IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - September 2021 - 78

by Jinyeong Moon
Wireless Power Week 2021
Breaks Attendance Record
he 2021 IEEE Wireless Power
Week (WPW) was held from
June 1 through 4 in a virtual
format. It was a great success with
record-breaking 2,500+ participants.
The 2021 WPW was a congregate
event of two world-leading conferences,
hosted in parallel, in wireless
power transfer technologies: the
IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies:
Wireless Power (WoW);
and the IEEE Wireless Power Transfer
Conference (WPTC).
The WPW has been the largest
event in the world for wireless power
transfer research since the inception
in 2018 and this year was no exception.
This year alone, there were
record-breaking 2,500+ participants,
nine industry sponsors, nine keynote
speakers (Figure 1), a full day of WPT
school, and nine technical sessions.
Overall, the WPW has published approximately
1,100 papers and has
been attended by nearly 3,000 people
from all over the world since 2018. For
general information on WPW 2021,
please visit the official website: http://
wpw2021.org/.
Due to the still strong presence of
the pandemic, the 2021 WPW was held
virtually through the Whova platform
and the conference recordings were
also simultaneously made available
on YouTube (https://www.youtube
.com/c/WirelessPowerTransfer). In
case you missed the 2021 IEEE WPW,
YouTube videos are still available for
you to view and share them with colleagues
and friends.
The 2021 WPW had excellent keynote
presentations that reflected a
wide variety of past and current states
and future trends in the wireless power
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2021.3099550
Date of current version: 13 September 2021
FIG 1 Screen shot of the 2021 WPW committee members. Top L-R; Chris Mi, general
chair, Jenshen Lin, general cochair, JC Chiao, WPTC program chair, Sanjay Gupta, president
AirFuel Alliance. Middle row L-R; Ke Wu, MTT Inter-Society committee chair,
Cesar Johnston, keynote speaker, Khurram Afridi, WoW program chair, Liuchen
Chang, PELS president. Bottom row L-R; Sl-Thaddeus Avestruz, WoW cochair and
Gregory Lyons, MTT president.
transfer field. Select titles from the
keynote speeches include " Wireless
power is ready to realize its potential
(Airfuel) " , " Shaping the future of RF
wireless power transmission (Energous) " ,
" To get a grip on the Earth and
shake it: Nikola Tesla's scheme for
wireless power transmission (Prof.
Carlson) " , " Wireless charging for electrified
roadways (Dr. Ozpineci) " , " Wireless
charging for electric vehicles:
moving to mainstream (WiTricity) " ,
" Accelerating adoption of magnetic
resonant wireless power based on
the AirFuel standard (EPC) " , " Wireless
power and power beaming (Dr.
Jaffe) " , " Addressing the charging problem
for every vehicle type (Momentum
Dynamics) " , " RF safety of wireless
power transfer technology (Prof.
Lin) " , " Worldwide standardization of
wireless power transfer for EVs (ZEV
Station). " These keynote speeches are
also available on YouTube.
The 2021 IEEE WPW was financially
co-sponsored by the IEEE
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Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society (MTT-S) and IEEE Power
Electronics Society (PELS), and
technically co-sponsored by MTT-S,
PELS, and Antenna Propagation Society
(APS). Additionally, the 2021 IEEE
WPW had Energous, Momentum Dynamics,
and WiTricity as Platinum
sponsors, Chroma as Gold sponsor,
and Ansys, EPC, ETA Electronics, and
Intdevice as Silver sponsors.
The IEEE WPW for 2022 will be
held in Bordeaux, France, from 4-8
July 2022, hopefully in person. In
2023, the two conferences (i.e., WoW
and WPTC) are planned to be integrated
as one with a new name, " Wireless
Power Conference and Expo "
and will be hosted in San Diego, CA,
USA on 7-10 June 2023. We sincerely
hope that our conference and wireless
power transfer field grows bigger
each year, and more researchers and
professionals find more research and
collaboration opportunities through
our event.
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