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Nicolás Erdödy founded Open Parallel in 2010 as a strategic R&D consultancy, specializing in next-gen high-tech ecosystems. OP has delivered bespoke tech projects and business and market development strategies for dozens of clients internationally. A globally distributed company, OP was officially selected by the New Zealand government in 2012 to contribute to the computing platform of the Square Kilometre Array radiotelescope project (SKA). Core knowledge developed for the SKA is behind OP’s decadal project “Whakarongo ki te Whenua” ("Listen to the Land") — a massive platform concept for NZ’s Agritech and primary sector.

Nicolás led the first Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing BoF at SC23 and was a planning committee member for SC21. Nicolás is the Multicore World conference director. He holds a Master of Entrepreneurship from the Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand, and studied hydraulics (and Fortran) at the University of the Republic Faculty of Engineering, Montevideo.
Presentations
Birds of a Feather
TP
XO/EX