EcoCloud Annual Event 2024

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Our 2024 Annual Event will be a in-person agenda with networking sessions, focusing on 4 new multi-center projects and initiatives moving forward in 2024: - AI/LLM energy/carbon footprint (Swiss AI Initiative and AI Center of EPFL) - Software stacks for a sustainable and intelligent edge-to-cloud ecosystem - New sustainable computing […]

Swiss Federal Offices Day 2024

EPFL Rolex Learning Center EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Discover the Swiss Federal Offices' vision of research funding and establish meaningful connections with key stakeholders in the funding process! For one day, representatives of Federal Offices who play pivotal role in research funding will be present on the EPFL campus. Engage in direct discussions with Federal staff, providing a […]

Future Health: Harnessing Multimodal Data and GenAI for Health Promotion

BC420 - Computing Building of EPFL EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Speaker: Amir M. Rahmani, PhD, MBA Affiliation: Professor of CS, EECS, and Nursing, Co-Director of the UCI Institute for Future Health, University of California, Irvine, USA "Future Health" emphasizes the importance of recognizing each individual's uniqueness, which arises from their specific omics, lifestyle, environmental, and socioeconomic conditions. Thanks to advancements […]

AVP-CP Centers Day

Room BCH 2103 (CECAM)

Dr. Xavier Ouvrard will present EcoCloud's activities at 09:25. Full program

Data Champions Lunch Talks

Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability Take part in the next Data Champions Lunch Talks “Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability”. The event is free upon registration, and sandwiches and drinks are offered for each participant by the EPFL Library. The event is open to everyone interested. Dr. […]

X-HEEP Workshop: Enabling rapid and sustainable RISC-V based research using open source HW and SW

Palacio De Congresos, Valencia Palacio De Congresos, Valencia, Spain

As our world becomes more interconnected and reliant on digital systems, the need for transparency, accessibility, and collaborative innovation in hardware and software design has become paramount. Closed and proprietary solutions often limit user sovereignty and control, hinder interoperability, and stifle innovation by locking users into a specific ecosystem. In […]

Oracle Labs Presentation & Tech Talk

INF328 EPFL, Switzerland

Research in Oracle Labs: AI, LLM, Vector Database, Data Analytics and Business Applications This talk focuses on Oracle Labs' role in the rapidly changing world of AI and data analytics. We will showcase Oracle's latest research and developments in these areas, emphasizing how AI is transforming business practices. We start […]

X-Agora – the X-HEEP Exchange Space

ELG123 EPFL, Switzerland

We have a lot of people working on X-HEEP from different perspectives. It’s hard to keep track of what is done or can be done. It’s good to know about new changes that might affect our work. We can exchange ideas and make our work even better! General Announcements Why […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2023

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Save the date! The EcoCloud Annual Event on IT Sustainability returns to Lausanne Palace: 8:30am to 6:00pm, Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 Program available here

Connecting Artificial Intelligence to Internet of Things

BC420 - Computing Building of EPFL EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

The technological advances in miniaturized, ultra-low power embedded systems, in communication protocols and in AI techniques, are leading to disruptive innovations. How to embrace the opportunities and challenges offered by smart machine learning devices and IoT connected technologies? Connecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Internet of Things (IoT) will cover three […]

Computing Near Storage

BC420 - Computing Building of EPFL EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Prof. Paolo Ienne is delighted to invite Arvind of MIT to give the following talk: We live in an age where an enormous amount of data is being collected constantly because of smart phones, the ubiquitous presence of sensors and the wide-spread use of social media. Useful and cost-effective analysis […]

Innovation for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning

BC420 - Computing Building of EPFL EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Dr. Gourav Datta of University of Southern California Viterbi, Electrical Engineering, gave a presentation on In-Sensor & Neuromorphic Computing are all you need for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning This talk will focus on two research thrusts in energy and latency-efficient edge intelligence. The first thrust is inspired by the fact that […]

IT for Sustainability and Sustainable IT: are both possible?

EPFL Rolex Learning Center EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Can IT be a true enabler for a sustainable society, particularly in cities and for urban infrastructure? What are digital twins and are they the answer? How can we use minimal energy for increasing data needs and should sustainable certification play a role?  Speakers: Prof. Babak Falsafi (IC-PARSA) CEO […]

Engineering Industry Day 2023

SwissTech Convention Center Rue Louis Favre 2, Ecublens, EPFL

David Atienza, Scientific Director of EcoCloud   Cooling microchips with tailor-made microfluidic channels Remco van Erp, Director of Corintis Read the presentation Read more about Corintis Machine Learning to identify Nespresso capsules, with Matteo Feo Matteo Feo of Nespresso and EPFL, pictured with Holger Frauenrath and David Atienza Read the […]

Can we automate integrated circuit design?

BC420 - Computing Building of EPFL EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Jason Cong, Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) of UCLA, has been invited to EPFL by the IC Faculty. As we are near the end of Moore’s Law scaling, there is a great need to design various kinds of customized accelerators for much higher performance and energy efficiency. […]

Silicon device dependability: Sani Nassif

BC420 - Computing Building of EPFL EPFL, Ecublens, Switzerland

Dr. Nassif explained that Vincent Van Gogh would have made an excellent system designer. Wednesday, 23rd November, 2022 EcoCloud Visiting Professor Sani Nassif gave a talk in the BC Building at EPFL to a captivated audience. The talk examines trends in Silicon device dependability as scaling continues, and proposes some […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2022

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Program 8:00 – 8:30 Pick-up badges/registration + welcome coffee 8:30 Introduction David Atienza and Ed Bugnion (EPFL) Session 1 Sustainable smart cities, transport systems and agriculture 9:00 Digital Twins at the services of Sustainable Cities & Transport systems : challenges? Frédéric Dreyer (EPFL) 9:15 Towards a Data-driven Operational Digital Twin […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2021

SwissTech Convention Center Rue Louis Favre 2, Ecublens, EPFL

IT Sustainability Days DAY 1/2: September 16th, 2021 8:30 – 9:30 Welcome Session 8:30 – 9:20 Registration and Covid verification 9:20 – 9:30 Welcome message from EcoCloud VIDEO: Sessions 1 and 2  Session 1 – Next-Generation Datacenter Technologies Moderator: David Atienza 9:30 – 9:55 Speaker 1 – Bruno Michel, […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2020

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

EcoCloud Annual Event scheduled for May 5th/6th will be cancelled this year due to the accelerated spread of the pandemic and the ban on mobility in the coming weeks. The health and safety of our community is paramount during these difficult times. The EcoCloud executive committee is currently considering hosting […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2019

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Welcome to the EcoCloud 2019 Annual Event. This year’s event will feature industrial speakers and EcoCloud researchers on May 6th and 7th. Keynote Applied ML at Facebook Scale Kim Hazelwood, Facebook Kim Hazelwood is a Senior Engineering Manager leading the AI Infrastructure Foundation efforts at Facebook, which focus on the […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2018

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Welcome to the EcoCloud 2018 Annual Event. This year’s event will feature industrial speakers and EcoCloud researchers on June 18th and 19th. Keynote Catching and Preventing Privacy Problems in Systems and Deep Neural Networks Úlfar Erlingsson, Google For the last several years, Google has been leading the development and real-world deployment […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2017

Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne Av. d'Ouchy 40, Lausanne

Welcome to the EcoCloud 2017 Annual Event. This year’s event kicked off with a keynote followed by a poster session and cocktail on the evening of Monday June 12th, 2017. On Tuesday June 13th, 2017, EcoCloud researchers and industrial speakers highlighted the latest trends in sustainable cloud computing technologies. Keynote Memory-Driven Computing […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2016

Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne Av. d'Ouchy 40, Lausanne

Welcome to the EcoCloud 2016 Annual Event. This year’s event will kick off with a keynote followed by a poster session and cocktail on the evening of Monday May 30th, 2016. On Tuesday May 31st, 2016, EcoCloud researchers and industrial speakers will highlight the latest trends in sustainable cloud computing […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2015

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Welcome to the EcoCloud 2015 Annual Event. This year’s event kicked off with a keynote followed by a poster session and cocktail on the evening of Monday June 22nd, 2015. On Tuesday June 23rd, 2015, EcoCloud researchers and industrial speakers highlighted the latest trends in energy-efficient data-centric technologies. Keynote Big […]

EcoCloud Annual Event – 2014

Lausanne Palace Rue du Grand-Chêne 7-9, Lausanne, Switzerland

Welcome to the 2014 EcoCloud Annual Event. This year’s event took place in Lausanne and included a keynote, a poster session, an industrial speakers’ session and presentations by EcoCloud researchers. The event began with the keynote, a poster session and cocktail on the evening of Thursday, June 5th, 2014 and […]