Keynote Speakers
Luca Bertelli
Former Eni Exploration Director
Eni
Topic: “The role of supercomputing and AI in the energy companies for a just transition”
Luca was appointed Deputy of Chief Operating Officer Natural Resources and also Director Exploration of Eni on July 1, 2020. In 1984 he joined Eni’s geophysics division, working first as a researcher in the development of 3D seismic prospecting technology and subsequently as a manager of 3D seismic prospecting programmes, specialising in seismic-stratigraphy. In 1994 he was appointed manager of seismic-stratigraphy applications and in 1999 he increased the technical-managerial scope of his activities becoming manager of geological and geophysical services in Eni.
At the end of 2001, his career took a new international turn holding positions of increasing managerial complexity over a period of eight years, starting in Norway where he was Technical Director and Deputy Managing Director at Norsk Agip in Norway. In 2003 he was appointed Managing Director of Eni Indonesia and in 2006 he moved to Egypt as General Manager and Managing Director, a position he also held at Eni Angola in 2007. In 2009 he returned to Eni’s headquarters as Senior Vice Chairman of Global Exploration. He was appointed Executive Vice President of Exploration and Unconventional at the beginning of 2010.
Luca has been Chief Exploration Officer in Eni since 1 July 2014. He graduated with honours in geology in 1983 from the University of Florence.
Daniela Galetti
Head of HPC System Management Group
CINECA
Topic: “Supercomputer management to support scientific discoveries and preserve data”
Daniela Galetti received the Dr. Eng. Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1997.
In 1997, she joined Cineca where she has been involved in the HPC system management activities. In 2009 she became coordinator of the planning, deployment and management activities of the HPC systems and optimisation of computing resources in Cineca.
Ms. Galetti is currently Head of the HPC systems management group, within the Technical Services Department of Cineca, which has managed during the past years different advanced HPC systems, including those which have been ranked within the first 30, and in some case within the first 10, of Top500 lists. Moreover, Ms. Galetti has been involved in EuroHPC initiative and she is in charge of the installation and management of the Italian pre-exascale cluster of the three European ones foreseen.
Maxim Alt
Distinguished Technologist – Director of Hybrid HPC
HPC & MCS Business Segment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Topic: “Convergences in HPC – Workflow Profiles. Heterogeneity. Hybridization”
Max Alt is Distinguished Technologist and Director of Hybrid HPC, leading cloud-oriented HPC aaS initiatives including the GreenLake Cloud Services for HPC offering. Prior to joining HPE, Max was SVP AI & HPC Technology at Core Scientific who acquired Atrio in 2020 where Max was the CEO & Founder. Atrio created a leading-edge hybrid cloud platform for HPC orchestration, cluster and container management.
Max has a unique background with almost 30 years of experience in software performance technologies and high performance computing. He is both an entrepreneur and a large-scale enterprise leader. Max founded several tech start-ups in the Bay area and he spent 18 years at Intel in various engineering and leadership roles including developing next generation super-computing technologies. Max’s strongest expertise are in computer and server architectures, cloud technologies, operating systems, compilers and software engineering. Max received his BS in Math and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and his Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Michael A. Sprague, Ph.D.
Chief Wind Computational Scientist
Distinguished Member of Research Staff
National Wind Technology Center
Topic: “ExaWind: Hybrid CFD on Hybrid HPC”
He was program chair for the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy "Turbulent Flow Simulation at the Exascale: Opportunities and Challenges Workshop." Before coming to NREL in 2010, Dr. Sprague was an assistant professor and founding faculty in applied mathematics at the University of California, Merced, where he was the lead in developing a new graduate program in applied mathematics. He graduated with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Victor Martin, Ph.D.
Head of Numeric Platform for Power and Sustainability R&D
TotalEnergies
Topic: “Will HPC survive the energy transition in oil&gas companies?”
After a career in various countries and positions as a geophysicist he specialized in technology management roles such as head of seismic imaging, head of an advanced AI solutions program for TotalEnergies in the US and then oversight of digital and cybersecurity matters for America's upstream branch before coming back to France in his current role. He is strongly interested in the advances of scientific computing and how they impact businesses and society. Victor graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris in Earth Sciences and holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Paris-Saclay.