Welcome coffee – pick-up badges

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Welcome and Introduction

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli (EcoCloud Scientific Director) and Prof. David Atienza (Associate VP of Centers and Platforms) will give some words of welcome, and present the event and the agenda of the day. Prof. Giovanni De Micheli Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is […] ...

Keynote – Ayse K. Coskun, AI Data Centers as Flexible Loads. Rethinking Power and Performance

Prof. Ayse K. Coskun Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. This talk explores how the rapid growth of AI is transforming data centers into major power consumers—and how, with the right technologies, data centers can become valuable grid resources instead. I will discuss emerging approaches to making […] ...

Coffee Break

Session 1 – HW and SW sustainable co-design

Rethinking the Rack for Agentic Workloads

Dr. Javier Picorel Research and Engineering Manager Javier Picorel leads the Future Computer Fabrics team at Huawei’s Zurich Research Center, where he is driving the development of next-generation decomposable-native infrastructure. His team focuses on the tighter integration of applications, parallel programming models, networking, and compute to enable highly modular and […] ...

Heterogenous HW/SW co-design for Sustainable LLM Serving in the Cloud

Dr. William Simon Researcher at IBM Zurich William Simon is a research staff member at IBM-Zurich in the Hybrid Cloud department. He is originally from the USA, where he received his bachelor’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He continued his education at the Swiss Federal Institute […] ...

From Grid to Chip to Ambient: Engineering the AI Factory Energy Stack

Dr. Eugene van Rooyen, Product Line Manager, Eaton AI data centers have crossed a threshold: we are no longer designing facilities, but city‑scale energy systems that convert power into tokens, and tokens into artificial intelligence. Rising rack densities, shrinking deployment timelines, and grid constraints demand a shift from enterprise design […] ...

Standing lunch

Session 2 – Technologies for sustainable systems

IoT and Cloud Computing to optimize Wind Turbine Production and extend their service life

Dimitri Voisin, Bladesense Co-Founder & CTO BladeSENSE PhD Fluid dynamics Inventor of electronic tell tale 10-year experience in the Wind Energy Research & Development 15-year experience of Research & Development on the professional offshore world sailing circuit   ...

Beyond the Thermal Wall: Intelligent Cooling Architecture for the AI Era

Maurizio Miozza, CCO of GemaTEG AI workloads are driving chip power densities beyond the reach of conventional liquid-cooling architectures. As GPUs exceed 2 kW and chiplet designs integrate increasingly dense HBM memory stacks, traditional thermal solutions are hitting hard limits, with direct consequences for energy consumption, infrastructure cost, and datacenter […] ...