Vail Computer Elements Workshop
VCEW Preliminary Program 2026
All Times Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6)
Sunday, June 7th
4:00 pmCheck-in Time for the Lodge at Vail
5:00 pmGather in the Lodge lobby and walk to the Reception
6:30 pmDinner:
8:15 pmKeynote TBA TBD
Monday, June 8th
7:30 amContinental Breakfast
8:30 amWelcome
Session 1: Advanced Packaging/Thermals : Eric Fetzer, Thomas Vogelsang
8:45 amTBD
9:30 amTBD
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amTBD
11:15 amTBD
12:00 pmLunch
Session 2: Compute/System Architecture: Yahya Sotoudeh, Rob Chapell
1:00 pmTBD
1:45 pmTBD
2:30 pmBreak
2:45 pmTBD
3:30 pmTBD
5:00 pmReception
6:30 pmDinner: La Nonna
Session 3: Applied AI Applications, Cyber Security: Ryan Tabrah, Femi Oluwafemi
8:15 pmTBD
Tuesday, June 9th
7:30 amContinental Breakfast
Session 4: Power, Performance and Sustainability: Rajshree Chabulswar, Bri-Matthias Hodge
8:45 amTBD
9:30 amTBD
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amTBD
11:15 amTBD
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: Consumer Electronics: Atsushi Hasegawa, Ichiro Naka
8:15 pmTBD
Wednesday, June 10th
7:30 amContinental Breakfast
Session 6: AI Systems (Scale-Up/Scale-out): Tom St. John, Galen Shipman
8:45 amTBD
9:30 amTBD
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amTBD
11:15 amTBD
12:00 pmAwards and Final Thoughts:
VCEW 2026 Program Committee
Chairs:Dave Baker, Akeana and Jack Harwood, Dell
Session Chairs
Advanced Packaging/Thermals: Eric Fetzer, Intel and Thomas Volgelsang, Rambus
Compute/System Architecture: Yahya Sotoudeh, Intel and Rob Chapell Microsoft
Consumer Electronics: Atsushi Hasegawa and Ichiro Naka, University of Tokyo
AI Systems (Scale-up/Scale-out): Tom St John, Decompute and Galen Shipman, LANL
Power, Performance and Sustainability: Rajshree Chabukswar, Intel and Bri-Matthias Hodge, CU 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
The Vail Computer Elements Workshop is sponsored by VCEW in cooperation with Usenix