IWOCL 2025 marks the 13th anniversary of the annual gathering of the international community of OpenCL and SYCL developers, researchers, implementers, scientists and Khronos Working Group members to share best practice, and to advance the use and evolution of these Khronos open compute languages for programming heterogeneous platforms.
This pioneering workshop has been attracting an international audience of leading academic and industrial experts since 2013 and is the premier forum for the community to present, discuss and learn about applying OpenCL and SYCL to solve computationally-demanding problems across a wide range of application domains.
VENUE AND LOGISTICS
Location, Travel & Hotels
- Host: Heidelberg University
- Location: 5th Floor, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing (IWR), Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg. View location on Google Maps.
- Travel: The closest airport is Frankfurt, with a high-speed train service running to Heidelberg in less than an hour. Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Stuttgart airports are also good options.
- Hotels: Heidelberg is well served by local hotels that are just a short walk, bus or taxi ride from the venue, and meet a wide range of budgets. There is no official conference hotel.
- Visas: Check with you local visa office to determine what is required for travel to Germany. Please do this in plenty of time as the application process can take several weeks/months. If you require an invitation letter from the organisers please Contact Us.
DESIGNED FOR OPENCL & SYCL DEVELOPERS
The Workshop Program
Once again we have a packed program planned including the latest application case-studies, a SYCL hackathon, keynote presentations, tutorials, panel discussions and technical talks and a poster display spanning a wide range of topics. The full IWOCL 2025 program will be published shortly after author notifications (the week of February 24, 2025) and we expect the conference to follow a similar format as previous year’s but with an extended conference due to the number and quality of recent submissions and the request for more time for discussion.
- One-day SYCL hackathon
- One-day of tutorials
- Three-day conference, including panel discussions and keynotes
All our sessions are aimed at developers looking to learn more about OpenCL and SYCL and we aim to provide developers a wealth of best practices and knowledge. IWOCL also provides ample opportunity to connect with other developers, vendors and ecosystem partners during the networking breaks, Q&A sessions, panel discussions, and during the official conference dinner and social evenings.
IWOCL 2025 Committee Chairs
- General Chair: Tom Deakin, University of Bristol, UK
- Local Chair: Aksel Alpay, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Program Co-Chair (SYCL): Dounia Khaldi, Intel, USA
- Program Co-Chair (SYCL): Aksel Alpay, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Program Co-Chair (OpenCL): Brice Videau, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Proceedings Chair: Aditya Sadawarte, University of Bristol, UK
- Organising Chair: Tim Lewis, The Khronos Group
GET INVOLVED
Registration
Registration will open in January 2025 and early bird registration will close on Friday March 14.
Questions? If you have any questions please Contact Us.
Sponsors
IWOCL is made possible through the support of our Platinum and Cooperating sponsors. Our 2024 sponsors included the following organisations:
BUILDING ON A STRONG FOUNDATION
The IWOCL Archive
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