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08:00-08:30
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Arrival, registration, refreshments
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08:30-09:00
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Introduction of daily program - Bob Bishop, Marie-Christine Sawley, Michel Speiser
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09:00-09:45
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Panel session 1 - Holistic regeneration & transformation of environments, cities & regions
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Moderator
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- Prof. Peter Head Chair Trustees, The Ecological Sequestration Trust
Visiting Prof U Bristol; UNDRR GAR Advisory Board; ICES Expert
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Panelist
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Dr. Barbara Ryan - Exec. Director WGIC (World Geospatial Industry Council)
Sec. Director GEO; Director, WMO Space Program; USGS; ICES Expert
Arthur Wood - Founder, Equity4Humanity and Total Impact Advisors; Chair, World Sanitation Finance
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09:45-10:30
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Panel session 2 - Extreme weather & climate – prediction, attribution, preparation, action
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Moderator
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Dr. Ghassem Asrar - ICES Expert
SVP USRA; Director JGCRI; Director WCRP; Deputy Administrator, Dept. Agriculture; Chief Scientist NASA
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Panelists
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Prof. Jagadish Shukla - ICES Expert; Dept. AOES, George Mason University; Managing Director of COLA
Prof. Tim Palmer - CBE FRS; Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford; ECMWF; UK Met
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10:30-11:00
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Networking break
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11:00-11:45
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Panel session 3 - AI for Science & Earth-related Systems
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Moderator
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Dr. Michel Speiser - ICES Chief Data Scientist; IBM Research
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Panelists
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Prof. Fernando Perez-Cruz - ETH Zurich; Chief Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center
Dr. Michele Volpi - Swiss Data Science Center; ETH Zurich
Dr. Roberto Castello - Swiss Data Science Center; EPFL
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11:45-12:30
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Panel session 4 - Graph analytics, graph computing, Graph500, Link Data Benchmarks
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Moderator
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Assoc. Prof. Ana Lucia Varbanescu - U Amsterdam; PostDoc TU Delft & Vrije U
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Panelists
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Prof. Angela Bonifati - Lyon 1 Uni, Head LIRIS db lab; Adj. Prof. U Waterloo, Canada; President EDBT
Prof. Adriana Iamnitchi - Chair of Computational Social Sciences , Institute of Data Science, Maastricht U
Prof. Torsten Hoefler - Prof. ETHZ; Member MPI Forum; Prof. U Illinois; Post-Doc Researcher Indiana U
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12:30-13:15
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Lunch
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13:15-14:00
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Panel session 5 - HPC, Digital twins, evolution of climate models & new meteo codes
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Moderator
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Dr. Jean-Claude André - Former Director CERFACS (European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computing); 1st Director of CNRM,Toulouse (Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques)
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Panelists
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Dr. Sylvie Joussaume - Chair of ENES; CNRS Professor Institut Pierre Simon Laplace; ESFRI; IPCC ; GIEC
Dr. Roland Potthast - Head of NWP at DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst); Professor, University of Reading
Dr. Peter Bauer – Deputy Director of Research, ECMWF (video presentation)
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14:00-14:45
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Panel session 6 - Measuring performance in geoscience apps
Custom benchmark vs Top500 (Linpack), HPCG, Green500, HPC Challenge, SPEChpc
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Moderator
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Dr. Michael Rast – ISSI; ESA; GEO; ESTEC; ICES Expert
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Panelists
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Dr. Thomas Ludwig - Director DKRZ; Prof. Informatics, Uni of Hamburg; ICES Expert
Dr. Claudia Frauen - DKRZ Geoscience; Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research; CNRM, Toulouse
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14:45-15:30
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Panel session 7 - New HPC strategies & architectures
EuroHPC, CPU/GPU, Lucata, AI supercomp, Cerebras, Graphcore, ARM, Risc V, SiPearl (Rhea)
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Moderator
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Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley - Advisor HPC/Exascale ICES; Director Exascale Lab Intel; CERN-CMS, CSCS
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Panelists
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Matthias Fouquet-Lapar - MTS Performance Engineering, Cerebras; former Huawei, Cray, HPE, SGI
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15:30-16:00
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Networking break
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16:00-16:45
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Panel session 8 - Quantum computers for weather and climate prediction
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Moderator
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Dr. Bob Bishop – President & Founder, ICES Foundation
Chair & CEO SGI; VP Int’l Apollo Computer; DEC Europe, US, JP, AUS
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Panelists
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Prof. Tim Palmer - CBE FRS, Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford; ECMWF; UK Met
Dr. Sofia Vallecorsa - AI/Quantum Research @ CERN Open Lab; SNSF Fellow IceCube/ATLAS; Technicon
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16:45-17:30
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Panel session 9 - Navigating ICES Foundation safely in the midst of rapid geopolitical change
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Moderator
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Dr. William Westermeyer - ICES Advisor for Policy; formerly OTA, GCOS/WMO
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Panelists
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Hon Dr. Michael Armitage MD - Adviser, Qatar Minister Public Health; AHIA; SA Minister Health/InfoEconomy
Dr. David Lawson JD - Officer of ICES Foundation; Bonnard Lawson Geneva; Exxon; US Navy
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17:30-18:00
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Finale/Wrap - Bob Bishop, Marie-Christine Sawley, Michel Speiser, All
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18:00-19:00
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Farewell drinks
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