HPC AI Infrastructure Summit
Discover how Microsoft, AMD, and your peers are revolutionizing their infrastructure with HPC+AI
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Join us for the “HPC + AI Infrastructure Summit with Microsoft and AMD,” a premier event designed to elevate your understanding and capabilities in HPC and AI. This 3-day summit will open doors to not only broaden your knowledge but also to harness the potential of cutting-edge innovations in HPC and AI.
This is an unmissable opportunity to hear from top industry leaders like Nidhi Chappell, VP of Azure HPC + AI Infrastructure and recipient of a recipient of the HPCWire’s 2023 People to Watch, and Andrew Jones, who leads our Future HPC + AI Capabilities. They, along with other distinguished speakers from AMD and our industry partners, will provide invaluable insights into the advancements driving our sector forward.
Who should attend
This event is designed for IT decision-makers, engineers, data scientists, and tech leaders focused on implementing cutting-edge technology solutions within their organizations.
Why attend
| Discover technological advances |
Customize your experience |
Engage in hands-on learning |
Gain real-world insights |
Expand your network |
| Learn the latest HPC and AI innovations to accelerate your projects. | Choose your own adventure with multiple product and industry tracks. | Participate in labs, demos, and technical deep dives to gain practical skills. | Hear firsthand from customers on how HPC and AI are reshaping industries. | Connect with industry leaders and peers during networking sessions. |
Featured speakers
Don’t miss exciting keynotes and sessions from HPC thought leaders.
Nidhi Chappell
Microsoft
Vice President Azure HPC + AI Infrastructure
- Day 1 – June 4 9:15-10:00 AM
- Keynote: Vision and Customer Highlights
Andrew Jones
Microsoft
Leader Azure Future HPC + AI Capabilities
- Day 1 – June 4 10:00-10:40 AM
- Keynote: Future of Supercomputing and Roadmap
Aung Oo
Microsoft
General Manager Azure Storage Engineering
- Day 1 – June 4 11:00-11:40 AM
- Plenary: Storage for HPC + AI Infrastructure
Robert Hormuth
AMD
Corporate Vice President Architecture & Strategy DCS
- Day 2 – June 5 9:10-9:40 AM
- Keynote: AMD Vision and Roadmap
Dr. Prith Banerjee
Ansys
Chief Technical Officer
- Day 1 – June 4 9:15-10:00 AM
- Keynote: Vision and Customer Highlights
Kiran Bhageshpur
Qumulo
Chief Technical Officer
- Day 1 – June 4 11:00-11:40 AM
- Plenary: Storage for HPC + AI Infrastructure
Tailor your summit journey
Customize your event experience with sessions for automotive, financial, energy, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors, including relevant cross-industry solutions.
HPC Industry Track
Key benefits of attending
- Learn from the best: Direct insights from industry leaders.
- Hands-on technology exposure: Get up close with the latest innovations; bring your device to work out solutions labs.
- Expand your network: Meet potential collaborators and industry peers.
- Industry-relevant sessions: Tailored insights that apply directly to your sector.
Day 1 Agenda Overview – June 4
| Start | End | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast in the Event Lobby | |
| 9:00 | 9:15 | Executive Welcome to Summit | Erin Chapple CVP Azure Core Product and Design |
| 9:15 | 10:00 | Keynote: Vision and Customer Highlights | Nidhi Chappell VP Azure HPC + AI Infrastructure and Dr. Prith Banerjee Ansys CTO |
| 10:00 | 10:40 | Keynote: Future of Supercomputing and Roadmap | Andrew Jones Azure Future HPC + AI Capabilities Leader |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Break – 20 mins | |
| 11:00 | 11:40 | Storage for HPC + AI Infrastructure | Aung Oo Microsoft Partner General Manager Azure Storage Engineering, Kiran Bhageshpur Qumulo CTO |
| 11:40 | 12:15 | Fireside Chat with Microsoft CVPs | Erin Chapple CVP Azure Core Product and Design, Eric Lockard CVP Azure Specialized Workloads, hosted by Andrew Jones Azure Future HPC + AI Capabilities Leader |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Catered Lunch – 60 mins | |
| 1:15 | 2:30 | Azure HPC + AI Infra Portfolio - Intro and Teasers: H N Viz SW Linux VDI | Microsoft Product Engineering Team |
| 2:45 | 3:45 | 3x Product Breakouts + 3x Industry Breakouts | |
| 3:45 | 4:00 | Break – 15 mins | |
| 4:00 | 5:00 | Interactive Customer Panel | Moderated by Andrew Jones Azure Future HPC + AI Capabilities Leader |
| 5:00 | 7:00 | Summit Technologists Networking Reception – All attendees welcome | |
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Day 1 Product Breakouts – June 4 2:45 PM-3:45 PM
| Start | End | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:45 | 3:45 | In-depth: Azure VM Products - H (HPC Infra) including (1) and (2) InfiniBand | Reliable Deployments and Diagnostics | In-depth session: Batch & CycleCloud |
| 2:45 | 3:45 | Discussion & Customer Inputs: Observability and performance metrics | Deploy Slurm on Azure from your remote Linux desktop in minutes with Linux VDI and Cycle Cloud Slurm Workspace |
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Day 1 Industry Breakouts – June 4 2:45-3:45 PM
| Start | End | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:45 | 3:15 | Healthcare & Life Sciences The future of Healthcare: Genomics Sequencing Integration of Workflow Schedulers in Azure Visualization and beyond Presented by: Roberto Lleras Microsoft | Manufacturing Panel: Revolutionizing Product Development: Azure's Compute Power Meets Generative AI Executive: Tim Ryder Microsoft Moderator: Andy Chan Microsoft Panelists: Dr. Erik Berg Microsoft Nathan Chang AMD Srikanth Gubbala Applied Materials Brian Andrus LAM Research | Energy Top AI Use Cases in the Energy Sector Powered By HPC Presented by: Hema Prapoo Microsoft |
| 3:15 | 3:45 | Healthcare & Life Sciences Azure Quantum Elements—Transforming R&D in Pharma with HPC + AI Presented by: Gorka Madariaga Microsoft | Energy AMD Accelerated Compute for Energy Presented by: Varun Selvaraj AMD |
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Day 2 Agenda Overview – June 5
| Start | End | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 9:00 | 9:10 | Executive Welcome Day 2 | Henrik Gutle GM Azure Business Group Americas |
| 9:10 | 9:40 | Keynote: AMD Vision and Roadmap | Robert Hormuth AMD CVP Architecture & Strategy Data Center Solutions |
| 9:40 | 10:10 | Best practices for successfully leveraging HPC AI Infrastructure on Azure | Kanchan Mehrotra Principal Group PM Manager |
| 10:10 | 10:45 | HPC Support and CSA Enablement | Bill Paxson Support Engineer Manager, Brian Timpe Sr. HPC Cloud Solution Architect |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Break 15 mins | |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Application Performance and Benchmarks | Joe Greenseid Principal HPC + AI Product Engineering |
| 11:30 | 12:15 | Industry Panel | Moderated by Desiree Campbell Americas Azure HPC + AI Managing Director |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Catered Networking Lunch – 60 mins | |
| 1:15 | 2:15 | 3x Product Breakouts + 3x Industry Breakouts | |
| 2:15 | 2:30 | Break 15 mins | |
| 2:30 | 3:30 | 3x Product Breakouts + 3x Industry Breakouts | |
| 3:30 | 3:45 | Break 15 mins | |
| 3:45 | 4:30 | Open Mic / AMA with Microsoft Product Leaders | |
| 4:30 | 5:00 | HPC & AI Technology Futures Roundtable | Led by Alan More Managing Director of Microsoft Met Office Program, Dr. Erik Berg Azure Sr Principal Engineer, Evan Burness Azure HPC Platforms & Infrastructure Lead, Phil Steinke AMD Fellow CAD Infrastructure and Physical Design |
| 5:00 | 5:10 | Closing and Thank You | Desiree Campbell Americas Azure HPC + AI Managing Director |
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Day 2 Product Breakouts – June 5 1:15-3:30 PM
| Start | End | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:15 | 1:45 | In-depth: Azure VM Products - N (AI Infra) (AMD) | Managed HPC services in Azure? Lessons from mission critical HPC in Azure? | In-depth session: Azure HPC Linux distros |
| 1:45 | 2:15 | In-depth: Azure VM Products - N (AI Infra) (NVIDIA) | Anatomy of a customer journey on Azure HPC: Vestas | Discussion & Customer Inputs: HPC Software Stack incl. Convergence of HPC & AI |
| 2:30 | 3:00 | Video Processing with Azure NM-series | In-depth best practice and key tips for HPC with Azure | Sessions require an NDA Azure AMD Roadmap HPC/AI Software Roadmap Discussion & Customer Inputs: Future product directions |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Visualization with Azure NV* series | Reduce development costs with Copilots for HPC workload management |
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Day 2 Industry Breakouts – June 5 1:15-3:30 PM
| Start | End | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:15 | 1:45 | Financial Services HPC Risk Workloads and Azure Presented by: Kent Altena Microsoft, Herman Nakamura AMD, Rick Hughson AMD | Automotive & Mobility Autonomous Vehicles- Past Present & Future. Presented by: Danny Atsmon Cognata, Kurt Niebuhr Microsoft | Energy WEKA product demonstration Presented by: Raj Sharma WEKA |
| 1:45 | 2:15 | Financial Services Optimizing HPC Workloads in Azure for Financial Services Presented by: Kent Altena Microsoft, Herman Nakamura AMD, Rick Hughson AMD, Shaun Welsh Moody’s Analytics | Manufacturing Next-gen CAE modeling and Digital Twinning for industrial/Manufacturing Presented by: Pieter Fountain Microsoft, Rick Knoechel AMD, Andy Byers Ansys | Cross-Industry Building a True Global Namespace for Cloud AI and Data Pipelines Presented by: Neeloy Bhattacharyya VAST Data |
| 2:30 | 3:00 | Financial Services Unleashing the Power of HPC Grids in FSI: Overcoming Storage Hurdles Presented by: Kent Altena Microsoft, Adam Ginsberg NetApp | Automotive & Mobility Panel: Transforming Automotive Industry Through AI Panel: Industry leaders from Microsoft, AMD, and Neutral Concept | Energy & Manufacturing Azure Quantum Elements—Transforming R&D for chemistry processes with HPC + AI Presented by: Gorka Madariaga Microsoft |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Cross-Industry Breaking the speed limit with WEKA: Getting the most out of Azure BLOB Storage Presented by: Kent Altena Microsoft, Raj Sharma WEKA | Automotive & Mobility Advancing the Automotive Future with Digital Engineering Presented by: Dr. Ahmed Taha Microsoft, Rick Knoechel AMD, Andy Byers Ansys |
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Day 3 Agenda Overview – June 6
| Start | End | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast |
| 9:00 | 10:00 | 3x Hand-On Labs / Demo Sessions |
| 10:00 | 10:15 | 15 min Break |
| 10:15 | 11:15 | 3x Hand-On Labs / Demo Sessions |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | 15 min Break |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | 3x Hand-On Labs / Demo Sessions |
| 12:30 | 1:30 | Catered Lunch 60 mins |
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Day 3 Hand-on Labs and Solutions Demonstrations – June 6 9:00 AM-12:30 PM
| Start | End | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 10:00 | e2e HPC Environment on Azure–Lift & Shift Facilitated by: Hugo Meiland Microsoft, Ben George Microsoft | AMD Innovation Lab with Ansys Focus Application developed by Oakwood Presented by: Dan Cooke Oakwood, Jason Scheffelmaer Microsoft | Integrating Azure Native Qumulo with Microsoft Copilot Facilitated by: Kevin McDonald Qumulo |
| 10:15 | 11:15 | e2e HPC environment on Azure (cloud native and SaaS) Facilitated by: Marco Netto Microsoft, Sonal Doomra Microsoft | Ansys Access Technical Session Presented by: JJ Jones Ansys, Krishna Samavedam Ansys, Hugo Meiland Microsoft | Altair Engineering Tech Presentation/Demo Presented by: Shaun Kroeger Altair |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Rescale: Harnessing the Data Explosion for New Insights in Engineering & Scientific Computing Presented by: Madhu Vellakal Rescale, Eric Schieferstein Rescale | Azure Quantum Elements Technical deep dive demonstration and hands-on lab Presented by: Microsoft Azure Quantum Elements Team | Siemens NX on AVD + StarCCM hands-on lab Presented by: Siemens, Sunita Phanse Microsoft |
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Updated May 20, 2024
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