Harnessing Exascale Computing and Scalable AI for Societal Impact
from
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 (00:20)
to
Thursday, 18 June 2026 (16:30)
Monday, 15 June 2026
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
08:00
Registration and morning coffee
08:00 - 08:45
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
08:45
Welcome from STFC Hartree Centre and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL)
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
08:50
Welcome from the Hartree Centre and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL)
09:00
Policies and Strategic Views UK & US Current Landscape and Perspectives
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
09:00
USA DoE GENESIS Programme – challenges and opportunities
09:30
UK’s AI for Science Strategy
10:00
STFC AI Strategy and International Collaboration Perspective
10:20
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:40
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
10:40
View from the Trenches: Challenges in Leadership Computing
10:40 - 12:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
10:40
DiRAC and novel computing approaches
11:00
AI-driven code portability and maintenance
11:20
The HPC Centre of the Future
11:40
AI for Facilities
12:00
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
13:00
Why Compute and AI at Scale Matter
13:00 - 13:40
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
13:00
Advances in protein folding at the exascale
13:20
AI and healthcare: the NHS perspective
13:40
Advanced Manufacturing
13:40 - 15:10
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
13:40
Toward Autonomous Discovery in Experimental Science Facilities
14:10
Advancing battery design
14:40
Challenges to creating smart cities
15:10
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
15:40
Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency
15:40 - 17:10
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
15:40
Creating Commercial Fusion Energy
16:10
AI-assisted Fusion Modelling
16:40
Using AI for Energy Efficiency
Thursday, 18 June 2026
08:30
Registration and Morning Coffee
Registration and Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
09:00
Exploring the Computing Continuum
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
09:00
Composable Architectures
09:30
Computing in the European landscape
10:00
Discussion
10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
10:50
Accelerating Discovery: Materials and Life Sciences
10:50 - 12:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
10:50
Accelerating Material Discovery Innovation with AI
11:20
AI-driven Materials Discovery
11:50
Fulfilling Industry's Material Discovery Needs
12:20
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
13:20
Computational Challenges for Federated Services, Facilities and Data
13:20 - 14:50
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
Contributions
13:20
Lightening Talks
13:50
Computational Challenges for Federated Facilities and Data
14:20
Network Plus: What the UK is doing to deliver federated compute services
14:50
Coffee break
14:50 - 15:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
15:20
Panel Discussion
15:20 - 16:20
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block
16:20
Close and thanks
16:20 - 16:25
Room: Merrison Lecture Theatre A - Block