University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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 technical symposia span ceramic and glass science, engineering, processing, and applications. Topics include ceramic interfaces and grain boundaries; oxide quantum materials; superconductivity, magnetism, and correlated phases; functional ceramics; extreme-environment and microelectronics materials; two-dimensional materials; high-entropy materials; bioceramics; glass surfaces and the glassy state; and computational modeling, data science, and AI/ML for materials discovery and manufacturing. Energy-related subjects include materials for energy storage and conversion, nuclear energy applications, protonic ceramic cells, and materials for a sustainable and resilient energy future. Manufacturing topics include advanced ceramic processing, additive manufacturing, glass manufacturing scale-up, and intelligent manufacturing. The additive-manufacturing symposium covers feedstock design, printing and post-processing, modeling, characterization, process-structure-property relationships, qualification, certification, scale-up, cost, reliability, and industrial implementation. The raw-materials symposium addresses material quality and variability, alternative and recycled feedstocks, sustainable sourcing, circularity, supply-chain resilience, resource security, and decarbonization.