Low Power Technologies Summit
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How low can you go? This 2-day virtual event featured dozens of speakers discussing the latest technologies for power and energy harvesting. Each day featured keynotes, tech talks, panels, and more across main topic areas including Solutions for Reducing Energy Consumption in Power-Hungry Applications, Low Power Technologies for a Wireless World, and New Advances in Energy Harvesting, Solar, and Energy-Efficient Technologies.
Agenda

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
11:00AM-12:30PM ET:
Low Power: Solutions for Reducing Energy Consumption in Power-Hungry Applications

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
2:00PM-3:15PM ET:
How Low Can You Go? Low Power Technologies for a Wireless World

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
11:00AM-12:15PM ET:
New Advances in Energy Harvesting, Solar, and Energy-Efficient Technologies
AGENDA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
11:00AM-12:30PM ET:
LOW POWER: SOLUTIONS FOR REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN POWER-HUNGRY APPLICATIONS
Today's products come loaded with ever more features and functions, all with an insatiable appetite for power. In this session, design engineers will get insights into clever ways to achieve power efficiency in their product designs in both the hardware and software, including techniques like keeping hardware in the lowest power sleep sate as much as possible.
AGENDA
11:00AM-11:15AM ET: Keynote: Power Management is a Software Issue
11:15AM-11:45AM ET: Keynote: How to Meaningfully Benchmark Low-Power Devices
11:45AM-12:30PM ET: Panel
Speakers

KEYNOTE & PANELIST
Colin Walls
Embedded Software Technologist
Mentor, A Siemens Company

KEYNOTE
Peter Torelli
President & CTO
EEMBC

PANELIST
Walt Maclay
President
Voler Systems

PANELIST
Thomas Doyle
Founder and CEO
Aspinity

MODERATOR
Karen Field
Head of Content
Fierce Electronics
AGENDA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
2:00PM-3:15PM ET:
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? LOW POWER TECHNOLOGIES FOR A WIRELESS WORLD
For IoT devices, especially those that need to do a lot of data processing, it's critical to select the most power-efficient hardware - whether it's low-power microcontrollers, microprocessors, FPGAs, or low-power sensors. This session will explore these tech developments, new applications, and strategies for staying within the energy budget, such as making the trade-off between local data processing and RF communications.
AGENDA
2:00PM-2:15PM ET: Keynote: Enhancing the Energy-Efficiency and Timeliness of IoT Communication in WiFi Networks
2:15PM-2:30PM ET: Keynote: Three Weird Tricks to Make GPS Work in Your Low Power Design
2:30PM-3:15PM ET: Panel
Speakers

KEYNOTE & PANELIST
Jaykumar Sheth
Ph.D. Candidate, Wireless Communication, IoT Networks, Systems, Machine Learning
SIOTLAB Santa Clara University

KEYNOTE & PANELIST
John Peter Norair
Principal RF & FW Engineer
PCH Intl

PANELIST
Jim Katsandres
Senior Director, Developer Relations
Bluetooth SIG

MODERATOR
Matt Hamblen
Editor
Fierce Electronics
AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
11:00AM-12:15PM ET:
NEW ADVANCES IN ENERGY HARVESTING, SOLAR, AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES
Energy harvesting is an emerging technology space thrust to the forefront with the explosion of IoT, wearable, and smart sensing applications. This session provides a survey of the latest energy harvesting technologies and the low-power devices and loads most complementary to application in this space, particularly for the IoT and IIoT.
AGENDA
11:00AM-11:15AM ET: Keynote: A Quick Overview of the Latest Energy Harvesting Technologies and the Fast-Growing Applications They Serve
11:15AM-11:30AM ET: Partner Keynote: Self Powered IoT Using Solar Energy Harvesting
11:30AM-12:15PM ET: Panel
Speakers

KEYNOTE & MODERATOR
Brian Zahnstecher
Principal
PowerRox

PARTNER KEYNOTE
Dan Stieler
President
PowerFilm

PANELIST
Thomas Becker
Founder
THOBECORE Consulting and Research

PANELIST
Sourabh Dhillon
Co-Founder & Director of Business Development
Xidas IoT

PANELIST
Mike Hayes
Senior Program Manager ICT for Energy Efficiency
Tyndall National Institute