MULTICORE WORLD 2027 Confirmed Speakers
Updated 3 November 2026 – NEW!
Dieter Kranzlmueller – Chair of the Board of Directors of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) – Munich, Germany.
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.
Jean-Philippe Fricker – Chief System Architect, Co-Founder – Cerebras. Santa Clara, California, US.
Taisuke Boku – Director, HAIRDESC (Advanced JPC-AI R&D Support Center). Fellow of CCS, U. of Tsukuba. Japan.
Martin Horne – Enterprise AI Systems Architect (PMTS) – AMD. California, US.
Kengo Nakajima – RIKEN Center for Computational Science – Deputy Director – Kobe, Japan.
Nicola Gaston – Director, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology; Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland. New Zealand. NEW!
Manish Parashar – Chief AI Officer, SCI Executive Director, Chair in Computational Science & Engineering, Presidential Professor of CS, University of Utah – Salt Lake City, US.
Horst Simon – Director, ADIA Lab (Abu Dhabi Investment Authority) – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Fernanda Foertter – Executive Director, The University of Alabama HPC and Data Center – Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US.
Wu Feng – Director of the Synergy Lab and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Co-Founder, Green 500. US. NEW!
Dan Stanzione – Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin, US.
Jason Trout – Director, CTO – SADRAM Inc – US – New Zealand.
Hartwig Anzt – Chair of Computational Mathematics, School of Computation, Information and Technology of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Campus Heilbronn, Germany.
Laura Monroe – Senior Project Leader / Research Scientist, Ultrascale Systems Research Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), US. NEW!
Addison Snell – CEO, Intersect360 Research, Sunnyvale, California, US.
Alok Choudhary – Chair Professor – Harold Washington professor of ECE and CS – Northwestern University – Chicago, US.
Sarah M. Neuwirth – Director, NHR South-West HPC Center / Research Group Head, High Performance Computing and its Applications. Johannes Gutenberg University – Mainz, Germany.
Giulia Guidi – Assistant Professor of Computer Science – Cornell University – New York, US.
Ruud van der Pas – Director in the OpenMP Architecture Review Board – The Netherlands.
Pete Beckman – Professor, Northwestern University – Chicago, US.
Jess Robertson – Chief Scientist, Advanced Technologies – Earth Sciences New Zealand (ESNZ), New Zealand.
Barr von Oehsen – Executive Director, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center / Vice Chancellor for Research Computing, University of Pittsburgh – US.
Rabab Alomairy – Extreme Computing Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) – Saudi Arabia.
Antigoni Georgiadou – Computational Scientist, Applied Mathematics – Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) – US. – NEW!
Andrew Jones – Head of Special Projects and Strategy for Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure – Microsoft – United Kingdom (UK).
Will Kamp – Consulting HPC, FPGA Engineer – SKA Central Signal Processors (Canada). Director, Kamputed Ltd. Hamilton, New Zealand.
Kevin A. Brown – Assistant Computer Scientist – Argonne National Lab – Chicago, US.
Updated 3 November 2026
