Program

Time Activity Duration
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee 30 min
09:00 – 09:20 Opening Remarks 20 min
09:20 – 09:40 Signing Ceremony: Chile-Spain Memorandum of Understanding
Signing of the MoU on Supercomputing and AI Cooperation between the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain.
20 min
09:40 – 10:30 Keynote 1
Quo Vadis Computer Architecture: Back to the Future
Speaker: Mateo Valero (Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
50 min
10:30 – 11:20 Coffee Break 40 min
11:20 – 12:10 Keynote 2
AI Scaling Laws and Hardware Implications
Speaker: Marc Tremblay (Technical Fellow and Corporate VP, Microsoft)
50 min
12:10 – 13:00 Keynote 3
HPC/AI in Space – Data Centers in Space
Speaker: Leon Alkalai (Retired JPL Fellow, CEO Mandala Space Ventures)
50 min
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 1h
14:00 – 14:50 Keynote 4
From Proposal to Deployment of a #1 Supercomputer – The Summit/Sierra Story
Speaker: Jaime Moreno (Distinguished Researcher Emeritus, IBM Research)
50 min
14:50 – 15:40 Coffee Break 50 min
15:40 – 17:40 Ceremony in Honor of Tomás Lang

  • Institutional Opening and Welcome Remarks
  • The Career and Legacy of Tomas Lang
  • Recollections and Anecdotes:
    • Voices of Colleagues and Friends
  • Remote Tributes
  • Open Mic
  • Family Tribute
2h
17:40 Closing