ICT Strategy and Planning Manager – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), New Zealand Government

“COVID-19 and COTS@exascale: correlations, causation – or coincidence?”

Monday 13 February, 2:25pm – 2:45pm

Abstract

Did humankind’s confrontation with the coronavirus disease in late 2019 impact progress on delivering Commercial Off The Shelf computers that will process 10^18 floating operations per second?

Bio

ICT Strategy and Planning Manager – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), New Zealand Government.

Professional engineer, Chartered in the UK (CEng).
European Ingénieur (Eur Ing).
Specialised in:

• Informatics, i.e. digital systems designed to address business needs
• Digital systems’ risk management, including cyber risk management, and
• Governance of digital systems

MBA, University of Otago
ME (Electrical Engineering), University of Canterbury
BE (Honours)(Electrical Engineering), University of Canterbury

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