PM CEST).  There will be three live presentations per session followed by  a panel-style question and answer session for the technical presentations. Each of the webinar sessions will remain open until the presenters have responded and answered all the questions submitted. The agenda of the webinar events is as follows:

Past workshop attendees have always recognized the IWIPP Workshop as a high-value event that brings together leading global academic and industry experts to formally and informally discuss issues to advance and productize packaging, materials, and system technologies. As Dr. Francesco Iannuzzo, Professor, Aalborg University, Chair for the 2022 Workshop and the 2021 Corridor Webinar has indicated, "… the 2021 webinar series will fill a void in the timing of the live workshop series created by the COVID-19 situation by taking advantage of experiences with virtual workshops that have become more prevalent this past year. Our objective is to further develop the interactive experiences of a virtual format which may become more usual in the future … "

Registration for the corridor webinar will open April 1. Registration details will be available at Registration – IWIPP. The webinar series will be free of charge but the number of attendees that can register will be limited; therefore, we advise you to register early.

Registered attendees for the workshop will have access to the presentations prior to the webinar series. This will allow registered attendees to submit questions in advance of the webinars. Recording of the presentations and panel Q&A will be made available to registered attendees after the webinar series is completed. This will allow registered attendees across global time zones to conveniently access the presentations and submit questions.

Throughout its history, the workshop has spotlighted advanced technologies to build granular and modular power supplies and compelling demonstrations of commercialized products.

International Workshop of Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP) 2022

The technical program chair for the 2022 workshop is Dr. Nick Baker, Aalborg University. A team of world-renowned experts, innovators and pioneers of the Packaging, Materials and Systems technology has been assembled to create the technical program.

The planning of the technical program and supporting activities, as well as identification of industry partners to contribute to the workshop's success are in process. If interested in becoming workshop partner, please contact the IWIPP financial chair, Dr. Andrew Lemmon, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama, at lemmon@eng.ua.edu.

Continuing the tradition of the enthusiasm, market relevance and success of past workshops, we are looking forward to the virtual corridor event in August 2021 bridging discussions and developments since the most recent IWIPP workshop in Toulouse, France during April 2019, while looking ahead to the in-person IWIPP 2022 in Aalborg, Denmark.

IWIPP is sponsored by the PSMA Packaging & Manufacturing Committee, which is co-chaired by Brian Narveson, Ernie Parker and John Bultitude. They look forward to seeing all of you at the virtual corridor event August 23, 25, 27, 2021 and in-person at Aalborg University, August 24-26, 2022.

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