AIRR@CAM 2026

AIRR@CAM day will provide an opportunity to share experiences using Dawn, showcase research and technical use cases, hear updates from the Cambridge Research Computing team, and help shape priorities for the AIRR service moving forward.

  • Date and Time: 15th May 2026 - 09:30 - 16:30.

  • Venue: Churchill College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DE - (free parking available)
    • From Cambridge Railway Station, walk 3 minutes to Cambridge Railway Station (Stop 8).

    Take the U2 Universal bus towards Sainsbury’s. Get off at Storey’s Way after 13 stops (around 20 minutes). From there, walk about 10 minutes to the Møller Institute.

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    Can’t attend in person? A remote attendance option is available.

  • Free Registration: Link to sign up form - Registration closes on 8th May 2026

  • Accessibility: wheelchair access, step-free routes.

Audience: AIRR Dawn users from academia and industry, including researchers, principal investigators (PIs), PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, the Cambridge Research Computing team, and invited stakeholders from industry.

What is AIRR@CAM User Day?

This event is designed to: - Showcase user use cases and experiences on Dawn. - Gather feedback and discuss support, training, and future priorities. - Encourage connections and potential collaboration between academic and industry users. - Help establish and grow an active AIRR user community.

Call for Talks

Talk slots are currently full; you can still submit interest via the registration form and we’ll contact you if space becomes available.

Agenda:

Session 1:

09:30–10:00 – Arrival & Coffee

10:00–10:15 – Welcome & Objectives
Richard McMahon – University of Cambridge
10:15–10:35 – Introducing Zenith the next evolution of AIRR Service at Cambridge
Chris Edsall - University of Cambridge
10:35–11:00 – Collaborating with AIRR Users to Improve AI Software Functionality on Intel and AMD GPUS
Karl Harrison – University of Cambridge

11:00–11:20 – Break

Session 2:

11:20–11:40 – Submitting jobs and best practices with Slurm
Stuart Rankin – University of Cambridge
11:40–12:15 – Cambridge Access Platform
Deepak Aggarwal – University of Cambridge

12:15–12:30 – VR Data Centre Tour

12:30–13:30 – Lunch (provided)

Session 3 - Industry & Research use cases:

  • 13:30–13:55 – Hivemind AX: production‑grade multi‑agent AI orchestration for regulated enterprises
    Giovanni De Lillo - Hypereum Ltd
  • 13:55–14:20 – CANOPY: a multi‑modal biological foundation model designed to reason across the full stack of engineering biology
    Satnam Surae - Twig Bio
  • 14:20–14:35 – Aevum Foundry AI
    Ana Teixeira Jardim - Aevum Foundry
  • 14:35–14:45 – Training AI models to classify memory for consumer and business use cases
    Rhea Anjali Deshpande - Hey Maple
  • 14:45–14:55 – Solving Minority Class Problems: NLP for Underrepresented Populations
    George Unsworth - Mortar
  • 14:55-15:05 - Beyond ‘It Runs’
    Tomas Lazaukas - Alan Turing Institute

15:05–15:30 – Break

Session 4 - Academic use cases:

  • 15:30–15:40 – Porting the Aurora Weather Model to Intel Accelerated Hardware
    David Llewellyn-Jones - Alan Turing Institute
  • 15:40–16:00 – The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist and Supercomputing Project
    Lennard Lee - University of Oxford
  • 16:00–16:05 – Deep Learning with Audio and Music
    Johan Pauwels - Queen Mary University of London
  • 16:05-16:15 - NeuralBind: Informing binding affinity prediction with large-scale co-folding predictions
    Wei-Tse Hsu - University of Oxford

Session 5:

16:15–16:30 – DSIT / UKRI Reflections on the AIRR Programme
DSIT / UKRI Team
  • 16:30 - 16:35 - Wrap up