Introducing DATE 2022 Young People Program

The DATE conference, the biggest EDA conference in Europe will find place 14-23.03.2022, as virtual event. The Young People Program (YPP) at DATE conference is an initiative targeting PhD students with the goal of supporting their career development. Several initiatives are planned to support that goal.

Career Fair

PhD students will have an opportunity to present themselves to potential employers from EDA and microelectronics industries. The open positions will be posted to the HiPEAC.org job portal and the attendees will have the possibility to submit their CVs to apply for certain positions. If there is interest from company side, interviews will be arranged during the DATE conference.

On March 2nd, before the conference, there will be a “Meet the Recruiter Call” where students can ask Cadence recruiters about the optimization of their CV and how to present themselves effectively in an interview. On March 16^th, the participating companies have a chance to introduce themselves to the participants of the Career Fair.

In order to apply for participation in DATE Career fair, please fill out following form: https://www.date-conference.com/career-fair/student-preregistration. For more information on the Career Fair, please follow this link.

Career Forum

Keynote Speakers at Career Forum

On March 21^st, there will be an information session that will feature a round table discussion with different views and opportunities in computer science high-end research as speakers from Academia, Industry and government organizations have been invited to give their insights and valuable knowledge on these different paths. The keynote will be delivered by Prof. Elena Blokhina and Prof. Bogdan Staszewski from University College Dublin on career perspectives in the exciting new field of Quantum computing. 

The panel is occupied by Antonia Schmalz from SPRIN D.org, which is a German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation), Ari Kulmala from Tampere University, Anna Puig-Centelles, who is European Commission Program Officer and Alba Cervera, the coordinator of Quantum Spain Project at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Sponsorship Fair

Another initiative of the YPP is the Sponsorship Fair; which is aimed of bringing together University Student Teams and EDA and microelectronic companies. It will find place on March 16^th after the company presentations. Student teams have the opportunity to present their activities, success stories and challenges while companies can devolve funding and support (e.g., free tool licenses, personalized webinars, financial support) for their future activities. In order to apply for participation in Sponsorship Fair, please fill out application form.

BarCamp@DATE

BarCamp is an open participatory day-long event on March 18th, where the agenda is compiled during the event and there are no listeners, but participators. If you want to try out this highly interactive format and propose your own topic, start the online registration and then book the corresponding program offering "BarCamp only". More information on BarCamp is available here.

Watch here the Dry Run of the BarCamp@DATE event and get more information on this event.

Tutorial on Using Organic Printed Electronics PDK (OPDK) to design circuits for Integrated Sensor Platforms

While not part of the Young People Program, but still interesting for young researchers is a tutorial, which is organized by the 2Horizons consortium, which has spent the last three years on creation of a process for organic printed electronics process. Cadence is part of the project and supported creation of the OPDK. In the video below you can see the creation of a demonstrator using the OPDK. During the tutorial you will be able to try out creating designs using this PDK and Cadence tools installed in Euro practice cloud environment. More information on tutorial you will find following this link.

Details to the multiple events of the YPP program are available here: https://www.date-conference.com/young-people-program

The DATE 2022 Young People Program has also been presented in HiPEAC magazine. Read the article here.

For any further details feel free to contact Young People Program Chairs:

Sara Vinco, Politecnico di Torino, IT and Anton Klotz, Cadence Design Systems, DE at young-people-program@date-conference.com

See you there!