The user Forum is a popular event that provides opportunities for interaction between speakers and attendees. The meeting will feature presentations on the rapidly evolving AI, HPC, and QC sectors, as well as a comprehensive examination of how data centers are developing and expanding.
Talks will include topics such as AI and HPC workloads and how they are driving data centers and innovative solutions, new HPC & AI directions in industry, government, and academia, trends in the use of clouds to run HPC/AI workloads, HPC site updates, and market updates for AI, HPC, clouds, and quantum computing.
Below is an updated agenda with the conference speakers, topics, and panels:
Wednesday, September 3rd
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome/Introductions
8:30 – 9:00 am Designing Centers to Address Cyber Security Requirements, John Garstka, Director, Cyber Warfare Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
9:00 – 10:00 am How AI & HPC Workloads are Driving Industrial Data Centers, Part I
10:00 – 10:15 am From Petabytes to Insight: How AI-Powered Digital Twins Are Transforming Grid Resilience, Chris Beaufait, Sharper Shape
10:15 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:00 am Portable Scalability and Performance at Exascale Using Asynchronous Tasking, Martin Berzins, Associate Director and Faculty Member, SCI at the University of Utah
11:00 – 11:15 am Vendor Update: Hammerspace
11:15 – 11:45 am Hype on Hyperscalers? The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of Energy for High-Performance Computing, Bryan Willson, Executive Director of the Energy Institute, Colorado State University
11:45 – 12:00 pm Vendor Update: Intel
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 pm How AI & HPC Workloads are Driving Industrial Data Centers, Part II
2:30 – 2:45 pm Vendor Update: Bill Mannel, HPE
2:45 – 3:45 pm Present and Future HPC Trends, Forecast, and Implications Within Data Centers, Matt Vincent, Editor in Chief, Data Center Frontier
3:45 – 4:15 pm Break
4:15 – 5:00 pm Trends and New Solutions in the Use of Clouds to Run HPC/AI Workloads
5:00 – 6:00 pm Break
6:00 – 8:30 pm Dinner Presentation: Buddy Rizer, Executive Director, Loudoun County, Virginia, Department of Economic Development
Thursday, September 4th
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 am Welcome/Introductions
8:10 – 8:30 am Latest Market Perspective on Running HPC-AI Workloads in the Cloud: Now for Some Quid Pro Quo, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director, Lead Analyst for Cloud & Storage, Hyperion Research
8:30 – 8:45 am Vendor Update: Weka
8:45 – 10:15 am Quantum Computing, Part I
10:15 – 10:40 am Break
10:40 – 12:00 pm Quantum Computing, Part II
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 pm Technologies Showcase: Alice + Bob, CTG Federal, DDN, FedData, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, QuEra and Supermicro 1:45 – 2:15 pm An Update on NNSA HPC and AI Activities, Thuc Hoang, Deputy Assistant Deputy Administrator, NNSA
2:15 – 2:30 pm Vendor Update: Matthew Shaxted, Parallel Works
2:30 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 3:30 pm AI at DOE, Ray Juneja, DOE Fellow, AI & Energy
3:30 – 4:00 pm From Code to Cosmos: High-End Computing Enables NASA Exploration, Science, and Engineering, Kevin Murphy, Chief Science Data Officer, NASA
4:00 – 4:30 pm Advanced Scientific Computing at DOE, Ceren Susut, DOE ASCR Associate Director
4:30 – 4:45 pm Closing Remarks and Invitations to Our Future HPC User Forum Events
4:45 – 5:00 pm Break
5:00 – 7:00 pm Special Event: Networking Time & Cocktail Reception
Registration is open at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-fall-2025/