Monday 12 February 2024 – Day 1 – Limes Room

12:15 – 12:40	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee. (No lunch provided).
12:30 – 12:40	Delegates invited to take a seat
12:40 – 1:00	Welcome to Ōtautahi Christchurch – Mihi Whakatau – Ngāi Tūāhuriri.
1:00 – 1.15	Opening. MC – Nicolás Erdödy.
1:20 – 1:55	P1 – Manish Parashar – “Democratizing Access to Science Data”
1:55 – 3:15	Panel 1 – DATA SOVEREIGNTY / OPEN DATA Moderator: Vicki Compton Panelists: Elle Archer – Ilkay Altintas – John Reid – Pete Beckman – Jay Whitehad
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee – Sponsored by Oracle Labs
3:45 – 4:20	P2 – Ruud van der Pas – “Performance Tuning Is Hard and That Is Why You Should Do It”
4:20 – 5:10	K1 – Ian T. Foster – “Global Services for Global Science”
5:10 – 5:30	Debate 1
5:30 – 6:30	Networking
	Speakers Dinner

Tuesday 13 February 2024 – Day 2 – Limes Room.

7:45 – 8:10	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee
8:10 – 8:20	Opening
8:20 – 8:55	P3 – John Reid & Jay Whitehead – “The Eco-index: Automating Biodiversity Reporting in New Zealand”
9:00 – 9:10	P4 – Jess Robertson – “AI activities at NIWA” (TBC)
9:15 – 10:00	K2 – Estela Suárez – “Are HPC resources used efficiently today, or can we do better?“
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee – Sponsored by Quantinuum
10:30 – 11:05	P5 – Doug Kothe – “Exascale and AI: A Great Marriage”
11:05 – 12:15	Panel 2 – IS APPLICATION PERFORMANCE TUNING STILL NECESSARY? Moderator: Nicolás Erdödy. Panelists: Ruud van der Pas – Adrian Cockcroft – Bill Magro – Alok Choudary – Adolfy Hoisie – Andrew Jones – Fernanda Foertter
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:05	P7 – Rob Lindeman – “Making VR More Usable for Extended and Regular Sessions.”
2:10 – 2:45	P8 – Nicolás Erdödy – “Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing – Annual Report”
2:45 – 3:25	P9 – DK Panda – “AI-Enabled Digital Agriculture – Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE“
3:25 – 3:55	Coffee – Sponsored by ThinLinc
3:55 – 4:30	P10 – Elle Archer – “A Code of Legacy”
4:30 – 5:15	K3 – Karen Willcox – “Future Directions for Digital Twins”
5:15 – 5:35	Debate 2 – AI and Policy regulation / NZ Space Agency / …
5:35 – 7:00	Networking – Light Dinner

Wednesday 14 February 2024 – Day 3 – Limes Room.

7:45 – 8:15	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee
8:15 – 8:25	Opening
8:30 – 9:05	P11 – David Brebner – “Machine Learning in 2024“
9:05 – 9:50	K4 – Robert Wisniewski – “The Importance of Tight Coupling for Achieving the Next Generation of HPC””
9:50 – 10:00	Conference Photo 1
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 11:05	P12 – Adrian Cockcroft – “Communicating Megabytes in Microseconds? An exploration into how LLM training works”
11:05 – 12:15	Panel 3 – CONTINUOUS COMPUTING Moderator: Nicolás Erdödy. Panelists: Satoshi Matsuoka – Manish Parashar – Karen Willcox – Doug Kothe – Ilkay Altintas.
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:05	P13 – Ewa Deelman – “Use of AI for Scientific Workflows.”
2:05 – 2:40	P14 – Alok Choudary – “Accelerating Materials Discovery and Design using AI”
2:40 – 3:15	P15 – Adolfy Hoisie – “ModSim in the AI Era: Quantitative Tools of Codesign”
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee – Sponsored by Samsung SAIT
3:45 – 4:20	P16 – Will Kamp – “Maximising Compute and Minimising Resources in the Square Kilometre Array”.
4:20 – 5:10	K5 – Satoshi Matsuoka – “Computing for the Future at RIKEN R-CCS: AI for Science, Quantum-HPC Hybrid, and Fugaku-NEXT”
5:10 – 5:30	Debate 3
5:30 – 7:00	Networking – Light Dinner

Thursday 15 February 2024 – Day 4 – Limes Room.

7:45 – 8:15	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee
8:15 – 8:25	Opening
8:30 – 9:05	P17 – Andrew Jones – “Computing for AI and Science Beyond 2030”
9:05 – 9:50	K6 – Jim Ang – “Crossing the Valley of Death via a CHIPS-enabled Renaissance in Co-design.”
9:50 – 10:00	Conference Photo 2
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 11:05	P18 – Thuc Hoang / Simon Hammond – “DoE NNSA Post-Exascale Computing Strategy”
11:05 – 12:15	Panel 4 – THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING – When enough is enough? Do we need exascale and beyond? Moderator: Nicolás Erdödy Panelists: Robert Wisniewski – Estela Suárez – Jim Ang – Fernanda Foertter – Dan Stanzione
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:05	P19 – Duncan Hall – “Sorting the wheat from the chaff: Using SABSA to prioritise cybersecurity countermeasures for HPC.”
2:05 – 2:40	P20 – Fernanda Foertter – “Saying the quiet part out loud about data systems”
2:40 – 3:15	P21 – Pete Beckman – “Honey, I shrunk the AI”
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee – Sponsored by Seequent
3:45 – 4:20	P22 – Ron Brightwell – “The Last Differentiating Capability of HPC Systems is Fading.”
4:20 – 5:10	K7 – Bill Magro – “The impact AI and Cloud are having on the HPC industry”
5:10 – 5:30	Debate 4
5:45 – 7:30	Networking / Multicore World Happy Hour – Carlton Bar & Steakhouse – Directions – Sponsored by Open Parallel

Friday 16 February 2024 – Day 5 – Unconference – Avon Room

9:00 – 10:30	Sessions	Delegates organise their own sessions.
10:30 – 12:30	Sessions	Screen & Projector available / White board available / Round tables for informal discussions. No recording.
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch time	Variable – Delegates chose their own time and place for lunch. No catering provided
1:30 – 3:00	Sessions
3:00 – 4:30	Sessions
4:30 – 5:00	Closure	See you at Multicore World 2025!

Day 5 – Friday 16th February 2024 – We meet in Unconference mode: delegates set up their own sessions (There are no scheduled sessions in advance)

Important: Friday 16th unconference sessions are non catered – delegates organise their own meals according to their sessions. There will be screen, projector and whiteboards available.

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