Speakers 2026

16 – 20 February 2026 – Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand.

Speakers confirmed toward MW2026

Updated 16 February 2026

Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS). Professor, Tokyo Tech Institute. Japan.

Director, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin | Associate Vice President for Research | Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics | W. A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences | Peter O’Donnell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Computing Systems. US/New Zealand.

Andrew Wheeler

HPE Fellow, Senior Vice President & Director, HPE Labs. Hewlett Packard Enterprise. US.

Ewa Deelman

2025 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award / Research Director, Science Automation Technologies Division at Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. US.

Taisuke Boku

Director, Advanced HPC-AI Research & Development Support Center (HAIRDESC) / Professor, University of Tsukuba. Japan.

Dhabaleswar K. Panda

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

Jess Robertson

Chief Scientist, Advanced Technologies. Earth Sciences New Zealand (ESNZ). Christchurch, New Zealand.

Manish Parashar

Inaugural Chief AI Officer, University of Utah. Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and Presidential Professor in the University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing. US.

Stuart Inglis

Co-Founder, CTO. Exaba. Hamilton, New Zealand.

Ruud van der Pas

Director, OpenMP Board. The Netherlands.

Ilkay Altintas

Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, California, US.

Jason E. Trout

Director, Partner, Senior Engineer. SADRAM, Inc. US.

Ana Gainaru

Computer Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Will Kamp

Consulting HPC, FPGA Engineer – SKA Central Signal Processors (Canada). Director, Kamputed Ltd. Hamilton, New Zealand.

Nathan Debardeleben

Senior Architect, Co-executive Director, Ultrascale Systems Research Center. Los Alamos National Laboratory. US.

Emily Casleton

Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. US.

Ben J. Mintz

Director of the INTERSECT Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. US.

Dan Stanzione

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

David Brebner

Founder, CEO, Umajin. New Zealand.

Paola Buitrago

Director AI and Big Data Group. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. US

Luca Carloni

Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Department of Computer Science. Columbia University. US. (TBC)

Alok Choudhary

Harold Washington Professor, ECE and CS Department, Northwestern University. US. Founder, 4Cinsights Inc. US.

Simon McIntosh-Smith

Professor of High Performance Computing. Director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS), including Isambard-AI and Isambard 3. University of Bristol, UK.