Speakers 2026

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

Speakers confirmed toward MW2026

Updated 15 December 2025

Satoshi Matsuoka

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

Karen Willcox, MNZM

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 – NEW!

SVP and Director, Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE Fellow / VP, HPC & AI Advanced Development, HPE. Fort Collins, Colorado, US.

Marie-Christine Sawley

HPC and Exascale Adviser for the ICES Foundation. President of IDEAS4HPC, Swiss chapter of Women in HPC. Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nash Palaniswamy

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Quantinuum. US.

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.

Taisuke Boku

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

Ewa Deelman

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

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.

Amanda Randles

Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Duke University. US.

Stuart Inglis

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

Ilkay Altintas

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

Andrew Jones

Lead, Future Capabilities for Supercomputing & AI, Azure Specialized Engineering. Microsoft. UK.

Fernanda Foertter

Executive Director for High Performance Computing and Data Center
Office for Research & Economic Development. The University of Alabama. US.

Gokcen Kestor

Technical Senior Research Engineer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Spain.

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.

Sean Smith – NEW!

Founder and Director. Sovereign Supercomputing Pty Ltd. Australia.

Emily Casleton – NEW!

Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. US.

Adolfy Hoisie

Chair, Computing for National Security Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory. US.

John Shalf

Department Head for Computer Science Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). US.

David Brebner

Founder, CEO, Umajin. New Zealand.

Paola Buitrago

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

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.

Luca Carloni

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

Kento Sato

Team Leader, High Performance Big Data Team, Riken CCS. Japan.

Rabab Alomairy

Postdoctoral researcher – MIT – CSAIL (US) & KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology). Saudi Arabia.

Anirban Mandal

Director for the Network Research and Infrastructure (NRIG) group at RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. US.

Giulia Guidi

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science / Graduate Field Faculty, Department of Computational Biology and Center for Applied Math. Cornell University. US.