WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER 2026

10:00   CoSeC Conference 2026 (Exchange Rooms 8 – 10, Upstairs at Manchester Central)

BREAKOUT SESSION (10:30-12:30)

BREAKOUT SESSION (13:00-15:00)

BREAKOUT SESSION (13:00-17:00)

14:00   Lustre User Group (The Midland Hotel)

BREAKOUT SESSION (15:30-17:30)

THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER 2026

08:30   REGISTRATION OPEN (Exchange Foyer) CIUK 2026 EXHIBITION OPEN (Exchange Hall)

SESSION 1 (09:15-11:00)

09:15   Peter Oliver (Director, Scientific Computing, STFC) Welcome and Introduction 
09:30   Crispin Keable (BULL) Can the UK be a scientific superpower without world-class supercomputing?
10:00   Ricky Patel (Fsas Technologies) Tackling Posture Optimisation with Hybrid Quantum Computing
10:30   Lamar Moore (Oxford Quantum Circuits) Building the Fault-Tolerant Future: Scaling Quantum Computing for Commercial and National Impact

BREAKOUT SESSION (09:30-11:00)

11:00   REFRESHMENTS

SESSION 2 (11:30-13:00)

11:30   Duncan Leggat (UCL) Securing our sensitive data: The demand for and challenges of Confidential Computing on High Performance Computing
12:00   Matt Craddock (The Alan Turing Institute) AIRR-BRIDGE: bringing sensitive AI research to national HPC infrastructure
12:30   Paul Walker (Durham University / DiRAC) Watching Over Their Shoulder: Semantic Anomaly Detection on an HPC Fleet with Local LLM Inference

BREAKOUT SESSION (11:30-13:00)

13:00   LUNCH

SESSION 3 (14:00-15:30)

14:00   A Network + Update Session
Nick Brown (EPCC) The UK Digital Research Infrastructure programme: progress, highlights and how to get involved
Jonathan Hays (QMUL) DRI’s Own Grand Challenge: The NFCS Roadmap for a Federation of UK Digital Research Infrastructure
Jonathan Cooper (UCL ARCC) Common challenges faced by Research Technical Professional groups in the UK, and current solutions to support their contributions to research and career pathways: an interview study
Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal (Imperial College London) The work between the work: Knowledge exchange within the dRTP community

BREAKOUT SESSION (14:00-15:30)

15:30   REFRESHMENTS

16:15   Martyn Guest (Cardiff University) The Performance of GPU-enabled Molecular Dynamics (MD) Community Codes

17:00   CIUK 2026 Keynote Presentation – Rob Akers (The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) From DAWN to SUNRISE: Supercomputing the Impossible Machine

FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER 2026

08:30   REGISTRATION OPEN (Exchange Foyer) CIUK 2026 EXHIBITION OPEN (Exchange Hall)

SESSION 4 (09:30-10:00)

09:30   Steven Kenny (Loughborough University) Accelerating Users Simulations on HPC
10:00   Ali Ansari (University of East Anglia) Silent Failures in LLM-Generated CUDA Kernels: When Repair Hides the Bug
10:30   Fawada Qaiser (University of Durham) From Ticket to Token: Developing an AI Assistant for COSMA User Support

BREAKOUT SESSION (08:30-10:30)

11:00   REFRESHMENTS

SESSION 5 (11:30-13:00)

11:30   Khalid Lawal (UK Atomic Energy Authority) Maximising the value of Fusion Research (Meta) Data Value using JSON Scheme
12:00   Gokmen Kilic (Durham University) Interactive HPC for DiRAC Training Academy using Kubernetes and LTI 1.3
12:30   Emma Barnes (University of York) What The University of York has learned from moving its HPC services to Sweden

BREAKOUT SESSION (11:30-13:30)

13:00   LUNCH

14:15   CIUK 2026 EXHIBITION CLOSES

SESSION 6 (14:00-15:30)

14:15   Awards Presentation – The CIUK 2026 Student Cluster Challenge and CIUK 2026 Poster Competition
14:30   The Jacky Pallas Memorial Presentation – TBC (TBC) Title TBC
15:00   Ali Taqi (Sultan Qaboos University) When Science Defines Parallelism: A Case Study in User-Configurable HPC Orchestration for Radio Astronomy
15:30   Sylvain Laizet (Imperial College London) Sustainable High Performance Computing in the UK: A Discussion on Public Investment, Accountability, and the Path to Net Zero

BREAKOUT SESSION (14:00-16:00)

16:00  CIUK 2026 CLOSES – See you in 2027!!!