Agenda
Sunday, August 24, 2025
| Time | Event | Lead | Place |
| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Early Registration and Welcome Reception | Alysha Tackett, ORNL Lora Wolfe, ORNL Kristen Summey, ORNL SMC 25 Sponsors | Westin Hotel Top Floor Paloma Bar De Tapas |
| 8:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Monday, August 25, 2025
| Time | Event | Lead | Place |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration | Alysha Tackett, ORNL Lora Wolfe, ORNL Kristen Summey, ORNL | Westin Hotel |
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction to SMC 25 *Working Breakfast | Gina Tourassi, SMC 25 Conference Chair | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Introduction to Session I: Autonomous Laboratories of the Future | Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, ORNL Ben Mintz, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:15 – 9:30 a.m. | Autonomous decision-making to power next-generation scientific experiments | Stephen DeWitt, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Enabling Autonomous Labs: The NSDF-ORNL Partnership for Real-Time Scientific Discovery | Michela Taufer, UT Knoxville | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. | The Autonomous Revolution | Ryan Coffee, SLAC | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Building a Modular, Open Source Toolkit for Autonomous Discovery and Self-Driving Labs | Ryan Lewis, ANL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Self-driving Multimodal Experiments at the NSLS-II | Stuart Wilkins, BNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | From Urgent HPC to Interactive Digital Twins: Accelerating Fusion Energy Through the DOEs Integrated Research Infrastructure | Raffi Nazikian, General Atomics | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Session I Panel Discussion | Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, ORNL Ben Mintz, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Diamond Sponsor Presentation Bridging the Gap: Evolving U.S. Government Supercomputing Strategies in the Hyperscaler Era *Working Lunch | CTG Federal Presenter: Brad Baker | Portman Ballroom |
| 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. | Group Photo |
| 1:15 – 1:30 p.m. | Introduction to Featured Session I: Advancements in Collaborative and Federated Learning | Rick Archibald, ORNL John Gounley, ORNL Feiyi Wang, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:30 – 1:50 p.m. | Introduction to Federated Learning with NVIDIA FLARE: From Simulation to Real-world Use Cases | Holger Roth, NVIDIA | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:50 – 2:10 p.m. | Privacy Challenges in Federated Learning: From Data Leakage to Model Theft | Wenjing Lou, VT | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:10 – 2:30 p.m. | SWARM: A Decentralized Multi-Agent Model for Workflow Management | Ewa Deelman, USC | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:30 – 2:50 p.m. | Enabling Trustworthy Federated Learning Thought Privacy and Explainability | Olivera Kotevska, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:50 – 3:05 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:05 – 3:30 p.m. | Featured Session I_ Panel Discussions | Rick Archibald, ORNL John Gounley, ORNL Feiyi Wang, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 3:30 – 3:35 p.m. | Diamond Sponsor Introductions | Heidi Hanson, SMC 25 Co-Chair | Portman Ballroom |
| 3:35 – 4:05 p.m. | Fueling AI Factory – Latest Advancements in IBM Storage | IBM Diamond Speaker Frank Lee | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:05 – 4:35 p.m. | AI for Science: Enabling the HPC Datacenter of the Future | AMD/HPE Diamond Speaker Adam Sachitano, AMD | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:35 – 4:50 p.m. | Diamond Sponsors Panel Discussion_ IBM and AMD | Moderator: Heidi Hanson, SMC 25 Co-Chair | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:50 – 5:30 p.m. | Pick-Up Conference Jacket at Registration Table |
| 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. | SMC 25 Keynote Presentation Harnessing the Digital Continuum for Science *Working Dinner | Dr. Manish Parashar, University of Utah | Portman Ballroom |
| 7:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
| Time | Event | Lead | Place |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration | Alysha Tackett, ORNL Lora Wolfe, ORNL Kristen Summey, ORNL | Westin Hotel |
| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Recap of Day 1 Review agenda for Day 2 *Working Breakfast | Heidi Hanson, SMC 25 Co-Chair Teja Kuruganti, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. | Introduction to Session II: Scientific Discovery with Scalable HPC and AI Applications | Jens Glaser, ORNL John Gounley, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | Benchmarking for HPC-AI in a rapidly changing Context | Geoffrey Fox, UVA | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | ORNL’s AI initiative: Advancing Secure, Assured, and Efficient AI for Scientific Discovery | Prasanna Balaprakash, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | HyperNeuro: A High Performance Simulator for Neuromorphic Computing | Ramki Kannan, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Reinforcing experimental preferences for protein design at scale | Archit Vasan, ANL | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | Session II_ Panel Discussion | Jens Glaser, ORNL John Gounley, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Diamond Sponsor Presentation Unlocking the Future of Algorithms: A Deep Dive into AlphaEvolve *Working Lunch | Google Cloud/ CDW Presenter: Dustin Sell, Google | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:00 – 1:15 p.m. | Introduction to Session III: Advanced Computing for Energy Security | Tom Evans, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:15 – 1:45 p.m. | Advancing US Manufacturing: How HPC Drives Efficiency, Security, and Competitiveness | Aaron Fisher, LLNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:45 – 2:15 p.m. | Unified GNNs for Dynamic Graph Inference and Optimization: Toward Power-Grid Foundation Models | Liang Zhao, Emory University | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:15 – 2:45 p.m. | Ideas to Silicon to Operations: Creating Impactful Decision Systems | Curt Jawdy, TVA | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:45 – 3:15 p.m. | The Nuclear-AI Flywheel: How Nuclear Powers AI and AI Powers Nuclear | Richard Klafter, Atomic Canyon | Portman Ballroom |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Session III_ Panel Discussion | Tom Evans, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Featured Session II: Energy Security Panel Discussion | Panel Moderator: Mason Rice, ORNL Panel Members: KC Carnes, TVA James Goosby, Auburn David Manz, PNNL Kristin Nordin, ORNL Joseph Price, Deloitte | Portman Ballroom |
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Side Meetings and Discussions |
| 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Social Reception at TN Aquarium 1 Broad Street, Chattanooga (4 min walk from conference hotel) |
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
| Time | Event | Lead | Place |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration | Alysha Tackett, ORNL Lora Wolfe, ORNL Kristen Summey, ORNL | Westin Hotel |
| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Recap of Day 2 Review agenda for Day 3 *Working Breakfast | Suzanne Parete-Koon, SMC 25 Co-Chair Arjun Shankar, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. | Introduction to Session IV: Emerging Computational Methods and Algorithms for the Future of Computing | William Godoy, ORNL Elaine Wong, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | A Revolution in Computing: Next-Generation Arithmetic | John Gustafson, ASU | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Tools and methods for HPC application performance and energy analysis | Woong Shin, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | A Storage System Fit for Exascale I/O | Kathryn Mohror, LLNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Enabling New Methods for Quantum-Classical Integration at Scale | Alex McCaskey, NVIDIA | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | Session IV_ Panel Discussion | William Godoy, ORNL Elaine Wong, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Diamond Sponsor Presentation Hybrid Computing Approach to Catalyst Design for Drug Synthesis *Working Lunch | IonQ Presenter: Daniel Pompa | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:00 – 1:15 p.m. | Introduction to Session V: Quantum Computing and its Integration with High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence | Alberto Marino, ORNL Claire Marvinney, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 1:15 – 2:00 p.m. | Charting a path to scientific discovery with quantum computers, HPC and AI | Bert de Jong, LBNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:00 – 2:25 p.m. | NISQ2NISQ: Self-Supervised Learning and the Role of Classical AI in Quantum Data Post-Processing Workflows | Kathleen Hamilton, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:25 – 2:50 p.m. | Simulating Chemistry on Bosonic Quantum Devices | Victor Batista, Yale | Portman Ballroom |
| 2:50 – 3:15 p.m. | Quantum-Centric Supercomputing: The Path to Useful Quantum Computing | Nick Bronn, IBM | Portman Ballroom |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Session V_ Panel Discussion | Alberto Marino, ORNL Claire Marvinney, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. | Introduction to Poster Session | Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL Asim YarKhan, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:15 – 4:45 p.m. | Building Academic Bridges: ORNL Opportunities for Students and Faculty | Jackson Gainer, ORNL Suzanne Parete-Koon, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 4:45 – 5:45 p.m. | Poster Presentations | Poster Presenters | Roy McDonald Jr. Ballroom |
| 5:45 p.m. | Adjourn *Dinner on your own |
| 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. | No Host Social Gathering at Alimentari Bar Conference Hotel_ First Floor Lobby |
Thursday, August 28, 2025
| Time | Event | Lead | Place |
| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Recap of Day 3 Review agenda for Day 4 *Working Breakfast | Oscar Hernandez, SMC 25 Co-Chair Mike Parks, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. | Introduction to Session VI: Post-Exascale HPC Technologies: Navigating Stalled Scaling and AI Disruption | Jack Lange, ORNL Trey White, ORNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 9:30 a.m | Heterogeneous System Architecture for Future AI/HPC Applications: From Chiplets to Services | Christoph Hagleitner, IBM | Portman Ballroom |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | DemocraBzing Co-Design (DeCoDe) for the Post-Exascale Era | Jim Ang, PNNL | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of FP64 Precision Arithmetic | Nick Malaya, AMD | Portman Ballroom |
| 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Accelerating Scientific Discovery with UCIe and Open Chiplet Ecosystems in Post-Exascale Computing | Peter Onufryk, Intel | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | Alottascale: HPC and AI Post Exascale | Robert Wisniewski, HPE | Portman Ballroom |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Closeout Discussion and Announcement of SMC 26 | SMC Co-Chairs | Portman Ballroom |
| 12:00 p.m. | SMC 25 Adjourns |
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