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May 12-14, 2026
Rockville, Maryland
Confab26
Confab26
ESnet operates the DOE’s sole high-performance data network for scientific research and is a key contributor to the American Science Cloud (AmSC) platform for the Genesis Mission. Confab is traditionally ESnet's largest user meeting, focused on how we codesign the future of integrated science. This year, Confab26 is being held in collaboration with the AmSC Program Office.
Because space is limited, this invitation-only event is restricted to AmSC and federal leadership, participants in the AmSC demos, ESCC members, and invited EJFAT users.
Location: Confab26 will be held at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Rockville, Maryland, within daily commuting distance of Germantown.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
7:30am: Check In / Breakfast
8:30am–5:30pm: Plenary Session: Keynote Presentations and Panels about Genesis, American Science Cloud, and Innovative Science and Networking
6-8pm Working Dinner & Quantum Keynote
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
8am Breakfast & On-Site Check In
8:15am-5pm
Plenary Session: AmSC Infrastructure Partner Demos and Panels
Breakout Rooms: Live Demos for AmSC IP
Thursday, May 14, 2026
8am Breakfast & On-Site Check In
8:30am-4:15pm
Plenary Session: AmSC Infrastructure Partner Demos and Panels
Breakout Rooms: Live Demos for AmSC IP
Breakout Meeting: EJFAT Users
Breakout Meeting (Invitation Only): ESnet Site Coordinators Committee (ESCC)
Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Dario Gil
Dario Gil
Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy and Director of the Genesis Mission
Georgia Tourassi
Georgia Tourassi
Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and leader of the American Science Cloud project.
Inder Monga
Inder Monga
Executive Director, ESnet, and AmSC Project Deputy
Court Corley
Court Corley
Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence, PNNL
Adam Bolton
Adam Bolton
Astrophysicist and Data Scientist, Senior Staff Scientist, SLAC, and US Data Facility Lead, Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Earl Lawrence
Earl Lawrence
Chief Scientist for the National Security AI Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Satoshi Matsuoka
Satoshi Matsuoka
Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Christopher Monroe
Christopher Monroe
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ Inc., and Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University
About ESnet's Confab User Meeting
About ESnet's Confab User Meeting
Confab26 is the fourth Confab event. Learn more about past Confab events:
Confab25 (April 2025) program and feature story
Panelists and Moderators
Panelists and Moderators
Big Science in the Age of the Genesis Mission
Moderator: Arjun Shankar, Division Director for the National Center for Computational Science, ORNL, and AmSC Project Deputy
Cami Collins, Plasma Physicist and Section Head, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kjiersten Fagnan, Chief Informatics Officer and Data Science and Informatics Leader, Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley Lab
Andreas Kronfeld, Theoretical Physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and chair of the American Science Cloud Science Council
Neeraj Kumar, Chief Data Scientist in the Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Todd Satogata, Senior Staff Scientist, Jefferson Lab
Kevin Yager, Interim Director, AI-Accelerated Nanoscience, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Evolving the Intelligent Network to an Agentic Future
Inder Monga, ESnet Executive Director and AmSC Deputy Project Lead
Chin Guok, ESnet Chief Technology Officer and AmSC Partner Integration Lead
ESnet Innovation Lightning Talks: Accelerating the Future of Scientific Research
Eli Dart, Science Engagement Engineer
Bruce Mah, High Touch team lead
Dale Carder, Services Lead, Network Engineering
Edward Balas, Measurement & Analysis Group Lead
Xi Yang, Pilots & Prototypes Group Lead
Inder Monga, Lead P.I., QUANT-NET
AI at the Wireless Edge for Accelerating Scientific Infrastructure Automation
Shantenu Jha, Head, Computational Sciences Department, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Robinson Pino, Research and Evaluation Prototypes (REP), ASCR, Advanced Computing Technologies (ACT) Division
…and more, to be announced soon!
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