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Plenary session
Wednesday 23 June 2021 (morning)

The future of EuroHPC is bright

Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative between the European Union, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking allows the EU and EuroHPC participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources with the objective of deploying world-class exascale supercomputers in Europe.  
By making Europe a world leader in high performance computing (HPC), the EuroHPC JU seeks to provide computing capacity, improve cooperation in advanced scientific research, boost industrial competitiveness, and ensure European technological and digital autonomy.

In this talk, Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC JU, will offer an update on the current state of play, his insights on the future of European HPC, and opportunities for industry.

Biographie : Anders Dam Jensen has a lifelong interest in supercomputers, dating from his time in university. He started his professional career with 10 years of engineering work developing computing hardware, firmware, and software for embedded systems. He pioneered IEEE802.11 wireless network technology in the nineties while working for Symbol Technologies. After a decade working with hardcore engineering and product development, Anders shifted into management as he joined Cargolux Airlines International as Director IT. Over the next decade, Anders was instrumental in the spin-off of the Cargolux IT department into CHAMP Cargosystems S.A. With Anders as CTO, CHAMP Cargosystems grew to become the largest supplier of IT services to the air cargo industry. In 2011, Anders was selected as the Director ICTM for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), responsible for all Information and IT services as well as one of the largest classified networks in Europe. In 2020, Anders was appointed as Executive Director for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe with a proposed budget of 8 billion euro.  Anders holds a Master of Science Degree as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Technical University of Denmark. He is based in Luxembourg, married to Mette, and has two children.

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