Workshop focus
The A2SD-2026 Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners shaping the future of AI-driven, interconnected, and automated scientific ecosystems. As instruments produce complex data streams at rates beyond human response, A2SD-2026 focuses on connected, intelligent, and verifiable autonomous systems that can operate across scientific facilities.
Building on the A2SD-2025 community roadmap and follow-up activities, the workshop highlights five key areas:
- Architectures and standards for interconnected autonomous laboratories at scale;
- Agent-based AI for scientific orchestration (including LLM agents with grounding and verification);
- Distributed data fabrics and AI-ready infrastructure (FAIR-aligned, real-time metadata, interoperability);
- Digital twins and closed-loop experiment-to-compute integration leveraging HPC; and
- Standards, trust, safety, and workforce development for responsible autonomous science.
Interconnected autonomous labs
Agent-based AI orchestration
AI-ready data fabrics (FAIR)
Digital twins + closed loop HPC
Trust, safety + workforce
Hamburg, Germany
Date: June 26, 2026
Time: 9:00am-1:00pm
Room:
Organizers
- Rafael Ferreira da Silva
ORNL - Tom Gibbs
NVIDIA - Michela Taufer
UTK