Conference Schedule
The Energy HPC & AI Conference features BOF sessions, keynotes, 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 for more details.
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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 Birds of a Feather Session Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Morning Break BRC 10:00 – 10:15am Day 1 Welcome
Keith Gray
VP for Computational Science and Engineering, TotalEnergies
Lydia E. Kavraki, PhD
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
David Sholl, PhD,
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 and Renaldo Brooks (ExxonMobil)
12:55 – Doudna: A Supercomputer for Complex Workflows | Rollin Thomas (NERSC)
1:20 – Advancing Oil and Gas Simulation with the Argonne Aurora Supercomputer
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 – Technical Talk with Bill Brouwer (SLB)
12:55 – GPU Implementation of Elastic Full Waveform Inversion using a Mixed-Precision Format | Guillaume Barnier and Guillaume Thomas-Collignon (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 and 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 Panel
Doug Black (Moderator)
Editor-in-Chief, insideHPCAuditorium 4:10 – 5:30pm Sponsor Networking Reception BRC -
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 | Women in HPC
Christina Beldica, PhD, MBA
Vice President HPC Software Engineering, Intel Corporation
Lydia E. Kavraki, PhD
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
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 | Lorenzo Casasanta (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 and Lorenzo Casasanta (Shearwater GeoServices)
12:55 – FedEcoStream: Energy-Aware Federated Learning with Stream-Based Prefetching for Distributed Storage Optimization | Shiyue Hou (Northeastern University, HPE Labs)
1:20 – A Cloud-Native FWI Template for Hybrid HPC Workflows Powered by AWS Energy HPC Orchestrator | Kun Jiao (AWS)
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
Xiaojun Huang, PhD (moderator)
Chief Engineer, Modeling, Optimization and Data Science, ExxonMobilAuditorium 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 280 8:00am – 4:00pm SciML Workshop Auditorium 8:00am – 4:00pm Devito User & Developer Workshop – 10th Anniversary Edition 10th Fl. 8:00am – 3:30pm Finite-Difference Kernel Optimizations on Modern NVIDIA GPUs Workshop Exhibit Hall
