he 36th annual conference to be held, from September 28 - October 2, at the Vancouver Convention Center in Vancouver. This year's keynote address entitled "Time for Reflection: Telecommunications and Electric Power Resilience” will be given by Alex Tang, a leading consultant on earthquake engineering of lifelines, such as telecommunications and electric power. In addition, daily plenary sessions from industry leaders Victor Goncalves, P.Eng, FEC (Chief Technology Officer Alpha Technologies LTD), Dr. Ewart Blackmore (Senior Research Scientist, TRIUMF), and Power Electronics legend Bruce Carsten (President, Bruce Carsten Associates) will provide their insights and industry perspectives on hot topics for the entire audience.

The compelling technical program using oral presentations, poster sessions, workshops and daily plenary presentations will cover all of today's compelling topics such as;

• Resilient Power Systems
• Architectures for energy storage
• High efficiency and high density power supplies
• Remote line power
• Renewable energy generation
• Dc-Dc topology
• Islanded and grid-connected autonomous power systems
• Cooling techniques
• Power systems for commercial offices and data centers
• Battery technologies
• Ac-Dc converters
• 400V dc architecture
• Techniques and strategies for energy management
• Physical and thermal design
• Fuel cell technology
• Line powering of telecommunications systems
• Energy storage

INTELEC©, the International Telecommunications Energy Conference, is the annual world-class technical forum which presents the latest developments in communications energy systems and related power-processing devices and circuits. This Conference, which serves the broad community of researchers, suppliers and operators, explores new technologies of power conversion, energy storage and systems design for telecom applications.

To register for the conference, please go to www.intelec2014.org/registration.

For more information including Conference Venue, Technical Program, Exhibition and Social Program, please visit www.intelec2014.org.

Provided by John P. Gagge, Jr, INTELEC 2014 Publicity Chair

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