Addison Snell is the CEO of Intersect360 Research and a veteran of the High Performance Computing industry. He launched the company in 2007 as Tabor Research, a division of Tabor Communications, and served as that company’s VP/GM until he and his partner, Christopher Willard, Ph.D., acquired Tabor Research in 2009. During his tenure, Addison has established Intersect360 Research as a premier source of market information, analysis, and consulting. He was named one of 2010’s “People to Watch” by HPCwire.

Addison was previously an HPC industry analyst for IDC, where he was well-known among industry stakeholders. Prior to IDC, he gained recognition as a marketing leader and spokesperson for SGI’s supercomputing products and strategy. Addison holds a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jonathan Gardner is the Chief of the Observational Cosmology Lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Deputy Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. He leads a group that studies the Universe as a whole, from its dramatic beginnings in the Big Bang, to the mysterious dark energy that will determine its future. The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, will look backwards in time to find the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, to trace their evolution into galaxies like our own Milky Way, and to connect the formation of stars and planets with the history of our own Solar System.

Gardner attended graduate school at the University of Hawaii, earning a Master’s degree and then a PhD in Astronomy in 1992, studying the evolution of galaxies using infrared observations. Following graduate school, Gardner won a NSF-NATO Fellowship to pursue his research at the University of Durham in England. In 1996 he returned to Goddard to work with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, a camera that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997.

Prof. Jakoah Brgoch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a Principal Investigator in the Texas Center of Superconductivity. Jakoah also has a courtesy appointment in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and he is a member of the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute. Jakoah completed his bachelors and masters in Chemistry from Illinois State University followed by his Ph.D. from Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory under the supervision of Gordon Miller followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Materials Research Laboratory with Ram Seshadri. Jakoah is now leading a multidisciplinary research group with research topics ranging from the development of persistent luminescent materials for bio-imaging to understanding the mechanical response in superhard materials all through a combination of materials synthesis, characterization, first-principles computation, and machine learning. He has published more than 85 peer-reviewed papers, earned a 2019 NSF CAREER research award, and is a 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry.

William (Bill) Magro is Chief Technologist for High Performance Computing at Google, where he drives HPC strategy and customer success for Google Cloud. Prior to Google, he spent 20 years at Intel, where he was Intel Fellow and Chief Technologist for HPC. At Intel, he served as a key strategist and driver for Intel’s HPC business, with a focus on software, solutions, and emerging technologies and trends, including HPC/Cloud and Exascale Computing.

A recognized leader in the InfiniBand industry, Magro helped found the OpenFabrics Alliance and served as InfiniBand Trade Association Technical Working Group co-chair from 2007-2020. Magro has been a prominent voice in the HPC community for over two decades and regularly participates and presents in HPC conferences, advisory boards, and panels.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Scott Crowder is currently Vice President, IBM Quantum and Chief Technical Officer, Technical Strategy for IBM Systems. His responsibilities include leading the commercialization effort for quantum computers, driving the strategic direction across the hardware and software-defined systems portfolio, leading the agile and Design Thinking transformation, and accelerating innovation within development through special projects. Previously, Scott was Vice President, Technical Strategy within IBM Corporate Strategy. In this role, he helped define the cross-IBM technical strategy for cloud infrastructure, workload optimized systems, Big Data and Analytics, composable services, software-defined infrastructure and cognitive solutions. Scott joined IBM in 1995 and was the lead engineer on the industry’s first logic-based embedded DRAM technology before serving in a variety of executive management roles within the semiconductor research and development organization. Scott received A.B./Sc.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and International Relations from Brown University and a M.A. in Economics and M.Sc./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Earl J. Dodd is World Wide Technology’s Global HPC Business Practice Leader for HPC. Earl provides HPC/HPDA/Supercomputing strategy, technology enablement, business development, and marketing and sales support to WWT’s global enterprises and governments. He helps achieve a customer’s desired ROI by leveraging HPC technology, extreme data in motion, and the Cloud on secure ultra-scale architectures and collaboration environments. This effort drives the next generation of computationally steered workflows in decision support environments for real-time situational awareness and institutional learning. Earl has over 42 years of experience in HPC and Supercomputing and has helped and lead commercial enterprises, professional organizations, and government positions. He is a frequent speaker and expert panelist at national and international trade shows, conferences, and marketing events.