Smart Data-AI

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
10:00am–4:00pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) is scaling at a pace that is reshaping semiconductor roadmaps, data center design, and long-term infrastructure strategy. This promises many economic and social benefits, but this trajectory is now testing energy availability limits and power consumption has become the significant limiter to performance gains. The global “data center gold rush” is already straining energy grids around the world and may slow AI’s progress. To address this formidable challenge, radical efficiency improvement in both performance and energy consumption is needed. This requires radical innovation, not just by individual segments, but by meaningful collaboration that “connects the dots” across the entire system stack.