Recognizing humanity's most fundamental innovation unit: the student and the mentor.

9th Annual CME NASA Symposium and the CME NASA Earth & Space Sustainability (CNESS) Summit bring together industry, academia, government and the public to solve the big challenges of humanity and enlarge the diverse STEM talent pool.

As AI workloads surge, copper interconnects are hitting hard limits in power and bandwidth density. Co-packaged optics (CPO) solves this by moving optical-to-electrical conversion directly onto the chip package next to switch and compute silicon. This delivers dramatically lower energy per bit and greater bandwidth density—central to NVIDIA, Broadcom, and hyperscalers’ roadmaps. This STEM Talk explores why CPO is vital for AI compute economics and key materials challenges.

14th CME STEM Leadership Awards™ honoring outstanding leaders