Tuesday, October 13th 2026
1pm-1:15pm — Opening
Welcome session and technical session
1:15pm-2:15 — Panel
Panel on The Convergence of Computing and Power
Abstract: The rapid growth of AI and data centers is tightening the coupling between computing systems and the power grid. This panel will discuss how computing demand, grid capacity, energy storage, cooling, and flexible workloads can be co-designed to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability. We will also examine emerging challenges in power-constrained computing, data-center demand response, and the infrastructure needed to support future AI systems.
- Cullen Bash,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA.
- Zoran Dimitrijevic,
Independent Technologist, USA.
Bio: Zoran Dimitrijevic is an independent technologist and startup advisor leveraging recent advances in AI to transform the design and implementation of large-scale computer systems. Recently, Zoran was a Principal Engineer and member of engineering leadership at Airbnb from 2020 to 2025. During his tenure, he led the Airschema and UDS projects within Airbnb Labs, and contributed to the architectural efforts for the Viaduct project (open-sourced in 2025). Previously, Zoran was a Principal Engineer at Altiscale and subsequently at SAP following its acquisition. In this role, he led the Hadoop team and implemented encryption-at-rest for HDFS nodes utilizing LUKS and a custom-built key-management system. Earlier in his career, Zoran joined the Google GFS team in 2004 and worked on large-scale distributed systems for Google Search, Google News Archives, and Google News. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Dipl. Ing. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. Zoran is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
- Ravi Pasula,
Equinix, USA.
Bio: Ravi Pasula is a technology and AI leader with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation through data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics. As Senior Director of Machine Learning at Equinix, he leads global teams developing AI-powered solutions that optimize operations, accelerate business decisions, and enable intelligent digital infrastructure at worldwide scale.
- Shaolei Ren,
University of California, Riverside, USA.
Bio: Shaolei Ren is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on modeling and algorithms for efficient AI and computing systems. He is a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
4:30pm-6:30pm — Poster session
Joint poster session with SEC conference
Wednesday, October 14th 2026
8:45am-9am — Welcome
Welcome session
9am-10am — Keynote
Session chair: TBA
Speaker: Kate Keahey (Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, USA)
Title: "This is Not a Testbed": How to Build and Operate Experimental Infrastructure
10:30am-12pm — Technical session: Agentic and LLM-Driven Cloud Systems
Session chair: TBA
- DSTBench: Distributed Systems Traces driven Agentic Performance Debugging in Microservices.
Syed Mohammad Qasim, Gianluca Stringhini, Ayse K. Coskun, Sam Xi, Deniz Altınbüken and Amir Yazdanbakhsh.
- Duet Instrumentation: An Agentic Approach to Improving Sensitivity in Cloud Service Benchmarks.
Sebastian Koch, Nils Japke and David Bermbach.
- Evaluating LLM Trade-offs for Enterprise Automation: Lessons from Workflow Generation in a Production Enterprise Platform.
Anca Sailer, Xavier Wrenn, Yuji Watanabe, Radoslav Raykov, Aleksandar Angelov and Hirokuni Kitahara.
1pm-2:30pm — Technical session: Serverless and Cloud-Native Computing
Session chair: TBA
- Konflux: Optimized Function Fusion for Serverless Applications.
Niklas Kowallik, Trever Schirmer and David Bermbach.
- FaaS-GAUGE: A Large Language Model Benchmark for Quality Assessment of Serverless Function Generation.
Xinghan Chen, Robert Cordingly, Ling-Hong Hung and Wes J. Lloyd.
- (short paper) Kirin: Cloud-native WebAssembly Service Orchestration.
Joshua Bauer, Sebastian Werner and Maria C. Borges.
- (short paper) Optimal Deployment of AI agents on Serverless Platforms.
Manju Ramesh, Dheeraj Chahal, Ahish Bindhumadhavan, Shruti Kunde and Vinay Sharma.
3pm-4:30pm — Technical session: Storage and Data Systems
Session chair: TBA
- Ariadne: A Resilient IoT Storage Service for Geospatial Computing.
Vinayak Gajjewar, Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski.
- Hardware-Transparent I/O Governance in Disaggregated Heterogeneous Storage.
Rajarshi Chowdhury, Akshay Shah and Sue Lee.
- (short paper) Containerized Multi-Version Operation of Synchronously-Replicated Database Clusters: Architecture and Operational Insights from a Production-Oriented Deployment.
Isabel Sebastian and Sebastian Schlesinger.
- (short paper) CDC-Cache: CDC-Triggered Precise Cache Invalidation for Distributed OLAP Engines.
Kunal Jain.
7pm — Banquet
Banquet
Thursday, October 15th 2026
8:45am-9am — Welcome
Welcome session
9am-10am — Keynote
Session chair: TBA
Speaker: Cullen Bash (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA)
Title: Beyond the Grid: Rethinking Energy for the AI-Powered Intelligence Era
10:30am-12pm — Technical session: Edge, IoT, and Resource-Efficient Computing
Session chair: TBA
- HeliosAdapt: Service Quality Adaptation for Solar-Powered Edge Clusters.
Ammar Kazem, Guillaume Pierre and Laurent Longuevergne.
- DiCEI: Distilled iTransformer for Effective Lightweight Anomaly Detection Across the Cloud–Edge–IoT Continuum.
Abderrahmane Boucenna, Mehdi Acheli, Mohamed Sellami and Walid Gaaloul.
- (short paper) Hardware-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization via Task-Aware Sensitivity.
Anh Nguyen-Thi-Phuong, Quang Le-Hoang-Minh and Trung Dong.
- (short paper) A Reliability Engineering Framework for Long-Lived Data Platforms.
Sravanthi Kondoju.
1pm-2:30pm — Technical session: Performance Engineering and Cloud Platforms
Session chair: TBA
- Platform Agnostic Capacity Planning for Heterogeneous Cloud Storage: A Production Machine Learning Approach.
Anupama Jagannathan, Joe Loas, Chris Dye, Brian Reitz and Piyush Shivam.
- Robust KV Cache Management for LLM Serving under Output Token Length Uncertainty.
Jiaming Cheng, Duong The Do and Duong Nguyen.
- Engineering a High-Performance Cloud-Native Ingress Layer for Latency-Sensitive Payment Processing at Scale.
Ritvik Pandya.
3pm-5pm — Technical session: Scheduling, Orchestration, and Multi-Cloud Optimization
Session chair: TBA
- Beyond the Limits: Flexible and Congestion-Aware Cluster Scheduling for the Cloud.
Oliver Larsson, Thijs Metsch, Cristian Klein and Erik Elmroth.
- A-FinOps: a framework definition aiming to automate decision-making for multi-cloud application deployment.
Bruno Lopes and Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi.
- SkyHOSTop: Cost‑Aware Multi‑Cloud Streaming Overlay Optimization.
Muhammad Arslan Tariq, Gwen Maudet, Grégoire Danoy and Pascal Bouvry.
- Event-Driven ML Pipeline Orchestration for Manufacturing: An AWS Industry Experience.
Zhengyang Gu, Thomas Cook, Fredaljohn Rohrbaugh, Joseph E. Hernandez and Chris Couch.