Past Event
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The Society of HPC Professionals past event
Annual Meeting – December 2019
Society of HPC Professionals Annual Meeting
Held 5 December 2019
Come network with our members and sponsors at the Society of HPC Professionals annual meeting and hear great speakers from the HPC community.
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Agenda
| 9:30am | Registration & Networking |
| 10:30 | Kick off – Steve Lutz, HPC Society President |
| 10:45 | Welcome to WesternGeco and Safety moment – Schlumberger Kannan Venkataraman, Director Information Technology & Data Management |
| 10:50 | Schlumberger Cyber Security, Intro to GAIA, WesternGeco’s open digital platform for subsurface Petro-technical data and demo Daniel Alvarado, Marcom Specialist |
| 11:15 | Keynote address – HPC & AI Market Update Addison Snell, CEO Intersect360 Research |
| 12:15 | Lunch & Networking |
| 1:00 | Sponsor update – HPE Data Science Institute Martin Huarte, Associate Director of HPE Data Science Institute & HPC Society Executive Director |
| 1:00 | HPC/HPDA/AI/ML/DL: Many Acronyms, One Future Earl Dodd, Global Technical Solutions Architect, HPC, World Wide Technology (WWT) |
| 2:15 | Sponsor update – Intel Noe Garcia, Global Account Executive |
| 2:45 | Wrap up – Steve Lutz, HPC Society President |
Location:
WesternGeco / Schlumberger
10001 Richmond Avenue
Houston, TX 77042