Virtual Workshop - AI Meets CI: Intelligent Infrastructure for Major & Midscale Facilities

We are pleased to invite you the upcoming NSF CI Compass virtual workshop: AI Meets CI: Intelligent Infrastructure for Major & Midscale Facilities January 12, 13, and 14, 2026.
These virtual workshop days will be half days, and feature themes to host speakers, presentations, and discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and cyberinfrastructure (CI) within the data lifecycle in facilities, cloud computing, and about societal and human intersections with AI.
Preliminary Agenda:
Day 1: MF Experience with AI
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Intro
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Keynote
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Panel I: Adoption of AI in MFs
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Panel II: Making MF data AI-ready
Day 2: AI Tools for MF DLC
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Talk: AI for the Data Lifecycle
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Talk: AI at the Edge
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Panel III: AI in practice
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Talk: Security considerations in the age of AI
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Lightning Talks
Day 3: AI at Large
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Various talks exploring how AI is reshaping scientific cyberinfrastructure within Major and Mid-scale Facilities. Talk topics will include governance in the age of AI, use of agents technologies, and AI in facilities at other large infrastructures.
