8:00 – 8:30 AM

Registration & Breakfast – Location: Capitol Foyer, 2nd Floor

8:30 – 8:45 AM

Welcome to ARPA-E

Dr. Peter de Bock, Program Director, ARPA-E

8:45 – 9:05 AM

Introduction to COOLERCHIPS Program

Dr. Peter de Bock, Program Director, ARPA-E

9:05 – 9:35 AM

Keynote: “Data Center Cooling Roadmap to Meet Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence”

Dr. Ali Heydari, NVIDIA

9:35 – 10:25 AM

Category A Project Presentations #1 Intel Federal, HP/NVIDIA, HRL, JetCool, Raytheon

  9:35 – 9:45 AM: Intel Federal, Tejas Shah

  9:45 – 9:55 AM: HP, Michael Cumbie

  9:55 – 10:05 AM: HRL, Chris Roper

10:05 – 10:15 AM: Jetcool, Ludwig Haber

10:15 – 10:25 AM: Raytheon, Kimberly Saviers

10:25 – 10:55 AM

Networking Break (30 min)

10:55 – 11:45 AM

Category A Project Presentations #2 UT Arlington, U.Florida, U.Missouri, Purdue, UIUC

10:55 – 11:05 AM: University of Texas Arlington, Dereje Agonafer

11:05 – 11:15 AM: University of Florida, Saeed Moghaddam

11:15 – 11:25 AM: University of Missouri, Chanwoo Park

11:25 – 11:35 AM: Purdue, Tiwei Wei

11:35 – 11:45 AM: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nenad Miljkovic

11:45 – Noon

“DARPA Thermal Management Initiatives in Support of Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Integration”, Yogendra Joshi

Noon – 1:00 PM

Lunch / Networking (60 min)

1:00 – 1:40 PM

Cohorted Project Presentations Chilldyne, IBM, Impact Cooling, Nokia

1:00 – 1:10 PM Chilldyne, Steve Harrington

1:10 – 1:20 PM IBM, Mark Schultz and Milnes David

1:20 – 1:30 PM Impact Cooling, David Hobby

1:30 – 1:40 PM Nokia Bell Labs, Todd Salamon

1:40 – 2:00 PM

Networking Break (20 min)

2:00 – 2:30 PM

Category B Project Presentations NVIDIA, UC Davis, Flexnode

2:00 – 2:10 PM: NVIDIA, Yaman Manaserh

2:10 – 2:20 PM: UC Davis, Vinod Narayanan

2:20 – 2:30 PM: Flexnode, Tarif Abousshi and Michael Ohadi

2:30 – 2:45 PM

Networking Break (15 min)

2:45 – 3:15 PM

Reliability Tutorial: “Ensuring Reliability and Availability”

Patrick McCluskey, UMD

3:15 – 3:30 PM

Category C: Modeling Energy, Reliability and Cost

Patrick McCluskey, UMD

3:30 – 3:45 PM

Category D: Testing

David Sickinger, NREL

3:45 – 3:50 PM

Day 1 Closing Remarks, Dr. Peter de Bock

3:50 – 4:05 PM

Networking Break, move to 15th floor & Poster Setup (15 min)

4:05 – 7:00 PM

Poster Session & Networking (Millenium Room 15th floor)– Poster session
One-on-one meetings locations: Cambridge (Cat. C) and Executive Lounge (Cat. D) also located on the 15th floor near the Millenium Room.

7:00 PM

Dinner on your own, at nearby restaurants

8:00 – 8:30 AM

Networking Breakfast (30 min) – Location: Capitol Foyer, 2nd Floor

8:30 – 8:45 AM

Welcome to ARPA-E COOLERCHIPS Day 2

Dr. Daniel Cunningham, Deputy Director for Technology & Programs, ARPA-E

8:45 – 9:00 AM

Technology-to-Market (T2M) Introduction and Expectations

Dr. Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Technology-to-Market Advisor, ARPA-E

9:00 – 9:45 AM

Panel: “What would be needed for a technology to considered for a data center at the end of COOLERCHIPS?”

Jay Paidipati, Uptime Institute, moderator

Douglas Donnellan, Uptime Institute

Jeff Clark, VP of Engineering, Prime Data Centers

Steve Borror, Vertiv

Moises Levy, DC Metrix

9:45 – 10:00 AM

“Clean cooling technologies: research needs and innovation opportunities”

Dr Antonio Marco Pantaleo, Program Manager, European Innovation Council

10:00 – 10:15 AM

“Liquid Cooling in the Cloud”

Vaidehi Oruganti, Senior Hardware Engineer, Microsoft

10:15 – 10:30 AM

Networking Break

10:30 – 11:00 AM

DOE Panel of Data Center Operators: “What does it take to be successful?”

Arman Shehabi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, moderator

Dave Martinez, Sandia

Aaron Andersen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Michael Kercher, National Center for Atmospheric Research

David Grant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Computing DoD/Government panel

John Jennings, Government Partnership Advisor, moderator

George Moncrief, US Army Corps of Engineers

Mark Spector, Office of Naval Research

Joseph Dana Teague, Air Force Research Laboratory

Neil Merret, Air Force Research Laboratory

11:30 AM - Noon

“Equinix: Fast-track to your Digital Advantage”

Donovan O’Callaghan, Senior Director of Global Design & Construction, Equinix

Noon – 12:20

“Legal Considerations: Intellectual Property, Data, and Reporting”

Geoffrey Goode, ARPA-E Deputy Chief Counsel

12:20 – 1:00 PM

Lunch with ARPA-E:

Programmatic & Procurement Guidance, Whitney White, PM SETA

Program Management Overview, Tom Bress, Tech SETA

1:00 – 2:00 PM

Attendees cleared for the NREL tour travel to NREL (transportation is not provided)
See address instructions on next page to Golden/Denver West/NREL

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Category D: NREL Tours