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DAC: The Premier Event for Chips to Systems
July 26 – 29, 2026 | Long Beach Convention Center
For over 60 years, DAC has served as the heartbeat of the semiconductor ecosystem. We invite you to join us for four days of world-class technical training, groundbreaking research, and unparalleled networking with the industry’s leading designers, researchers, and vendors. From AI and EDA to Security and Systems, DAC 2026 showcases the latest methodologies driving the future of electronic design.
Featured Keynotes:
- John Martinis – CTO & Co-Founder Qolab and 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Dr. Baaziz Achour – EVP and CTO, Qualcomm
- Jan Rabaey – Professor Emeritus UC Berkeley
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SKYTalks Highlighs:
- SUNDAY WELCOME: Timothy Costa – GM, NVIDIA
- Lalitha Immaneni– VP Semiconductor Research, Intel
- Dr. Huiming Bu – VP Global Semiconductor, IBM Research
- Artour Levin – VP AI Silicon Engineering, Microsoft
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Why Attend?
Whether you’re looking to gain insights from leading researchers and designers or connect with the world’s top chip designers, DAC 2026 is where the industry’s future is built.
7/13, 11:00 am, EPS, Next Generation Microelectronics for Sensing & Communication Systems (Virtual) This talk will focus on recent advances in the next-generation microelectronics and manufacturing for sensing and communication systems. Speaker: Hasan Sharifi.
7/14, 6:00 pm, SSIT/AESS, From Hangar Deck to AI Lab: How the USS Hornet Built Its Own Private LLM (Hybrid) Join us for a Member Technical Meeting on how the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum built a private large language model using Google’s NotebookLM and 165 curated content sources. Speaker: Mark Rowell, Chuck Myers.
7/15, 11:00 am, LMAG, AI That Works for You & Building a Private LLM (Hybrid) This quarter’s OEB LMAG lunch brings together a local Higher Ed leader and a CIO, two seasoned practitioners for a practical, hands-on session on getting real value from AI tools. Speakers: Roger Doering, Mark Rowell.
7/15, 6:00 pm, CIS/CS, Beyond the Model: The Industry Playbook for Scalable AI Systems (Virtual) This talk presents an industry roadmap for building scalable AI systems that move beyond isolated model optimization toward adaptive, software-defined AI platforms. Speaker: Sujit Reddy Thumma.
7/16, 12:00 pm, EPS/PHO, Silicon Photonics Qualification and Reliability Requirements (Virtual) This webinar will present the motivation, structure, and key technical considerations behind the emerging JEDEC work that Cisco has led on Silicon Photonics Qualification and Reliability Requirements. Speaker: Farnood Rezaie, PhD, Angelo Miele.
7/18, 1:00 pm, PELS, Summer Power Symposium – Paving the AI Superhighway (Santa Clara) This summer symposium concentrates on the critical power and energy infrastructure that underpins the continued evolution and scaling of artificial intelligence. Particularly, it will explore how the rapid expansion of AI is reshaping the global power landscape. Speakers: to be announced.
7/27. 4:30 pm, CIS, 2026 GET-AI SERIES: 4 . Driving Business Efficiency with AI (virtual) Learn how AI can improve sales efficiency, reduce manual effort, and create higher-quality business opportunities through intelligent automation. Speaker: Gaurav Deshmukh, Sunil Hans.
7/29, 6:00 pm, ComSoc, Meta-Learning-Assisted Predistortion for Power Amplifier Linearization in Wireless Communication Systems The talk discusses the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to improve spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, and system performance in modern wireless communication systems. Speaker: Wei Gao.
7/30, 6:00 pm, SPS, Video Coding Standards in the Age of AI (Palo Alto) This event will bring together experts from industry and the standards community to discuss the latest advances in AI for video coding, current standardization efforts, and future research directions. Speakers: Arianne Hinds, Debargha Mukherjee, Alican Nalci, Leo Zhao.
8/6,4:00 pm, EPS, Dual Seed Semi-Additive and Damascene Processes: Enabling Fine-Pitch Interconnects for Advanced Packaging (Virtual) This presentation will introduce Nano Copper Deposition as a solution family for AI-era interconnect scaling. Speaker: Shinya Shimizu.
9/8, 7:00 pm, CNSV, Rewired for AI: An Introduction to UltraEthernet (Hybrid) This talk will provide an engineering-first primer on UltraEthernet—the industry’s collaborative answer to modern data center scaling. Speaker: Rip Sohan.
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