Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
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Day 1 – 6 July / AI Focus
| 08:30 – 9:00 | Registration | Belval Campus |
| Opening | ||
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Welcome | Prof. Pascal Bouvry, Dean of the FSTM, University of Luxembourg |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Opening Remarks | Dr. Simone Niclou, Vice-rector for research, University of Luxembourg |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Talent development plan | Dr. Daniel Opalka, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Group photo/Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Keynote: Perspectives on HPC continuum evolution | Prof. Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Keynote: Chiplets Modularity for HPC and AI | Dr. Patricia Gonzales, Berkeley Lab, USA |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 16:00 | Technical Session 1: The Future HPC Continuum: Converging Architectures, Memory, and Machine Intelligence | Chair: Prof. Dirk Pleiter, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Multiscale High Performance Computing Hybrid Architectures: Systems Convergence to Develop Computing Continuum-based Sustainability | Prof. Carlos Barrios, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Exploring disaggregated memory on HPC systems | Prof. André Pereira, University of Minho, Portugal |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Mutation Scheduling for Multi-Objective Neural Architecture Search | Dr. Aleksandra Rančić, , University of Luxembourg |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Sparse neural networks; efficient ML | Prof. Decebal Constantin Mocanu, University of Luxembourg |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Statistically Enhanced Learning and their methodological contribution to AI | Prof. Christophe Ley, University of Luxembourg |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Technical session 2: HPC Infrastructure in the Computing Continuum: Usage, Integration, and Global Challenges | Chair: TBA |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | TBA | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | IT4Innovations Research Flagships: Advancing HPC, AI, and Quantum Integration | Prof. Tomáš Kozubek, University of Ostrava/ IT4Innovation, Czech Republic |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | TBA | Valentin Plugaru, LuxProvide, Luxembourg |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Panel: Educating for the HPC Continuum: Global Perspectives on Skills, Curriculum, and Workforce Development | Chair: Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Prof. Maria Ribera-Sancho (BSC, Spain) Prof. Esteban Meneses (CENAT-ITCR, Costa Rica) Prof. Lizette Robles (Univ. de Guadalajara, Mexico) Prof. Boonyarit Changaival Prof. Mukhriddin Arabboev (Tashkent University of IT, Uzbekistan) |
| 18:30 – 22:00 | Welcome dinner |
Day 2 – 7 July / Industry Focus
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration and welcome | |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Industry Day Overview | University of Luxembourg |
| 09:10-10:00 | AI Infrastructure at Hyperscale From Assistant to Collaborator: Thriving in the Agentic Era | Google Exploring the transition toward agentic AI systems and its implications for next-generation computing architectures |
| 10:00-11:00 | Enterprise AI Platforms and HPC Integration Inventing the Future of Discovery: Microsoft Innovations Across HPC, AI, Quantum and Intelligent Agents | Microsoft Exploring how AI, HPC and quantum technologies are integrated into scalable platforms for research and industrial innovation |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:45 | Data Infrastructure, Sovereignty and AI Ecosystems | |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | High-performance storage architectures for AI and exascale HPC | TBA: Leading HPC storage and data infrastructure provider |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Sovereign AI – Solving the sizing issue | NTT DATA |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | From Protecting Systems to Protecting Data: Rethinking the HPC Continuum for the AI Era | Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS) |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Discussion | |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Enterprise AI Platforms and QC Integration The Synergy between Quantum Computing, AI and High-Performance Computing | IBM |
| 15:00-16:00 | Industrial Computing in Practice | Contributions from leading industrial actors in manufacturing, engineering and applied computing domains – ArcelorMittal – MathWorks – E4 Computer Engineering Focus on architectures, workflows and deployment of AI and HPC systems in real-world industrial environments |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Standards and Interoperable Systems for AI, QC, and HPC in Europe | Enabling Trusted AI and HPC deployment in Europe ILNAS Meaningfy |
| 17:00 – 17:50 | Applied AI Platforms for Industry Turning Telcos into AI Operators – From Network Nodes to AI Services | Tonomia |
| 17:50 – 18:20 | Closing Panel: From Systems to Deployment: Lessons Learned at Scale Opening perspective by a leading industrial actor | Closing discussion on deployment challenges, system integration and operational lessons learned Opening perspective Airbus Defence & Space |
| 18:20-18:30 | Closing remarks | Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Luxembourg |
Day 3 – 8 July / AI and Quantum Day
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registrations | |
| 09:00 – 12:00 | Quantum Breakfast | Quantum, AI and Sustainability Florian Kaiser, Group Leader, Quantum Materials, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Miguel Olivares Mendez, Professor in Space Robotics, University of Luxembourg |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00 – 15:15 | AI Session | Chair: TBA |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | From mechanical dreams to generative reality: The evolution of artificial intelligence | Dr. Felix Schmutterer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | AI-Specialised hardware and Experiences of the NSF Neocortex AI Supercomputer | Prof. Paola Buitrago, Carnegie Mellon- CMU, USA |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Building AI Sovereignty Through HPC: Thailand’s National AI Program and the ThaiLLM Journey | Dr. Apivadee Piyatumrong, Big Data Institute, Thaïland |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Sustainable AI | Prof. Santitham Prom-On, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thaïland |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | AI Factories session | |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Quantum Session | |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Keynote: Overview of Quantum Principles for HPC Students | Prof. Ana Proykova, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Keynote: Quantum Computing | Prof. Marko J. Rančić, University of Luxembourg |
| 17:00-18:00 | Closing Panel: The Road Ahead for the HPC Continuum: Convergence, Intelligence, and Impact | Chair: Apivadee Piyatumrong – Prof. Ana Proykova (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria) – Prof. Patricia Gonzalez (Berkeley Lab, USA) – Prof. Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) – Dr. Fabrizio Magugliani (E4, Italy) |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Closing Speech | Prof. Pascal Bouvry, Dean of the FSTM, University of Luxembourg |
| 18:30 – 22:00 | Closing Dinner |