Alibaba

A3 Members Only executive forum focused on the economic and market forces shaping the automation industry, business performance, emerging technologies, leadership priorities, innovation, and business growth. The substantive program includes Welcome & Opening Remarks, Economic, Business & Automation Outlook, and Closing Sessions. Featured voices include Connor Lokar of ITR Economics, Dr. James Hewitt, and Josh Linkner. The forum brings together leaders in robotics, machine vision, motion control, artificial intelligence, and industrial automation.

Four plenary sessions and technical panels address solid-state transformer (SST) topologies and system architectures; power devices, including SiC, GaN, high-voltage IGBTs, and medium-voltage protection; high-frequency magnetics, packaging, and thermal management; fusion as a potential power source for data centers; SST control, protection, reliability, cybersecurity, and grid services; and grid-interactive data centers, energy storage, onsite generation, and flexible AI loads. The program also includes poster sessions and awards. Panel topics include grid interconnection, microgrids, demand response, renewable integration, battery and long-duration storage, workload flexibility, waste-heat recovery, and coordination between data centers and utilities. Plenary speakers include Dr. Patrick Chapman, Vice President of Enphase Energy and a National Academy of Engineering member, and Dr. Le Xie, Gordon McKay Professor at Harvard University.