Jean-Pierre Panziera the Chief Technology Director for High Performance Computing at Eviden, an Atos business. He joined Bull, now part of Eviden, in 2009, and is responsible for the development of the HPC/AI high-end systems. He started his career at Elf-Aquitaine as a research developer for seismic processing. After a couple of startups in the Silicon Valley, he worked for 20 years at SGI where he held various position in the USA and in Europe, first as an HPC application specialist and later as Chief Engineer. He is also the Chairman of the ETP4HPC association which represents the HPC ecosystem in Europe and he is a member of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Governing Board. Jean-Pierre holds an engineer degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris.