Prof. Jesus Labarta received his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from UPC in 1983, where he has been a full professor of Computer Architecture since 1990. He was Director of European Center of Parallelism at Barcelona from 1996 to the creation of BSC in 2005, where he was the Director of the Computer Sciences Dept for almost 20 years. In 2024 he was promoted to CS Distinguished Fellow in BSC. His research team developed performance analysis and prediction tools and pioneered research on how to increase the intelligence embedded in these performance tools. He also led the development of OmpSs and influenced the task based extension in the OpenMP standard. He led the BSC cooperation with many IT companies. He led the RISC-V vector accelerator within the EPI project and is currently responsible for the POP center of excellence providing performance assessments to parallel code developers throughout the EU. He was awarded the 2017 Ken Kennedy Award for his seminal contributions to programming models and performance analysis tools for high performance computing, being the First Non US Researcher receiving it.

John is the VP Geophysics for the Imaging & Technology group at TGS. After a PhD and PostDoc at Imperial College, London utilizing FWI to image, amongst other things, the Chicxulub impact crater - John has held positions in at PGS, ION and TGS, both in R&D and data processing operations. As VP of Geophysics, he needs to understand all aspects of seismic signal processing, model building and imaging, and how this affects geophysical deliverables.

Dr. Dan Stanzione, Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), is a nationally recognized leader in high performance computing, and has been involved in supercomputing for more than 30 years.He is the principal investigator (PI) for a number of the National Science Foundation (NSF) supercomputers, including the current Frontera system, which is the fastest supercomputer at a U.S. university, and is leading the upcoming NSF Leadership Class Computing Facility. Stanzione received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and his master's degree and doctorate in computer engineering from Clemson University.

Keith Gray is the VP for Computational Science and Engineering at TotalEnergies. Prior to joining TotalEnergies, Keith was an HPC Advisor at Intel and the Director of HPC and Technical Computing at bp, leading the High Performance Computing team for 22 years. The team grew computing power by over 200,000 times in this period, designed and constructed the bp Center for High Performance Computing, and enabled significant Seismic Imaging research breakthroughs.He has over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. After graduating from Virginia Tech, Keith started his career as a seismic processing geophysicist at Western Geophysical. Keith was recognized by HPCWire’s “People to Watch” in 2006. He is on the Organizing Committee for the Energy HPC Conference by the Rice Ken Kennedy Institute and the Steering Committee for the HPC User Forum.