National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) Conclave 21-23 July 2026

NSM Conclave 2026

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The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has emerged as a transformative initiative strengthening India’s capabilities in High Performance Computing (HPC), advanced scientific research, and technological self-reliance. Over the years, NSM has enabled cutting-edge research across diverse domains by providing state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, indigenous hardware and software development, and fostering a vibrant ecosystem connecting academia, industry, and strategic sectors.
The NSM Conclave 2026 aims to bring together leading scientists, researchers, technology developers, policymakers, industry leaders, and domain experts to showcase achievements, share knowledge, discuss emerging trends, and chart the roadmap for next-generation supercomputing technologies and applications.

NSM Success Stories

  1. Indigenous Supercomputing Component Development
  2. Supercomputing in Biology
  3. Supercomputing in Earth & Climate
  4. Indigenous Supercomputing Component Development (contd.)
  5. HPC for Astrophysics
  6. Unique Unified Architecture for Faster than Real Time Systems
  7. Digital Twins powered by HPC
  8. HPC in Cybersecurity
  9. HPC in Materials and Computational Science
  10. Transition from Sequential to Parallel in HPC-AI
  11. Indigenous Supercomputing Software Ecosystem
  12. R&D and Application Projects

Technical Sessions

Designing the Engines of Supercomputing
From Molecules to Medicine
Predicting the Planet
Building the Supercomputing Ecosystem for Tomorrow
From Sky Surveys to Simulations: HPC Powering Astrophysics
Beyond Silicon: The Future of Computing Hybrid-HPC, AI and Quantum
Simulating Reality: Digital Twins at Scale
Securing the Digital Frontier
Atoms to Applications
Transforming Talent for the Exascale Era and Beyond
Programming Paradigms for Future Supercomputers

Spotlights

  • NSM: Innovation.. Impact... Transformation.
  • Panels: Visionaries Driving India’s Computational Future
  • Launches: Unveiling Innovations for a New Era
  • Witness: India’s Homegrown Compute Engines
  • Visualize: The future through Digital Twins
  • Applications: In Science and Engineering that Redefine Possibilities
  • Industry Connect: Startups, Enterprises, and Research Leaders
  • Industry Panel discussions: Processors to Systems, HPC Ecosystem & Software Stack
  • Charting: The Road Ahead

Who Should Attend

  • Researchers
  • Scientists
  • Academicians
  • Policymakers
  • Industry Professionals
  • HPC Users & Developers
  • Startups

NSM Conclave 2026 - Technical Programme Schedule

15:30 hrs onwards

INAUGURAL CEREMONY

20:00 hrs onwards

BANQUET DINNER

08:30 hrs onwards
Registration
09:00 hrs – 09:45 hrs Plenary Talk-1 (Auditorium Online)
Prof. Laxmikant Kale

UIUC, USA (Online)

09:45 hrs – 10:30 hrs Auditorium
NSM Success Story 1: Indigenous Supercomputing Component Development

Chairperson: Ms. Sunita Verma, MeitY

RUDRA servers Trinetra board Cooling Systems AUM Processor

Contributors: Shri E Magesh (Director General, C-DAC), Shri Sanjay Wandhekar (Centre Head, C-DAC, Pune)

09:45 hrs – 10:30 hrs Multipurpose Hall
NSM Success Story 2: Supercomputing in Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Dinesh Gupta, ICGEB

NSM Platform for Genomics and Drug Discovery

Contributors: Dr. Rajendra Joshi, NSM-Mission Directorate (MD)

10:30 hrs - 11:00 hrs — TEA BREAK
11:00 hrs – 12:30 hrs Auditorium
Session 1: Designing the Engines of Supercomputing

Chairperson: Dr. BS Jagadeesh, NSM-MD

  • • Prof. Madhav Desai, IIT Bombay
  • • Shri Atul Bodas, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Shri Anoop Kumar, C-DAC, Noida
  • • Shri Neel Gala, InCore Semiconductors
11:00 hrs – 12:30 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Session 2: From Molecules to Medicine

Chairperson: Prof. Alok Bhattacharya, Ashoka University

  • • Dr. Debasisa Mohanty, NII (Online)
  • • Dr. Dinesh Gupta, ICGEB
  • • Dr. Uddhavesh Sonavane, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. Venkat Palle, Sun Pharma-Baroda
12:30 hrs – 13:00 hrs Auditorium
NSM Success Story 3: Indigenous Supercomputing Component Development (contd.)

Chairperson: Dr. Pratishtha Pandey, DST

RUDRA-III servers RISC-V processors

Contributors: Dr. SD Sudarsan (Executive Director, C-DAC, Bangalore), Shri Haribabu (C-DAC, Bangalore)

12:30 hrs – 13:00 hrs Multipurpose Hall
NSM Success Story 4: Supercomputing in Earth & Climate

Chairperson: Dr. Ashok Kaushal, Fmr Associate Director, C-DAC

Urban Modelling Flood Forecasting Seismic Data Processing Forest Fire EWS

Contributors: Dr. Manoj Khare, C-DAC, Pune

13:00 hrs – 14:00 hrs — LUNCH BREAK
14:00 hrs – 14:30 hrs Plenary Talk-2 (Auditorium)
Shri Amitesh Kumar Sinha

Additional Secretary, MeitY

14:30 hrs – 15:00 hrs Plenary Talk-3 (Auditorium)
Dr. Abhay Karandikar

Member (S&T), NITI Aayog

15:00 hrs – 16:30 hrs Auditorium
Session 3: Beyond Silicon: The Future of Computing Hybrid-HPC, AI and Quantum

Chairperson: Shri Sudeep Shrivastava, JS, MeitY

  • • Shri Sridhar CV, Mission Director, APSQM
  • • Prof. Sreetosh Goswami, IISc
  • • Prof. Shankar Selvaraja, IISc
  • • Shri Amit Saxena & Dr. Anindita Banerjee, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, Univ of Melbourne, Australia
15:00 hrs – 16:30 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Session 4: Predicting the Planet

Chairperson: Dr. Suryachandra RAO, Director, IITM

  • • Prof. Ravi Nanjundiah, IISc
  • • Ms. Akshara Kaginalkar, Atria
  • • Dr. Saheb Ghosh (Online) & Ms. Richa Rastogi, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. Amit Kesarkar, NARL-ISRO
16:30 hrs – 17:00 hrs — TEA BREAK
17:00 hrs – 17:45 hrs Auditorium
NSM Success Story 5: - Unique Unified Architecture for High Productivity Computing and Real-time Control

Chairperson: Dr. P K Sinha, Fmr VC IIIT, Naya Raipur

MPP Labs

Contributors: Dr. Narendra Karmarkar, Independent Research Professional

17:00 hrs – 17:45 hrs Multipurpose Hall
NSM Success Story 6: HPC for Astrophysics

Chairperson: Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, Fmr Director IUCAA

GMRT system

Contributors: Prof. Jayaram Chengalur, Director, TIFR

17:45 hrs – 18:30 hrs Plenary Talk-4 (Auditorium)
Dr. Ashish Lele

CSIR-NCL

18:30 hrs – 20:00 hrs Auditorium
Session 5: Building the Supercomputing Ecosystem for Tomorrow

Chairperson: Ms. Jaya Panvalkar, Fmr Director, NVIDIA

  • • Shri Prashant Dinde, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Shri S A Kumar, C-DAC, Bangalore
  • • Shri Ankan Biswas, IIT-KGP
  • • Shri Ashish Ranjan, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Shri Jeelani, Director HPC, IITM
  • • Shri Deepak Shapeti, Morphing Machines
18:30 hrs – 20:00 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Session 6: From Sky Surveys to Simulations: HPC Powering Astrophysics

Chairperson: Dr. R Srianand, Director, IUCAA

  • • Prof. Yashwant Gupta, NCRA - TIFR
  • • Prof. Yogesh Wadadekar, NCRA - TIFR
  • • Dr. Gaurav Agarwal, DST
  • • Prof. Sanjit Mitra, IUCAA
  • • Prof. Dipanjan Mukherjee, IUCAA
  • • Prof. Nishant Singh, IUCAA
20:00 hrs Onwards — GALA DINNER
09:00 hrs – 09:45 hrs Plenary Talk 5 (Auditorium)
Prof. Peter Coveney

UCL, UK

09:45 hrs – 10:15 hrs Multipurpose Hall
NSM Success Story 7: Digital Twins powered by HPC

Chairperson: Prof. Avinash Kumbhar, CEO, PKC Digital

Digital Twin for Chemical Plant Urban Smart Solutions Program Secure Distributed Data Grid

Contributors: Shri Aditya Sinha (Executive Director, C-DAC Mumbai), Dr. S Venkataraman (Director, C R RAO AIMSCS)

09:45 hrs – 10:15 hrs Auditorium
NSM Success Story 8: HPC in Cybersecurity

Chairperson: Dr. Prabhakar Krishnan, Amrita University

Secure AI systems, AI-driven cybersecurity tools, Privacy-preserving frameworks, Adversarial robustness ecosystems, Secure AI hardware research, HPC-backed evaluation infrastructure

Contributor: Dr. N. Subramanian (Executive Director, SETS)

10:15 hrs - 10:45 hrs — TEA BREAK
10:45 hrs – 12:15 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Session 7: "Simulating Reality: Digital Twins at Scale"

Chairperson: Shri Aditya Sinha, C-DAC Mumbai

  • • Prof. NS Rajput, IIT BHU
  • • Dr. T Raja, CSIR-NCL
  • • Dr. Shree Harsha, Dassault Systems
  • • Shri Rishi Pathak, C-DAC, Pune
10:45 hrs – 12:15 hrs Auditorium
Session 8: "Atoms to Applications"

Chairperson: Prof. Nilmani Mathur, TIFR

  • • Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi, IPR
  • • Prof. Phani Motamarri, IISc
  • • Prof. Shridhar Gadre, Prof Emeritus, SPPU
  • • Dr. Venkatesh Shenoy, C-DAC, Pune
12:15 hrs - 12:45 hrs Auditorium
NSM Success Story 9: HPC in Materials and Computational Science

Chairperson: Prof. Shridhar R. Gadre, SPPU

Linear Scaling DFT, Multi Scale Microstructure Simulations and Modelling, Home-grown Quantum Chemistry code, Multi reference Methods with Hybrid QM/MM approaches

Contributor: Prof. Nishant Nair, IIT Kanpur

12:15 hrs - 12:45 hrs Multipurpose Hall
NSM Success Story 10: Transition from Sequential to Parallel in HPC-AI

Chairperson: Shri Arvind Kumar, Fmr GC, MeitY

The NSM “Go-Parallel” Movement

Contributor: Shri Ashish Kuvelkar, C-DAC Pune

13:00 hrs – 14:00 hrs — LUNCH BREAK
14:00 hrs – 15:30 hrs Auditorium
Session 9: Securing the Digital Frontier

Chairperson: Dr. Debashish Dutta, Reliance

  • • Dr. N Subramanian, SETS
  • • Dr. Narendra Nath, NSCS
  • • Shri Rajiv Chetwani, ISRO
  • • Shri Jeeven Saini, OHSL
14:00 hrs – 15:30 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Session 10: Transforming Talent for the Exascale Era and Beyond

Chairperson: Dr. Abhay Jere, DEXIT Global Limited

  • • Dr. Ganesh Narayanasamy, IBM, USA (Online)
  • • Shri Gaur Sundar, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. Mohammed Misbahuddin, C-DAC, Bangalore
  • • Shri Jitesh Choudhary, Centre Head, C-DAC, Guwahati
15:30 hrs – 16:00 hrs Multipurpose Hall
NSM Success Story 11: Indigenous Supercomputing Software Ecosystem

Chairperson: Dr. VCV Rao, C-DAC, Pune

System Software Stack: Driving High Level APIs

Contributors: Shri Ashish Ranjan (C-DAC, Pune), Ms. Deepika HV (C-DAC, Bangalore)

15:30 hrs – 16:00 hrs Auditorium
NSM Success Story 12: R&D and Application Projects

Chairperson: Dr. Srikanth Sastry, JNCASR Bangalore

IISc/JNCASR 105 research projects speakers

• Prof. Sathish Vadhiyar, IISc

Partnering Institutions with PARAM Installations

16:00 hrs - 17:30 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Session 11: Programming Paradigms for Future Supercomputers

Chairperson: Dr. Sunil Sherlekar, Sankhya Sutra Labs

  • • Dr. N Mangala, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. VCV Rao, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. Prashant Pansare, Rubiscape
  • • Dr. Sarat Sripathy, C-DAC, Pune
16:00 hrs - 17:30 hrs Auditorium
Panel Discussion 1: Scaling Application Beyond Tera/Peta

Moderator: Dr. Sarat Chandra Babu, Fmr ED SETS, Ms. Shweta Das, C-DAC, Pune

  • • Prof. Ram Sharan Singh, IIT-BHU
  • • Prof. Suman Chakrabarty, SN Bose Institute, Kolkata
  • • Shri Samrit Maity, C-DAC, Pune
  • • Dr. Sunil Bhagwat, Director, IISER Pune
17:00 hrs – 18:00 hrs Auditorium
Panel Discussion 2: Processors to Systems

Moderators: Shri Sandeep Wadhwa (Executive Director, C-DAC), Shri Anoop Kumar, C-DAC

Intel: Shri Manish Sharma
AMD: Dr. Sudhakar Yerneni
Bull/Atos: Shri Arvind Bajaj, Bull/Atos
HPE: Shri Bibhu Dash
17:00 hrs – 18:00 hrs Multipurpose Hall
Panel Discussion 3: HPC Ecosystems

Moderators: Mr. Naveen Kumar (MeitY), Shri Haribabu (C-DAC Bangalore)

NVIDIA: Shri Vivek Rai
Flex: Shri Sarjerao Patil
Netweb: Shri Sanjay Lodha
Powai Labs: Shri Reapan Tickoo
18:00 hrs – 18:30 hrs
VALEDICTORY CEREMONY & CONCLAVE CLOSING
18:30 hrs - 19:15 hrs
HIGH TEA

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Venue: Pune International Centre (PIC), Pashan, Pune – 411 008