Programme 2026

Updated 11 January 2026 – v1.1 – 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 = 45′) -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 – Elle Archer | 10:15 Conference Opening – Nicolás Erdödy

10:30 – 12:20 | Scientific Workflow Orchestration and System Architecture

10:30 T1: Ewa Deelman – Reimagining Workflow Management
11:10 T2: John Shalf – Hardware-Software Co-Design for the Post-Moore Era
11:45 T3: Manish Parashar – Harnessing Responsible AI for Science: Taming Open Data
12:20 LUNCH

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

1:30 T4: Andrew Jones – Gigawatts of Supercomputing
2:10 T5: Jeffrey Vetter – Chiplets and Architectural Innovations for Extreme Heterogeneity in HPC
2:40 T6: Marie-Christine Sawley – Global Roadmaps and Strategies for Exascale Computing Ecosystems
3:15 COFFEE

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

3:45 P1: Panel
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

08:30 T7: Simon McIntosh-Smith – Early Experience from Running the United Kingdom’s National AI Supercomputer Service
09:10 T8: Laura Monroe – Mathematical Foundations of Resilient High-Performance Interconnects
09:50 T9: Stuart Inglis – High-Performance Storage and Data Management for Exascale Systems
10:30 COFFEE

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

11:00 T10: Luca Carloni – Designing Sustainable AI Systems through Agile and Collaborative Hardware Platforms
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 T11: Kento Sato – System Software Solutions for FugakuNEXT and Beyond
2:10 T12: Will Kamp – The Square Kilometre Array is Alive!
2:40 T13: Gokcen Kestor – Compiler Optimizations and Runtime Systems for Heterogeneous Architectures
3:15 COFFEE

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

3:45 T14: Amal Gueroudji – Stability in Motion: Performance Characterization, Resilience, and Trustworthiness in Contemporary Workflows
4:15 T15: Paola Buitrago – AI-Specialized Hardware and Experiences of the NSF Neocortex AI Supercomputer
4:45 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

08:30 T16: Jess Robertson – HPC in Earth Sciences: Modeling Planetary Resilience
09:10 T17: Alok N. Choudhary – AI’s Potential Role and Challenges in Critical Care and Chronic Disease Management
09:50 T18: Ana Gainaru – Unifying Data Representation in Coupled Simulation-AI Workflows
10:30 COFFEE

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

11:00 T19: Amanda Randles – Extreme-Scale Simulations of Human Physiological Systems
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 T20: Jason Trout – SADRAM and its Implementation
2:10 T21: Patricia González-Guerrero – Superconducting Logic and Specialized Accelerator Design for High-Efficiency Computing
2:40 T22: Rabab Alomairy – High-Performance Sparse Linear Algebra for Extreme-Scale Discovery
3:15 COFFEE

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

3:45 T23: Emily Casleton – Testing and Evaluating Large AI Models: Current Trends and Future Work
4:15 T24: David Brebner – High-Performance Real-Time Computational Engines for Interaction and Visualization
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

08:30 T25: Anirban Mandal – The Digital Wind Tunnel: FABRIC Network Instrument, Edge-to-Core Workflows, and the Future of Decentralized CI Resource Management
09:10 T26: Dhabaleswar K. Panda – ICICLE project for HPC and AI
09:50 T27: Nathan DeBardeleben – ArtIMis – AI for Mission at LANL
10:30 COFFEE

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

11:00 T28: 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 T29: Ruud van der Pas – DTrace – Detecting Anomalies in a Large Scale System
2:10 T30: Ilkay Altintas – Societal Computing: Designing AI-Ready Ecosystems for a More Resilient Future
2:40 T31: Fernanda Foertter – Scaling Data Operations and Performance-Centric Strategy
3:15 COFFEE

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

3:45 T32: Andrew Wheeler – Beyond the Horizon – the Shape of the World in 2030
4:15 T33: Sean Smith – Architecting Sovereign Supercomputing Ecosystems: Security and Autonomy
4:45 K4: Nash Palaniswamy – Quantum computing is here, now.
5:30 – Drinks and Nibbles
7:00 – 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 11 January 2026 – v1.1 DRAFT