6th Chameleon User Meeting - Spring 2026

Welcome to the 6th Chameleon User Meeting!

WHEN: April 27th to 28th, 2026
WHERE: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Foothills Lab, Boulder, CO
REGISTER: TBD

The Chameleon User Meeting returns for it's sixth iteration in Spring 2026! As in the past years, our objective is to create a forum where users can discuss their research and education projects, share experiences of working with the Chameleon testbed, discuss challenges, and propose new features that will make their experimental and education projects easier. We hope that these interactions will foster discussion on the research needs for evolving and new fields of computer science – and Chameleon staff will be right there to help make your experience rewarding and fruitful in any way we can.

To support this mission, the Chameleon User Meeting agenda offers featues to interest Chameleon newbies as well as veterans, end-users and operators, and researchers and educators, including tutorials, presentations of user experiments, and opportunities to engage directly with the Chameleon team. To help the discussion develop, the meeting also features two keynotes from special guests. We will also continue our mini-symposia held on the second day with focused themes - education, reproducibility, and Chameleon operations. The second day will also feature Chameleon tutorials for new users.

The particular focus of this year's meeting is on artificial intelligence and machine learning: using open platforms to support research on AI/ML, creating and sharing digital teaching materials, and how to best create experiment environments to facilitate AI research. This focus is supported by an excellent keynote on XXX, emphasis on AI-related presentations from users, and an AI/ML Research mini-symposium on the second day of the workshop to discuss and report on AI use cases and their needs. 

We invite you to join us for a couple of days of insightful presentations, hackathon tutorials, and fun!

As with previous User Meetings, we will announce a call for presentations on tools, research insights, and experiences working with the Chameleon testbed. Please check back soon for more details.

The program for the 6th Chameleon User Meeting will follow the general schedule below. We will fill in more specifics in the near future.

Day 1 (April 27th, 2025)

8 AM: Welcome Reception/Doors Open

- Breakfast is served at 8 AM

9 AM: Opening Keynote

10 AM: Presentation Panel I

11:30 AM: Panel Discussion I

12:00 PM: Break for Lunch

1:00 PM: