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    Convergent Intelligence: AI Hardware Co-Design and the Future of Intelligence

    from Tuesday, 29 September 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 30 September 2026 (17:10)


            : Sessions
        /     : Talks
            : Breaks
    29 Sept 2026
    		30 Sept 2026
    AM
    08:00 --- Breakfast & Networking ---
    09:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks - Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
    09:15 Co-Designing the Next Generation of AI Computing Infrastructure - Nhan Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
    09:50 HLS4ML Toolkit and NSF Phase-II POSE Project: Open Infrastructure for Accessible AI Hardware - Seda Ogrenci (Northwestern University)  
    10:20 Open Source Tools for FPGAs - Edmund Humenberger (Symbiotic EDA)  
    10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
    11:00 Responsible AI in the Generative Era - Anne Lee (Bell Labs Fellow)  
    11:30 Real-Time AI for Science: The Accelerated AI Institute for Data-Driven Discovery - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))  
    08:00 --- Breakfast & Networking ---
    09:00 DIscovery Partners Institute: Powering Responsible AI Innovation - Gene Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
    09:30 IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute - Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
    10:00 The FastML Foundation and the Next Phase of Open AI Hardware Innovation - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
    10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
    11:00 mHUB: An Innovation Center for All Things HardTech - Bill Fienup (mHUB)  
    11:30 Physical AI and Neuromorphic Computation - Jennifer Hasler (Georgia Institute of Technology)  
    PM
    12:00 Real-Time AI for Fusion Energy Research - Tom Gibbs (NVIDIA)  
    12:30 --- Lunch & Networking ---
    13:45 Robot Intelligence through the Perception Laboratory at TTI-Chicagod - Matthew Walter (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)  
    14:15 Safety Evaluation and Improvement for Embodied AI Systems - Qi Zhu (Northwestern University)  
    14:45 --- Coffee Break ---
    15:00 Computing and AI via Molecular Excitations - Matthew Du (University of Chicago)  
    15:30 Biological Organoids for Intelligent Systems: The Mind in-Vitro Project - Mattia Gazzola (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
    16:00 Building the Quantum–HPC Ecosystem: Co-Design Across Hardware, Software, Science, and Industry - Laura Schulz (Argonne National Laboratory)  
    17:00 --- Reception & Networking ---
    12:00 Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park - Andrew Lytle (IQMP)  
    12:30 --- Lunch & Networking ---
    13:45 Quantum Science with Neutral Atom Arrays - Jake Covey (University of Chicago)  
    14:05 Neural Atom Quantum Computing at Pasqal - Heejeong Jeong (Pasqal USA Inc.)  
    14:25 Adaptive-Window Decoding for Real-Time Quantum Error Correction - Tina Oberoi (University of Chicago)  
    14:45 --- Coffee Break ---
    15:00 Building Collective Intelligence for Autonomous Discovery at DATAERAI - Josh Agar (Dataerai)  
    15:20 AI / Machine Health / Edge Intelligence at BY-AITECH - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))  
    15:40 Applications of FPGAs to Financial Services and Beyond - David Lariviere (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
    15:50 Panel: Workforce Development for the AI / Quantum Hardware Era  
    16:45 Closeout / Next Steps