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Call for Abstracts

You are invited to prepare an extended abstract for presentation in the technical program at the 19th Annual Energy HPC & AI Conference hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, February 24-26, 2026. Submission link and deadline information below.

Computation, data, and information technology continue to stand out across the energy industry as critical business enablers. We're also seeing how recent advances in machine learning, deep learning, robotics, and AI are converging with traditional HPC approaches. With the challenges to Moore’s law and emergence of AI, we must navigate a rapidly changing technology landscape. This transition into next-generation digitalization is an opportunity for advancements—a renaissance for system architectures highlights the need for investments in people (workforce), algorithms, software innovations, and hardware platforms to support system scalability and demands for increasing digitalization across the energy sector while demonstrating business value.

We invite prospective speakers to submit technical program abstracts that showcase innovative technologies, real-world use cases, and scalable solutions that enable data-driven discovery and decision making across the energy computing landscape—from traditional HPC applications like seismic imaging and reservoir simulation to emerging approaches that integrate AI and machine learning.

Technical Talk Details:

Accepted abstracts will be asked to deliver a 20 minute presentation, including Q&A, as part of the conference program on February 24-25, 2026. Presentations will be recorded and published online on the Ken Kennedy Institute’s YouTube channel. Presenters will need to sign a Digital Release Form. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not comfortable presenting in person.

Abstract Submissions — Due December 5, 2025
Abstract Acceptance Notice — December 19, 2025

Submission Guidelines:

One page (not including graphics, bio, and references as needed).
Extended abstracts must be uploaded as a PDF in EasyChair.
The short abstract and the keywords from your extended abstract must also be pasted into the appropriate text box in the web submission form in EasyChair.
Extended abstracts should contain: title; list of all author(s) with identifying and contact information; short abstract (not to exceed 350 words); up to 5 keywords; followed by short sections covering: (1) Motivation, (2) Hypothesis, (3) Methods and Results, and (4) Conclusion. Please review the abstract template.
- To download and edit the template as a Word document, click the button here:

Note 1: This conference will consider and can accept abstracts for work that has previously been presented.

Note 2: Presentation proposals that appear to the program committee as “marketing” will be rejected. Abstracts with a strong and compelling customer use-case with the focus on the innovation knowledge discovery enabled by the solution more than the product can be considered. In cases where you think a marketing message may be a concern, we strongly encourage you to partner with a customer and highlight users and relevant use-cases. Vendors interested in engaging are also encouraged to explore sponsorship.

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