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TERATEC 2024 Forum The European meeting for Experts in High Power Digital Simulation . HPC/HPDA . Artificial Intelligence . Quantum Computing

Keynotes Wednesday May 29 and Thursday May 30, 2024 Parc Floral de Paris

Organized on May 29 & 30, 2024 at the Parc Floral de Paris, Keynotes focus on the societal and technological challenges of High Performance Computing and Simulation and on the diversity of uses of HPC, with the participation of representatives from the political, economic and academic worlds, international most advanced industrial users and leading technology suppliers. With the participation of :

Wednesday, May 29 09:00 - 09:15 Daniel Verwaerde President and co-founder, Teratec 09:15 - 09:30 Bertrand Rondepierre Director of the Ministerial Agency for Defense AI, Ministry of the Armed Forces Creation of the Ministerial Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defense (AMIAD) 09:30 - 09:45 Sadaf Alam Director, Advanced Computing Research Centre (UK), CTO, Isambard-AI Access federation and inclusivity for Isambard AI Exascale platform architecture 09:45 - 10:45 Round table 01: Exascale and post-exascale, what's the use? What impact? 10:45 - 10:55 Session Pitches Exhibitors 11:15 - 11:30 Pauline Flament CTO, Michelin How Michelin innovates with computing power 11:30 - 11:45 Dorin Preda BU Manager & CTO, Axians HPC HPC, LLM ... or both? 11:45 - 12:45 Round table 02: Generative AI and computing power: how can architectures be hybridized? 12:45 - 12:55 Session Pitches Exhibitors 14:00 - 14:15 Emmanuel Le Roux Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions, Eviden AI tsunami: benefits for cloud, HPC and quantum computing 14:15 - 14:30 Eric Brier CTO of S3NS and Cyber Defence Solutions, Thales Sovereignty, trust: what trajectory for the cloud? 14:30 - 14:45 Mathieu Jeandron, Head of Public Sector Technical Teams, AWS Rayan Chikhi, Researcher, Institut Pasteur Peta-byte scale computing in the AWS cloud to accelerate research: feedback from Institut Pasteur in bioinformatics research Thursday, May 30th 12:30 - 12h45 Hugues Even Chief data officer, BNP Paribas What role will AI play in banking in 2024? 12h45 - 13h00 Pascale Senellart-Mardon Co-founder and scientific advisor of Quandela, research director at CNRS, professor at Ecole Polytechnique Light-based quantum computers 13h45 - 14h15 Teratec HPC Hackathon award ceremony 14h15 - 14h30 Patrick Pérez Director, Kyutai What model for generative AI in France? 14h30 - 14h45 Jeff Denworth Co-founder, VAST Data Redefining data computing as HPC and AI synthesize 14h45 - 15h00 Maud Vinet Co-founder and CEO, Quobly Moore's Law and chip scaling: how to put 70 years of expertise to work for the qubit? 15h00 - 15h15 James Coomer Senior VP Product Management, DDN Storage How to Build the World’s Fastest and Most Efficient AI Systems 15h35 - 16h35 Round table 03: Deeptech: how to create the French champions of tomorrow? 16h35 - 16h50 Nicolas Lardjane TGCC Manager, CEA The Jules Verne project's exaflop supercomputer 16h50 - 17h05 Bruno Bonnell General Secretary for Investment in charge of France 2030 17h05 - 17h20 Anders Dam Jensen Executive director, EuroHPC

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To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2020

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• Daniel VERWAERDE
  President and Founder of TERATEC
• Thierry Breton
  European Commissioner
• Florence Parly
  Minister for the Armed Forces
• Alain Rousset
  Président du Conseil régional de Nouvelle-Aquitaine
• Xavier Ursat
  Directeur exécutif en charge de la Direction Ingénierie et Projets Nouveau Nucléaire, Groupe EDF
• Marie-Noëlle Semeria
  Senior Vice President, Group Chief Technology Officer Total
• Eric Genevois-Marlin
  Global Head of R&D Digital and Data Sciences Sanofi
• Trish Damkroger - Advancing HPC: The XPU Era
  Vice President, Intel Data Center Group
• Kevin D. Kissell - Hybrid Worlds of Cloud and HPC
  CTO, Google
• Roundtable: In the era of COVID-19, how digital can serve health
  Xavier Vigouroux (HPC, AI & Quantum Strategic Collaborations Coordinator, Atos), James Coomer (Senior VP product, DDN), Thierry Pellegrino (VP & General Manager of HPC, Dell Technologies), Pierre Hoffer (Directeur HPC & IA, Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Michael Mcmanus (Director, Precision Medicine & Principal Engineer, Intel), Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere (Chef de projet informatique, CEA) et Pierre Puigdomenech (President, Do IT Now) debated the technological and societal challenges of these new uses in this particularly critical field of applications.

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• TERATEC to support European HPC
  Daniel VERWAERDE, President and Founder of TERATEC
• Successful digital transition in French industry
  Philippe VARIN, President of France Industrie
• France and Space
  Jean-Yves LE GALL, President of CNES
• HPC, a great European ambition
  Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner to the Digital Economy and Society
• Electric/Electronic Architecture as an Enabler for Connected Mobility and Automated Driving
  Matthias TRAUB, Head Automotive IoT et E-Architecture, BMW
• GPU Computing for the Modern Enterprise
  Marc HAMILTON, VP, Solutions Architecture and Engineering, NVIDIA
• SMART Factory
  Mustapha EL-BOUCHOUAFI, General Manager, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence France
• New technologies for the treatment of the influx of data
  Thierry PELLEGRINO, VP & General Manager of HPC, Dell EMC
• Simulation, AI, High Performance Computing: Innovation, the spearhead of France's strategic autonomy.
  Emmanuel CHIVA, Director, French Defense Innovation Agency, Ministry of Defence
• Personal Health and Digital technology
  Round Table animated by Sophy CAULIER with the participation of Jean Michel RONDEAU, Project Manager, Atos - Jacques-Charles LAFOUCRIERE, Department Leader, CEA - Thierry PELLEGRINO, VP & General Manager of HPC, Dell EMC - Jean-Luc ASSOR, Worldwide Manager Hybrid HPC/HPC Cloud, HPE - Valère DUSSAUX, Directeur du secteur Santé et Sciences de la vie, Western Europe, Intel
• Autonomous and mobility of tomorrow
  Round Table animated by Sophy CAULIER with the participation of John MORELLE, Business Development Manager HPC, Bechtle - Ulrich PLECHSCHMIDT, Worldwide Cray Storage Marketing, Cray Computer - Jean-Thomas ACQUAVIVA, Senior researcher, DDN Storage - Yossi ELBAZ, SVP Marketing and Head Technical computing, Mellanox Technologies
• Fifth Edition of the Digital Simulation Trophies
  Fifth Edition of the Digital Simulation Trophies Organized with the Usine Digitale Magazine in partnership with CEA and INRIA.
• Evening Teratec Forum
  Meeting at the lake of Ecole Polytechnique for a festive and friendly evening organized in partnership with INTEL

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• Opening of the 13th Teratec Forum
  Christian SAGUEZ, President and Founder of TERATEC
• Cédric VILLANI
  Médaille Field 2010, Député de l’Essonne, premier vice-président de l'OPECST
• A sound orientation towards HPC and data science
  François BOUCHET, Directeur général Ecole Polytechnique
• HPC and Numerical Simulation @ Inria : Towards HPC-BigData convergence
  Isabelle RYL, Directrice générale déléguée au transfert et aux partenariats industriels, Inria et Bruno RAFFIN Research director, Inria
• Bootstrapping an HPC Ecosystem
  Eric VAN HENSBERGEN, Fellow, ARM
• Machine, Algorithms and Humans: shall we expect from the third AI wave to reshuffle the cards in the world of engineering and simulation?
  Nicolas VAYATIS, directeur du CMLA et du master MVA de l'ENS de Paris-Saclay
• Interventions of the sponsors of the Teratec 2018 Forum
  Platinum sponsors : ATOS - DELL EMC - HPE - IBM - INTEL
  Gold Sponsors : CEA DAM - CRAY COMPUTER - DDN STOTAGE - MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES
• The digital revolution: an accelerator for new mobility
  Rémi BASTIEN, VP prospective automotive, RENAULT
• High Performance Computing in Europe: overview and evolutions
  Jean-Philippe NOMINE, Direction des Analyses Stratégiques, CEA
• Interventions of the sponsors of the Teratec 2018 Forum
  Silver Sponsors : 2CRSI - ARM - ATEMPO - FUJITSU - GENCI - MICROSOFT - NVIDIA
• HPC with Hybrid Clouds for Critical Big Compute workloads
  Denis CAROMEL, Président & Fondateur, ActiveEon
• Digital technology at the heart of the life cycle of naval defense systems
  Eric PAPIN, Directeur Technique et Qualité Groupe, Directeur de l'Innovation et de l'Expertise Technologique, NAVAL GROUP
• Continuity of the functional verification from the integrated circuit to the final system
  Eric SELOSSE, Vice President & General Manager Emulation Division, MENTOR GRAPHICS
• Fourth Edition of the Digital Simulation Trophies
  Organized with the Usine Digitale Magazine in partnership with CEA, CRAY COMPUTER, DELL EMC, HPE and INRIA.
• Evening Teratec Forum
  Meeting at the lake of Ecole Polytechnique for a festive and friendly evening organized in partnership with INTEL

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• Towards predictive and prescriptive computing: the HPC challenge, the role of Teratec
  Gerard ROUCAIROL, Chairman, TERATEC
• Digitalization – a perspective from the electrical industry
  Norbert LUETKE-ENTRUP, Head of Technology and Innovation Management, SIEMENS
• Embracing Immersive Virtual Engineering, Hybrid Twins, and Product Performance in its full Lifecycle
  Alain DE ROUVRAY, Chairman and CEO , ESI-GROUP
• Post-K Supercomputer with Fujitsu’s Original CPU, Powered by ARM ISA
  Toshiyuki SHIMIZU , Vice President of the System Development Division, Next Generation Technical Computing Unit, FUJITSU
• The European HPC strategy – the European Data Infrastructure (EDI)
  Khalil ROUHANA, Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
• Presentation of sponsors
  Platinum : ATOS/BULL - HPE - IBM - INTEL
  Gold : CEA - DDN - MELLANOX - SEAGATE
• How Big Data opens new fields of innovation in Life Science, from R&D to the development of the economy of functionality : Bayer in France experience
  Franck GARNIER, President, BAYER SAS
• Understanding vascular disease progression via advanced computational modeling
  Jay D HUMPHREY, John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering, YALE
• Presentation of sponsors
  Silver : ATEMPO - CRAY - 2CRSI - DELL - FUJITSU - GENCI - NICE- NVIDIA - OPTENTEXT - PANASAS
• Data Science Platform and Highly Scalable Cloud-based Framework for HealthTech Data Processing
  Francois ANDRY, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture, PHILIPS Healthcare
• Machine Learning & Real-world Applications : Prediction and prescription
  By Adeline LOISON, Directrice Générale Déléguée Analytique et Alassane CISSE, Directeur Général Délégué IT, Groupe HLi
• 30th Anniversary of the European Center for Advanced Research and Training in Scientific Computing (CERFACS)
  By Catherine LAMBERT, Directeur du Cerfacs
• Exhange between large companies and start-up, a key for innovation
  By Hervé MOUREN, Managing Director, TERATEC
• Digital Simulation Award
  Organized by Teratec in partnership with L'Usine Nouvelle and L'Usine Digitale, this event revealed and rewarded the champions of the digital simulation: STRAINS for the "Start-up" Trophy, COSMOTECH for the "SME" Trophy, QUANTMETRY for the "Innovation" Trophy and the Grand Prix de la Simulation Numérique, TRANSVALOR for the "Collaboration" Trophy.
• TERATEC 2017 Evening
  The first day of the TERATEC Forum ended at the Lake of the Ecole Polytechnique for a festive and convivial evening organized in partnership with INTEL.

To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2016

• Opening of the 11th TERATEC Forum
  Gerard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC
• Opening speech
  Thierry MANDON, Secrétaire d'État chargé de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche
• The new horizons of high performance computing
  Gerard ROUCAIROL, président de TERATEC
• Tire innovation for sustainable mobility
  Jean-Marie MUS, Directeur de Recherches Physiques et Modélisation des Performances, Groupe MICHELIN
• Solver software infrastructure for exascale applications
  David KEYES, Director, Extreme Computing Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• The European Cloud Initiative and High Performance Computing (HPC)
  Gail KENT, Acting Deputy Director General, DG CONNECT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
• Presentation of the TERATEC Forum 2016 sponsors
  Platinum sponsors : ATOS / BULL, DDN STORAGE, HPE ENTERPRISE, INTEL
  Gold Sponsors : CEA, MELLANOX, PANASAS
• The Convergence of Big Compute and Big Data in Cloud-Based HPC
  David PELLERIN, Business Development Principal for HPC,  AMAZON WEB SERVICES
• Sciences du climat, Agenda 2030 du développement durable et Accord de Paris
  Valérie MASSON-DELMOTTE,  directrice de recherches CEA/LSCE
• Presentation of the TERATEC Forum 2016 sponsors
  Gold Sponsors : SCALITY, SEAGATE, SGI
  Silver Sponsors : DELL, FUJITSU, GENCI, NICE Software, NVIDIA, OPENTEXT
• Seismic Processing at CGG
  Jean-Yves BLANC, Chief IT Architect, CGG
• HPC physics simulation at the heart of industry
  Jacques DELACOUR, fondateur et PDG du groupe OPTIS
• SiMSEO, le programme d’accompagnement des entreprises à l’usage de la simulation numérique
  Hervé MOUREN, directeur de TERATEC
• The 2016 Digital Simulation Awards
  Co-organisée par L’Usine Digitale et TERATEC avec les partenaires ATOS, CEA, DDN STORAGE, COMSOL, HPE ENTERPRISE, INRIA et SCALITY
• TERATEC Evening
  Festive and convivial evening organized in partnership with INTEL at the Lake of the Ecole Polytechnique

To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2015

• Opening of the 10th TERATEC Forum by Gérard ROUCAIROL, President, and Herve MOUREN, Director, TERATEC
• Speech by Emmanuel MACRON, Ministre de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et du Numérique
• The fast progress of the French Supercomputing plan, part of "The New face of Industry in France" by Gérard ROUCAIROL and Hervé MOUREN, TERATEC
• Data storage: the heart of any information system by Ken CLAFFEY, VP & GM Storage Systems Group, SEAGATE
• HPC & Big Data – the time is right for a scalable framework by Barry R. DAVIS, General Manager, High Performance Fabrics Operation, INTEL
• The Square Kilometre Array: Transformational Science Instrument and Big Data Challenge by Paul ALEXANDER, UK Science Director SKA Organisation
• Presentation of the TERATEC Forum 2015 sponsors
  Platinum Sponsors : BULL – HP – INTEL
  Gold Sponsors : CEA – PANASAS - SEAGATE - SGI
• HPC to meet the quality requirements of animated movies by Farchad BIDGOLIRAD, R&D Supervisor , Ubisoft Motion Picture
• The challenges of simulation for a large aeronautics and space company by Jacques BROCHET, Directeur scientifique et technologique, SAFRAN
• Presentation of the TERATEC Forum 2015 sponsors
  Silver Sponsors : DATADIRECT NETWORKS - DELL - FUJITSU - GENCI - INRIA - NVIDIA
• New technologies at the heart of the third agricultural revolution by Xavier BEULIN, Chairman, AVRIL / Chairman, FNSEA
• Intensive computing at the heart of tomorrow's services by Thierry BRETON, CEO, ATOS
• Speech by Thierry MANDON, Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche
• The 2015 Digital Simulation Awards
  Co-organized by L'Usine Nouvelle and TERATEC with partners ATOS COMSOL, HP and INRIA
• TERATEC's tenth anniversary evening
  Appointment at the Lake of the Ecole Polytechnique for a festive and convivial evening organized in partnership with INTEL

To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2014

• Gérard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC et Hervé MOUREN, Directeur de TERATEC
• Pascal FAURE, Directeur Général de la Compétitivité, de l’Industrie et des Services, Ministère de l’Économie, du Redressement productif et du Numérique
• Rupak BISWAS, Deputy Director, Exploration Technology Directorate Manager, High End Computing Capability Project, NASA Advanced Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
• Cyril ZELLER, Director of Engineering, Developer Technology, NVIDIA’s Vision for Exascale
• Laurent ANNE, Sales Director and co-founder, DISTENE
• Jean-François LAVIGNON, président de l'ETP4HPC
• Wolfgang GENTZSCH, co-founder and President of The UberCloud
• Thierry CHEVALIER, R&T Capabilities and V&V architect, M&T Architecture and Integration, AIRBUS

To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2013

• Hervé MOUREN, Directeur de TERATEC
• David ROS Vice-président du Conseil Général de l’Essonne
• Charbel FARHAT, Stanford University
• Sudip DOSANJH, Division Director, NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center)
• Stefano ODORIZZI, CEO, ENGINSOFT
• Dr David LECOMBER, COO of ALLINEA SOFTWARE
• Jean-François MINSTER, Directeur Scientifique de TOTAL
• Régis REAU, Directeur Scientifique d’AIR LIQUIDE
• Alvis BRAZMA, Senior Team Leader, Functional Genomics, EMBL/EBI (Eur. Bioinformatics Inst.)
• Marie-Pierre DE BAILLIENCOURT, DGA de BULL
• Gérard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC
• Louis GALLOIS, Commissaire général à l’investissement