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Plenaries Agenda

Monday, June 1

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Opening Plenary Session

Vision

Opening and DOE Genesis Mission

Dario Gil, Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy

NSF, NAIRR Pilot and Academic Initiatives

Katie Antypas, Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, US National Science Foundation

Panel: National / Regional / International Collaboration

Moderator: Rick Stevens

Dario Gil, Department of Energy
Katie Antypas, US National Science Foundation
Satoshi Matsuoka, RIKEN R-CCS

16:00

Break

16:30

Plenary Session 2

Industry / Lab / Academia

Genesis Mission and AI Futures

Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director – CELS, Argonne National Laboratory
Professor of Computer Science, The University of Chicago

Japanese AI4Science and AI Futures

Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, RIKEN R-CCS

Industry and Applications

Thierry Pelegrino, Global Head of Advanced Computing, Amazon Web Services

Industry and Applications

Thomas Zacharia, Senior Vice President, Strategic Technical Partnership and Public Policy, AMD

Tuesday, June 2

8:30

Plenary Session 3

Frontier Models and Systems

NSF, NAIRR Pilot and Academic Initiatives

Noah A. Smith, Vice Provost for AI, Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, University of Washington

LRZ and European AI Factories

Dieter Kransmueller, Director, LRZ

TPC Initiatives

Ian Foster, Data Science and Learning Division Director, Argonne National Laboratory

TPC Initiative: Open Frontier Models

Rio Yokota, Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo

10:30

Break

11:00

Plenary Session 4

Workforce & Emerging Leaders

Preparing the Next Generation

Karthik Duraisamy, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

Models for Discovery and Exploration in Chemical Space

Anoushka Bhutani, PhD Student, University of Michigan

Emerging Leaders: Student Talk

Liwei Jiang, PhD Student, University of Washington / AI2

Emerging Leaders: Student Talk

Student Candidate TBA

12:30

Lunch & Panel Discussion

Regional & National Initiatives

Moderator: Karthik Duraisamy, University of Michigan

Hal Finkel, U.S. Department of Energy
Raj Hazra, Quantinuum
Pradeep Dubey, Intel
Molly Presley, Hammerspace

Wednesday, June 3

12:30

Lunch & Panel Discussion

Agentic Systems: Field Reports

Moderator: Addison Snell, Intersect360 Research

Elahe Vedadi, Google DeepMind
Preeth Chengappa, Microsoft Discovery
Kexin Huang, Stanford University (Boimni project) 
Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory (Scientia project) 
Siddharth Narayanan, FutureHouse (Agentic life sciences project)

16:00

Plenary Session 5

TPC Collaborative Initiatives

TPC Initiative: Driving Applications

Valerie Taylor, Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

TPC Initiative: Evaluation

Franck Cappello, R&D Lead, Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

TPC Initiative: Inference Services

Dan Stanzione, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
and Associate Vice President for Research, UT-Austin

Plenaries and Breakouts

are open to all conference attendees.

Tutorials

are open to all conference attendees, for an additional fee.

Hackathons

are open to TPC members and invited guests.

Exhibition Area

is open to all, July 29-30. For information on getting a table,