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
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Tuesday, February 24
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Time Event Location 7:50 – 8:30am Check-in + Breakfast
All-day specialty coffee sponsored by AMD + Dell
Exhibit Hall 8:30 – 9:30am BOF | Understanding the Value of HPC
Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez, PhD (Moderator)
Head of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), The University of Texas at Austin
Keith Gray
VP of Computational Science and Engineering, TotalEnergiesHead of Future Capabilities for Supercomputing/AI Infrastructure, Microsoft
Distinguished Staff Scientist and Director of Science, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Director of Science for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
HPC and Subsurface Manager, ExxonMobil
Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Morning Break Exhibit Hall 10:00 – 10:15am Welcome | Day 1
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 Resolving the Subsurface: 25+ Years of High-Performance Compute Driving Business Insights
Herlinde Mannaerts-Drew
Senior Vice President of Oil and Gas Technology, bpAuditorium 10:55 – 11:35am This Talk is Agentic: TACC and HPC in the AI World
Dan Stanzione, PhD
Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC); Associate Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at AustinAuditorium 11:35am – 12:30pm Lunch Exhibit Hall 12:30 – 2:10pm Technical Talks: Systems
12:30 – Key Learnings from Deploying a Worldclass Grace-Hopper Based System | Steven Mariani (ExxonMobil) and Renaldo Brooks (ExxonMobil)
12:55 – Doudna: A Supercomputer for Complex Workflows | Jack Deslippe (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center)
1:20 – Advancing Energy Research on the Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne National Labs | Katherine Riley (Argonne National Laboratory) and Cristina Beldica (Intel)
1:45 – Can HPC Survive in the Era of AI and High Frequency FWI? | Anil Vattalai (Viridien)Auditorium
(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 | Amr Nasr (Brightskies Inc.)Room 280
(Parallel Sessions)2:10 – 2:50pm Afternoon Break
Break sponsored by Supermicro + AMD + NVIDIA
Exhibit Hall 2:50 – 3:30pm 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 | Planning the Future of Energy HPC
Doug Black (Moderator)
Editor-in-Chief, insideHPCPrincipal HPC Engineer, SLB
Raj Gautam, METSr. Principal Technology Architect - HPC, IT Fellow, ExxonMobil
Michael GujralGlobal High Performance Computing Engineering & Operations Manager, Shell
Elizabeth L’Heureux, PhDPrincipal Enterprise Technology Engineer - Head of HPC, bp
Alex Loddoch, PhDChevron Fellow, Chevron
Auditorium 4:10 – 5:30pm Sponsor Networking Reception Exhibit Hall
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Wednesday, February 25
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Time Event Location 7:50 – 8:30am Check-in + Breakfast
All-day specialty coffee sponsored by AMD + Dell
Exhibit Hall 8:30 – 9:30am BOF | Energizing Careers: Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of Energy, HPC, and AI
Co-sponsored by Texas Women in HPC. View session abstract here.
Elizabeth L’Heureux, PhD (Moderator)
Principal Enterprise Technology Engineer - Head of HPC, bpVice President HPC Software Engineering, Intel Corporation
Sr. Research Operations Administrator, Outreach & Engagement, Purdue
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
HPC/AI Account Executive, Lenovo
Research Geophysicist, TotalEnergies
Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Morning Break Exhibit Hall 10:00 – 10:15am Welcome | Day 2
Executive Director for Research Initiatives of the Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University
Auditorium 10:15 – 10:55am Compiler 2.0: Building the Next Generation Compilers with Machine Learning
Saman Amarasinghe, PhD
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)View talk abstract here
Auditorium 10:55 – 11:35am The Immediate Post-Exascale: Genesis, AI, and Other Topics
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 Exhibit Hall 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)
12:55 – Cancelled: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) and Max Liu (Shell)
1:45 – High Performance Parallel Compute in Azure with WEKA | Jeff Griffith (Chevron) and Michael Bowlin (WEKA.io)Auditorium
(Parallel Sessions)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 | Derrick Bowen (Pariveda Solutions) and Scott Johnson (Pariveda Solutions)
1:45 – Deep Learning-Enabled Quantitative Analysis of Nanoscale Architecture: A Generalizable Framework for Advanced Materials and Energy Science | Kshipra Kapoor (Rice University)Room 280
(Parallel Sessions)2:10 – 2:50pm Afternoon Break
Break sponsored by DDN
Exhibit Hall 2:50 – 3:30pm Student Lightning Talks
View poster and lightning talk details here.
Benjamin Zastrow (The University of Texas at Austin), Yuqian (Claire) Huo (Rice University), Baodi Shan (Stony Brook University), Michelle Herrera Gonzalez (Rice University), Sohini Dasgupta (The University of Texas at Austin), George Chumbipuma (Rice University), Cristel Carolina Brindis Flores (Rice University)
Auditorium 3:30 – 4:10pm Fireside Chat | At the Frontier of HPC and AI: Turning Computation into Real-World Value
Nefeli Moridis, PhD (Moderator)
Sr. Developer Relationship Manager - Global Subsurface Energy Solutions, NVIDIA
Chief Engineer - Modeling, Optimization and Data Science, ExxonMobil
Auditorium 4:10 – 5:30pm Poster Session Exhibit Hall 5:30pm Awards for Lightning Talks + Posters Exhibit Hall -
Thursday, February 26
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Time Event Location 8:00am – 4:00pm Best Practices in HPC Systems Management Workshop Room 280 8:30am – 3:00pm 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 ParticipantsOrganizers: Keith Gray (TotalEnergies) and Donny Cooper (TotalEnergies)
Speakers: Practitioners and Experts from Industry, Academia, and National Labs
Time Event 8:00am – 8:30am Check-In and Breakfast 8:30am – 8:40am Welcome and Introductions
Keith Gray (TotalEnergies), Donny Cooper (TotalEnergies)
8:40am –9:10am
TACC Update
John DeSantis (TACC)
9:10am –9:50am Benchmarking Automation
Paul Edwards (Microsoft), Sushma Yellapragada (TotalEnergies)
9:50am –10:30am AI Tools for SysAdmin Discussion
Russell Jones (TotalEnergies), Shawn Hall (Jump Trading), Room discussion
10:30am –10:40am Break 10:40am –11:40am Facilities Challenges, Trends and Best Practices
Wade Vinson (NVIDIA), Kent Blancett (bp), Renaldo Brooks (ExxonMobil), Donny Cooper (TotalEnergies), Laurent Clerc (Viridien)
11:40am –12:00pm
Building a Job-Centric Dataset for Frontier: Correlating Scheduler Information and Telemetry Metrics in HPC Systems
Leah Huk (Oak Ridge National Lab)
12:00pm –1:00pm Lunch — 1st Floor Lobby 1:00pm – 1:20pm High Performance Networks
Shawn Hall (Jump Trading)
1:20pm – 1:45pm
A Service-Oriented Approach to Efficient Data Access in HPC Systems
Jeff Worne (Viridien)
1:45pm – 2:20pm Cloud-Native HPC - Collaboration
Alex Loddoch (Chevron), Ronald Cogswell (Shell)
2:20pm – 2:35pm
Break
2:35pm – 3:25pm Hybrid Environments and Workloads
Jonathon Anderson (CIQ), Marlow Warnicke (NVIDIA/SchedMD)
3:25pm –3:55pm Efficient GPU Utilization
Open Discussion
3:55pm –
4:00pm
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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 – 10:00am
IAGO: Implicit Adaptive Generative Design Optimization
Marta D’Elia, Atomic Machines
10:00am – 11:00am
Hyper-Differential Sensitivity Analysis (HDSA)
Bart van Bloemen Waanders, Sandia National Lab
11:00am – 11:10am Break 11:10am – 12:10pm
Learning Operators and Diffusion Models over Function Spaces for Energy Applications
Lu Lu, Yale University
12:10pm – 1:00pm Lunch — 1st Floor Lobby 1:00pm – 2:00pm
A Modern HPC Stack: Physics Solvers, Neural Operators, and Agentic LLM Toolchains
Klaus Wiegand, Stone Ridge2:00pm – 3:00pm
Data-Driven Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Lu Zhang, Rice University
- Finite-Difference Kernel Optimizations on Modern NVIDIA GPUs Workshop
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Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Exhibit Hall — SOLD OUT
8:00am–3:30pmDescription: 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.
This workshop is restricted to NVIDIA customers and partners only.
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–3:30pm
Lunch | 12:00pm
Speakers:
Guillaume Barnier, NVIDIA
Guillaume Thomas-Collignon, NVIDIA
Igor Terentyev, NVIDIA -
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 workshop will feature a series of talks across morning and afternoon sessions, ranging from innovative seismic imaging algorithms to novel hardware platforms and beyond, alongside presenter panels to discuss 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. We will also be providing a run-down on the latest developments in Devito and DevitoPRO and presenting our roadmap, providing an opportunity for attendees to shape our agenda for the coming year. 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.
See all talk abstracts here.
Time Event 8:00am – 8:30am Check-In and Breakfast 8:30am – 8:40am Welcome and Introductions 8:40am – 9:10am Devito DSL Paradigm: Experiences and Lessons in HPC Development and Workflow Integration
Thomas Cullison, Stanford University
9:10am – 9:40am Devito Integration at Production Scale
Elies Bergounioux, 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 Panel Discussion | Domain Specific Languages and Abstraction: Leveraging Emerging Software Paradigms 11:30am – 12:00pm Technical Developments Update | Devito 12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch — 1st Floor Lobby 1:00pm – 1:30pm Using DevitoHorizon to Develop an FWI Workflow for Complex Structure Land Data
Tim MacArthur, TBI
1:30pm – 2:00pm Model Building with Multiparameter Elastic FWI
Cosmin Macesanu, TGS
2:00pm – 2:20pm Break 2:20pm – 2:50pm Intelligent Compute Architecture for Stencil Computation
Mert Alaydin, NextSilicon
2:50pm – 3:20pm Breakthrough km-Scale High-Resolution Global Seismic Elastic Wave Simulation on a Single Computer Based on Devito
Hao Hu, University of Oklahoma
3:20pm – 3:50pm Panel Discussion | Future Trends in Geophysics and HPC Research: What Tools Will We Need? 3:50pm – 4:00pm Closing Remarks and Final Discussion 4:00pm Reception at Hungry's - Rice Village
