30+ Speakers confirmed for Multicore World 2025.
Important: This is a dynamic list -Speakers are added as they fully confirm their participation. Check this page regularly.
Updated 29 January 2025.

Associate VP for Research. Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). US.

Professor & University Distinguished Scholar of CS and Engineering, Ohio State University. Director of the NSF-AI Institute, ICICLE. US.

Computer Scientist. Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. US.

Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. US – NZ.

Dever Chair Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor, Computer Science. Professor, Kellogg School of Management. Director, Center for Ultra-Scale Computing and Information Security. Northwestern University. US.

Group Leader – Workflow and Ecosystem Services. National Center for Computational Sciences. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. US

Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering. Director Optimization, Inversion, Machine Learning, and Uncertainty for Complex Systems. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. US.

Mathematician & Computer Scientist. Senior Project Leader. Los Alamos National Laboratory. US.

Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Japan.

Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Data and Computing. University of Arizona. US.

Section Head, Advanced Computing Systems Research. Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). US.

Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics. Director, Duke Quantum Center. Duke University. Co-founder, IonQ, Inc. US.

Nicolás Erdödy
Open Parallel Ltd. and Conference Director, Multicore World, New Zealand
Full programme MW 2025 – available here!
Monday 17 February 2025
Elle Archer. Chair, Te Hapori Matihiko (Māori in DigiTech). New Zealand.
Dan Stanzione. Associate VP for Research. Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). US.
Rupak Biswas. Director of Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Research Center. US.
Kevin A. Brown. Argonne Scholar, inaugural Walter Massey Fellow. Argonne National Lab (ANL). US.
Andrew Jones. Leader, Future Capabilities for Supercomputing & AI, Azure Core. Microsoft. UK.
Kate Keahey. Senior Computer Scientist. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). US.
Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda. Professor & University Distinguished Scholar of CS and Engineering, Ohio State University. Director of the NSF-AI Institute, ICICLE. US.
Don Christie. Managing Director, Co-Founder, Catalyst IT Limited. New Zealand.
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Ruud van der Pas. Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Linux Engineering. The Netherlands.
Olga Pearce. Computer Scientist. Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. US.
Robert Trout. President. Sadram, Inc. New Zealand.
David Brebner. Founder and CEO. Umajin. New Zealand.
Karen Willcox, MNZM. Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. US – NZ.
Stuart Inglis. CTO/Co-founder of Exaba.io. New Zealand
Amal Gueroudji. Postdoctoral Appointee. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Algeria.
Simon McIntosh-Smith. Head of Microelectronics, Professor of HPC. University of Bristol. UK.
Larry Kaplan. Senior Distinguished Technologist, Chief Software Architect for HPC. HPE. US.
Wednesday 19 February 2025
Alok Choudhary. Dever Chair Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor, Computer Science. Professor, Kellogg School of Management. Director, Center for Ultra-Scale Computing and Information Security. Northwestern University. US.
Sunita Chandrasekaran. Co-Director, AI Center of Excellence. University of Delaware. US.
Rafael Ferreira da Silva. Group Leader – Workflow and Ecosystem Services. National Center for Computational Sciences. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. US
Omar Ghattas. Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering. Director Optimization, Inversion, Machine Learning, and Uncertainty for Complex Systems. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. US.
Jeffrey Vetter. Section Head, Advanced Computing Systems Research. Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). US.
Rio Yokota. Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Japan.
Russell Stutz. Senior Director of Product Technologies, Quantinuum. US.
Barney Maccabe. Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Data and Computing. University of Arizona. US.
Thursday 20 February 2025
Laura Monroe. Mathematician & Computer Scientist. Senior Project Leader. Los Alamos National Laboratory. US.
Balazs Gerofi. Principal Engineer in the Supercomputer Platforms Group – Intel Corporation. US.
Simon Moore. Professor of Computer Engineering. University of Cambridge. UK.
Florina Ciorba. Associate Professor, HPC. University of Basel. Switzerland.
Tevfik Kosar. Director, Data Intensive Distributed Computing Lab, University at Buffalo (SUNY). US.
Jim Ang. Chief Scientist, Computing. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). US.
Antonino Tumeo. Chief Computer Scientist. PNNL. US.
Christopher Monroe. Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics. Director, Duke Quantum Center. Duke University. Co-founder, IonQ, Inc. US.
Friday 21 February 2025
Jeff Zais. HPC Platform Architect, Senior Science Advisor, NIWA. New Zealand.
Updated 12 February 2025.
Important – This list is continuously updated and is subject to changes without notice. The conference organiser (Open Parallel Ltd -T/A Multicore World) is not liable under any circumstances based on the assumption that any or all of these speakers will be present at the time of the conference. Full Terms and Conditions available with the registration form.




















