19th ADAC Symposium & Workshop September 1 – 4, 2026

19th ADAC Symposium and Workshop

Host: FZJ – Forschungszentrum Jülich

Location: Cologne, Germany

ADAC19 Symposium Date: September 1 & 2, 2026

Venue: Mondial Am Dom Hotel Cologne

Attendance to the ADAC19 Symposium is open. Registration link here: https://evis.events/event/662/registrations/

The theme of the Symposium will be “Open Paths to High Performance”.

ADAC19 Workshop Dates: September 3 & 4, 2026

Venue: Mondial Am Dom Hotel Cologne

Hotel: The event will take place at the Mondial Hotel in Cologne, Germany. The “keyword” for booking the hotel is “ADAC”; but one should do it through the attached form

Attendance to the ADAC19 Workshop is strictly by invitation only. Registration details will be provided in the invitation email.

ADAC19 SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

Monday, August 31, 2026

TIME

Governance Board (GB) Meeting

MODERATOR

12:00-17:00

Location: Mondial – Closed to only the GB members

 

12:00-13:00

Lunch 

13:00-14:30

GB Meeting

Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

14:30-15:00

Break

 

15:00-17:00

GB Meeting 

Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

17:00Adjourn  

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

TIME

DESCRIPTION

PRESENTER/MODERATOR

08:25

Welcome & Opening

Andreas Herten, FZJ

Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL

08:30-09:30

Keynote Presentation

Thomas Lippert, FZJ

09:30-10:00

HPC in Latin America

Philippe Navaux, UFRGS

 

10:00

Break

 

10:30-11:00

Presentation on IAS7

Fabian Plum, FZJ

11:00-11:30

Presentation

Gabriella Scipione, CINECA

11:30-12:00

Presentation

Vendor Presentation

12:00

Working Lunch

 

13:00-14:00

Future Prospects of Quantum and HPC Integration: Evolving Capabilities and Requirements

Olli Mukkala, CSC

14:00-15:00

Departure and trip by bus to the FZJ facility

Andreas Herten

15:00-17:00

Presentations and tour of Julich

Andreas Herten

17:00

Break

 

17:30-18:30

Trip by bus back to Köln

Andreas Herten

18:30-20:30

Dinner & Social Networking Event

Andreas Herten

 

 

 

20:30

Adjourn Day 1

 

   
  
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
 

TIME

DESCRIPTION

PRESENTER/MODERATOR

08:25

Welcome & Opening

Andreas Herten, FZJ

Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL

08:30-09:30

Keynote Presentation

Maxime Martinasso, ETH Zurich/ CSCS

09:30-10:00

New Frontiers of Sciences by Integration of (HPC/AI/QC)

Kengo Nakajima, U Tokyo

10:00

Break

 

10:30-11:00

TBD

Wael Elwasif, ORNL

11:00-11:30

Past, present and future of HPC at ECMWF

Ioan Hadade, ECMWF

11:30-12:00

TBD

Arthur Lorenzon, UFRGS

12:00

Working Lunch

 

13:00-14:00

How Convergence of AI, HPC, and Geospatial Science Changed the Map

Budhu Bhaduri, ORNL

14:00-14:30

TBD

Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

14:30-15:00

Building an Open HPC Ecosystem: C-DAC’s Vision from Silicon to Software

Deepika H V, C-DAC

15:00

Break

 

15:30-16:00

TBD

Vendor Presentation

16:00-16:30

TBD

Dorian Midou, CEA

16:30-17:00

Utilizing block encodings as programming abstractions with Eclipse Qrisp on Frontier (and more )

Matic Petrič, Fraunhofer, FOKUS

17:00-17:30

TBD

Verónica Melesse Vergara, ORNL

17:30

Symposium Adjourn

 
   
 

ADAC19 VENDOR ENGAGEMENT SESSION

Thursday, September 3, 2026

TIME

Vendor Engagement

LOCATION

09:00

AMD: Task Force Software Stack-Agenda

TBD

10:30

Break

 

11:00 

AMD: Task Force Software Stack

TBD

12:00

Adjourn Vendor Engagement Sessions

 

12:00-13:00

Working Lunch

 
   
 

ADAC19 WORKSHOP AGENDA

Thursday, September 3, 2026

TIME

DESCRIPTION

PRESENTER

12:00-13:00

Working Lunch

 

13:00

Welcome & Opening

Andreas Herten, FZJ

TBD

13:10

Remarks from the Governance Board

Thomas Schulthess, ETH/CSCS

 

ADAC Working Group Reports

PRESENTER

13:20

Applications & Benchmarks

Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

13:25

Federated Learning & AI

Jason Haga, AIST

13:30

Portability, Sustainability & Integration

Keita Teranishi, ORNL

13:35

System Management

Akihiro Nomura, ISc Tokyo

13:40

Quantum Computing

Mikael Johansson, CSC

13:45

Training, Outreach & Workforce Development

Kengo Nakajima, U Tokyo

13:50

Task Force Software Stack

Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL

14:00

Building an Open Software Ecosystem for Quantum Computing: The openQSE Initiative

Amir Shehata, ORNL

14:30

TBD

Cedric Chevalier, CEA

15:00

Break

 
 

ADAC Working Group Breakout Sessions

LOCATION

15:30-17:00

Applications & Benchmarks

TBD

 

Federated Learning & AI

TBD

 

Portability, Sustainability & Integration

TBD

 

System Management

TBD

 

Quantum Computing

TBD

 

Training, Outreach & Workforce Development

TBD

17:00

Adjourn Day 1

 
 

ADAC19 Workshop Dinner

LOCATION

19:00

Workshop Dinner, Workshop Participants & Guests

TBD

   

Friday, September 4, 2026

TIME

DESCRIPTION

PRESENTER

09:00

Welcome & Opening

Andreas Herten, FZJ

TBD

 

ADAC Working Group Breakout Sessions

LOCATION

09:10-10:30

Applications & Benchmarks

TBD

 

Federated Learning & AI

TBD

 

Portability, Sustainability & Integration

TBD

 

System Management

TBD

 

Quantum Computing

TBD

 

Training, Outreach & Workforce Development

TBD

10:30-11:00

Break

 

11:00

Applications & Benchmarks

TBD

 

Federated Learning & AI

TBD

 

Portability, Sustainability & Integration

TBD

 

System Management

TBD

 

Quantum Computing

TBD

 

Training, Outreach & Workforce Development

TBD

12:00

Group Photograph

 

12:10

Working Lunch

 
 

ADAC Working Group Reports

PRESENTER

13:00

Applications & Benchmarks

Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

13:15

Federated Learning & AI

Jason Haga, AIST

13:30

Portability, Sustainability & Integration

Keita Teranishi, ORNL

13:45

System Management

Akihiro Nomura, ISc Tokyo

14:00

Quantum Computing

Mikael Johansson, CSC

14:15

Training, Outreach & Workforce Development

Kengo Nakajima, U Tokyo

14:30-15:00

Break

 

15:00

Plenary Discussion

Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

15:30

Remarks and Charge from Governance Board

Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo

15:40

Announcing ADAC20

Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL

15:50

Closing Remarks

Andreas Herten, FZJ

 

16:00

Workshop Adjourn