Updated 19 February 2026 – v5.4.1 – (daily update…)
Multicore World 2026: Programme
Programme consists of Presentations and Panels -all followed by Q&A
TICKETS here – also ONE DAY tickets available
Day 1: Monday 16 February 2026
- 1:00 – Arrival Coffee – Networking.
- 1:30 – 1:50 – Conference Opening – Nicolás Erdödy.
- 1:50 – 2:20 – Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, US) – “Reimagining Workflow Management“.
- 2:30 – 3:10 – Stuart Inglis (Exaba, New Zealand) – “High Performance Storage using Rust”.
- 3:15 – 3:45 – COFFEE – Sponsored by Exaba.
- 3:45 – 4:15 – Ruud van der Pas (OpenMP Board, The Netherlands) – “Why DTrace should be in your toolkit.”
- 4:20 – 5:20 – Panel – “Sovereign capabilities“ – Resilient data ecosystems and sovereign AI – Ilkay Altintas (UCSD, US), Manish Parashar (University of Utah, US), Deidre Cleland (ESNZ, New Zealand), Emily Casleton (Los Alamos National Labs, LANL, US).
- 6:00 – 9:00 – Conference Dinner – Rydges Latimer Hotel – Sponsored by Open Parallel Ltd.
Day 2: Tuesday 17 February 2026
- 8:30 – Arrival Coffee.
- 8:40 – 8:45 – Opening.
- 8:45 – 9:15 – Manish Parashar (University of Utah, US) – “Harnessing Responsible AI for Science: Taming Open Data“.
- 9:35 – 10:15 – Satoshi Matsuoka (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) – “Architecting the Convergence: HPC, AI, and Quantum towards FugakuNEXT”
- 10:30 – 11:00 – COFFEE – Sponsored by Catalyst IT
- 11:00 – 11:30 – Will Kamp (Kamputed, New Zealand) – “The Square Kilometre Array is Alive!“
- 11:40 – 12:10 – Luca Carloni (Columbia University, US) – “Designing Sustainable AI Systems through Agile and Collaborative Hardware Platforms.”
- 12:20 – 1:30 – LUNCH – Sponsored by SADRAM
- 1:30 – 2:05 – Jason Trout (SADRAM, US/NZ) – “SADRAM and its Implementation.”
- 2:20 – 2:50 – Patricia González-Guerrero (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab – LBNL, US) – “Chiplets Modularity for AI and HPC”
- 3:05 – 3:15 – Conference Photo 1
- 3:10 – 3:40 – COFFEE – Sponsored by REANNZ
- 3:40 – 4:10 – Simon McIntosh-Smith (Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS), UK) – “Early Experience from Running the United Kingdom’s National AI Supercomputer Service.”
- 4:15 – 5:15 – Panel – “Convergence HPC/AI/Quantum -without the hype“ – Satoshi Matsuoka (RIKEN, Japan), Andrew Wheeler (HPE, US), Patricia Gonzalez-Guerrero (LBNL, US), Nathan DeBardeleben (LANL, US), Will Kamp (Kamputed, New Zealand).
- 5:15 – 7:00 – Drinks and Nibbles – Christchurch Town Hall.
Day 3: Wednesday 18 February 2026
- 8:30 – Arrival Coffee
- 8:45 – 8:50 – Opening
- 8:50 – 9:20 – Ilkay Altintas (San Diego Supercomputing Center, US) – “Societal Computing: Designing AI-Ready Ecosystems for a More Resilient Future.”
- 9:30 – 10:10 – Karen E. Willcox (University of Texas at Austin, US) – “Simulating Complex Physics at Lightning Speed.”
- 10:20 – 10:30 – Conference Photo 2
- 10:30 – 11:00 – COFFEE – Sponsored by Catalyst Cloud
- 11:00 – 11:30 – Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University, US) – “ICICLE: Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Next-Generation AI – Applications using Computing Continuum.”
- 11:40 – 12:10 – Deidre Cleland | Jess Robertson (Earth Sciences New Zealand) – “Addressing Computational Challenges in Earth Sciences with Advanced Technologies.”
- 12:20 – 1:30 – LUNCH – Sponsored by ESNZ
- 1:30 – 2:05 – Alok N. Choudhary (Northwestern University, US) – “AI’s Potential Role and Challenges in Critical Care and Chronic Disease Management.”
- 2:10 – 2:40 – Amal Gueroudji (Argonne National Lab (ANL). USA/Algeria.) – “Stability in Motion: Performance Characterization, Resilience, and Trustworthiness in Contemporary Workflows.”
- 2:45 – 3:30 – Fireside chat with Andrew Wheeler (HPE).
- 3:30 – 3:50 – COFFEE – Sponsored by Seequent
- 3:50 – 4:20 – Emily Casleton (Los Alamos National Labs, LANL, US) – “Testing and Evaluating Large AI Models: Current Trends and Future Work.”
- 4:30 – 5:20 – Panel –“Infrastructure robustness” – Ben Mintz (ORNL, US), Ruud van der Pas (OpenMP, The Netherlands), Luca Carloni (Columbia University, US), Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University, US), Don Christie (Catalyst IT, New Zealand).
- 5:20 – 7:00 – Drinks and Nibbles. Christchurch Town Hall.
Day 4: Thursday 19 February 2026
- 8:30 – Arrival Coffee – Networking
- 8:50 – 8:55 – Opening.
- 8:55 – 9:25 – Ana Gainaru (Oak Ridge National Lab, ORNL, US) – “Unifying Data Representation in Coupled Simulation-AI Workflows.”
- 9:35 – 10:10 – Nathan DeBardeleben (Los Alamos National Labs, LANL, US) – “ArtIMis – AI for Mission at LANL.”
- 10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE – Sponsored by Open Parallel
- 11:00 – 11:40 – Taisuke Boku (Advanced HPC-AI Research & Development Support Center (HAIRDESC), Japan – “Accelerating GPU-acceleration on Supercomputers in Japan and Application Development Support for Next Generation.”
- 11:55 – 12:30 – Kento Sato (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) – “System Software Solutions for FugakuNEXT and Beyond.”
- 12:35 – 1:35 – LUNCH sponsored by Quantinuum.
- 1:35 – 2:05 – David Brebner (Umajin, New Zealand) – “Accelerating machine vision and computation tasks with Sparsity, Vulkan and SPIR-V“
- 2:15 – 2:55 – Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center, US) – “Surviving the AI Industry boom”
- 3:10 – 3:30 – COFFEE – Sponsored by HPE.
- 3:30 – 4:25 – Panel – “Infrastructure scaling and resource consumption” – Dan Stanzione (TACC, US), Taisuke Boku (HAIRDESC, Japan), Simon McIntosh-Smith (BriCS, UK), Jess Robertson (ESNZ, New Zealand).
- 4:25 – 5:10 – Andrew Wheeler (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE, US)– “Beyond the Horizon: Quantum, AI, and the technologies shaping the next decade.”
- 5:15 – 5:25 – Conference closure – Nicolás Erdödy – Multicore World 2027.
- 6:00 – 8:30 – Multicore World Happy Hour – Carlton Bar & Steakhouse – Sponsored by Open Parallel Ltd
Day 5: Friday 20 February 2026 – Unconference
Delegates organise the schedule -talks, informal discussions, roundtables, business deals
9:00 – 5:00 – Uncatered
Updated 19 February 2026 – v5.4.0 – (daily update…)
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