September 17
| Time | Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:15 a.m. | Check-in and Breakfast Available | Tennessee Lobby | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Working Breakfast: Welcome, Goals Overview, and Thrust Framing | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Opening remarks, agenda review, and thrust framing |
| 8:45 a.m. | Invited Talk 1 - AI for Scientific Discovery | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speaker: Nelli Babayan, Microsoft |
| 9:45 a.m. | Invited Talk 2 - Toward Foundation Models: Reimagining Digital Twins with Agentic AI and Real-Time Sensing in Energy Systems | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speaker: Syed Bahauddin Alam, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Coffee and Networking |
| 11:00 a.m. | Contributed Talks I – Agent Technologies & Dominance | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speakers: Brian Kaul, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tirthankar Ghoshal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Marc Zebrowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 12:30 p.m. | Working Lunch - Bio-Inspired Continual Learning: Bridging Neuromorphic Algorithms and Robust AI Systems | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C, and Lobby | Speaker: Dhireesha Kudithipudi, University of Texas at Antonio |
| 1:30 p.m. | Panel 1 – From Sandbox to Real-World: Deployment Pathways | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Panelists: Tim Clarke, SambaNova, Wes Brewer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Flash Talks | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speakers: Mohammad Atif, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Viktoriia Baibakova, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hunor Csala, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Youndo Do, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rinkle Juneja, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sita Sirisha Madugula, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lynnicia Massenburg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Krishnan Raghavan, Argonne National Laboratory, Israel Silber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Dali Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Miao Yin, University of Texas at Arlington, Hong-Jun Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Fan Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Marshall McDonnell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 4:45 p.m. | Day 1 Recap & Logistics for Poster/Demo Session | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Announcements and flow for evening session |
| 5:00 p.m. | Poster Session + Reception with Heavy Hors D ’Oeuvres in Lieu of Dinner | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Digital twins, agent models, visualizations, datasets, testbeds |
| 6:30 p.m. | Adjourm | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C |
September 18
| Time | Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:15 a.m. | Check-in/Registration | Tennessee Lobby | Check-in and Breakfast Available |
| 8:30 a.m. | Day 2 Kickoff + Key Themes from Day 1 | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Working Breakfast: Day 2 Kickoff + Key Themes from Day 1 (Breakfast available at 8:15AM) |
| 8:45 a.m. | Invited Talk 3 - Physical AI | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speaker: Sean Lee, NVIDIA |
| 9:45 a.m. | Invited Talk 4 - Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Datacenters | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speaker: Soumyendu Sarkar, HPE |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | ||
| 11:00 a.m. | Contributed Talks II – Digital Twin Integration & Co-Simulation | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speakers: Yuchen Liu, North Carolina State University, Nicholas Luciano, University of Texas at Austin, Amra Peles, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Aaron Tuor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 12:30 p.m. | Working Lunch - AI for Science: A Tectonic Shift Underway – Are We Ready for What’s Next? | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C, and Lobby | Speaker: Prasanna Balaprakash, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 1:30 p.m. | Panel 2 – Are We Ready to Deploy Agents in the Grid or Plant? | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Panelists: Jon Belof, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Maged Shoman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Marc Buckner, DRG Technical Solutions |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Tutorial – A Tutorial on Community Models and Integrations with PhysicsNeMo | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Presenter: Carmelo Gonzales, NVIDIA |
| 4:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks & Next Steps | Tennessee Rooms A, B, C | Speaker: Prasanna Balaprakash, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pradeep Ramuhalli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |