Even though many sustainability efforts have been made in the past 50 years such as reducing plastics, increasing recycling efforts, passing environmental regulations, protecting endangered species, etc., there is still much to do for our planet. CALIT2’s CalPlug continues to work with all stakeholders to find solutions to mitigate climate change. Please join us on April 22, 2021 for a virtual lively discussion about innovative energy solutions to contribute to the restoration of the environmental balance. Please join us on April 22, 2021. Register now to save your spot. REGISTER NOW! Presentations 9 a.m. – Noon AGENDA 9:00 a.m. G.P. Li, CalPlug Welcome 9:10 a.m. Doug Johnson, Consumer Technology Association and Kim Trenbath, National Research Energy Laboratory – Co-chairs CalPlug advisory board Introducing CalPlug 2.0 9:25 a.m. David Jacot, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power LA’s La Kretz Innovation Campus and CleanTech Incubator 9:45 a.m. Edwin Hornquist, Southern California Edison SCE’s Pathway to Beneficial Building Electrification 10:05 a.m. Break 10:10 a.m. Ann Hancock, Climate Center Accelerating Climate Action in California 10:30 a.m. Yennie Solheim, Niantic Labs How AR Games Can Inspire Sustainability 10:50 a.m. Luc Severi, Sustainable Energy for All Powering Healthcare: Setting the Scene 11:10 a.m. Joy Pixley, CalPlug, moderator for presenter panel dialogue and Q&A Call to Action: What solutions can we find together? Ann Hancock, Learn about and endorse Climate-Safe California Luc Severi, COVID-19 presents an opportunity to close the energy gap that exists in the health sector in developing and emerging countries. However, several barriers still exist, and breaking them down will require an intersectoral approach between energy-health sectors and between public and private sector actors. Yennie Solheim, Inspired to connect the dots between technology and communities to harness more sustainable habits David Jacot, Understand the unique nexus of opportunity a clean tech incubator partnered with a major utility provides 11:50 a.m. G.P. Li Workshop Wrap-up    

CalPlug’s 18th workshop will be hosted virtually via Go2Webinar and it will bring together experts in their respective fields to discuss the future of our energy consumption in all spaces (residential, commercial, industrial and more) and our climate challenges and solutions. AGENDA 9 am – 12:05 pm 9 – 9:05 am: Welcome & Introduction G.P. Li – Calit2/California Plug Load Research Center 9:05 – 9:20 am: Challenges and Opportunities in Energy Transition, Decarbonization and Electrification: CalPlug’s Holistic Approach Li Zhao – CalPlug 9:20 – 9:45 am: WiFi Smart Plugs: the 'Gateway Drug' to Home Energy Automation John Anderson – OhmConnect 9:45 – 10:10 am: Overview of the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub Mary Ann Piette – Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 10:10 – 10:35 am: Object Oriented Design in Energy and Decision Management Paul Campbell – Facil AI 10:35 am – BREAK 10:40 – 11:05 am: Recent Field Experience and Lessons Learned Related to Automatic Receptacle Controls Michael Myer – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 11:05 – 11:30 am: Buildings of the Future, Today. Planning for Sustainability and Resilience working towards a Healthy Building Environment Kurt Gokbudak – Schneider Electric 11:30 am – Discussion Noon – 12:05 pm:  – Wrap up GP Li To participate, you must register with Go To Webinar. Follow this link to complete your registration in advance of the meeting date: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3496489174568128267

This symposium brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, academics and industry leaders interested in ever-evolving medical device market and the challenges new technologies may produce. More and more devices are at the core of collecting patient data for providing added value and personalization. As a result, privacy and security issues continue to increasingly concern consumers, regulators, businesses and more. Experts will present practical information designed to help innovators successfully move their research from the laboratory to the biomedical device market. AGENDA 12:30 p.m.: CHECK-IN 1 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.: Welcome to UCI and CALIT2 - Professor GP Li 1:10 – 3:30 p.m.: TODAY’S MEDICAL DEVICES 1:10 p.m.: UCI’s Collaboration and Commitment to OC’s Startup Ecosystem Alvin Viray, Applied Innovation, UC Irvine 1:35 p.m.: 10 Reasons Why Medical Device Companies Fail – A CFO’s Perspective Marc Kelly, Innovative Financial Consultants 2 p.m.: Legal Protections for Medical Devices and Data Curtis Huffmire, Knobbe Martens 2:25 p.m.: Equitable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - Mitigating Risk of Magnifying Biases Sharief Taraman, Children’s Hospital of Orange County 2:50 - 3 p.m.: BREAK 3 – 4:15 p.m.: DATA & OTHER DIGITAL CONCERNS 3 p.m.: Digital Health through the Empowered Health Consumer Tom Andriola, Institute for Precision Health, UC Irvine 3:25 p.m.: Future Health: A Navigational Approach to Health Amir Rahmani, HealthSci Tech Group, UC Irvine 3:50 p.m.: Innovation from a Surgeon’s Perspective Michael Oh, Neurological Surgery, UC Irvine 4:15 – 5 p.m.: OC STARTUP LANDSCAPE 4:15 p.m.: Small: Bigger and Better Mark Bachman, Xidas LLC 4:30 p.m.: Non-Invasive Disease Diagnostics Using Microscale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Rodolfo Rohr, LarmorBio 4:45 p.m.: Breast Cancer Detection by Analyzing the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Signature in Human Urine Judit Giró Benet, The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions Fardi Kurdahi, Center for Embedded & Cyber-physical Systems, UC Irvine 5 – 6 p.m.: NETWORKING RECEPTION Parking is available in the nearby Anteater Parking Structure. The cost to park is $13.

8th Annual Southern California Microbiome Symposium: Connections to the Environment and Health September 19, 2022 10 AM - 6:00 PM CALIT2 Building Auditorium University of California, Irvine REGISTER HERE: https://microbiome.uci.edu/microbiome-symposium-rsvp/ This event is free, but registration is limited. Parking is $13 in the Anteater Parking Structure. Including a new poster session for early career researchers SUBMIT A POSTER https://tinyurl.com/3bbmyffd SCHEDULE 10 a.m.: Welcome and Introductions 10:15 a.m.: Suzanne Devkota, Cedars-Sinai “Physiological and immunological responses to gut bacterial translocation in humans” 10:50 a.m.: Juliet Morrison, UCR “Pleural macrophages promote recovery from influenza virus infection” 11:25 a.m.: Travis Wiles, UCI “Tracing microbial life cycles in the gut microbiome” LUNCH BREAK 1 p.m.: Kevin Honker, BiomeSense “A translation-focused framework for human gut microbiome studies” 1:35 p.m.: Margaret McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Science “The imperative to integrate macro-and microbiology: Challenges and strategies” 2:10 p.m.: Jed Fuhrman, USC “Analyses of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic ocean microbiomes, vetted with mock communities and metagenomics” COFFEE BREAK 3:30 p.m.: Nick Shikuma, SDSU “A tale of phage tails and tubeworms: How bacteria stimulate animal metamorphosis” 4:05 p.m.: Joleah Lamb, UCI “Marine Greens: Using microbial processes of coastal ecosystems to improve human and ocean health” POSTER SESSION CO-ORGANIZED BY: UCI Microbiome UC RIVERSIDE UC San Diego UCI CALIT2