8 December 2026 | KIT Amsterdam | Free to attend

We are building the programme for Advanced Computing User Day 2026, and we want to hear from you! ACUD is the annual meeting place for the Dutch advanced computing community: researchers, engineers, infrastructure specialists, and everyone who works with advanced computing and the technologies that power them. This year's edition takes place on 8 December at the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen in Amsterdam. Built in the early twentieth century as the home of the Royal Tropical Institute, the KIT is today one of Amsterdam's most iconic venues for international dialogue and knowledge exchange.

Do you have a project, use case, result, or honest reflection that others in the community would learn from? Submit a proposal and share it in person.

What we are looking for
Proposals should fit one of three tracks:
HPC Infrastructure and Platforms
From system design and procurement to operations, scheduling, and middleware. If you work on the infrastructure that makes advanced computing possible, this is your stage. Think: cluster configurations, storage architectures, cloud-HPC integrations, platform migrations, or lessons learned from running large-scale systems.

Applications, Workflows and Use Cases
How are researchers and engineers actually using advanced computing? This track is for domain-driven stories: scientific breakthroughs enabled by compute, workflow optimisation, scaling challenges solved, or cross-disciplinary collaborations that changed how you work.

User Experience and Engagement
The human side of HPC. Support models, onboarding approaches, training programmes, community building, and everything that helps users get more out of advanced computing infrastructure. If you work on making compute accessible, sustainable, or inclusive, we want to hear from you.

Session formats
You can submit a proposal for:

A presentation: 15 minutes content followed by 10 minutes discussion. Slot duration is 30 minutes, of which 25 minutes are available for the session itself.

A Birds of a Feather session: open thematic discussion in a smaller group. Slot duration is 45 minutes, of which 40 minutes are available for the session itself. A Birds of a Feather session is an open discussion on a topic you propose. As the submitter, you are the organiser: you set the agenda, facilitate the conversation, and if you want additional speakers or panellists, you arrange that yourself. The programme committee provides the room and the slot.

What to expect as a speaker
All accepted speakers present in person at KIT Amsterdam on 8 December. Proposals are reviewed by the Programme Committee. Accepted speakers receive a confirmed slot in a curated programme reaching hundreds of advanced computing professionals across the Netherlands and beyond.

Important
Submission deadline: 6 September 2026

Questions?
Reach out to the organising team at acud@surf.nl.

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By entering a submission through this CfP form you agree that:

• The personal information associated with your submission will be visible to the programme committee members
• In case your submission is chosen for the Advanced Computing User Day programme your associated personal information, such as speaker name and affiliation, can be published as part of the programme.

Submissions close on 2026-09-06 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam), 2 months, 1 week from now.