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Jean-Marc Denis
Biography
Jean-Marc Denis is VP Sales, HPC and Cloud Solutions at Viridien SAS. He is a renowned high-performance computing (HPC) expert. He joined Viridien (formerly CGG) at the end of 2022 to create the HPC/AI Cloud Solutions business activities. Previously, he was Head of Strategy, Big Data and Security within the Atos Group. As such, he contributed to the launch in December 2018 of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium and was president of EPI since its inception. After starting as a research engineer at Matra Défense in 1990, Jean-Marc held various strategic positions in the HPC ecosystem at Silicon Graphics, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Bull, where he launched the HPC business activities in 2004.

Passionate about the architecture of supercomputers, for several years Jean-Marc taught courses dedicated to students in Master 2 in computer science at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. Jean-Marc holds an engineering degree from ENSEEIHT.