Date & Time
Monday, May 4, 2026, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Track
Headliner
Name
The Twin Engines Driving the AI Era: Innovation and Impacts of Semiconductors and Data Centers
Description

Dustin Demetriou, Ph.D., is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Corporation in the IBM Systems’ Advanced Thermal Energy Efficiency Lab, focusing on product sustainability and lifecycle assessment, data center infrastructure management, workload carbon accounting, and future trends and regulations. As a globally recognized expert in thermal management and data center energy efficiency, he offers essential insights into the rapid evolution of AI chips and the data centers that house them. Discover how the ecosystems of semiconductor fabrication and high-density, compute-enabled data centers are intertwined, and learn how infrastructure with power, cooling, and manufacturing is evolving to support this next phase of industrial innovation.

Speakers
Dustin Demetriou, Ph.D., Consultant, Distinguished Lecturer, ASHRAE