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Tuesday, August 25
 

10:30am MDT

Session 1 — AI Weather & Climate Emulation
Tuesday August 25, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
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Nicholas Lutsko (UCSD): Exploring the Atmospheric Responses to Arctic Sea-Ice Loss in Google's NeuralGCM
Piyush Garg (RWE Commercial AI Lab): The Recipe Matters More Than the Kitchen: Mathematical Foundations of the AI Weather Prediction Pipeline
Spencer Clark (AI2/GFDL): Disentangling the effects of sea surface temperature and CO2 in global machine learned weather-climate emulators
Ayoub Ghriss (CU Boulder): Graph-Based Representations for Efficient Neural Assimilation of CESM2
Marco Tedesco (Columbia University): The Modele Atmospherique Regional – Intelligence Artificielle (MAR-IA) for simulating SMB over Greenland
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MT
NL
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Piyush Garg

Lead AI Weather Scientist, Commodities, Point72 Asset Management
I'm an AI weather scientist who came up through observational atmospheric science, spent a few years building the models, and now spends most of my time on the question of whether they hold up when someone has to make a real decision from them.My PhD (Illinois, with Steve Nesbitt... Read More →
SC
AG
Tuesday August 25, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
TBA
  Thematic

1:00pm MDT

Session 2 — Convection-Allowing & High-Impact Weather Forecasting
Tuesday August 25, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
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Corey Potvin (NOAA NSSL): WoFSCast: New developments and performance in the 2026 Spring Forecasting Experiment
Adam Clark (NOAA NSSL): AI results from the 2026 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
Isidora Jankov (NOAA GSL): HRRRCast Updates: AI-based convection-allowing ensemble forecasting system
Nanette Hosenfeld (NWS Colorado Basin River Forecast Center): Modernizing Flash Flood Guidance through Machine Learning and RFC-WFO Collaboration
Austin Park (AWS): Faster to First Insight: Agentic AI as a Rapid Supplement to Traditional Weather Forecasting
Speakers
CP
AC
IJ
avatar for Nanette Hosenfeld

Nanette Hosenfeld

NOAA /NWS/CBRFC
I'm a meteorologist who has worked for the federal government for almost 20 years. I'm currently the Senior Hydrometeorologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center in Salt Lake City, where I specialize in flood forecasting, water supply predictions, and developing decision-making... Read More →
AP
Tuesday August 25, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
TBA
  Thematic

3:00pm MDT

Session 3 — LLMs, Agents & Trust in the Weather Enterprise
Tuesday August 25, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
TBA
Daniel Nietfeld (CIRA): Who issued this warning? Relational trust and the integration of AI/LLMs in the weather enterprise
Ryan Walsh (NWS Operations Proving Ground): "Looks Good to Me" Doesn't Clear the Bar: Automating LLM Evaluation for Mission-Critical NWS Workflows
Eric Allen (NWS): Modernizing Local Storm Reports and Storm Data Collection through Open Source Intelligence and Agentic AI
Jessica Chen & Nikhil Manakkal (NOAA): Development of LLM-Based Chat Tools for Analysis of Probabilistic Weather Forecasts
Deeder Aurongzeb (JHU): Quantification of Agentic Trust for Cascading Disasters: A Physics-Informed Human-in-the-Loop Framework
Speakers
avatar for Nikhil Manakkal
avatar for Eric Allen

Eric Allen

Meteorologist, NWS/ERH/SSD
NWS Eastern Region Headquarters - Scientific Services Division
Contact: [email protected]


I am passionate about connecting science with technology and integrating those advancements into operations.


Personal GitHub: https://github.com/allenea



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Daniel Nietfeld

Research Meteorologist and Proving Ground Specialist, CSU/CIRA
I am a Research Meteorologist and Proving Ground Specialist with CSU/CIRA, with an extensive background and expertise in leading people and programs aimed at improving the weather enterprise, with wide-ranging experience in forecast and warning operations, R&D, management, leadership... Read More →
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JC
DA
Tuesday August 25, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm MDT
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  Thematic
 
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