John Josephakis is Global VP of Sales and Bus/Dev for HPC/Supercomputing at NVIDIA. He has more than 25 years’ experience in high performance computing. Over his career he has worked at at DDN and Cray and has been involved with many Government organizations, Research Centers and Commercial entities spanning the Globe working on their Computing Strategies and the transitions leveraging new technologies. He has been involved in many of the existing Exascale systems and the transition of HPC to HPC, AI and Quantum.

Sudip Dosanjh is the director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously, he headed extreme-scale computing at Sandia National Laboratories. He was co-director of the Los Alamos/Sandia Alliance for Computing at the Extreme Scale from 2008-2012 and served on the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Initiative Steering Committee for several years. Dosanjh also played a key role in establishing co-design as a methodology for reaching exascale computing. He has numerous publications on exascale computing, co-design, computer architectures, massively parallel computing, and computational science. NERSC’s mission is to accelerate scientific discovery at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science through high performance computing and extreme data analysis. NERSC deploys leading-edge computational and data resources for over 10,000 users from a broad range of science disciplines. NERSC partners with computer companies to develop and deploy systems, including the pre-exascale Perlmutter system now in production and anticipated exascale systems in the coming years.

Paul Perez serves as Dell Technologies’ Senior Fellow, focusing on aligning the company’s Federal business with US Government needs. He championed an inclusive innovation environment, reimagining what’s possible with new IP. Under his leadership, Dell successfully ramped up several internal startups and exceeded expectations in patent generation. Before rejoining Dell in 2018, Paul led Computing Services at JPMorgan Chase, overseeing one of the largest enterprise IT environments, through which over a third of US GDP flowed daily. With 40 years of experience, Paul has held leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, and Dell, and has extensive M&A expertise. A microprocessor designer by training, he holds patents in integrated circuit and computer design and earned engineering degrees from Cornell University. Based in Austin, Texas, Paul actively supports STEM education and diversity initiatives.