As Vertiv’s AI business leader in Asia, Alvin focuses on forging strategic partnerships with key GPU chip vendors and IT vendors, fostering a strong AI ecosystem partnership with key Vertiv customers. Alvin has deep knowledge of AI trends and technologies, striving to tell Vertiv’s AI story to a broad network of customers and industry leaders. Collaborate with Nvidia’s Sales Team across the regions to provide a end-to-end discussion into adopting AI ready Data Center.

Previously, Alvin heads up Vertiv’s Micro Data Center Business in Asia. In this role, he was instrumental in driving adoption of Core to Edge technologies across the regions, enabling, training, and certifying regional partners to market Vertiv Edge solutions.

Antonio Córcoles is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Quantum. He earned his PhD in physics at Royal Holloway University of London. During his doctoral studies, he worked under the guidance of Professor John Saunders, focusing on superfluid 3He in restricted geometries. After completing his PhD, Antonio moved on to a Postdoct position at the Cavendish Laboratory, UK, where he worked with Professor Sir Michael Pepper on hyperfine interactions in quantum wires. In 2010, he joined IBM as a Postdoct, becoming a Research Staff member in 2014 and a Principal Research Scientist in 2023. At IBM, he has worked on various aspects of quantum information processing with superconducting qubits, including materials, gates and measurements, validation, verification and benchmarks, quantum error correction, and quantum machine learning. Antonio is currently leading the integration of HPC and Quantum computing at IBM Quantum.

Raghu Nambiar is a Corporate Vice President at AMD where he leads a global engineering team responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and execution for AMD’s datacenter business. Prior to joining AMD, as the CTO of the Cisco UCS business he played an instrumental role in accelerating the growth of Cisco UCS to a top datacenter-compute platform. At Hewlett-Packard, where Raghu spent his early years as a technology leader, he was responsible for several industry-first and disruptive technology solutions and a decade of performance benchmark leadership. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, 15 books in Lecture Series in Computer Science (LNCS) and holds ten patents with several pending. He holds dual Master’s degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University, and an advanced management program from Stanford University.

Ben is a Senior Director of HPC & AI Marketing in the global Product & Solutions Marketing team at HPE, with over 35 years of supercomputing experience. Ben focuses on understanding customer needs, both in the public sector and in the Supercomputing and AI Industries, ensuring HPE solutions are well-defined and appropriate. Ben also works with HPE corporate affairs on HPE’s relevance in Science and Research both in the UK and Europe. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre, a PhD in Control Engineering and Bachelor’s in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.

April Chen is a Senior Manager in Lenovo ISG Product Group with primary focus in Supercomputing Systems. Based in Taipei, Taiwan and enjoy working with the HPC community all over the world. She has been with IBM/Lenovo for 12 years with experience from technical project management to product management.

For more than 25 years I have been focused on the methods and technologies needed to store, manage, and protect extreme volumes of primarily unstructured data in industries such as HPC (high-performance computing), AI, M&E, Life Sciences, Research & Higher Education, and so on. Currently I am VP of Product Marketing at Hammerspace, a role that bridges the company’s technical product teams and outbound marketing teams.

Otto Chow is the Technical Solutions Specialist whose sector covers HPC, cloud and enterprise customers in APAC region. Otto and his teammates focus on enabling Intel data center technologies and products to cloud service providers, internet companies and enterprises in the region. The goal is to influence and ensure the customers and the partners make good use of Intel data center technologies and products.

Marshall Choy is Senior Vice President of Product at SambaNova Systems and is responsible for product management and go-to-market operations. Marshall has extensive experience leading global organizations to bring breakthrough products to market, establish new market presences, and grow new and existing lines of business. Marshall was previously Vice President of Product Management at Oracle until 2018. He was responsible for the portfolio and strategy for Oracle Systems products and solutions. He led teams that delivered comprehensive end-to-end hardware and software solutions and product management operations. Prior to joining Oracle in 2010 when it acquired Sun Microsystems, he served as Director of Engineered Solutions at Sun. During his 11 years there, Marshall held various positions in development, information technology, and marketing.

Ian Colle serves as the General Manager of Advanced Computing and Simulation at AWS, which comprises all scientific/technical computing and simulation workloads. He joined AWS as the General Manager for High Performance Computing in November 2017. Prior to AWS, Mr. Colle served as the Global Director of Software Engineering for the Ceph Storage team at Red Hat, which he joined in April 2014 via the Inktank acquisition, where he held a similar role. Prior to Inktank, Mr. Colle was the Exascale Storage I/O Program Manager at Intel, which he joined as part of the Whamcloud acquisition. Prior to Whamcloud, he spent several years in a variety of software engineering leadership positions throughout the aerospace industry. Mr. Colle retired from the US Navy Reserve in 2018, after 28 years as an Intelligence Officer and Russian Linguist. He holds a BA Economics from the University of Illinois, MCIS & MTEL from University of Denver, MA Philosophy from Denver Seminary, and MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Matthew Hardman is a passionate advocate for the possibilities that can be realized at the intersection of people and advanced technologies. Matthew currently holds the role as Vice President for Technical Sales across the Asia Pacific region, where he champions the development of a team of technical professionals in addition to leading the creation and execution of strategies to address customer needs to accelerate value realization and competitive advantage. Matthew has held leadership positions in Microsoft, VMware and other technology companies in the Asia Pacific region. When he has spare time, Matthewloves to contribute to the body of knowledge of personal productivity and technology in forums such as LinkedIn and Medium, in addition to practicing how to fall off skateboards with grace.

As Global CTO, Data Intelligence & Strategic Pursuits, Jason brings 20+ years of technology experience solving the most complicated data driven problems for the world’s largest organizations, including digital transformation, object storage technology, artificial intelligence, & high-performance data analytics.

Hermanni programmed a quantum computer for the first time nearly a decade ago, and has been shaping the direction of quantum computer architectures at IQM since 2020. At IQM he has developed the IQM star processor concept and developed the algorithmic benchmarking protocols the company is using. In his current role as Head of Product he is leading the productisation of commercially available quantum computers, and making sure the company’s roadmap delivers value to the quantum computing community.

Mr Chin-Fah Heoh, is the Head of Systems Engineering team for ASEAN. He leads the team of Solutions Architects and engages with high performance storage solutions for AI and HPC customers.

Chin-Fah has been in the storage technology and data management industry for over 30 years. He has held technology leading positions with well-known enterprise storage organizations, and has volunteered as the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Chairperson for the Malaysian Chapter, and was a member of the SNIA Technical Council.

He frequently engages with the worldwide storage technology community and is an avid blogger on all-things storage and data management. He blogs at http://storagegaga.com.

Lam Kuet Loong has over two decades of experience in the technology industry and has spent most of his career as a customer-trusted advisor with EMC, HPE, and Dell. He has a proven track record in IT infrastructure design and operation of IT infrastructure solutions. With over two decades of experience, Lam has demonstrated expertise in devising and architecting a secure and efficient cloud infrastructure solution that provides a strong foundation for diverse organizations in their digital transformation journey into multi-cloud. Lam has extensive experience working with large enterprises and government agencies to design cloud-like high-availability infrastructure, data protection, and various infrastructure technologies.

Dr Nan Hu is a senior principal solutions engineer with SambaNova Systems, primarily serving our customers in the APAC region. Before joining SambaNova, he had more than 13 years of professional experience in big data and AI with market leaders such as Databricks and Alibaba Cloud. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

Yasuo Ishii is a Fellow at Tenstorrent in RISC-V CPU Architecture. At present, his primary focus lies in the development of Tenstorrent’ first high-performance RISC-V CPU architecture, as well as the architecture of the next generation. Prior to Tenstorrent, he worked at Arm and NEC. At Arm, he took charge of leading the front-end microarchitecture and RTL, pioneering novel performance features for Arm’s highest performance CPU lines including Cortex-A, Cortex-X, and Neoverse series. At NEC, he worked on the architecture, the microarchitecture, and RTL of their SX series vector processors. He led the transformation of classical standalone proprietary computers into a modern accelerator seamlessly adaptable to the existing x86 ecosystem. He also has a rich portfolio of published papers and patents for CPU architecture. His paper for front-end design won Best Paper at ISPASS 2021/ He has also won micro architecture competitions in areas such as data prefetching, branch predictors, and memory access scheduling, He has over 20 granted US patents and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo.

Dennis Juan is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of professional experience in technology sales and business development. As the Associate Vice President heading QCT’s regional office in Singapore, he has been pivotal in forging successful partnerships and supporting its customers’ business success in cloud, HPC/AI, and 5G through QCT’s innovative technologies and solutions.

Dennis previously served as the Vice President and Co-founder of Valuepotion at Kakao Corp., driving significant growth of its PaaS business in APAC. During his tenure at Opera Software as Technical Account Director, he played a major role in onboarding leading telco partners across key countries in Southeast Asia and expanding the regional market share of Opera’s mobile internet solution.

Dennis’s career is a blend of strategic insights and expertise, he remains at the forefront of the ever-evolving technology landscape.

Dr Subramanian Kartik has been the Vice President of Systems Engineering at VAST Data since January of 2020, running the global presales organization. An accomplished technologist and executive in the industry, he has a wide array of experience in Cloud Architectures, AI/Machine Learning/Deep Learning, as well as in the Life Sciences, covering high-performance computing and storage. He is an expert in Generative AI and has worked for 3 years with NVIDIA on GPU Direct Storage, BasePOD and SuperPOD architectures – especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) and other modern technology. He has had a lifelong deep passion for studying complex problems in all spheres spanning both workloads and infrastructure at the vanguard of current day technology.

Prior to his work at VAST Data, he was with EMC (later Dell) for two decades, as both a Distinguished Engineer and global executive running the Converged and Hyperconverged Division go-to-market. He has a Ph.D in Particle Physics with over 75 publications and 3 patents to his credit over the years. He enjoys mathematics, jazz, cooking and travelling with his family in his non-existent spare time.

Experienced Solutions Architect with a focus on Government, Education, and Retail sectors. Deep expertise in GPU cloud computing and AI, enabling the design and implementation of effective and innovative solutions.

Dr Jin-Sung Kim is a Developer Relations Manager for quantum computing at NVIDIA and leads partnerships and alliances. Prior to NVIDIA, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Quantum. Dr Kim holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science from Princeton University and is based out of San Francisco

Ritesh is Software Sales Strategist for Intel Software Developer Tools covering HPC, ISV,GSI, enterprise, industrial segments for oneAPI in APJ & India. Ritesh & his team work with developers to optimize the workloads & improve the performace using oneAPI Toolkits on IA platform. Organise the workshop & trainings on oneAPI Toolkits.

Roshan is the Director of AI Specialty Presales Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater China at Dell Technologies.
He has over 24 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in data management, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.
He leads a team of specialty engineers who work with customers to design and implement solutions that address their data management challenges and enable them to leverage AI and ML to generate insights and value from their data.
Roshan is passionate about helping customers transform their businesses with innovative technologies and best practices.
At Dell Technologies, Roshan has architected and implemented complex data management, data protection and software-Defined Storage solutions for Dell Technologies large enterprises involving multiple solutions.
He is well known in the industry for his hands-on knowledge and domain expertise

Ujjwal Kumar is a Principal Architect in the Office of the CTO, Microsoft Asia, specializing in AI, ML, Agentic AI, quantum computing, and quantum-safe technologies. With 22 years of experience across diverse industries, he collaborates with strategic customers to drive digital transformation. Ujjwal co-leads Microsoft’s internal, global Quantum Computing community and is an Azure Quantum & Quantum Safe Ambassador. Academically, he holds a master’s degree in IT Leadership from NUS, Singapore, and professional certifications in Quantum Computing from MIT, USA, and Delft University, Netherlands.

Dr Masaaki Kondo received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2003. He is currently the Team Leader of the Next-Generation High-Performance Architecture Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science. He also serves as a Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Keio University. He has been leading one of the Feasibility Study projects on Next-Generation Supercomputing Infrastructures, funded by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). He will be serving the project leader for the research and development project of the next-generation Japanese national flagship supercomputer.

Felix Leclair is a Field Application Engineer at Tenstorrent that is building libraries, tools, and more for AI and classical HPC on RISC-V and dedicated accelerators.

Dr Bill Nitzberg, Chief Scientist at Altair, brings a unique, decades-long perspective spanning both the commercial and the research computing fields. Dr Nitzberg’s accomplishments include serving on the board of the Open Grid Forum, co-architecting NASA’s Information Power Grid, editing the MPI-2 I/O standard, leading the founding team that created the PBS job scheduling technology, and publishing numerous papers on distributed shared memory, parallel I/O, PC clustering, job scheduling, and cloud computing. When not focused on technology, Bill trains in the hills of the Monterey peninsula of California to improve his running economy for his long-distance running adventures.

Dr Werner Scholz is CTO and Head of R&D at XENON Systems, a consultancy, solutions and services provider for High Performance Computing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, data storage and data management solutions. Werner is leading a team of dedicated, experienced, and highly skilled solutions architects and engineers working on systems for some of the largest supercomputing, AI, cloud, and research institutes in Australia and the APAC region. Werner graduated with Master’s and PhD degrees in Physics from the Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria, where he developed a widely used MPI parallel open-source simulation package for magnetic materials. Before joining XENON Systems, Werner led a team of engineers at Seagate Technology in the US where he developed Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording technologies for next generation hard disk drives and managed Seagate’s HPC infrastructure.

Robert has been working in HPC sector since early 2000 when Beowulf Cluster emerging and become the main architecture for HPC and Parallel computing. He has been working as Solution Architect in pursuing HPC projects. He took HPC BD role and covering Asia region from 2010. He is now at AMD as a BD of GPUBU for Asia region to enable ODM/OEM partners platform development.

Elvira Shishenina is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Quantinuum, where she leads global efforts to explore industrial pathways to quantum advantage. She brings a wealth of experience from her pioneering work at BMW Group, where she spearheaded quantum computing research for material simulation, and at TotalEnergies, where she contributed to innovations for sustainable energy. Elvira holds a PhD in Mathematics from French Inria and is an alumna of the prestigious École Polytechnique in Paris.

Abhishek is the Head of Security Engineering (SE) at Check Point Software Technologies in Singapore. In this role, he leads and mentors a team of security engineers, serving a myriad of clients including government, enterprise, and commercial sectors. His primary responsibilities include aligning and formulating cyber security technical strategies and managing customer queries and issues whilst driving business growth in Singapore.

As a trusted cybersecurity advisor, Abhishek ensures high customer satisfaction through ongoing field support. His role emphacises maintaining robust client relationships and delivering expert guidance on cybersecurity trends and solutions and is a prominent and respected security spokesperson at key industry events in Singapore.

Nikkesh is an expert in CAE and HPC, helping businesses optimize simulation workflows and cloud adoption. With a background in engineering simulations, he transitioned into cloud-based HPC, guiding organizations in scaling workloads and enhancing performance.

Dr Robby Tan is the Chief Scientist at ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services and an Associate Professor (on leave) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research primarily focuses on Artificial Intelligence, particularly in generative AI, deep learning, and computer vision. He received his PhD from The University of Tokyo and was previously affiliated with the Australian National University, Imperial College London, and Utrecht University. Dr. Robby Tan actively publishes and regularly serves as an Area Chair for top AI conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, and ECCV, among others.

Steve Tolnai is the Group Manager and Chief Technologist in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers business across Asia Pacific & Japan. In this position, he is responsible for all aspects of High Performance Computing technical strategy within Asia Pacific & Japan.

Steve manages the Technical and Solutions team for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence encompassing Scientific Research, Financial Services Industry, Life and Material Sciences, Computer Automated Engineering, Government and Defence, Oil and Gas, Digital Content Creation and Electronic Design Automation.

Steve’s prior role was Principle Architect for HPC in Asia Pacific, where he architected the largest Life Science Supercomputers in Australia, Korea and Singapore also including the largest Supercomputer in Asia Pacific (ex Japan) in Australia and the largest Supercomputer in Asia Pacific.

In his 30+ years at Digital, Compaq, HP and HPE he has worked as a member of the Technical Sales and Marketing divisions where he has been involved with IT consulting to major corporations and governments in the areas of UNIX/Linux, Windows and VMS; using VAX, Alpha, x86 and NVIDIA architectures.

Tuck specializes in engaging and empowering both internal and external stakeholders on the (HPC AI) high-performance compute and AI applications. He works closely with customers and partners alike through enablement efforts and addressing their technical requirements into solutioning. Collaborate with Nvidia’s Presales Team across the regions to provide a end-to-end discussion into adopting AI ready Data Center.

Tuck has been rooted into Thermal Solution and now more so ever into HPC AI liquid coooing into full solution. To providing consultancy and technical expertise and focus on high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. He has joined Vertiv as being in a Thermal and Micro Data Center product manager and now for HPC AI solution lead.

Andrew Underwood is a technology leader and system theorist who orchestrates the Dell Technologies high performance computing, quantum and artificial intelligence go to market in Asia Pacific, Japan, and China.
As the Chief Technology Officer for Dell Technologies in the region, Andrew works hand-in-hand with industrial, academic and government clients, with the focus on building the computational foundations critical to their scientific advancement and global economic competitiveness.

His personal and professional interests include high performance computing hardware and software design, covering; numerical processors, quantum processing units, central processing units, neuromorphic processors, graphics processing units, low-latency networking devices, and parallel filesystems, as well as the IO and math libraries that support them.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in server and storage technology. He possesses extensive knowledge of the Supermicro product portfolio for more than 15 years, covering high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and enterprise data center solutions. His extensive industry experience, combined with his strategic mindset and technical depth, makes him a key player in driving innovation, business growth, and thought leadership in the IT sector.