Agenda

DAY 1: Tuesday- September 27, 2022

TimeTitleSpeaker
8:30Registration
09:00-09:30 Opening Ceremony
9:00The National Anthem of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
9:03Quran 
9:05Organizing Committee Speech by Dean of Computer Science and Information Technology CollegeDr. Abdullah Mohammed Almuhaideb, Dean, CCSIT, IAU
9:10Opening Speech by his Excellency President of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU)Prof. Abdullah M. Alrubaish, President, IAU
9:20Sponsors Honoring
9:30Exhibition Official Opening + Coffee Break + Networking 

First Session

Time

Title Speaker
10:00-12:00 Plenary Session 1: Role of HPC in Medical Research Session Chair: Dr. Sumayh Aljameel Chair of Computer Science Dept, IAU.
10:00 Keynote: HPC & AI with Intel in the New Era of Supercomputing Dr. Jean-Laurent Philippe HPC Director, Intel
10:30 Application of Artificial Intelligence in Cytogenetics Yahya Bokhari Associate Research Scientist, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC).
10:40 The current status of the biomedical/biological research in term of HPC usage and presence Mohammed S. Alarawi Research Specialist, Comparative Genomics and Genetics, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
10:50 Genomics Optimization And Scalability Zeeshan Kamal Siddiqi HPC & AI Technical Team, Lenovo
11:00 Increasing diagnostic rate in Clinical Genomics variant interpretation using AZIZ supercomputer Dr. Nofe Ateq Alganmi Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University
11:10 Discussion-1 All session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion
11:30 Panel Discussion: High Performance Computing in Healthcare Session Chair: Dr. Khalid Adnan Alissa Dean of ICT at IAU
Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda Professor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University, USA
Prof. Mohammed Alshahrani Director General, King Fahad Hospital of the university-Khober-Saudi Arabia
Dr. Saber Feki Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST
Prof. Rashid Mehmood Director of Research, Training, and Consultancy, HPC Center, King Abdulaziz University
Eng. Ahmed Al-Jeshi Board member of the Annual Saudi HPC/AI Conference
Eng. Saeed Zahrani IT consultant at Saudi Aramco EXPEC Computer Center (ECC).
10:00-12:30 Poster Showcase+ Hackathon (parallel sessions)
10:00-12:00 Hackathon program [The ideation and mentoring session]  (parallel session online)
12:00-12:30 Dhohr Prayer + Coffee Break

Second Session

Time Title Speaker
12:30 – 3:00 Plenary Session 2: HPC in AI, Big Data Session Chair: Dina Abdullah Alabbad Chair of Computer Information Systems Dept, IAU.  
12:30 Keynote: High Performance Computing and artificial intelligence in medical physics applications Dr. Othmane Bouhali Director of Research Computing and Research Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar.
12:45 Cambridge Open ZettaScale Lab – Future AI, Simulation and DA Systems by Co-Design Paul Calleja The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery, UK
1:00 Road to Exascale Andrew Grant Global VP, Strategic HPC Projects, ATOS
1:10 Addressing the Exascale storage challenge Sven Breuner Field CTO, VAST Data
1:20 Leveraging High Performance Computing for Big Data Processing Badr Badghaish Geophysicist IV, Saudi Aramco
1:30 Data Analytics & AI in HPC Paul Brook (online) EMEA Director, Data Centric Workloads Specialists, Dell
1:40  Discussion-II The first 5 speakers will join (online/in-person) and session chair will moderate the discussion
2:00 Leveraging DAOS Storage System for Seismic Data Storage and Manipulation Merna Moawad Senior Software Engineer, BrightSkies Technologies
Data Analytics & AI in HPC Paul Brook (online) EMEA Director, Data Centric Workloads Specialists, Dell
2:10 Hybridized ‘HPC – Ensemble ML’ Towards Making Data Speak More Clearly: A Unique Paradigms Union as panacea for Improved Medical Research & Solutions Sunday Olusanya Olatunji (Aadam) Associate Professor in in Artificial Intelligence at IAU
2:20 Challenges of Exascale and beyond Bruno LECOINTE VP Group Business support HPC AI Quantum at ATOS
2:30 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Reservoir Simulation HPC Environment Alanood Alrassan Petroleum Engineer System Analyst, Saudi Aramco
2:40  Discussion-III All last 4 session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion
3:00 Lunch Break

DAY 2: Wednesday- September 28, 2022

First Session

TimeTalkSpeaker Name
9:00-12:00Plenary Session 3: HPC Cyber Security and Cloud ComputingSession Chair: Dr. Mustafa Youldash
Certified Trainer and University Ambassador | Deep Learning Institute | NVIDIA,
Assistant professor, IAU
9:00Keynote: Extreme-Scale Environmental StatisticsDavid E Keyes
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Director, Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST
9:30Keynote: High-Performance Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Science on Modern HPC SystemsDhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda,
Professor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University, USA
10:00Cloud-native HPC use caseWalid Shaari,
Cloud Architect, Saudi Aramco
Nora Alwadaah,
HPC Specialist, Saudi Aramco
10:10Smartization of Societies: High-Performance Ingredients and ExamplesProf. Rashid Mehmood
Director of Research, Training, and Consultancy HPC Center, King Abdulaziz University
10:20 Discussion-IVThe first 4-5 speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion
10:40Networking + Exhibition + Coffee Break 
10:50HPC Cybersecurity benchmarkMuneera M. Almuhaidib
Computer Operating System Specialist, Saudi Aramco
11:00  
11:10How to improve Biomedical Analytics while reducing Carbon FootprintRick Koopman
EMEA Technical Lead HPC,  Lenovo
11:20Accelerating Intelligent Infrastructure for a Changing WorldDipl. Eng. THIERS Laurent, Vice President, DDN
11:30Coding in the Entanglement DomainNaya Nagy, Assistant professor, IAU
11:40Discussion-VThe last 4 session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion
9:00-11:30Poster Showcase+ Hackathon (parallel sessions)
10:30-11:30Hackathon program [presentations for the top 10 teams]  (parallel session online)
11:50-12:30Dhohr Prayer + Coffee Break

Second Session

TimeTitleSpeaker
12:30-2:00Plenary Session 4: Emerging Technologies and HPC centers, facilities, and applicationsSession Chair: Dr. May Issa Aldossary
Assistant Professor, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, CCSIT, IAU. 
12:30Keynote: Research Computing @ NYUADMuataz Al Barwani
Senior Director, Center for Research Computing, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
12:45Keynote: HPC and AI services and applications at KAUSTDr. Jysoo Lee
Director KAUST
1:00Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING Edmondo Orlotti
AI Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1:10SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE EXASCALE COMPUTING Edmondo Orlotti
AI Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1:20Simulation Runtime Optimization via Auto-Tuning of Numerical TolerancesObai Alnajjar
Petroleum Engineering System Analyst, Saudi Aramco
 SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE EXASCALE COMPUTING Edmondo Orlotti
AI Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1:30Accelerating your HPC journeyMohamad Jaghoub
Senior Field Application Engineer for AMD META, AMD
1:40 Discussion-VIThe first 5 speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion
1:55Accelerating your HPC journeyMohamad Jaghoub
Senior Field Application Engineer for AMD META, AMD
2:05Multi-dimensional HPC: A deep-dive into the Convergence of HPC and AIBalamurugan Ramassamy
Director HPC APAC & GCC Countries, Altair
2:15Aziz HPC CentreDr. Rayan Mosli
HPC Center Deputy Director for Technical and Administrative Affairs at King Abdulaziz University
2:25HPC system and applications at KFUPMDr. Afaque Shams
Associate Professor at KFUPM
2:35Taking Medical AI from Research to Clinical Production with HPCDr. Mustafa Youldash
Certified Trainer and University Ambassador | Deep Learning Institute | NVIDIA, 
Assistant professor, IAU
2:45Discussion-VIIThe last 4 session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion

 

Closing Session

3:00Poster and Hackathon Winners Announcements
3:15Honoring Participants and Organizers
3:30Closing remarks
3:40 Group photo + Lunch Break

Day-3: Thursday- September 29, 2022 (Parallel Workshops)

Time

Technical Workshops, Session Chair: Dr.Rami M Mohammad, Associate Professor, IAU

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 3

Workshop 4 (online)

9-11
Data Science on HPC platforms – (part-1),By: 1-Saber Feki, Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST2-Mohsin Shaikh, Computational Scientist, KAUST3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST 4-Rooh Khurram, Staff Scientist, KAUST DPC++ Training Workshop (part-1), By: Amr Mohamed Nasreldin Elsayed, HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies Enabling and democratizing MLops in Healthcare, By:  Solution Architect, Lenovo Power, Application Efficiency and Challenges for a HPC Vendor, By: 1-Jim Hearnden, Enterprise Technologist Data Centre Power & Cooling EMEA, DELL, 2-  Martin Hilgeman HPC application specialist, Dell
11-12
(continued) Data Science on HPC platforms – (part-1),By:1-Saber Feki, Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST 2-Mohsin Shaikh, Computational Scientist, KAUST 3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST 3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST (continued) DPC++ Training Workshop (part-1), By: Amr Mohaemed Nasreldin Elsayed, HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies

Workshop 5

Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING Workshop (part-I), By: Andrea Carboni,  AI Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
12:00-12:30
Dhohr Prayer + Coffee Break
12:30-1:45
(continued) Data Science on HPC platforms – (part-2), By: 1-Saber Feki, Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST 2-Mohsin Shaikh, Computational Scientist, KAUST 3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST 4-Rooh Khurram, Staff Scientist, KAUST (continued) DPC++ Training Workshop (part-2), By: Amr Mohaemed Nasreldin Elsayed, HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies (continued) Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING Workshop (part-2), By: Andrea Carboni,  AI Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2:00
Lunch Break