2026 Program More Details Coming Soon
Monday, August 24, 2026
19:00 - 21:00 Registration and Welcome Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
8:00 - 8:30 Opening | Neil Mehta (LBNL/NERSC) |
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Overview | Jonathan Carter (LBNL) |
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote | Kathy Yelick (LBNL) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
Session I: AI-for Science methods | Session Chair: Corneel Casert (LBNL/NERSC) |
10:30 - 11:00 TBD | TBD |
11:00 - 11:30 TBD | Sandeep Madireddy (ANL) |
11:30 - 12:00 TBD | Tirthankar Ghosal (ORNL) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by Dell | Michael Hayden | (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
13:30 - 15:00 Panel: Genesis Mission
Moderator: Ana Kupresanin (LBNL)
Panelists: | Earl Lawrence (LANL) | Court Corley (PNNL) | Dana Grisham (SNL) | Dan Ratner (JLab) |
15:00 - 15:15 Special Announcement
15:15 - 15:45 Afternoon Break
Session II: AI-for-Science applications | Session Chair: Wahid Bhimji (LBNL/NERSC) |
15:45 - 16:00 TBD | Brandon Wood (Meta) |
16:00 - 16:30 TBD | Jaideep Pathak (NVIDIA) |
16:30 - 17:00 TBD | Ben Nachman (SLAC) |
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Session III: DOE engagement - Future technologies | Session Chair: Hai Ah Nam (LBNL/NERSC) |
9:00 - 9:30 Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data | Robert Huang (Oratomic) |
9:30 - 10:00 TBD | Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
Session IV: Genesis Mission Engagement | Session Chair: Drew Paine (LBNL) |
10:30 - 11:00 TBD | David Schissel (General Atomics) |
11:00 - 11:30 TBD | Dan Allen ( BNL) |
11:30 - 12:00 TBD | Chris Tassone (SLAC) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by HPE (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
13:30 - 15:00 Panel: TBD
Moderator: Addison Snell
Panelists: | Thuc Huang (NNSA/DOE) | TBD | Andrew Wheeler (HPE) | Luke Wilson (Dell Technologies) |
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
Session V: Genesis Mission Infrastructure | Session Chair: Jay Srinivasan (SLAC) |
15:30 - 16:00 TBD | Deborah Bard (LBNL/NERSC) |
16:00 - 16:30 TBD | Dana Grisham (SNL) |
16:30 - 17:00 TBD | Karlo Berket (LBNL) | Drew Paine (LBNL) |
17:00 - 17:15 Pre-dinner address
17:45 - 18:15 Buses to Monterey Bay Aquarium (Buses depart every 15 minutes)
18:15 - 22:15 Dinner at Monterey Bay Aquarium (Details below)
18:15 - Admission (doors open)
18:15 - 18:45 Reception
18:45 - 20:45 Strolling Dinner
18:15 - 22:15 Hosted Bar
21:30 - Buses depart Monterey Bay Aquarium (Buses depart every 15 minutes)
Thursday, August 27, 2026
7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Session VI: Future Architectures | Session Chair: Katherine Klymko (LBNL/NERSC) |
9:00 - 9:30 Computing with Imperfect Quantum Hardware | Irfan Siddiqi |
9:30 - 10:45 Panel: National Quantum Initiative Research Centers
Moderator: Johannes Blaschke (EIT)
Panelists: | David van Zanten (Fermilab) | Travis Humble (ORNL) | Bert de Jong (LBNL) | Sam Stein (PNNL) | Matthew Otten (UW-Madison) |
10:45 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 12:30 Panel: Scaling to Utility
Moderator: Tim Proctor (SNL)
Panelists: | Sam Stanwyck (NVIDIA) | Robin Blume-Kohout (SNL) | Jonathan King (Atom Computing) | Aaron Szasz (Google/Quantum) | Sarah Sheldon (IBM Quantum) |
12:30 - 12:35 Closing Remarks
12:35 - 13:30 Lunch (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Locations of events:
All technical sessions will be at the Marriott in the San Carlos Ballroom III/IV.
Breaks will be in the San Carlos III Foyer.
Breakfasts, lunches, and receptions will be in the Ferrantes Bay View Room.
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