GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026

GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026

Welcome to the GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026 schedule. Use this page to browse sessions, view speaker and session details, and build your personal agenda for June 22–24 in Rogers, Arkansas. Check back through May as additional sessions and details are added.

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7:00am CDT

Conference Breakfast Grand Ballroom I–IVPIER Group Conference Registration Embassy Suites — Hotel Lobby

8:00am CDT

Keynote: Transform IT, Transform Everything in the Higher Education Industry Grand Ballroom I–IVMark Roman

8:45am CDT

State of Higher Ed IT Grand Ballroom I–IVElon Turner

9:15am CDT

Sponsor Showcase & Peer Networking Grand Ballroom V — Exhibit Hall

9:30am CDT

HPE — Sponsor Session Ambassador Ballroom AHPE PIER Group — Sponsor Session Grand Ballroom I–IVPIER Group

10:15am CDT

Sponsor Showcase & Peer Networking Grand Ballroom V — Exhibit Hall

10:30am CDT

Keynote: Resilient IT: Winning with People and Process Ambassador Ballroom DWesam Helou

11:00am CDT

State of the State Networks Ambassador Ballroom CMickey Slimp

11:45am CDT

Lunch & Final Sponsor Showcase Grand Ballroom I–IV

12:45pm CDT

OAK Supercomputing Center: Resources Overview Ambassador Ballroom B Roundtable: Resources and Funding to Support Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Ambassador Ballroom CDana Brunson • Amy Apon • Kevin Brandt *Workshop: perfSONAR Workshop Ambassador Ballroom AMark Feit

1:15pm CDT

Afternoon Break Grand Ballroom I–IV

1:30pm CDT

Closing Remarks & Thank You Grand Ballroom I–IVMickey Slimp • Elon Turner

2:45pm CDT

*Tour (I³R) — University of Arkansas (SHUTTLE) University of Arkansas — I3R Facility *Workshop: Introduction to Deploying and Scaling Data-Intensive Workloads with Docker and Kubernetes on the National Research Platform Ambassador Ballroom BCaughlin Bohn