Monday, June 8th

7:30 amContinental Breakfast
8:30 amWelcome

Session 1: Advanced Packaging/Thermals : Eric Fetzer, Thomas Vogelsang

8:45 amAdvanced Packaging Architectures and Technologies for Heterogeneous Integration, Ravi Mahajan, Intel
9:30 amAdvancing Optical Engines through Heterogeneous Packaging Integration, Krishna Bharath, Lightmatter
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amΔT: The Architectural Implications of Heat Extraction in XPU Design, David Nellans, Nvidia
11:15 amAdvanced packaging: what's holding us back?, Subu Iyer, UCLA
12:00 pmLunch

Session 2: Compute/System Architecture: Yahya Sotoudeh, Rob Chappell 

1:00 pmdMatrix Compute In-Memory, Sudeep Bhoja, dMatrix
1:45 pmWhat can we do about the AI datacenter power explosion?, Sam Naffziger, AMD
2:30 pmBreak
2:45 pmEfficient Compute for the age of AI, Stephen Robinson, Intel
3:30 pmHardware Security, Todd Austin, U of Michigan
5:00 pmReception 
6:30 pmDinner:  Up the Creek 

Session 3: Academic Research: Udit Gupta, Joe Izraelevitz

8:15 pmHomomorphic encryption and hardware security, Brandon Reagen, NYU
9:00 pmArchitectures and systems for sparsity in ML, Bahar Asgari, UMD

Tuesday, June 9th 

7:30 amContinental Breakfast

Session 4: Consumer Electronics: Atsushi Hasegawa, Ichiro Naka; AI Systems: Tom St. John, Galen Shipman

8:45 amHardware Accelerator Design of Advanced Cryptography and Post-Quantum Cryptography, Makoto Ikeda, Univ of Tokyo
9:30 amEfficient and Scalable Agentic AI with Heterogeneous Systems, Zain Asgar, Gimlet Labs
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amAsynchronous Tensor Computations on GPUs, Vinod Grover, Nvidia
11:15 amWhen AI Outruns Standards, Keith Underwood, HPE

12:00 pmLunch 
1:00 pmFree Time to enjoy Vail 
4:00 pmPlanning Session for VCEW 2027 
5:00 pmReception 
6:30 pmDinner:  Lancelot 

Session 5: Applied AI Applications, Cyber Security: Ryan Tabrah, Femi Oluwafemi

8:15 pmFrom Algorithms to Infrastructure: What AI Engineering Actually Looks Like, Landen Hughes, Skillsforge AI
9:00 pmThe New AI Stack: Where Compute, Memory, and Software Are Colliding, Davianne Duarte, AMD

Wednesday, June 10th 

7:30 amContinental Breakfast 

Session 6: Power, Performance and Sustainability: Rajshree Chabulswar

8:45 amThe Next Era of Telemetry and Performance Monitoring Driven Optimizations, Mike Chynoweth, Intel
9:30 amArchitecting the Agentic Edge: A Systems and Co Design Perspective, Manu Sabharwal, Qualcomm
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amRISC-V Performance Analysis: From the Dark Ages to Modern Day, Beeman Strong, Meta
11:15 amSPEC CPU: The Next Generation, Mahesh Madhav, Ampere
12:00 pmAwards and Final Thoughts:

VCEW 2026 Program Committee

Chairs: Jack Harwood, Tufts University; Don Soltis, Intel; Dave Baker, Akeana

Session Chairs

Advanced Packaging/Thermals: Eric Fetzer, Intel and Thomas Vogelsang, Rambus
Compute/System Architecture: Yahya Sotoudeh, Intel and Rob Chappell, Microsoft
Consumer Electronics: Atsushi Hasegawa and Ichiro Naka, University of Tokyo
AI Systems: Tom St John, Gimlet Labs and Galen Shipman, LANL
Power, Performance and Sustainability: Rajshree Chabukswar, Intel and Bri-Matthias Hodge, University of Colorado at Boulder
Applied AI Applications, Cyber Security: Ryan Tabrah, Skillsforge AI and Femi Oluwafemi, Skillsforge AI
University/Academics: Joe Izraelevitz, University of Colorado at Boulder and Udit Gupta, Cornell University