The design automation conference (DAC) is a premier event for academics and industry working on the design and automation of electronic chips to systems. DAC 2022 was organized in San Francisco, California, from 10-14 July with over 5500 participants and over 200 emerging and leading companies exhibiting their solutions. Asif Ali Khan represented the chair for compiler construction and talked to like-minded researchers and industry experts working in emerging memory technologies and architectures, and their optimizations for various application domains. Asif also visited Prof. Alex K. Jones's group at the University of Pittsburgh to discuss our ongoing collaboration on accelerating genomics applications using racetrack memories.