Conference Schedule
The Energy HPC & AI Conference features birds-of-a-feather sessions, invited speakers, technical talks, student lightning talks and poster presentations, networking receptions on February 24-25, 2026. There are also add-on workshops available on February 26 after the conclusion of the main conference. Click the dropdowns below to view the full schedule for each day. You can also view a compilation of talk abstracts and poster presentations (when available) for more details.
Conference: February 24–25, 2026
Add-on Workshops: February 26, 2026
View technical talk abstracts | View poster presenters (coming soon)
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Tuesday, February 24
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Time Event Location 8:00 – 8:30am Check-in + Breakfast BRC 8:30 – 9:30am BOF 1 | Understanding the Value of HPC Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Morning Break BRC 10:00 – 10:15am Day 1 Welcome
Keith Gray
VP of Computational Science and Engineering, TotalEnergiesUniversity Professor; Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing; Professor of Computer Science, of Electrical & Computer Engineering, of Mechanical Engineering, and of Bioengineering; Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University
Executive Vice President for Research; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Professor of Chemistry, Rice University
Auditorium 10:15 – 10:55 am Keynote
Herlinde Mannaerts-Drew
Senior Vice President of Oil and Gas Technology, bpAuditorium 10:55 – 11:35am Keynote
Dan Stanzione, PhD
Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center; Associate Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at AustinAuditorium 11:35am – 12:30pm Lunch BRC 12:30 – 2:10pm Technical Talks — Systems
12:30 – Key Learnings from Deploying a Worldclass Grace-Hopper based System | Steven Mariani (ExxonMobil), Renaldo Brooks (ExxonMobil)
12:55 – Doudna: A Supercomputer for Complex Workflows | Jack Deslippe (NERSC)
1:20 – TBA
1:45 – Can HPC Survive in the Era of AI and High Frequency FWI? | Anil Vattalai (Viridien)Auditorium/280
(Parallel Sessions)12:30 – 2:10pm Technical Talks — Computational Science
12:30 – Quantum Computing: Overview and Outlook | Bill Brouwer (SLB)
12:55 – GPU Implementation of Elastic Full Waveform Inversion using a Mixed-Precision Format | Guillaume Barnier (NVIDIA)
1:20 – Optimal Floating-Point Formats for Seismic Applications | Amik St-Cyr (AlgoDoers)
1:45 – Toward Sustainable HPC: Energy-Aware Benchmarking of FWI CPU Power Caps and Thread Trade-offs | Aly Abdelhalim (Brightskies Inc., Egypt), Amr Nasr (Brightskies Inc., Egypt)Auditorium/280
(Parallel Sessions)2:10 – 2:50pm Afternoon Break BRC 2:50 – 3:30pm Keynote | Seismic Inversion Assisted by Machine Learning and Quantum Computing
Mrinal K. Sen, PhD
Professor and Shell Companies Foundation Centennial Chair in Geophysics, The University of Texas at AustinAuditorium 3:30 – 4:10pm Planning the Future of Energy HPC Panel
Doug Black (Moderator)
Editor-in-Chief, insideHPCAuditorium 4:10 – 5:30pm Sponsor Networking Reception BRC
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Wednesday, February 25
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Time Event Location 8:00 – 8:30am Check-in + Breakfast BRC 8:30 – 9:30am Birds of a Feather Session 2 | Women in HPC
Vice President HPC Software Engineering, Intel Corporation
University Professor; Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing; Professor of Computer Science, of Electrical & Computer Engineering, of Mechanical Engineering, and of Bioengineering; Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University
Advanced Computing Strategic Sales, Lenovo
Research Geophysicist, TotalEnergies
Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Morning Break BRC 10:00 – 10:15am Day 2 Welcome Auditorium 10:15 – 10:55am Keynote
Saman Amarasinghe, PhD
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Auditorium 10:55 – 11:35am Keynote
Bronson Messer, PhDDistinguished Staff Scientist and Director of Science, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Auditorium 11:35am – 12:30pm Lunch BRC 12:30 – 2:10pm Technical Talks — AI
12:30 – Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Seismic Modeling and Inversion | Divakar Vashisth (Stanford University)
12:55 – From Stencils to Tensors: Leveraging AI Architectures for Seismic Workflows | Matteo Ravasi (Shearwater GeoServices)
1:20 – Accelerating Perforation Data Extraction with Generative AI for Enhanced Well Recovery
1:45 – Deep Learning-Enabled Quantitative Analysis of Nanoscale Architecture: A Generalizable Framework for Advanced Materials and Energy Science | Kshipra Kapoor (Rice University, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Seek Diagnostics Inc.)Auditorium/280
(Parallel Sessions)12:30 – 2:10pm Technical Talks — HPC Technology
12:30 – Extending Distributed Arrays to Irregular Access Patterns Using RDMA for Seismic Data Processing | Marcel Nauta (Shearwater Geoservices Group)
12:55 – FedEcoStream: Energy-Aware Federated Learning with Stream-Based Prefetching for Distributed Storage Optimization | Shiyue Hou (Northeastern University, HPE Labs)
1:20 – From Months to Weeks: Hybrid HPC Workflows with a Cloud-Native Multi-Vendor FWI Template Accelerating Decisions at a Fraction of the Cost | Kun Jiao (AWS), Max Liu (Shell)
1:45 – High Performance Parallel Compute in Azure with WEKA | Jeff Griffith (Chevron), Michael Bowlin (WEKA)Auditorium/280
(Parallel Sessions)2:10 – 2:50pm Afternoon Break BRC 2:50 – 3:30pm Lightning Talks by Graduate Students Auditorium 3:30 – 4:10pm Fireside Chat with Xiaojun Huang
Xiaojun Huang, PhDChief Engineer, Modeling, Optimization and Data Science, ExxonMobil
Nefeli Moridis, PhD (Moderator)
Sr. Developer Relationship Manager - Global Subsurface Energy Solutions, NVIDIA
Auditorium 4:10 – 5:30pm Poster Presentation Reception BRC 5:30pm Awards Presentation BRC -
Thursday, February 26
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Time Event Location 8:30am – 4:00pm Best Practices in HPC Systems Management Workshop Room 280 8:00am – 4:00pm SciML Workshop Auditorium 8:00am – 3:30pm Finite-Difference Kernel Optimizations on Modern NVIDIA GPUs Workshop Exhibit Hall 8:00am – 4:00pm
Devito User & Developer Workshop – 10th Anniversary Edition Room 1003 (10th Floor)
Workshop Descriptions
Attendees can register for add-on workshops ($75) separately or in combination with the main conference. All workshops will take place at the BRC on Thursday, February 26, 2026. The workshops occur simultaneously; you will only be able to select one add-on workshop. View the descriptions and agendas below:
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Best Practices in HPC Systems Management Workshop
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Thursday, February 26th, 2026 | BRC Room 280
8:00am–4:00pm
Limited to 100 ParticipantsOrganizer: Keith Gray (TotalEnergies), Kent Blancett (bp), Jonathon Anderson (CIQ), Shawn Hall (Jump Trading), Timothy D Osborne (ORNL), Wade Vinson (NVIDIA), Donny Cooper (TotalEnergies), Adam Hough (Microsoft), Tommy Minyard (TACC), John Desantis (TACC), Jonathan Eichelberger (bp), Russell Jones (TotalEnergies), and Alex Loddoch (Chevron)
Speakers: Practitioners and Experts from Industry, Academia, and National Labs
Schedule:
Check-In | 8:00–8:30am
Workshop Sessions | 8:30am–4:00pmMore details coming soon!
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SciML Workshop
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Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Auditorium
8:30am–3:00pmOrganizers:
Beatrice Riviere (Rice University), Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice University), and SciML Research Cluster (Ken Kennedy Institute)See all talk abstracts here.
Time Event 8:30am – 8:55am Check-In and Breakfast 8:55am – 9:00am Welcome and Introductions 9:00am – 9:50am
IAGO: Implicit Adaptive Generative Design Optimization
Marta D’Elia, Atomic Machines
9:50am – 10:00am Q&A 10:00am – 10:50am
Hyper-Differential Sensitivity Analysis (HDSA)
Bart van Bloemen Waanders, PhD, Sandia National Lab
10:50am – 11:00am Q&A 11:00am – 11:10am Break 11:10am – 12:00pm
Learning Operators and Diffusion Models over Function Spaces for Energy Applications
Lu Lu, PhD, Yale University
12:00pm – 12:10pm Q&A 12:10pm – 1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm – 1:50pm
A Modern HPC Stack: Physics Solvers, Neural Operators, and Agentic LLM Toolchains
Klaus Wiegand, Stone Ridge1:50pm – 2:00pm Q&A 2:00pm – 2:50pm
Data-Driven Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Lu Zhang, PhD, Rice University
2:50pm – 3:00pm Q&A - Finite-Difference Kernel Optimizations on Modern NVIDIA GPUs Workshop
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Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Exhibit Hall
8:00am–3:30pm
Limited to 30 ParticipantsDescription: This workshop will go deeper into various optimization approaches, such as the use of Tensor Cores, mixed precision formats, and new strategies to maximize memory throughput on our newest GPUs.
Materials: Laptop is required. There will be power, but please charge devices in advance as some outlets may need to be shared.
Schedule:
Check-in + Breakfast | 8:00–8:30am
Workshop Sessions | 8:30am–3:30pmSpeakers:
Guillaume Barnier, NVIDIA
Guillaume Thomas-Collignon, NVIDIA
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Devito User & Developer Workshop – 10th Anniversary Edition
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Thursday, February 26, 2026 | BRC Room 1003, 10th Floor
8:00am–4:00pm
Limited to 50 ParticipantsDescription: Devito provides a powerful set of abstractions for finite-difference models in applications across the energy industry and beyond, combining productivity, portability, and performance through symbolic computation and a flexible code-generation framework. This workshop will be centred around a symposium showcasing technological and scientific advancements in the energy/geophysics space enabled by Devito, fostering connections and collaborations across industry and academia.
The provisional workshop outline consists of a series of talks for the morning session ranging from innovative seismic imaging algorithms to novel hardware platforms and beyond. A subsequent presenter panel session is planned, discussing the works presented, the advantages Devito and similar tools bring to research and production environments, wider industry trends, and the corresponding features, capabilities, and paradigms required to drive future development. The final portion of the workshop will consist of an update on recent developments in the Devito/DevitoPRO framework, followed by tutorials covering some of these new and advanced features. There will be a subsequent reception hosted by Devito Codes until late.
This workshop promises to be a dynamic and engaging event, connecting people doing cutting-edge research to those interested in it, whilst providing ample time for discussion.
Materials: Laptop is not required. There will be power, but please charge in advance as some outlets may need to be shared.
Time Event 8:00am – 8:30am Check-In and Breakfast 8:30am – 8:40am Welcome and Introductions 8:40am – 9:10am Invited Talk | Stanford University 9:10am – 9:40am Invited Talk | TotalEnergies 9:40am – 10:10am Devito as a Teaching Tool for Inversion and HPC
Rhodri Nelson, Imperial College London
10:10am – 10:40am Domain Specific Languages, Are They the Least Squares Solution?
John Etgen, bp
10:40am – 11:00am Break 11:00am – 11:30am Presenter's Panel Discussion 11:30am – 12:00pm Technical Developments Update | Devito 12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm – 1:30pm Using DevitoHorizon to Develop an FWI Workflow for Complex Structure Land Data
Tim MacArthur, TBI
1:30pm – 2:00pm Invited Talk | TGS 2:00pm – 2:20pm Break 2:20pm – 2:50pm Invited Talk | Georgia Tech 2:50pm – 3:20pm Intelligent Compute Architecture for Stencil Computation
Rafael Lago, NextSilicon
3:20pm – 3:50pm Breakthrough km-Scale High-Resolution Global Seismic Elastic Wave Simulation on a Single Computer Based on Devito
Hao Hu, University of Oklahoma
3:50pm – 4:00pm Closing Remarks and Final Discussion 4:00pm Reception at Hungry's - Rice Village
