September 18-20
Richardson Texas
Digital Power - Is the Future Now?

Tentative Conference Schedule

Sunday

3pm-5pm Early Registration

Monday

8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Registration Open

9:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Plenary Session I

1.0 “Digital Power Management: Changing the Value Ecosystem”
Ron Van Dell
CEO & President
Primarion

1.1 “Digital Capabilities for Power Management”
Geoff Potter
VP, DC-DC Advanced Technology Systems Engineering
Astec/Emerson

1.2 “Digital, Analog and Power – Making the Most of the Platform Approach”
David Tam
Vice President
International Rectifier

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break

1.3 “How Green Can IT Be?”
Dave Douglas
Vice President, Eco Responsibility
Sun Microsystems

1.4 Efficient Power Delivery: The Digital Migration
Thomas Macdonald
Vice President, Advanced Chipset and Platform Division
Intel

12:15 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

2:00 – 3:30 p.m Roundtable Discussion

“When Will the Switchover to Digital Take Place?”

Dan Artusi
Chairman & CEO
Coldwatt

Steve Bakota
Manager, Digital Power, Texas Instruments
PMBus® Organization

Laurence McGarry
Marketing Manager
Analog Devices

Deepak Savadatti
Vice President, Marketing
Primarion

Jim Templeton
Founder & Vice President
Zilker Labs

Milan Jovanovic
Vice President, Research and Development
Delta Products Corp.

Ramesh Misra, Roundtable Chair
Senior Analyst, Broadline Semiconductors
C.E. Unterberg, Towbin

3:30 – 5:30 p.m Exhibits Open
Reception in Exhibit Hall

 

Tuesday

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast With Darnell

“Digital Power: Who’s in the Lead?”
Linnea Brush, Senior Research Analyst, will present the results of a survey that was conducted to determine the industry’s perception of the leading products, technology, cost, and value in digital control

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Plenary Session II

2.0 “ Defining Data Center Best Practices - Status Report from Industry”
Bruce Shaw
Director, Worldwide Commercial and Enterprise Marketing
AMD

2.1 “Maximizing Data Center Energy Efficiency Through Power-Saving Designs, Technologies and DC-Based Solutions”
Andrew Nebbs
Principal & Electrical Engineer
EYP Mission Critical Facilities

2.2 “Digitization of Power - From Battery Management to Rectifiers”
Dave Heacock
Vice President
Texas Instruments

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Power Track:
DC-DC Converters

P3.0 “Digital Control Maximizes System Integration for Multi-Phase/Multi-Output DC-DC Systems”
Kedar Godbole
Texas Instruments

P3.1 “Digital Current Share Scheme for POL Regulators”
Alain Chapuis
VP, Research & Development
Power-One

P3.2 “Current Share Using Digital Techniques”
Anton Bakker
Sr. Staff Engineer

Laurence McGarry
Marketing Manager

Evaldo Miranda
Design Engineer
Analog Devices

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Data Center Track:
Data Center Architectures

D3.0 “Power Demands Increasing in Today’s Power Hungry Data Centers”
Johnny Gonzales
Director of Sales
Pentadyne

D3.1 “The Number One Hot Issue for Data Centers... It’s All About Cooling”
Brad Binning
Cooling Systems Business Development
American Power Conversion

D3.2 “Optimizing Uninterruptible Power for Modern Data Processing Equipment”
Gary Mulcahy
TDI

12:15 – 2:15 p.m. Hosted Lunch
Exhibits Open

2:15 – 3:45 p.m. Power Track:
System-Level Issues I
Co-Organized by PMBus ™

P4.0 “Comparison of Digital Power Approaches”
Ahmad Ashrafzadeh
Director, Computing Power
Maxim Semiconductor

P4.1 “In-System Network Analyzers”
Ross Fosler
Power Applications Engineer
Silicon Laboratories

P4.2 “Innovative Methods of Responding to Transient Conditions Using a Digital Controller”
Dave Freeman
Systems Engineering Manager
Texas Instruments

2:15 – 3:45 p.m. Data Center Track:
Optimizing Data Center Efficiencies

D4.0 “Agile Power Converters for Energy-Efficient Applications”
Paul Greenland
VP of Marketing
Enpirion

D4.1 “First Steps to Improving Energy Efficiency in the Data Center”
Robert F. Sullivan
Sr. Consultant
The Uptime Institute

Joseph F. Prisco
Senior Engineer
IBM

D4.2 “The Intelligently Adaptive Data Center: Creating an End-to-End Integrated Digital Power Architecture to Optimize Data Center Efficiency, Availability and Operating Expenses Through Real-Time Server Analysis and Predictive Modeling”
Jack Pouchet
Director, Marquee Accounts
Emerson Network Power/Liebert and Sun Microsystems

3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Break

4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Power Track:
Systems-Level Issues II
Co-Organized by PMBus™

P5.0 “Digital Power Simulators”
Ross Fosler
Power Applications Engineer
Silicon Laboratories

P5.1 “System Benefits of Digital Multiphase Controllers”
Joe Renauer
Principal Designer
Texas Instruments

P5.2 “Distributed Digital Power and Thermal Management Enables New Opportunities for Energy Savings and Increased Performance”
Jim MacDonald
Director of Advanced Products
Zilker Labs

P5.3 “Digital Control Concepts for Power Supply Engineers”
Bob White
Staff Engineer
Artesyn Technologies

4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Data Center Track:
Metrics

D5.0 “Adaptive/Intelligent Control and Power Management Reduce Power Dissipation and Consumption”
Mahesh Thaker
Mikhail Guz
Power-One

D5.1“Power Supply Efficiency in High-Density Data Center Servers”
Baskar Vairamohan
Power Quality Engineer
EPRI Solutions

D5.2 “Prerequisites for Successful Energy and Thermal Management in Data Centers: Metrics”
Magnus K. Herrlin
President
ANCIS Inc.

D5.3 “EAC & PUE: Metrics to Characterize IT Equipment & Data Center Energy Use”
Christopher G. Malone
Thermal Technologies Architect

Christian L. Belady
Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett-Packard Company

 

Wednesday

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Power Track:
Implementing Digital Control

P6.0 “Digital Today – Providing Power Management Solutions”
Stephen Pullen
VP, Systems & Applications
Primarion

P6.1 “Current-Mode Digital Power Supply Design”
Keith Curtis
Principal Applications Engineer
Microchip Technology

P6.2 “In-situ Bode Measurement in a Digitally Controlled Power Supply”
Mark Hagen
Systems Application Engineer
Texas Instruments

8:30 – 10:00 a.m.Data Center Track:
Advanced Power Conversion

D6.0 “Storage: The Next Energy Crisis in the Data Center”
Aloke Guha
Chief Technology Officer
COPAN Systems

D6.1 “Improving Power Conversion Efficiencies”
George Young
Founder

Garry Tomlins
Commercial Director
Commergy

D6.2 “PMBus™ - Enabling Intelligent System Power Management”
System Management Interface Forum, Inc.

 


10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Power Track:
Design-In of Digital Control

P7.0 “Simple Digital Power Control Delivers Performance and Efficiency”
John Jovalusky
Technical Marketing Engineer
Power Integrations

P7.1 “Small Microcontrollers Add Big Functionality”
Justin Milks
Applications Engineer
Microchip Technology

P7.2 “Sequencing, Tracking and Clock Synchronization of Digitally Controlled Power Supplies”
Marc Sousa
Software Development Manager
Texas Instruments

 

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Data Center Track:
Optimizing Server Performance

D7.0 “An Energy Efficiency Perspective on Digital Power Management
Francesco Carobolante
Sr. Director, Advanced Technology
Fairchild Semiconductor

D7.1 “Real Performance Improvements for OEM System Designers: A Digital Control Case Study”
Torbjörn Holmberg
Electrical Engineer

Per-Johan Wiberg
Strategic Marketing Manager
Ericsson Power Modules

D7.2 “Advanced Multi-Core Processing for High Performance Servers”
Brent Kerby
AMD