This year we are experiencing many first with respect to planning the 58th Design Automation Conference. It’s the first DAC to be rescheduled from its normal summer schedule to December. It’s the first DAC to co-locate with both the RISC-V Summit and SEMICON West. And it is the first DAC to ever go hybrid with both a live and virtual component.
For this year’s Hybrid DAC, we incorporated many lessons learned from last year’s purely virtual DAC. The first lesson learned was that it is not possible to recreate the full experience of a live conference in a virtual world. Indeed, conferences such as DAC attract a global audience, and accommodating multiple time zones must be carefully factored into the plan. In addition, not every activity at a live conference translates into a good virtual experience. So, we learned the importance of providing a good digital journey through a conference by focusing on high-quality technical content.
