Spec to Reality - the oneAPI Story

Alison Richards - Intel/Director, oneAPI Initiative

Alison Richards is a director at Intel Corporation, focused on the oneAPI Initiative and Community Forum. She has held a variety of marketing and business development leadership roles during her tenure at Intel. Alison was part of many start-up activities within Intel including Intel’s original advertising team, Intel Software Developer Relations and Intel Capital. She has overseen go-to-market strategies for technologies that have helped change and define our world, including making wireless ubiquitous, the introduction of classmate PCs, Intel’s mobile tablets for both Windows and Android, and driving Internet of Things marketing. Previously, Alison worked at The Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) selling Unix Software to Pacific, Asia and Latin America. Alison has a global world view and speaks 5-7 languages. She sits on the board of How Women Lead Silicon Valley Branch and is also on the International Advisory Council for the Civil Society C20 engagement group on Technology, Security and Transparency.

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.