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Speakers 2024

30+ Distinguished Speakers confirmed for Multicore World 2024.

Updated 3 February 2024.

Robert Wisniewski

Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of HPC, Head of Samsung’s SAIT Systems Architecture Lab, US.

Karen Willcox, MNZM

Director, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin. US/New Zealand.

Satoshi Matsuoka

Director, Riken – Center for Computational Science (R-CCS). Prof., Tokyo Inst. Japan.

Douglas Kothe

Chief Research Officer, Sandia National Laboratories. US.

Estela Suárez

Head of Next Generation Architectures and Prototypes Group, Jülich Supercomputing Center. Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Ian Foster

Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow. Director, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. US/New Zealand.

Manish Parashar

SCI Institute Director and Presidential Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah. US.

Ilkay Altintas

Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, California, US.

Ruud van der Pas

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Linux Engineering. The Netherlands.

Thuc Hoang

Director, Office of Advanced Simulation & Computing and Institutional R&D Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration -NNSA, DoE, US.

Adrian Cockcroft

Partner, OrionX. Former VP, AWS. Former Cloud Architect, Netflix. US.

Elle Archer

Chair – Te Matarau – The Māori Tech Association, New Zealand

Andrew Jones

Leader, Future Supercomputing & AI Capabilities, Microsoft.

William Magro

Chief Technologist, High Performance Computing, Google. US.

Fernanda Foertter

Director of HPC, Voltron Data. US

Pete Beckman

Director, Northwestern University / Argonne Lab Institute for Science and Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory. US.

John Reid

Programme Leader – Kaitiaki Intelligence Platforms. New Zealand

David Brebner

Founder, CEO, Umajin. Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Ron Brightwell

Department Manager, Scalable Systems Group, Sandia National Laboratories. US.

Ewa Deelman

Research Director, Science Automation Technologies Division at Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. US.

Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda

Professor & University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University. Director of the NSF-AI Institute, ICICLE. US.

Rob Lindeman

Professor / Director, HIT Lab NZ. University of Canterbury. New Zealand

Jess Robertson

Chief Scientist, Data Science & HPC, NIWA, New Zealand.

Will Kamp

Consulting HPC, FPGA Engineer – SKA Central Signal Processors, Kamputed Ltd. New Zealand.

Jim Ang

Chief Scientist for Computing in the Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). US.

Alok Choudhary

Harold Washington Professor, ECE and CS Department, Northwestern University. US.

Adolfy Hoisie

Chair, Computing for National Security Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, US.

Duncan Hall

ICT Strategy and Planning Manager, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade -MFAT. Wellington, New Zealand.

Nicolás Erdödy

Director, Open Parallel Ltd – Project Leader, Listen to the Land. New Zealand.

Vicki Compton

Principal Adviser, Regional Economic Development, Agriculture & Investment Services at Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). Wellington, New Zealand.

Simon Hammond

Federal Program Manager, Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing & Institutional Research and Development Program, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy, US.

Jay Whitehead

Director, Matatihi. New Zealand

Dan Stanzione

Executive Director TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) – US