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The IEEE Spectrum Online Emerging Technology Forum Series Event 1: Enabling Electronics for Smart Grid Technologies & Beyond

Date: Monday, 30 November 2009 Time: 5:00 PM PT – 7:30 PM PT Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA (1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043)

IEEE Spectrum Online and The IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section are pleased to present the first in a series of forums on today’s emerging technologies. The leading software, database, and data processing companies—Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP among them—are getting seriously interested in the business opportunities that the smart grid will bring. And the platform technology and Si provider Intel sees smart grid as one of the key driving forces in the emerging “embedded internet”, which promises new business opportunities from the largest cloud computing datacenter to the smallest home appliances and everything in-between. But what are those opportunities exactly, and what engineering challenges must be met to seize the day successfully? Specifically, how do power system data differ from (say) travel, sales, or traffic data? What about storage and data security requirements? Are there processing problems that are essentially different from those encountered in other kinds of large, complex systems?