IMPORTANT DATES

March 2, 2025

Special Session
Proposal Due

May 25, 2025

Notice of
Acceptance
Call for Special Sessions

The 17th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) will take place at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Pennsylvania, USA, from October 19th to 23rd, 2025. This year’s Special Sessions will emphasize emerging technologies and industry-focused topics from non-academic perspectives, including contributions from manufacturers, government research laboratories, start-ups, and industry practitioners. To facilitate broader participation, authors of Special Sessions are not required to submit written papers or materials. Additionally, any materials presented will not be included in the official conference proceedings. Each session will be allocated one or two 100-minute slots, scheduled on the same or different days, subject to the overall conference program.

Different session formats are solicited:

  1. Formal presentations
  2. Informal talks with or without slides
  3. Full question and answer panel
  4. Panel debates
  5. Creative or hybrid presentation formats

One or more of the following elements are strongly encouraged in the special session proposals:

  1. Substantial industry or government engagement
  2. Industrial application oriented
  3. Regionally oriented topics
  4. Collaborative cross-disciplinary topics or teams
  5. Innovative, industry-engaging formats

Factors considered as less attractive to the audience are:

  1. Non-emerging topics
  2. Academic lectures
  3. Repetition of previous ECCE teams and topics
  4. Products-specific promotion

All special session proposals must be submitted through the web portal at https://www.ieee-ecce.org/2025/call-for-special-sessions. Submissions must follow posted guidelines and will be reviewed by a panel of subject matter experts.

Potential topic areas include but are not limited to:

Advanced Technologies in Defense and Aerospace
  • Radar and laser power systems
  • Directed energy weapons
  • Submarine integrated power system (SIP)
  • Drone and UAV
  • Maritime electric reliability, quality, and suppression
Transportation
  • All-electric aircraft and E-VTOL
  • Safety-centric design for autonomous technology
  • Grid and wireless charging
  • Battery management and protection
Automation, AI, and Robotics
  • Advances in power electronics and drives for automation.
  • Electronic and drive fault, safety, and quality inspection.
  • Battery systems technology for robotics
Manufacturing Processes
  • Electric furnace smelting
  • Arc welding and electric discharge machining
  • Hydrogen generation (electrolyzers, fuel cells)
  • Infrastructure
Infrastructure
  • Renewable energy integration
  • Smart grids, microgrids, and nanogrids
  • Energy conversion for information technology
  • Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
Component, Converter, and Subsystems
  • Ultra wide-bandgap (U-WBG) semiconductor development
  • Power semiconductor devices, magnetics, capacitances
  • Electric machines and drives
  • Packaging,
Design
  • EMI and EMC
  • High voltage power conversion, including insulation systems
  • Reliability, diagnostics, prognostics, and
  • health management
  • Thermal management and advanced cooling technologies
  • Design automation using machine learning
Others
  • Standards development
  • Education and career development
  • Entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and business management
  • Online education technology innovations

Special Session Proposal Template

Format: Maximum 5 pages. All pages are formatted to 8.5 x 11” or A4 paper with margins of one inch on every side. All texts use single space, Times New Roman, and a font size of 11 or 12. A Word® template will be posted on the official website under Call for Special Sessions.

Recommended Sections
  • Special Session Title
  • Proposed Session Format: (Choose from “formal presentations”, “informal talks”, “full Q&A panel”, “debate”, or create own style – see Call For Proposal. Describe the format at a high level, and note any creative activities such as software hardware demonstration, virtual tours, interactive audience polls, etc.)
  • Proposed Timing: (Choose “100 minutes” or “2×100 minutes”.)
  • Session Organizers: [List name(s), title(s), affiliation(s), and email(s).]
  • Session Speakers/Panelists: (List names, titles, and affiliations. Clearly note each speaker’s availability: choose “confirmed” or “tentative”; failure to do so will be treated as all tentative.)
  • Abstract: (No more than 500 words. Accepted abstract will be published through the conference website and program book.)
  • Session Outline: (Only list the proposed topics/titles/activities. No detailed descriptions necessary. Indicate time allocation and speaker breakdown, if possible.)
  • Organizer Biography: (No more than 200 words for each person. External website link can be included but may not be reviewed.)
  • Speaker/Panelist Biography: (No more than 200 words for each person. External website link can be included but may not be reviewed.)

Did You Know? Both PELS and IAS
Welcome Post-Conference Papers

Both PELS and IAS welcome post-conference papers sponsored by PELS and IAS to be submitted to our journals, including…

  • Transactions on Power Electronics
  • Open Journal of Power Electronics
  • Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
  • Transactions on Industry Applications
  • Open Journal of Industry Applications
  • Transactions on Transportation Electrification

According to IEEE policy, the submitted journal manuscript should include the conference paper as a reference and clarify the new developments and contributions in the journal version.

Please visit https://www.ieee-ecce.org/ for more information or contact the ECCE 2025 Technical Program Chairs at ecce2025tpc@gmail.com.