São Paulo, Brazil, hosted the 3rd EU-LAC Digital Alliance High-level Policy Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence and Online Platform Governance, held from July 1 to 3, 2025.

Representing SCALAC were Board President Philippe Navaux, Treasurer Carla Osthoff, and Vice-chair Esteban Meneses, who actively participated in the high-level sessions on artificial intelligence and online platform governance.

A highlight of the event was the participation of Prof. Navaux and Prof. Meneses as panelists in the session “AI and High-Performance Computing Infrastructure.” During their intervention, they shared SCALAC’s vision and the experiences of countries such as Brazil and Costa Rica, underscoring the importance of high-performance computing infrastructures for the development of artificial intelligence in the region.

SCALAC’s involvement in this international dialogue reinforces the community’s commitment to building collaborative networks between Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean—essential to addressing the ethical, technological, and social challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

Strengthening these alliances and exchanging perspectives across regions are key to fostering responsible innovation and equitable access to emerging technologies that benefit our societies.

The CARLA2025 organizing committee presents the keynote and invited speakers for its Caribbean Edition.

The Latin America High Performance Computing Conference (CARLA 2025) will bring together the Latin American HPC and artificial intelligence community from September 22 to 26, 2025, in Kingston, Jamaica. This year, the conference has announced the keynote and invited speakers for the main program. Confirmed keynote speakers include Dorian Arnold (Emory University), Felix Wolf (TU Darmstadt), and Kate Keahey(Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago), who will offer strategic insights on resilience, performance, and elastic HPC provisioning in the AI era. In the “Invited & Special Speakers” section, Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Rupak Biswas (NASA) will address the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence and upcoming scientific exploration missions powered by advanced computing.

The event will feature an agenda designed to strengthen technical and collaborative capabilities in the region, including paper presentations and workshops such as:

·       Workshop Latin American Women in HPC: Continuing the inclusion efforts initiated in previous editions, this workshop will gather researchers, professionals, and students to exchange experiences, present posters, and strengthen mentoring networks that support the retention of women within the regional HPC ecosystem. The CARLA Organizing Committee has confirmed that this session will officially be part of the 2025 program as a dedicated space for the LA-WHPC community.

·       Latin America and Caribbean Advances on Weather Forecasting: For the first time, CARLA will host a workshop dedicated to numerical weather prediction. Coordinated by specialists from LBNL, NCAR, and CyberColombia, the workshop will cover topics ranging from the migration to next-generation models (WRF → MPAS-A) to the convergence of machine learning with NWP and the creation of regional data consortia. The call for contributions will remain open until July 30.

During the week of September 22-26, the “HPC System Administrators School” will return, offering intensive training on package managers (Spack, EasyBuild), security, benchmarking, storage, and containers. The school will be led by Verónica Melesse Vergara (ORNL) and Nicolás Wolovick (UNC), with instructors from institutions such as BSC and Université Grenoble Alpes.

CARLA has established itself as the key meeting point for the HPC community in Latin America, promoting collaboration networks, the development of regional projects, and knowledge exchange with international experts, while fostering the technical training and diversity required for the future of supercomputing in the region.

The 2025 edition will feature scientific, industrial, and HPC application tracks across various domains, as well as tutorials and discussion panels on the trends transforming science and technology in Latin America.

Find more details at carlaconference.org and be part of this unique experience to strengthen our region's HPC ecosystem.