Programme 2026

Updated 25 January 2026 – v2.0 – PROVISIONAL

This programme is subject to changes up to the same day of the conference.

Multicore World 2026: Provisional Programme

Programme consists of Talks (T = 25′), Panels (P = 45′) and Keynotes (K = 40′) -all followed by Q&A

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Day 1: Monday 16 February 2026 – Foundations and Strategy

9:30 – Arrival Coffee | 10:00 Mihi Whakatau | 10:15 Conference Opening – Nicolás Erdödy

10:35 – 12:15 | Scientific Workflow Orchestration and System Architecture

10:45 T1: Ewa Deelman – Reimagining Workflow Management
11:30 T2: Manish Parashar – Harnessing Responsible AI for Science: Taming Open Data
12:15 LUNCH

1:30 – 3:15 | Infrastructure Scaling and Programming Models

1:30 T3: Andrew Jones – Gigawatts of Supercomputing
2:05 T4: Stuart Inglis –High Performance Storage using Rust.
2:30 P1: Panel.
3:15 COFFEE

3:45 – 5:30 | Sovereign Capabilities and Global Roadmaps

3:45 T5: David Brebner – Accelerating machine vision and computation tasks with Sparsity, Vulkan and SPIR-V
4:30 K1: Satoshi Matsuoka – Fugaku-NEXT and the Future of RIKEN R-CCS
5:20 – Drinks & Nibbles
7:00 – Conference Dinner

Day 2: Tuesday 17 February 2026 – Systems and Heterogeneous Design

08:30 – 10:30 | National Infrastructure and Interconnect Topology

08:40 T6: Simon McIntosh-Smith – Early Experience from Running the United Kingdom’s National AI Supercomputer Service
09:20 T7: Luca Carloni – Designing Sustainable AI Systems through Agile and Collaborative Hardware Platforms
10:15 Conference Photo 1
10:30 COFFEE

11:00 – 12:20 | Hardware Acceleration and GPU Ecosystems

11:00 T8: Will Kamp – The Square Kilometre Array is Alive!
11:30 K2: Taisuke Boku – Accelerating GPU-acceleration on Supercomputers in Japan and Application Development Support for Next Generation
12:20 LUNCH

1:30 – 3:15 | System Software and Signal Processing

1:30 T9: Kento Sato – System Software Solutions for FugakuNEXT and Beyond
2:15 T10 Amal Gueroudji – Stability in Motion: Performance Characterization, Resilience, and Trustworthiness in Contemporary Workflows
3:15 COFFEE

3:45 – 5:30 | Performance Characterization and AI Specialization

3:45 T11: Paola Buitrago – AI-Specialized Hardware and Experiences of the NSF Neocortex AI Supercomputer
4:15 P2: Panel
5:30 Drinks and Nibbles

Day 3: Wednesday 18 February 2026 – Computational Science and Memory Systems

08:30 – 10:30 | Domain Applications: Earth Systems and Computational Medicine

08:40 T12: Deidre Cleland – Jess Robertson – Addressing Computational Challenges in Earth Sciences with Advanced Technologies
09:20 T13: Alok N. Choudhary – AI’s Potential Role and Challenges in Critical Care and Chronic Disease Management
10:00 Conference Photo 2
10:30 COFFEE

11:00 – 12:20 | Scientific Machine Learning and Predictive Twins

11:00 T14: Ana Gainaru – Unifying Data Representation in Coupled Simulation-AI Workflows
11:30 K3: Karen E. Willcox – Simulating Complex Physics at Lightning Speed
12:20 LUNCH

1:30 – 3:15 | Memory-Centric Architectures and Numerical Algorithms

1:30 T15: Jason Trout – SADRAM and its Implementation
2:20 T16: Patricia González-Guerrero – Superconducting Logic and Specialized Accelerator Design for High-Efficiency Computing
3:15 COFFEE

3:45 – 5:30 | Evaluation Metrics and Real-Time Systems

3:45 T17: Emily Casleton – Testing and Evaluating Large AI Models: Current Trends and Future Work
4:15 T18: Dhabaleswar K. Panda – ICICLE: Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Next-Generation AI – Applications using Computing Continuum
4:45 P3: Panel
5:30 – Drinks and Nibbles

Day 4: Thursday 19 February 2026 – Mission Resilience and Future Horizons

08:30 – 10:30 | Distributed Workflows and Communication Standards

08:40 T19: Anirban Mandal – The Digital Wind Tunnel: FABRIC Network Instrument, Edge-to-Core Workflows, and the Future of Decentralized CI Resource Management
09:20 T20: Nathan DeBardeleben – ArtIMis – AI for Mission at LANL
10:30 COFFEE

11:00 – 12:20 | Mathematical Efficiency and Societal Ethics

11:00 T21: Giulia Guidi – Overcoming Parallelism Challenges in Data Analytics Using Sparse Linear Algebra
11:30 P4: Panel
12:20 LUNCH

1:30 – 3:15 | Research Cloud Operations and Societal Resilience

1:30 T22: Ruud van der Pas – Why DTrace should be in your toolkit.
2:10 T23: Ilkay Altintas – Societal Computing: Designing AI-Ready Ecosystems for a More Resilient Future
3:15 COFFEE

3:45 – 5:30 | Sovereign Ecosystems and Quantum Horizons

3:45 T24: Andrew Wheeler – Beyond the Horizon: Quantum, AI, and the technologies shaping the next decade.
4:25 K4: Nash Palaniswamy – Quantum computing is here, now.
5:30 – 8:30 Multicore World Happy Hour – Carlton Bar & Steakhouse

Day 5: Friday 20 February 2026 – Unconference

Delegates organise the schedule -talks, informal discussions, roundtables, business deals

9:00 – 5:00 – Uncatered

Updated 25 January 2026 – v2.0 DRAFT