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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.

The GPN CIP Team initiates the program area ideas behind GPN, while facilitating their completion. Topics will include:
  • The GPN High Performance Computing infrastructure, including survey distribution and findings, NRP/OSG involvement, and the latest on the OAK SuperComputing Consortium. Contributors will include the GP-STOR NSF Project Team, NRP PI Frank Wuerthwein, and OAK project PI, Christopher Fennell.
  • State plans for A.I. activities and grant submissions.
  • Quantum projects within GPN
  •  Emerging Institution activities
  • Priorities for 2027
Participation is open but voting is limited to committee members.
Speakers
avatar for Chip Byers

Chip Byers

Chief Technical Strategist, Missouri Research and Education Network

avatar for Christopher Fennell

Christopher Fennell

Interim Director, OAK Supercomputing Consortium, OSU

avatar for Derek Weitzel

Derek Weitzel

University of Nebraska Lincoln

avatar for Frank Wuerthwein

Frank Wuerthwein

Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center; CEO, Open Science Grid and the National Research Platform, University of California at San Diego

Monday June 22, 2026 12:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
NWACC Shewmaker Center For Global Business Development-Room 2048 900 SE Eagle Way, Bentonville, AR 72712, USA

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