Congratulations to the Livermore staff who are presenting their work at the National Laboratories Information Technology Summit (NLIT) on May 4–7 in Kansas City. NLIT facilitates sharing information regarding all aspects of IT and cyber security operations, technology, policies, and practices in support of research conducted at the national labs. Follow @Livermore_Comp on X with the #NLITSummit hashtag. Abstracts are available in the online agenda.


Tuesday, May 5

  • 8:20–8:50am | Autoclassification Pipeline as a Service: Enabling Scalable Data Infrastructure and Workflows | Molly Cho, Yvonne Mui
  • 8:20–8:50am | Sustainable Application Mapping for Complex HPC Architectures with mpibind | Edgar Leon
  • 8:20–8:50am | The Accidental Leader: How 25 Years of Experience Shaped Me as a Supervisor | Ted Johnson
  • 1:20–1:50pm | Building an Institutional Data Catalog at LLNL with DataHub | Molly Cho, Kevin Gardner
  • 2:00–2:30pm | Collaborative Insights: Navigating Mobility Support in Your Facility | Raechel Godchaux, Amanda Ruley
  • 2:00–2:30pm | From Chatbots to Code Agents: Coding with AI at LLNL | Ben Eadington
  • 2:00–2:30pm | Metadata-Driven Cross Repository Search at LLNL | Molly Cho, Yvonne Mui
  • 3:50–4:20pm | Agentic AI Operations in the CSOC: LLNL Framework and Implementation | Jeffrey Fairbanks
  • 3:50–4:20pm | EaaS - Emotions as a Service - The importance of EQ in Leadership | Marc Stearman
  • 3:50–4:20pm | ESN Hub: Accelerating Classified Work Across the Nuclear Security Enterprise | Samantha Alemania
  • 4:30–5:00pm | Role with Advantage: Gamifying Team Leadership | Ted Johnson
  • 4:30–5:00pm | SCADA Systems | Emerson Quinonez

Wednesday, May 6

  • 10:00–10:30am | Scaling AI at LLNL: Education as the Enablement Strategy | Nathan Pleskoff
  • 11:20–11:50am | Back to Basics: Designing a Self Hosted Malware Sandbox with AWS and Guacamole | Aaron Haycraft, Tess Shelton
  • 11:20–11:50am | Running and Maintaining a Dual-Environment ServiceNow Platform Supporting the ESN Program | Chris Pahlmann
  • 11:20–11:50am | The Genesis Mission - Technical Platform Scaling AI for Science and National Security | Brian Spears
  • 11:20–11:50am | Video Enabling NLIT 2025 | Eric Luis, Andrew Miller
  • 1:20–2:30pm | LivChat and LivAI API - RAG, Agents, Production AI Access, and Secure Code Execution at LLNL | Ryan Beall, Dave Frye
  • 3:10–3:40pm | A Smarter Front Door: Modernizing Your IT Self-Service Portal | Elizabeth Barnett
  • 3:50–4:20pm | Adding PowerApps to Your Software Rapid Application Development Toolkit | Holly Landrum
  • 3:50–4:20pm | Killing the CCRI Exceptions Spreadsheet: Transforming Audit Readiness with Jira | Carlos Marcelo Viscarra
  • 4:30–5:00pm | IT Infrastructure Leaders Roundtable | Judd Sproba

Thursday, May 7

  • 8:00am–12:00pm | ESN Hub Live Demo, Open Forum and What’s Ahead | Samantha Alemania
  • 8:00–8:30am | GitLab CI/CD for ALE3D: 2026 Update | Ben Liu, Peter Robinson
  • 8:00–8:30am | Swipe, Grab, Go: Lessons Learned from Deploying IT Vending Kiosks at LLNL | Didi Rodrigues, Ludo Vivier
  • 8:40–9:10am | Building Cloud Like Services Inside an HPC Center: Architecture and Implementation at LLNL | Zeke Morton
  • 8:40–9:10am | ESN Hub OpenShift: A functioning DevSecOps Container Ecosystem | David Woods
  • 8:40–9:10am | JUCE: From ideation to implementation of Enterprise Cloud | Kevin Athey
  • 10:10–10:40am | How Application Support Bridges End Users and Developers | Amanda Clark
  • 10:10–10:40am | Hubcast: Secure CI for HPC Environments | Caetano Melone, Alec Scott
  • 10:50–11:20am | GitOps on the Edge: How to Integrate CI and CD in Kubernetes | Kevin Gardner
  • 10:50–11:20am | Spack at Scale in ASC: Shared Build Configurations, Multi Team Support, and Spack 1.0 Migration | Chris White
  • 2:00–4:00pm | Managing Scientific Software Complexity with Spack | Gregory Becker, Alec Scott