Invited Panel Speakers

Mónica López

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Education HPC Panel

Panel Moderator

BIO 

Psychologist, Specialist in Human Talent Management, with 22 years of work experience, in the development of processes that respond to the strategic needs of the company, aligned with the business objectives, management and management of the ICT population. She has been HR Manager and Education and Talent Executive, developing programs to support Education, transformation and transition, as well as the recognition of employability opportunities, with the help of academic entities in the country and raising awareness among the ICT population in the knowledge of the different macro-technologies and with a focus on Customized Solutions and Services, in IBM of Colombia, its subsidiary and in Everis of Colombia.

Today she is General Director at VINNOVA SAS, supporting the development of Digital Business Environments (Business Models for the development of a Digital Transformation, Development of Human Technology Appropriation Models and Digital Population Development).

She is president of the Sectoral Table of Technology and Digital Talent Management in Colombia, as well as of the IT Council of which the 4 Sectoral Tables are part: BPO-KPO-ITO, Telecommunications, Digital Industries and Technology Management. She is also part of the CUEES (University, Business, State, Society Committee). She was Academic Director of RENATA, she is considered one of the Colombian women leaders in digital transformation and supported the creation of the Colombian Advanced Computing Network #LaRedCCA from RENATA)

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Nicolás Erdödy

Open Parallel

Industry Panel

Panel Moderator

BIO

Nicolás Erdödy founded Open Parallel Ltd in 2010 as a strategic R&D consultancy, specialised in next-gen high-tech ecosystems. A globally distributed company, Open Parallel was officially selected by the New Zealand Government in 2012 for the co-funded contribution to the computing platform of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) – the largest civil scientific and engineering instrument in the world. 

Core knowledge developed for the SKA is behind Open Parallel’s new decadal project "Whakarongo ki te Whenua" (Listen to the Land - L2L) – a massive platform concept for New Zealand’s Agritech and primary sector, which Nicolás will present at CARLA2023 under the paper "What does a Nation-wide Digital Nervous System use of an Operating System?".

Nicolás was a PC Member of PAISE2021 (Parallel AI & Systems for the Edge) and SC21 (SuperComputing 2021), and will lead the BoF session "Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing" at SC23 in Denver, USA in November 2023. 

Nicolás has been the Conference Director of the Multicore World series of conferences since 2011. He holds a Master of Entrepreneurship from the School of Business of University of Otago, New Zealand and studied Hydraulics (and Fortran) at the School of Engineering of Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, and can ask for a beer in five human languages.

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Salma Jalife Villalón

SCALAC / Mexico Connect

EuroHPCLatam Panel

Panel Moderator

She was undersecretary of Communications and Technological Development of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) since 2018 to 2020, Salma Jalife Villalón has a deep knowledge of the Mexican telecommunications sector.

In 1990, she designed and implemented for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) one of the largest private telecommunications networks in Latin America. Two years later he joined the SCT where he participates in the installation of the Private Network for the Mexican government and as head of the General Coordination of International Affairs becomes the main negotiator of regulatory matters for the Secretariat.

Prior to her appointment at the SCT, she worked as Coordinator of International Affairs at the University Corporation for Internet Development, A.C. (CUDI) and in the National Research and Education Network of Mexico (NREM).

Jalife is a member of the Academy of Engineering (AI), the Mexican Academy of Information Technology (AMIAC) and the Mexican Network of Supercomputing (REDMEXSU), and has a Master's degree in Sciences with a specialty in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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