NI-HPC AI day in collaboration with NVIDIA
About this event
The morning session will include presentations by NVIDIA professionals, including Andy Grant and Paul Graham, and the afternoon sessions will be divided into 4 deep dive sessions on topics including;
Agenda
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival, tea and coffee
10:00 -10:30 Welcome: David Smyth, Director, NI-HPC
Introduction: Andy Grant, EMEA Director – Supercomputing and AI, Higher Education and Research, NVIDIA
10:30 – 11:00 NVIDIA accelerated computing for science and AI: beyond Moore’s Law, performance & energy efficiency at all scales: Background and basics, Infrastructure for AI, Trends: Dr. Visha Vasu, Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA,
11:00 – 11:45 LLM and Generative AI : Anna Ollerenshaw, Solutions Architect NVIDIA
11:45 - 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30 Meet the Ambassadors and general Q~+A : Luis Fernandez Menchero, Research Software Engineer and Jazz Urog, Research Software Engineer.
12:30 – 1:00 GPUs Features for Deep learning and how to exploit them + Domain specific SDKs and Frameworks to accelerate AI research: Paul Graham, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
Afternoon sessions
2:00 – 3:00
- AI for Medical Imaging using MONAI: Johnny Hancox, a Senior Solutions Architect NVIDIA
- HPC and acceleration of scientific applications: Paul Graham, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
3:00-4:00
- Genomics and Drug discovery: Hassan Sirelkhatim, Senior Solutions Architect NVIDIA
- HPC and acceleration of scientific applications: Paul Graham, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
16:15 Concluding remarks
Date: 5 November 2025
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Queen's University, Belfast, Riddel Hall
