IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS)

The technical program combines peer-reviewed lecture and poster presentations, industry presentations, professional education seminars, plenary programming, and expert debates. Seminar themes include wide-bandgap device reliability, AI in power electronics, magnetics, converter topologies, electromagnetic compatibility and motor drives, and data-center power delivery. Specific topics include SiC and GaN switching behavior, online condition monitoring, AI-assisted converter design, planar magnetics, solid-state transformers, electric drives and e-mobility, and power delivery for AI accelerators and data centers. Technical and industry programming addresses modeling and simulation, data-center power systems, inverter design, chargers, power devices, test and characterization, and integrated voltage regulators. Debate topics include integrated voltage regulator roadmaps and roadblocks, whether solid-state transformers are ready for deployment, and whether future power-electronics breakthroughs will come from academia or industry. APEC is sponsored by the Power Sources Manufacturers Association, IEEE Power Electronics Society, and IEEE Industry Applications Society.

The program includes plenary sessions with invited speakers, oral and poster technical sessions presenting original work, tutorials, and exhibits. The conference focuses on advances in the design, operation, analysis, and applications of electric machines and drives. Topics include rotating electric machines; electric drives and advanced motor controls; special machines, electromagnetic actuators, and sensors; thermal, materials, and efficiency issues; design optimization, modeling, and simulation; condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, and prognosis; transportation applications; energy and grid-connected applications; reduced- or critical-magnet-free machines; and AI/ML applications in machine design and optimization. Tutorial topics also include automation and robotics, medium-voltage machines and drives, and artificial intelligence in electric drives. Special-session proposals emphasize AI-based motor and drive design optimization, digital twins, predictive maintenance and IoT, and actuators and drives for emerging applications. Accepted and presented papers are to be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. Papers may also be submitted to specified IEEE journals under each journal’s rules.