oneAPI State of the Union
The oneAPI ecosystem continues to grow and gain traction. Hear how the ecosystem is expanding and how users are taking advantage of the power of oneAPI. See demos of real-world solutions from companies like Beewant, Weaviate, and as well as impactful open source projects like Ginkgo and more. Understand how the community and industry is extending its support of oneAPI through its implementation of the open standard. Learn where oneAPI is, where it is going, and how you can contribute and drive the oneAPI standard and solutions to maximize value for you, the developer.
Speaker(s)
Tony Mongkolsmai - Intel/Software Architect and Technical Evangelist
Tony is a software architect and technical evangelist at Intel. He has 20 years of industry experience designing, implementing and leading production grade software solutions. He was a lead architect for Intel’s performance tools team. He also led an engineering team that designed and implemented a Cloud Native, scale out AI Data Center for Intel. He also was part of the group that successfully proposed the creation of a Sustainability Technical Advisory Group for the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF).
Sebastian Witalec - Weaviate/Developer Relations
Sebastian Witalec is the head of Developer Relations at Weaviate. He loves working on both serious and fun projects, and one day he will use his robot army to conquer the world.
He is always happy to learn about new stuff and to pass the knowledge as far as his voice (or the wire) can take him. Sebastian is based in Copenhagen, actively working with various Dev communities across Europe. When not acting techie, he is a massive football fan/player (probably bigger at heart than in skills).
Ahmed Joudad - Beewant/Ceo & Founder
Ahmed Joudad is the founder of Beewant, a data platform that provides high-quality training data to companies building AI applications. He spent most of his career working for a global provider of financial market data and infrastructure. He’s always had a passion for technology, particularly AI and machine learning. Ahmed believes that the key to unlocking the full potential of AI is to provide companies with clean, accurate data that would enable their algorithms to learn and improve.
Ahmed is based in Paris and is a passionate golfer in his free time.
Hartwig Anzt - University of Tennessee & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Director & Senior Research Scientist
Hartwig Anzt is the Director of the Innovative Computing Lab (ICL) and professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee. He also holds a Senior Research Scientist position at Steinbuch Centre for Computing at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he previously held a Junior Professorship in the Faculty of Computer Science. Hartwig holds a PhD in applied mathematics and specializes in iterative methods and preconditioning techniques for the next generation hardware architectures. He also has a long track record of high-quality development. He is author of the MAGMA-sparse open source software package and managing lead of the Ginkgo math software library. Hartwig is the PI of Software Technology (ST) projects that are part of the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP), including a coordinated effort aimed at integrating low-precision functionality into high-accuracy simulation codes. He is also a PI in the EuroHPC Project MICROCARD.
Rafael Lago - Intel/ Technical Consulting Engineer
Rafael Lago has his Computer Science PhD with a strong academic background. He has worked in research institutes in Brazil, Canada, France and Germany and is specialized in numerical linear algebra and MPI. He has applied his expertise on seismology, geophysics, plasma physics and applied mathematics applications. In January 2022, Rafael joined Intel as a TCE in EMEA’s Team.
