Satoshi Matsuoka – Director, RIKEN Centre for Computational Science. Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Fellow, Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Director, Joint AIST-Tokyo Tech Open Innovation Lab on Real World Big Data Computing

Mark Seager, PhD. Intel Fellow, Director of HPC Strategy, Intel Inc. USA. Mark leads Scale out strategy for Intel’s Exascale Computing

Vic Crone, CEO, Callaghan Innovation – New Zealand’s Government Innovation Agency. Auckland, New Zealand.

Ruud van der Pas – Snr Principal Engineer, Linux Application Performance Specialist, Oracle, Inc. Santa Clara, California, USA / Netherlands

Ariel Hendel, Infrastructure Technologist, Facebook, Inc. Menlo Park, USA.

Jim Ang, PhD. Chief Scientist for Computing, Dept of Energy, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA

Karen Schramm, Vice President, Architecture. Broadcom, Inc. Boston, USA

Prof Ian Foster, Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Lab – Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago, USA