2024 Speakers and Panelists
Jonathon Anderson
Principal HPC Engineer, CIQ
Rani Bhuva
EY Americas Financial Services Responsible AI Leader, Ernst & Young (EY)
Mandy Birch
CEO & Founder, TreQ
Mike Bloom
AI Solution Architect, WEKA
Mike Bloom has worked closely with television, telecom, healthcare, finance, and advertising industries since the early 1990s, largely involving the operation and development of infrastructure, data analytics, and data management. Mike’s position with past storage vendors and his current position at WEKA as an AI Solution Architect provide him with opportunities to inspect a diverse range of workflows within Deep Learning and Generative AI.
Jay Boisseau
CEO & Co-founder, Vizias, former HPC & AI Technology Strategist, Dell Technologies
Jay Boisseau is an experienced, recognized leader and strategist in advanced computing technologies, with over 25 years in the field. Jay is CEO and co-founder of Vizias, a small consultancy with expertise in HPC, AI, technology community building, and technology event support. Jay also serves as the executive director and founder of The Austin Forum on Technology & Society. Recent major work included serving as the HPC & AI Technology Strategist for Dell Technologies and leading and greatly expanding the global Dell HPC Community. Formerly, Jay created and led the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin and worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. He received his doctorate in astronomy from UT Austin, and his undergraduate degree in astronomy and physics from the University of Virginia.
Jeff Chu
Senior Director, Financial Services, Penguin Solutions
Roman Chwyl
Managing Director Grid as a Service, IBM
Kiranjot Dhillon
EY America Financial Services AI Leader, Ernst & Young (EY)
Doug Eadline, PhD
Managing Editor, HPCwire
Douglas Eadline, PhD, began his career as Analytical Chemist with an interest in high performance computer methods. Starting with the first Beowulf “How-To” document, Doug has written hundreds of articles, white papers, and instructional documents covering many aspects of Linux HPC, Hadoop, and Data Analytics computing. Prior to launching and editing the popular ClusterMonkey.net website in 2005, he served as editor-in-chief for ClusterWorld Magazine and was senior HPC Editor for Linux Magazine. Doug is author of several books and instructional videos covering the practical aspects of HPC and scalable tools for data science.
Motti Finkelstein
Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Intel
David Flynn
Co-founder and CEO, Hammerspace
David Flynn is a recognized leader in IT innovation who has been architecting disruptive computing platforms since his early work in supercomputing and Linux systems. David pioneered the use of flash for enterprise application acceleration as founder and former CEO of Fusion-io, which was acquired by SanDisk in 2014. Previously, David served as Chief Architect at Linux Networx, where he was instrumental in the creation of the OpenFabrics stack and designed several of the world’s largest supercomputers leveraging Linux clustering, InfiniBand, and RDMA-based technologies. David has also served as Project BlackDog’s Chief Scientist and Vice President of Engineering and held positions at Network Computer Inc. and Liberate Technologies, a spin-off of Oracle Corporation that developed thin-client solutions. David holds more than 100 patents in areas across web browser technologies, mobile device management, network switching, and protocols to distributed storage systems.
Arti Garg, PhD
Sr. Distinguished Technologist and Head of Technology Strategy & Evaluation, Office of the CTO, HPE
Tony Gaughan
Co-founder and CEO, morphing
David Godlove, PhD
Lead Technical Product Writer, CIQ
Raj Hazra
CEO, Quantinuum
Jeff Karmiol
Senior Symphony & HPC Cloud Product Manager, IBM
Matthew Klos
Senior Storage Sales Specialist, Storage for Data and AI – Scale, IBM
Jay Modh
CEO and Founder, Intuitive.Cloud
In addition to his technical prowess, Jay is an active venture capitalist, strategically investing in B2B and B2B2C startups within the Cyber Security, Cloud, Containers, Data, and FinTech sectors. He leverages his deep knowledge of AI/ML and Deep Learning to guide these startups, providing critical funding from Pre-Series-A to Series-C, and helping them craft global go-to-market strategies, achieve market growth, and create lasting value.
Doug Norton
Chief Marketing Officer, InspireSemi
Doug Norton is the CMO for Inspire Semiconductor, an Austin-based startup leveraging the open RISC-V CPU instruction set architecture (ISA). He began his career in product development at IBM and moved into the sales and marketing organization to expand IBM’s reach into engineering/scientific markets. He then went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems and early stage companies such as CoWare, Newisys, Virtana, and Nimbix. Doug is also President of the Society of HPC Professionals, serves on multiple RISC-V International committees, and is a Mentor at the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) at The University of Texas. Doug earned a BS in Electrical Engineering cum laude from Missouri University of Science & Technology.
Ty Panagoplos
EVP & CIO Transformation, Santander US, and former Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase Grid
Lou Pastina
Managing Member, Global Markets Advisory Group, and former EVP Operations, New York Stock Exchange
Prakash Pattni
Managing Director, Financial Services, IBM
Alessandro Petroni
CEO, BusinessMesh Inc
Marco Pistoia
Senior Vice President of Research, Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer and Head of JPMorgan Chase’s Global Technology Applied Research
Marty Poniatowski
Director of Presales Engineering, AMD
team of highly skilled technical experts to develop creative solutions for their clients’ complex
challenges. Together, they craft designs that drive compelling business outcomes using advanced
AMD technology. His team covers US East, US Central, and Canada. Marty’s vision encompasses all aspects of technology and business, with a focus on current and future trends in sustainability, artificial intelligence, data center efficiency, and more. Marty’s vast experience includes leadership positions in both large technology firms as well as channel partners, giving him a unique perspective to solving customer challenges. He has authored 21 books in the span of his career, his latest being “Edge to Cloud Solutions.” Marty holds graduate degrees in Information Technology and Management from New York University (NYU) and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering.
Chris Pozezanac
Manager, Solutions Architecture, Elastic
Molly Presley
SVP Global Marketing, Hammerspace
Ryan Quick
Principal & Co-founder, Providentia Worldwide, and former Chief Architect, PayPal Advanced Technology Group
Ryan Quick has been focused on distributed systems for the last 25 years, with special attention placed on the interaction between applications, operating systems, and the hardware and networks underlying them. He has consulted on high-throughput transactional platforms, security, and systems integration for banking, holds patents for messaging middleware systems, and is a pioneer in bridging HPC technologies with enterprise best-practice infrastructure. Ryan is an expert at scale-out systems, UNIX kernel design, and profiling, and has been recognized for innovation in hardware and application design, as well as in messaging ontology and distributed event-driven systems. His current efforts bring machine learning, real-time streaming, set-selection, and digital signal processing technologies to bear on predictive analytics to provide self-healing for command and control systems.
J Ram
CEO NorthStar Advisory, and former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Grid and CTO/Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
John Russell
Managing Editor, QCwire, HPCwire
Anand Shah
Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Quantinuum
Matthew Shaxted
CEO, Parallel Works
Kirk Schell
CEO, BOXX
Addison Snell
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Intersect360 Research
Bob Sorensen
Senior VP of Research, Chief Analyst for Quantum Computing, Hyperion Research
Bob Sorensen is Hyperion Research’s Chief Analyst for Quantum Computing. Bob’s areas of expertise include analysis of advanced computing hardware, architectures, interconnects, and performance metrics for both classical and quantum systems. Before joining Hyperion Research, Bob worked 30 plus years for the U.S. Federal Government as a Senior Science and Technology analyst covering global advanced computing developments to support senior-level U.S. policy makers, including those in the White House, Department of Defense, and Treasury. Bob has a BSEE from the University of Rochester and a MSCS from George Washington University. He strongly prefers C to Python.
Lisa Spelman
CEO, Cornelis Networks
Harvey Stein
Senior VP, Two Sigma Labs, and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Bob Sutor
Vice President and Practice Lead for Emerging Technologies, The Futurum Group
Jonathan Symonds
CMO, MinIO
Bruno Taketani
Senior Manager Quantum Solutions, ParTec
Dominik Ulmer
Chief Quantum and AI Solutions Officer, ParTec
Dino Vitale
Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure Technology Solutions Cloud Engineering Team, TD Bank Group
Dino Vitale is a Distinguished Engineer in the Cloud Engineering group of TD Bank Group, leading the adoption of ML and AI across the enterprise. He is currently focusing on enabling various ML/AI cloud-based services and capabilities, including Generative AI, AI/ML ops, model risk governance/compliance, data engineering/pipelines, and helping applications teams adopt AI services (speech, language, translation). In previous roles, Dino helped revolutionize the adoption of multi-tenant HPC compute grids at various large financial services and designed/built large-scale shared compute environments and automation that supported risk management and analytics workloads. Dino has extensive architecture experience working with a wide range of technologies in designing/implementing data lakes, micro-services, HPC clusters, event streaming, data platforms, and implementing automation tooling for operational scalability and dev/sec ops.
Josh West
Distinguished Solutions Architect for Financial Services, Red Hat
Alex Woodie
Managing Editor, Datanami
Steve Yatko
CEO & Founder, Oktay Technology, former Managing Director and Global Head of IT R&D and CTO, the Investment Bank at Credit Suisse Group