The pace of technological change is faster than ever with a digital revolution under way, enabling the transformation of manufacturing and services, reshaping entire sectors of the economy.

In such a context, the growth of ecosystems of smart machines is a foundation that is enabled by the datacenters, Edge Computing and IoT that become increasingly connected, emerging as a computing continuum.

It is a big challenge in itself to bridge the gap between the European strengths and challenges to make Europe a leader of this digital revolution. However, much more is possible when a concerted academic, research and industrial effort is developed to break out of the technological locks. It is exactly the objective of the European Processor Initiative, with 30 partners from 11 European countries cooperating, to strengthen the competitiveness and leadership of European industry and science, designing European general purpose and accelerator microprocessor technologies with extreme performance and power ratio, as well as tackling important segments of broad and emerging HPC and Cloud continuum markets.

Lecturer: Eric Monchalin - Vice-President, Head of Machine Intelligence at Atos and Chair of the European Processor Initiative. He’s responsible for solidifying new technological and business directions for the Big Data and Security Global Business Line. Eric’s career has been mainly built on numerous R&D positions in several companies, with experience in leading 100+ people organizations and managing multi tens millions of Euros projects in international environments. He is a technology-minded person who values wide range of skills and technological knowledge focused on customer wishes to turn them into reality.