CAKE at ISC 2026: UK involvement in Europe’s leading HPC conference
ISC High Performance 2026 is Europe’s leading conference and exhibition for high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence, data analytics, and quantum computing. Taking place from 22–26 June 2026 at the Congress Center Hamburg in Germany, ISC brings together more than 3,500 scientists, engineers, researchers, and industry leaders from academia, government, and the private sector. Under this year’s theme, “Connecting the Dots”, the programme spans five days of tutorials, keynotes, workshops, panels, posters, and one of Europe’s largest HPC exhibitions, with over 200 international exhibitors.
CAKE is delighted to be taking an active part in ISC 2026. We will be presenting a research poster on better connecting and coordinating global digital research infrastructure, sharing space on an exhibition booth to meet the community and showcase the work of the UK DRI landscape, and hosting a collaboration session on sustainable collaboration and knowledge exchange across the UK and Europe. If you’re heading to Hamburg, please do come and find us — we’d love to talk about how CAKE can help connect your project, community, or centre into the wider DRI ecosystem.
UK involvement in ISC
The UK HPC and DRI community is well represented across the ISC 2026 programme. Below is a day-by-day summary of sessions featuring UK-based speakers, contributors, and chairs, drawn from the published ISC programme. Click any session title to view its full details on the ISC planner.
Tuesday 23 June — Conference & Exhibition
| Time | Session | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15–12:45 | Vendor Showdown 2 | View session |
| 12:45–13:15 | First-time Exhibitor Pitch | View session |
| 14:15–15:00 | Finding Your People in HPC: A WHPC Community Meet-Up | View session |
| 14:45–15:15 | The ND Framework - Towards Grid-Based HPC Numerical Discretisation Schemes in Rust | View session |
| 16:00–17:00 | Connecting the Dots Between Supercomputing Research, Industry and Our Communities Through Effective Communications | View session |
| 16:00–16:20 | Engineering High Density – Building the future of HPC for research NOW | View session |
| 16:00–17:00 | Optimizing the Lifecycle: Performance, Efficiency, and Sustainability in HPC | View session |
| 17:15–18:15 | Interoperable AI Infrastructure Access Portals Across Europe | View session |
Wednesday 24 June — Conference & Exhibition
| Time | Session | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00–14:00 | HPC and You v6.0 - a Student BoF on Enjoying a Career and Community in HPC | View session |
| 13:20–13:40 | Software-Driven Efficiency for Sustainable AI | View session |
| 14:15–14:45 | Women in HPC Poster Pitch | View session |
| 15:00–15:45 | Research Poster Pitch | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | Accelerating Multi-Omics Analysis with High-Performance Computing | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | TNSim: A GPU-Resident Micro-Simulator for Parallelising Rail Dispatch | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | CAKE: Better Connecting and Coordinating Global Digital Research Infrastructure | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | Making Gravity SWIFTer: GPU Offloads for Gravity in the SWIFT Cosmology Code | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | From Prototype to Production: Agentic AI Tools for Natural Language-Driven HPC Management | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | A case study in sustainable AI: Applying carbon-reducing techniques in weather forecasting frameworks | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | Automated Encryption of Kubernetes Block Storage for Trusted Research Environments (TREs) | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | Re-Sourcing? Optimised Efficiency in Academic Networks via Shared Computational Resources | View session |
| 15:45–17:15 | Compute Without Boundaries: A Managed Cloud Extension for HPC and AI Services | View session |
| 16:00–17:00 | OpenHPC and the Future of Open Source HPC Provisioning Featuring Warewulf, and OpenCHAMI | View session |
| 17:15–18:15 | HPC Next: Reflections and Progress on the RISC-V Ecosystem | View session |
Thursday 25 June — Conference & Exhibition
| Time | Session | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00–09:30 | Actionable Decision-Making for Digital Twins in Health and Life Sciences | View session |
| 09:00–10:00 | Quality Assurance in HPC/AI Training | View session |
| 09:15–10:00 | Sustainable Collaborations and Knowledge Exchange Across the UK and Europe | View session |
| 10:45–11:45 | Deploying Next-Generation HPC Systems with NVIDIA Superchips: Early Experiences, Challenges, and Best Practices | View session |
| 14:15–15:15 | A European HPC Ecosystem for AI: Challenges and Opportunities | View session |
| 16:00–17:00 | Confidential Supercomputing: Essential Evolution or Elegant Illusion? | View session |
Friday 26 June — Workshops
| Time | Session | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00–16:00 | 2nd International Workshop on Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance: Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices | View session |
| 14:00–18:00 | 5th Workshop on Quantum and Hybrid Quantum/Classical Computing Approaches | View session |
| 14:00–18:00 | International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC at ISC | View session |
| 14:00–18:00 | Digital Twins for Science & Industry - from Data Scientist to Data Center | View session |
| 14:00–18:00 | 5th International Workshop on Sustainable Supercomputing | View session |
All times shown are local to Hamburg (CEST, UTC+2). Session details and rooms are subject to change — please check the ISC 2026 programme on the day for the latest information.
If you’re attending ISC 2026 and would like to connect with the CAKE team in person, please get in touch ahead of the conference — we’d love to meet you in Hamburg.