OPENING DAY
18.03
09:00 → 20:00
9:00
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10:30PLENARY - ROOM S1 - Web-streamed
Opening Session
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
European Commission
Dariusz Standerski
Secretary of State, Ministry of Digital Affairs
Republic of Poland
Maria Mrówczyńska
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Republic of Poland
Rafał Duczmal
Chair of the Governing Board & Head of Global Challenges Section
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking & National Centre for Research and Development in Poland
Anders Jensen
Executive Director
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
10:30
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11:00Coffee Break
11:00
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12:30PLENARY - ROOM S1 - Web-streamed
AI Factories and Europe’s Competitiveness in the Global AI Race
Gustav Kalbe
Acting Director
DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Krzysztof Kurowski
Head of the Quantum Technologies
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
Mariona Sanz
Head of Innovation and Business Development
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Dennis Hoppe
Department Head, Converged Computing
High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
Thomas Hahn
Siemens Fellow
Siemens
Mateusz Maj
CEO, VP Product
VivaDrive
12:30
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14:00Lunch
14:00
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15:30PARALLEL SESSION - ROOM S3a
AI Factories as Catalysts for Industrial Innovation and Scientific Research
Ana Garcia Robles
Secretary General
BDVA
Jan Hajič
Professor of Computational Linguistics
Charles University, Prague
Sébastien Bratières
Director of AI
Translated
André Martins
VP of AI Research & Senior Researcher
Unbabel & Instituto Telecomunicacoes
Vangelis Karkaletsis
Director & Greek AI Factory PHAROS Representative
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR Demokritos
Isabelle Siegrist
Entrepreneurship Advisor
ETH AI Center
14:00
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15:30PARALLEL SESSION - ROOM S4
Fish (&Chips) Bowl: Future Microprocessor Architectures
Steve Conway
Senior Advisor
Intersect360 Research and liaison to the EMEA HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO)
Alexandra KOURFALI
Programme Manager Research & Innovation
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Etienne Walter
General Manager
European Processor Initiative (EPI)
Martin Schulz
Chair for Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems, Co-Lead of the MQV Munich Quantum Software Stack
Technical University of Munich
14:00
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15:30Estela Suarez
Senior Principal Solution Architect
SiPEARL
Edoardo di Napoli
Head of Simulation and Data Lab Quantum Materials
Jülich Supercomputing Center
Hartwig Anzt
Chair of Computational Mathematics
TU Munich
Erik Lindahl
Director
National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS)
Marta García
Team Leader
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)
Maria Girone
Head of CERN openlab
CERN
Mario Acosta
Head of the Computational Earth Sciences Group
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
15:30
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16:30Coffee Break & Posters Session
16:30
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18:00PARALLEL SESSION - ROOM S3a
AI Factories and Cloud Integration: Unlocking Scalable and Flexible AI Workflows
Javier Cordova Morey
Policy Officer, High-Performance Computing
DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Lilit Axner
Programme Manager Infrastructure
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Kimmo Koski
Managing Director
CSC – IT Center for Science
Alberto P. Martí
Vice President
Open Source Innovation at OpenNebula Systems
Maciej Krzyżanowski
CEO
CloudFerro
Michael Granitzer
Chair of Data Science & Project Coordinator
University of Passau & OpenWebSearch
Quentin Adam
CEO
Clever Cloud
Mateusz Tykierko
Deputy Director & Vice President
Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing & Polish Cloud Association
16:30
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18:00Marco Aldinucci
Full Professor in HPC & Director
University of Torin & CINI HPC-KTT National Laboratory
Félicien Schopfer
Quantum Technologies Program Manager
Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais (LNE)
Andreas Herten
Head of Accelerating Devices Lab
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Konrad Wojciechowski
Quantum Software Engineer
PSNC
Walter Lioen
Domain Manager Research Services
SURF
Alexandra KOURFALI
Programme Manager Research & Innovation
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
16:30
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18:00PARALLEL SESSION - ROOM S3b
Breaking the Dogmas: Redefining the System Software Stack for Next-Gen HPC Applications and Architectures
Martin Schulz
Chair for Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems, Co-Lead of the MQV Munich Quantum Software Stack
Technical University of Munich
Manolis Marazakis
Principal Staff Research Scientist
Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
Venkatesh Kannan
Associate Director
Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)
Jesus Carretero Perez
Full Professor of Computer Architecture
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pierre Seroul
Head of Data & Energy Efficiency, BDS R&D Software & AI
Eviden
18:00
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20:00Welcome Reception
19.03
09:00 → 21:00
9:00
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10:30PLENARY - ROOM S1 - Web-streamed
Attracting HPC Talent in Europe
Linda GESENHUES
Programme Manager Research & Innovation
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Patrik Rác
PhD student
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)
Majesa Trimmel
Student
EUMaster4HPC
Fabrizio Magugliani
Strategic Planning and Business Development
E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING Spa
Valentin Plugaru
CTO
LuxProvide
Jean-Marc Denis
VP Sales HPC and Cloud solutions
VIRIDIEN
10:30
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11:00Coffee Break
11:00
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12:30PLENARY - ROOM S1 - Web-streamed
Future Technologies Powering the Current and Upcoming European Supercomputing Infrastructure: Road to EU sovereignty
Alexandra KOURFALI
Programme Manager Research & Innovation
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Carlos Puchol
Senior Technical Leader
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Estela Suarez
Senior Principal Solution Architect
SiPEARL
Cristina Silvano
Professor of Computer Architectures
Politecnico di Milano
Teresa Cervero
Leading Research Engineer & Responsible of the Technical Management HW Engineering Group
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Gianna Paulin
Senior Engineer - Computing Architecture
Axelera AI BV
Lilia Zaourar
Expert Co-design
CEA
Jean Pierre Panziera
HPC Chief Technology Director
Eviden
12:30
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14:00Lunch
14:00
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15:30PARALLEL SESSION - ROOM S3a
Future Frontiers in Supercomputing: Visionary Perspectives from the Experts
Estela Suarez
Senior Principal Solution Architect
SiPEARL
Stéphane Requena
CTO
GENCI
Craig Prunty
Vice President Product Marketing
SiPearl
Evangelos Eleftheriou
CTO & Co-Founder
AXELERA AI BV
Gabriel Hautreux
Head of HPC/AI Department
CINES
Thomas Schulthess
Director & Full Professor of Computational Physics
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) & ETH Zurich
Matthias Lohrmann
CTO
SpiNNcloud Systems
Manu Perumkunnil
Portfolio Director & Systems Architect
imec
Albert H. Werner
Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
14:00
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15:30 Lilit Axner
Programme Manager Infrastructure
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Ana Garcia Robles
Secretary General
BDVA
Sai Narasimhamurthy
SRA Technical Expert & Senior Technologist
ETP4HPC & ParTec AG
Brendan McGinty
Director of Industry National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nils Helset
Co-Founder & CEO
DIGIFARM
David Vicente
HPC User Support Manager
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Nicolas Tonello
CEO
Constelcom Ltd
Axel Auweter
CTO
MEGWARE
Greta Radaelli
SVP of AI and HPC business solutions
LEONARDO
Timo Kökenhoff
Architect and HPC expert
Airbus Operations GmbH
Grazyna Piesiewicz
Head of Unit of HPC
DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Irina Sandu
Director of Destination Earth
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Athanasia Evangelinou
Programme Manager Infrastructure
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Kat Grayson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Michał Kulczewski
Senior Specialist
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
Christoph Wittmann
Head of Department "Analysis and Model Development"
GeoSphere Austria
Florian Pappenberger
Deputy Director General and Director of Forecasts and Services
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Josephine Wood
Head of Unit, Strategy and Governance
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Mariona Sanz
Head of Innovation and Business Development
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Gabriella Scipione
Head of Data Management & Analytics HPC
CINECA
Jenni Kontkanen
Development Manager in Digital Twin Technologies
CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd
Valentin Plugaru
CTO
LuxProvide
15:30
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16:30Coffee Break & Posters Session
16:30
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18:00PARALLEL SESSION - Floor 2 Foyer
Career Fair
19:00
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21:00Evening Reception - Wawel Royal Castle
20.03
09:00 → 18:00
9:00
→
10:30Laure Le Bars
Research Project Director, President, Vice-President
SAP, QuIC and BDVA
René Chatwell
Programme Manager Quantum Computing
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Magdalena Stobińska
Professor & Principle Investigator
University of Warsaw & QuantERA
Krzysztof Kurowski
Head of the Quantum Technologies
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
Jacob Sherson
Professor & Director
Aarhus University & European Quantum Readiness Center
Christian Trefzger
Policy Officer, Quantum Technologies
DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
10:30
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11:00Coffee Break
11:00
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12:30PLENARY - ROOM S1 - Web-streamed
Showcasing Scientific & Societal Breakthroughs on EuroHPC Supercomputers
Enrica Porcari
Head of IT Department
CERN
Klara Mestrovic
Head of Sector Peer Review
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Dora Marton
Programme Officer
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Catarina Guerreiro
Programme Officer
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Nils Helset
Co-Founder & CEO
DIGIFARM
Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes
Full Professor, Head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto Portugal
Lucio Mayer
Full Professor & Director
Department of Astrophysics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Anders Jensen
Executive Director
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
12:30
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14:00Lunch
14:00
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15:30Lilit Axner
Programme Manager Infrastructure
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Pekka Lehtovuori
Director
CSC - IT Center for Science
Thomas Lippert
Director
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Christos Datsikas
Programme Manager Infrastructure
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Jean-Gabriel Barthelemy
Machine Learning Engineer, Manager of the BlackMamba Project
Lingua Custodia
Kristel Michielsen
Head of the Quantum Information Processing Group
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Robert Jones
Member of the Board of Directors
EOSC Association
14:00
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15:30René Chatwell
Programme Manager Quantum Computing
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Jeanette Miriam Lorenz
Head of Department and Associate Professor
Fraunhofer IKS
Jesse Robbers
Co-Founder, Board member and Director Industry & Digital Infrastructure
Quantum Delta NL
Laura Schulz
Head of Quantum Computing and Technologies
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
14:00
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15:30Klara Mestrovic
Head of Sector Peer Review
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Dora Marton
Programme Officer
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Catarina Guerreiro
Programme Officer
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Luigi Del Debbio
Professor of High-Energy Theoretical Physics
Edinburgh University
15:30
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16:30Coffee Break & Posters Session
16:30
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18:00Mladen SKELIN
Programme Manager Research & Innovation
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Marek Magryś
Acting Director
ACC Cyfronet AGH
Ondřej Vysocky
Senior Researcher, Infrastructure Research Lab
IT4Innovations (IT4I)
Stéphane Requena
CTO
GENCI
Julita Corbalan Gonzalez
CTO & Senior Researcher
Energy Aware Runtime & Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)
Zuzanna Warso
Director of Research
Open Future
Josephine Wood
Head of Unit, Strategy and Governance
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Arnaud Lambert
CEO
LuxProvide
Brian Wylie
Research Scientist
Jülich Supercomputing Centre of Forschungszentrum Jülich
Claudia Blaas-Schenner
Head of Training and Education
VSC Research Center, TU Wien
Enrica Porcari
Head of IT Department
CERN
Marta García
Team Leader
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)
16:30
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18:00PARALLEL SESSION - ROOM S3b
EPICURE in Action: AI BootCamp on the MN5 Supercomputer
David Vicente
HPC User Support Manager
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Guillem Cortiada
AI support specialist
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Alexandros Paliouras
AI support specialist
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
