2025 National Science Foundation CSSI/CyberTraining/SCIPE Principal Investigator Meeting Report

The 2025 NSF CSSI/CyberTraining/SCIPE PI Meeting was held in Denver, CO, from July 27 to July 29, 2025. The meeting was attended by nearly 270 principal investigators (PIs) and project personnel representing an array of topics. By bringing together the CSSI, CyberTraining, SCIPE and adjacent communities, the meeting created a forum for sharing advancements, exchanging best practices, and exploring future directions in the development and deployment of advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) and cybertraining resources. This meeting report documents how meeting objectives were accomplished; captures community perspectives on emerging opportunities and challenges; and discusses the communities' relationship to, and integration of, artificial intelligence (AI). This report highlights the communities' commitment to advancing CI and cultivating the next generation of CI professionals, underscoring that such efforts are enabling and accelerating discovery across science and engineering disciplines. It also underscores the systemic challenges the communities face, which, incidentally, coincide with emerging challenges for the AI community. The report identifies near-term suggestions for addressing these challenges: systematization, cataloging and discovery for sustaining CI and cybertraining products; integrating AI expertise into CI research and education workflows; and enabling decentralized coordination of CI and cybertraining products and the exchange of ideas. Furthermore, this report highlights the importance of the communities' expertise and its research products to the success of the nation's AI initiative. Overall, this report shows the importance of these communities in ensuring technological advancements in current national priorities, such as AI, while also cultivating broad scientific advancements that can support the next transformative innovation.