From July 19 to July 28, 2026, thirty graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scientists took over the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois Chicago for the Sage Grande Summer Camp. They arrived from seventeen institutions across the United States. They left having developed fourteen working projects using real edge hardware.
From May 4 to May 6, 2026, roughly forty researchers from across the United States and Europe gathered in Barcelona for an intentionally small, conversation-driven workshop on AI and Edge Computing for Scientific Research. The meeting was hosted at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), directly next to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and was supported by DISCOVER-US, the EU project building transatlantic research collaboration in advanced computing. The workshop was organized by Pete Beckman (Northwestern University), Nicola Ferrier (Argonne National Laboratory / Northwestern), and Rosa M. Badia (BSC), with a welcome led by Koen De Bosschere (Ghent University) on behalf of DISCOVER-US.