Invited speakers

Frédéric Parienté is a director in the Solutions Architecture and Engineering group at NVIDIA, focusing on HPC and AI adoption in European higher education and supercomputing. He oversees the NVIDIA AI Technology Center in EMEA, promoting AI research and education. Previously, he spent 18 years at Sun Microsystems–Oracle, serving as Regional Director of ISV Engineering. Frederic holds degrees from ENSTA Paris, University of Illinois, and Université Paris Dauphine.

Sergio Perez is a solution architect at NVIDIA who specializes in the training and inference of LLMs. Sergio works alongside AI developers in public supercomputer centers and sectors such as energy, automotive, finance, telecommunications, and internet services. He has contributed to production applications of LLMs covering RAG systems, optimization of inference servers, pretraining of LLMs from scratch, custom evaluation of LLMs, or quantization using FP8 formats. Sergio holds a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from Imperial College London.