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 (when available) for more details.
Conference: February 24–25, 2026
Add-on Workshops: February 26, 2026
View talk abstracts (coming soon) | 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 Birds of a Feather Session (BOF) 1 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 – Quantum Computing: Overview and Outlook | 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 BOF 2 | 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
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 – 3:30pm Finite-Difference Kernel Optimizations on Modern NVIDIA GPUs Workshop Exhibit Hall 8:00am – 4:00pm
Devito User & Developer Workshop – 10th Anniversary Edition 10th Floor, Room 1003
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
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
SciML Research Cluster, Ken Kennedy InstituteSchedule:
Check-in + Breakfast | 8:30–9:00am
Workshop Sessions | 9:00am–3:00pmSpeakers:
Marta D’Elia, Atomic Machines
Bart van Bloemen Waanders, PhD, Sandia National Lab
Lu Zhang, Rice University
Klaus Wiegand, Stone Ridge
Lu Lu, PhD, Yale University - 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 | 10th Floor, Room 1003
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 – 9:00am Welcome and Introductions 9:00am – 12:00pm Technical Talks and Panel (TBA) 12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm – 4:00pm Technical Talks and Panel (TBA)
