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

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