Andrea Lazzaro, an accomplished engineer specialized in industrial and IT air-conditioning, began his career shortly after earning his Mechanical Engineering degree-with a focus on Thermal Engineering - from Padova University and obtaining his state qualification in 1999. He first honed his skills in technical support at BlueBox Group, where his hands-on involvement with diverse cooling systems laid the foundation for his subsequent career.

For more than 25 years, Volodymyr Saviak delivers IT infrastructure solutions on the Central Eastern European market, focusing on High Performance Computing, Big Data, Storage and recently Artificial Intelligence at Scale. Volodymyr is helping organizations understand how to build and implement cutting-edge technical computing solutions focused on highest performance and scalability. For the development of the First Ukrainian Supercomputer Center and the Ukrainian HPC community, he was awarded Ukraine’s Parliament Highest Honor Award.

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.

Slavko Žitnik is a Vice-dean for Education at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Computer and Information Science. He is also a president of Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA, president of Slovenian Association for Language Technologies, and member of supervisory board at AKOS. He is researching in the broader field of natural language processing, more precisely he is interested into semantic web, information retrieval, information extraction, data spaces and information systems.

Andy Grant is the Director of Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence for the Higher Education and Research sector in the EMEA region at NVIDIA. He is responsible for driving the company's business activities in this market. His career in scientific computing spans more than three decades, having held similar positions at SIG/Cray, IBM, and Atos/Eviden.

Master of Engineering in Technical computing and computer science (Polytech Paris), '88, Marc Simon began his career as a developer of real-time simulators. He joined the service company Marben and worked for Thomson as a developer, Unix system programmer and project manager for real-time visual simulators. Between 1989 and 1992 he was part of the simulation team for the French Rafale airborne radar RBE2 as a developer of visual and real-time hardware in the loop simulations.

Boštjan Lavuger is one of the leading experts in the design and construction of data centers in Slovenia. Over two decades of work in this field, he has participated as a consultant, designer, or project manager in the planning and implementation of more than thirty data centers at home and abroad. Among other projects, he was responsible for the design and management of the construction of new data centers for the supercomputers Meister and Vega. He is a partner at the Maribor-based NTR Engineering, where he has been the Technical Director since 2009.

Tomislav Šarić is an experienced electrical engineer with an MBA from the University of Zagreb. He has built his career in key positions at leading technology and engineering companies such as SAP, EXOR, SPAN, and Emerson Network Power (now Vertiv). At Vertiv, he currently serves as the Sales Director for indirect business in the Central and Eastern Europe region, specializing in advanced cooling solutions for data centers.

Marko Grobelnik is a researcher in artificial intelligence at the Jožef Stefan Institute, co-founder of UNESCO's International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), and the executive director of Quintelligence.com. Marko is the co-author of several books, a co-founder of multiple startups, and has been involved in over 100 EU-funded research projects across various fields of AI. He represents Slovenia in OECD AI (ONE AI), the Council of Europe’s Committee on AI (CAHAI), the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and NATO (DARB).