Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET
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(registration closes at 12:00 p.m. on June 2nd)
Location: Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, MA 02138
Parking is available at 52 Oxford Street with day passes from Harvard Parking and hourly with ZipBy
Summit Agenda
Breakfast & Social (B100)
| 9:00 – 9:45 am | Breakfast sponsored by AWS |
Session I (B103)
| 9:45 -10:00 am | Opening Remarks – Francesco Pontiggia, Univ. RC |
| 10:00 – 10:45 am | Panel: Generative & Agentic AI in Research – Amani Kiruga (GSAS/FAS), Manasvita Joshi (FAS-RC), Ada Fang (FAS), Nathan Weeks (FAS-RC) — Facilitator: Max Shad |
| 10:45 – 11:30 am | Faculty Keynote – Marinka Zitnik, PhD |
| 11:30 – 11:40 am | Break |
| 11:45 am | Lightning Talks (10 min presentation; 2 min Q&A) 1. Foundational Model Training on HU Clusters (Naeem Koshvenis, Kempner Institute) 2. Enabling Geospatial Research on FASRC (Devika Jain, CGA) 3. Open OnDemand AppVerse (William Horka, IQSS) 4. Inference Engine (Nathan Palmer, HMS) 5 – Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) – Emre Keskin, OVPR & HUIT |
Networking Lunch (B100)
| 12:30 – 1:15 pm | Lunch sponsored by Google |
Session II (B103)
| 1:15 – 1:30 pm | Welcome Back Word from our sponsors |
| 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm | Panel: Research Data Management – Julie Goldman (Harvard Library), Sarah Marchese (FASRC) and Katie Mika (Harvard Library), Caroline Wood (HMS), Sonia Barbosa (Dataverse) — Facilitator: Jessica Pierce (HMS) |
| 2:15 – 2:45 pm | Panel: Research Facilitation & Researcher Training – Trends & Strategies – Amir Karger (HMS), Paula Sanematsu (FASRC), Lei Ma (FAS Informatics), Bob Freeman (Univ. RC), James Adams (HKS) — Facilitator: Francesco Pontiggia |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm | Short Break |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Words from additional vendors |
| 3:15 pm | Lightning Talks (10 min presentation; 2 min Q&A) 6 – AI/RC for social science research (Danny Ebanks, IQSS) 7 – User Research Study – (Amy Deschenes, Harvard Library) 8 – Establishing Queue Management for RC (Calvin Cox, HMS-RC) 9- AI Cluster & Resource Monitoring (Max Shad, Kempner Institute) 10 – Job Stats Tool for the Community (Paul Edmon- FASRC) |
| 4:15 | Closing Remarks – Francesco Pontiggia, Univ. RC |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Networking Social sponsored by Weka & Driven Technologies |
A brief survey will be circulated to registered attendees after the summit concludes.
