NTELEC® is an international annual technical conference which, for the past thirty-nine years, has been the premier forum for the discussion of the science and engineering of power and energy systems for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

The 40th anniversary INTELEC 2018 conference will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Torino, Italy at the Lingotto Conference Centre, October 7-11th 2018.  The theme of this conference is: 40 years of Inspiration, Research and Exploration in Power and Energy for ICT.  The conference program will include four tutorials on the Sunday before the conference opens, keynote and invited speakers' plenaries on the Monday morning, three or four parallel technical sessions with about 100 oral presentations from Monday afternoon to Thursday morning, poster presentations, and three workshops during the week.

There will also be an industry exhibition featuring communication power and energy systems equipment open from Monday lunch time, till Thursday lunch time.  The conference features a substantial social program which will include a welcome reception Sunday evening, an exhibition reception Monday evening, an afternoon social or technical tour, and a banquet Wednesday evening with entertainment at the Torino automobile museum.

The Tutorials are on power electronics, base station power systems, data center power, and energy storage systems management.

Research and technical papers to be presented in the technical program explore the needs and trends in the subject areas of power conversion, energy storage, and high-reliability and mission-critical powering infrastructure. Topics include power and energy system architectures, traditional and 400 volt DC power systems, outside plant distributed power systems, power system monitoring and control, AC-DC and DC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters, energy storage including battery and fuel cells, grounding, physical and thermal designs including building and equipment cooling systems.

Torino is incredibly a city set in the heart of verdant areas: gently resting on the hillside and enclosed by the winding course of the River Po, it owes much of its charm to its enchanting location at the foot of the western Alps. The first Capital of Italia invites you to discover its ancient and modern history, the palaces and museums, the parks and tree-lined avenues, the river and the hills, the restaurants and historic coffee houses, the long colonnaded streets, the great events and the many little pleasure which have always made it unique, in a balance between the rational Roman town layout, the measured pomp of Piemonte baroque and the originality of the modern and contemporary architecture. 

One can register for the conference and for accommodation on the conference website www.intelec2018.org or at http://www.symposium.it/en/events/2018/intelec-2018

A spectacular night view of Torino with some of its most famous symbols: the river Po, the Mole Antonelliana tower and the snowy mountains

Provided by
Don Davidson and Mariapia Martino
Intelec 2018

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