Meet the team
November 15–20, 2026 | McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
Ramesh Srinivasan
Vice President of Sales
Scott Benson
Vice President of North America (East)
Dave Dickerson
Head of Global Alliances
Rose Stein
Account Executive
Dave Horn
Account Executive
Chris Ritsos
Account Executive
James Fitch
Account Executive
What would you build with an AI supercomputer?
Fuzzball is CIQ's workflow orchestration platform for HPC and AI. Define a workflow once and run it on infrastructure you control, on premises or in the cloud, without rebuilding it for each environment.
In 100 words or fewer, describe the AI model or workload you would build using Fuzzball on DGX Spark. Tell us what you are working on, why it matters, and what having your own AI infrastructure would make possible.
Booth schedule
All talks are at the CIQ booth. Times are Central.
RLC Pro: Who Decides When You Upgrade? Lifecycle Control with RLC Pro and ELM
with Brady Dibble, CIQ
RLC+: sudo make me a cluster: Deploying Linux with AI Agents
with Brady Dibble, CIQ
LIVE: Train an open weight model with Fuzzball
with Kyle Ishie, CIQ
CIQ Stratum Pro: Unified Management of your AI and HPC Workloads
with Brian Dawson, CIQ
Ascender Pro: Manage and maintain CVEs in your environment
with Patrick Swartz, CIQ
NASA Flight Sciences Lab powered by Rocket Fuel and Rocky Linux
with Jeff Triplett, NASA Johnson Space Center
CIQ Supercomputing Local AI Hackathon with NVIDIA, VAST Data, Cambridge Computer, and Lenovo
with Gregory Kurtzer, CIQ
RLC Pro AI: Your GPUs at full speed on Rocky Linux
with Brian Dawson, CIQ
Ascender Pro: Manage and maintain CVEs in your environment
with Patrick Swartz, CIQ
Here's WALDO: AI's first open source project and community
with Addison Snell, Intersect360 Research
RLC Pro AI: Your GPUs at full speed on Rocky Linux
with Brian Dawson, CIQ
CIQ Stratum Pro: Unified Management of your AI and HPC Workloads
with Brian Dawson, CIQ
Build software stacks for the heterogeneous era: Fireside chat with Gregory Kurtzer and John Shalf
with John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Gregory Kurtzer, CIQ
OpenHPC: Community Building Blocks for HPC Systems
with Christopher S. Simmons, Cambridge Computer and Timothy Middelkoop, Internet2
State of the Foundation
with Leigh Hennig, Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Warewulf and Warewulf Pro: Updates and Roadmap
with Jonathon Anderson, CIQ
Fuzzball Overview and Local AI
with Jonathon Anderson, CIQ
Fuzzball facial recognition
with Kyle Ishie, CIQ
RLC Pro: Who Decides When You Upgrade? Lifecycle Control with RLC Pro and ELM
with Brady Dibble, CIQ
RLC+: sudo make me a cluster: Deploying Linux with AI Agents
with Brady Dibble, CIQ
RLC Pro: Who Decides When You Upgrade? Lifecycle Control with RLC Pro and ELM
with Brady Dibble, CIQ
RLC+: sudo make me a cluster: Deploying Linux with AI Agents
with Brady Dibble, CIQ
Meet Apptainer Pro
with David Godlove, CIQ
CIQ Supercomputing Local AI Hackathon
Twenty teams, two Lenovo ThinkStation PGX systems each, connected into a multi-node cluster and orchestrated through Fuzzball. Build a real AI workload over the weekend with NVIDIA, VAST Data, Lenovo, Cambridge Computer, and Drive Capital. The top three teams win SC26 passes and a ThinkStation PGX.
Pre-SC26 Happy Hour
SC26 brings the global AI and HPC community to Chicago, and we are starting the celebration a little early. Join CIQ, Drive Capital, NVIDIA, VAST Data, CDW, and Moonlite for an evening of live entertainment, chef-selected appetizers, and signature cocktails, beer, and wine.
Connect with peers, swap ideas, and settle in before a big week in Chicago.
- Sunday, November 15, 2026
- 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM CT
- Fulton Market District, Chicago
Space is limited and registration is subject to host approval. The venue address is shared once your registration is approved. Attendees must be 21 or older.
Register for the happy hour
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