At Invited Talks you will hear how translational research and technologies and their applications address some of the most complex challenges of our time. These talks will provide insights with a broad context and from a longer-term perspective.
Invited Talks ScheduleTuesday–Thursday, November 18–20, 2025
Keynote, Plenaries, Invited Speakers ChairRalph McEldowney, US Department of Defense HPC Modernization Program, Air Force Research Laboratory
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
1:30–2:15 pm CST
Enabling Earth-Independence for Human Missions to the Moon and Beyond
Alonso Vera
NASA Ames
2:15–3 pm CST
Nightingale AI – Building Medical Foundation Models at Nation-State Scale
Aldo Faisal
Imperial College London (UK) / Universität Bayreuth (Germany)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
10:30–11:15 am CST
High Performance Creativity
Lav Varshney
Stony Brook University / Kocree, Inc.
11:15 am–12 pm CST
Phantoms and Traces: A Field Guide to Non-Referential Data
Dietmar Offenhuber
Northeastern University
Gigawatt-scale AI Infrastructure: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices
Benjamin Treynor Sloss
Google LLC
Nuclear Energy and Large-Scale Computing
April Novak
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:30–4:15 pm CST
National Supercomputing Mission: Building India’s Self-Reliant HPC Ecosystem
Sanjay Wandhekar
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
4:15–5 pm CST
Serving Innovation and Industrial Competitiveness Through Public Infrastructures
Sabine Mehr
GENCI
Thursday, 20 November, 2025
8:40–9:20 am CST
Opportunities in Egocentric Video Understanding
Dima Damen
University of Bristol
9:20–10:05 am CST
Supercomputing the Skies: How GE Aerospace Is Revolutionizing the Future of Flight
Trevor Wood
GE Aerospace
From Gordon Bell Finalist to the Osaka Expo: The Evolution of Real-Time Forecasting on Fugaku
Takemasa Miyoshi
RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
Pixels, Petabytes, and Predictions: The Supercomputing Demands of Modern Geospatial AI and How St. Louis Is the Center of Gravity
Mark Munsell
GeoFuturesSTL
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