APeX Summit 2026 — Academy, Parsl, Globus Compute (Hybrid) — September 14–15, 2026
The APeX Summit (Academy, Parsl, Globus Compute) is the eighth annual community meeting, bringing together researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts worldwide to discuss experiences using and developing Academy, Parsl, and Globus Compute. The summit will be held as a hybrid meeting on September 14–15, 2026, with the in-person component in Chicago. Full program details are coming soon.
Registration
Join us for our annual APeX Summit (Academy, Parsl, Globus Compute), September 14–15, 2026. The hybrid summit brings together researchers, users, developers, and administrators using Academy, Parsl, and Globus Compute for two days of lightning talks and discussion. Join us online or in Chicago: register here.
We include a nominal fee for in-person registration to cover expenses, please email Kyle Chard if you need financial assistance
Event Program
Confirmed speakers
- David Abramov - Agentic Workflows for Tomography and Knowledge Curation
- Daniel Rosendo - An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping
- Matt Baughman - Tritium Splash: Using Agents to Drive Large-Scale Exploration of Multiphysics Simulations for Fusion Fuels
- Max Burnette - Diamond Platform
- Amal Gueroudji - Provenance Collection for Agentic frameworks
- Owen Price-Skelly - Self-steering MLIP Committee with Rootstock and Academy Agents
- Chris Harrop - Academy Agents for Numerical Weather Prediction
- Logan Ward - TBD
- Chandrachur Bhattacharya - AISAC
- Valesca Moura - Agentic provenance
- Valerie Hayot-Sasson - Continuous reproducibility with Correct
- Geoffrey Lentner - The Anvil MEP and building on top of Globus Compute
- Mike Tynes - TBD
- Alex Brace - DeepDriveWE: An agentic approach to enhanced sampling molecular dynamics
- Haotian Xie - Diamond Agents
- Suman Raj - Agents Migration across Federated Compute Resources
- Matt Sinclair - Federated deployment of an agentic biology framework at scale
- Harikrishna Tummalapalli - Ensemble Executor for Insane-Scale Compute
- Alex Zhang - TBD
- Ryan Chard - Reputation as Community Memory for the Agentic Web
- Augustus Ellerm - HPCBridge
- Alok Kamatar - TBD
- Yadu Babuji - Academy Dashboard
- Kevin Hunter Kesling - TBD
- Haochen Pan - Resilient parallel workflows
- Seena Vazifedunn - Globus Tunnels + Compute
Schedule
Coming soon. The full program and schedule of talks will be posted here closer to the event.
Panel
Coming soon. Details about the panel discussion will be posted here closer to the event.
Location (for in-person component)
The APeX Summit will be held at the University of Chicago's Data Science Institute.
📍 Address: 5460 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
General Inquiries or Questions?
Contact us at parsl@googlegroups.com.
Prior ParslFest Meetings
Parsl community meetings have brought together hundreds of researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts for meetings that included presentations and discussions.
The Globus Compute + ParslFest 2025 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from Globus Compute + ParslFest 2025.
The ParslFest 2024 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from ParslFest 2024.
The ParslFest 2023 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from ParslFest 2023.
The Parsl & funcXFest 2022 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from Parsl & funcXFest 2022.
The Parsl & funcXFest 2021 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from Parsl & funcXFest 2021.
The ParslFest 2020 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from ParslFest 2020.
The ParslFest 2019 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides) from ParslFest 2019.
