The International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS) will host an International Conference on Advanced Packaging for Power Electronics on May 8-9 in Boston-Woburn. The Conference will bring together technologists from a diverse collection of disciplines in power semiconductor packaging, application development, reliability, modeling, process development, thermal management, and advanced materials/manufacturing to support the next generation of power electronics development. Attendees and Exhibitors will be exposed to a variety of power applications and packaging solutions from board level integration to power packaging for distributed energy systems to encourage cross pollination and insight of current and emerging market challenges and opportunities for collaboration.