Events

Due to COVID19 situation, the conference has gone virtual! As the web announces, the 2020 IEEE Virtual World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2020) brings the latest from the research and academic community. It includes a broad program of papers and presentations on the latest technology developments and innovations in the many fields and disciplines that drive the utility and vitality of IoT solutions and applications. After extensive peer review, the best of the proposals were selected for the conference program. In the Technical Paper session, S2.8: IoT & AI Technologies: Embedded Solutions for Future Automotive Systems, our colleagues from KIT, Menta and BMW will present a paper, in the session titled Embedded Image Processing the European Way: a New Platform for the Future Automotive Market.

Emerging Technologies for Weather and Climate Modelling workshop will be held online on, Tuesday 30th June 2020. The workshop is being organized under the EU Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe. The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss emerging technologies in areas such as exascale hardware developments, programming models, and hardware interplay, for exascale systems, beyond "MPI+X" and developments in Machine Learning, addressing both computational and data challenges. EPI's Jean-Marc Denis will present a talk related to the Exascale hardware topic addressing the aim of the workshop.

ISVLSI 2020 explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts in the area of VLSI. The symposium covers a range of topics: from VLSI circuits, systems and design methods to system-level design and system-on-chip issues, to bringing VLSI experience to new areas and technologies such as security, artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems. The symposium will also emphasize future design methodologies and new CAD tools to support them as key topics. Over three decades ISVLSI has been a unique forum promoting multidisciplinary research and new visionary approaches in the area of VLSI, bringing together leading scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The ISVLSI proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers from past editions have been subsequently published in special issues of top archival journals. ISVLSI has a good reputation of bringing together well-known international scientists as invited speaks. ISVLSI 2020 will continue the momentum and carry forward these well-established trends for further growth of the symposium. EPI's Jurgen Becker from KIT will be attending and will give a talk.

Research laboratories, design offices, manufacturers of components, intelligent objects and robots, designers and solution integrators, institutions, groups, etc. The entire value chain of the three ecosystems is represented to promote cooperation and meet the demands of clients in a diverse range of sectors by offering integrated end-to-end solutions. EPI's Provenrun will be there to exhibit at their booth and share the news on EPI.

The International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) is the premier conference in system-level design, hardware/software co-design, modeling, analysis, and implementation of modern embedded and cyber-physical systems, from system-level specification and optimization to system synthesis of multiprocessor hardware/software implementations. CODES+ISSS is part of Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), the premier event covering all aspects of hardware and software design for smart, intelligent and connected computing systems. EPI's partner CEA will attend.

Invited students will be participating in a hackathon organized by CINECA. It will be a 4-day coding event in which teams of developers port their applications to run on GPUs, or optimize their applications that already run on GPUs. Each team consists of two or more developers who are intimately familiar with (some part of) their application, and they work alongside one mentor with GPU programming expertise.

The TERATEC Forum is a major event in France and Europe that brings together the best international experts in HPC, Simulation and Big Data. European Village part will host EPI's research booth again. It has been postponed to October, 2020.

The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture® is the premier forum for presenting, discussing, and debating innovative microarchitecture ideas and techniques for advanced computing and communication systems. This symposium brings together researchers in fields related to microarchitecture, compilers, chips, and systems for technical exchange on traditional microarchitecture topics and emerging research areas.

Euronaval is one of the largest exhibitions of maritime security and naval defense. It takes place every two years in Paris, France, and this year it will host 480 exhibitors from 33 countries. EPI's partner Provenrun will exhibit and also offer news on the EPI developments to its attendees.

From source to generation, from grid to consumer, the boundaries of the sector are blurring and this evolution is being shaped by established players, external disruptors, innovative start-ups and the increasingly engaged end-user. Enlit Europe, the new unifying brand for European Utility Week & POWERGEN Europe, will bring all of these people together to seize current opportunities, spotlight future ones, and inspire the next generation to participate in the journey. EPI's Provenrun will exhibit and share the latest in EPI developments.

Europe is struggling to keep up with developments in machine learning at the same pace as the US and China, where many of the top labs are located and investments are significantly larger. Due to its academic strength in AI, the potential for Europe to catch up in AI research is massive and could add enormous value to its combined economic output. Institutes like the ELLIS Society are working closely with top European academics to enable Europe to perform the best fundamental AI research, but there is still a large gap in GDP investment when compared to the US and China. Given Europe’s strength in automation across industrial, robotics and autonomous vehicles manufacturing, this summit will focus on inference systems in edge computing, connecting these industries through common challenges in systems architecture/engineering. The AI Hardware Summit Europe will bring together key players across the AI hardware ecosystem to promote innovation and adoption of systems & silicon for processing AI. EPI's partner Kalray is attending and its CEO, Eric Baissus, will give an invited talk.

The 38th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation will be held in Milan, Italy from 2nd November to 6th November 2020. The IFIP WG 7.3 Performance conference aims to bring together researchers interested in understanding and improving the performance of computing and communication systems by means of state-of-the-art quantitative models and solution techniques. The Performance conference has a long-standing tradition and has followed an 18-month cycle for many years. Recently, the interval has been changed to one year. EPI's partner E4 will attend the conference and share the latest in EPI.

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis will be held from November 15–20, 2020, at the Atlanta Convention Center. EPI team is looking forward to meeting the HPC community in Atlanta, showcasing the latest EPI developments.

Since the creation of the IEEE Sensors Council France in 2018, the Board members are fully committed to initiating a strong national community on sensors, with international visibility. The first IEEE France Sensors chapter workshop in 2018, in Nancy, gathered a perfect mix of over 80 students, researchers, university professors and companies from 18 French cities. In the same dynamic, in 2019, the 2nd edition in Dijon was a success. This 3rd workshop of the IEEE SENSOR Chapter France with a collaboration with IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter France has a program reflected a wide spectrum of research topics on emerging technologies in sensors, electronics, IoT, materials, biomedical…, building bridges between various research fields. Speakers of this workshop include internationally recognized experts in the relevant field of emerging technologies over France. EPI's Sergio Saponara, from the University of Pisa, will attend the workshop and discuss EPI developed technologies.