Dr. E. Theodore L. Omtzigt is the founder of Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc.,
and the inventor of the Knowledge Processing Unit™.
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A prolific architect of new products at Intel, 3Dfx, and NVIDIA, he has delivered
key innovations in industry-leading products, such as the

• Observation Architecture
• Accelerated Graphics Port  (Intel),  
• first programmable pixel shader architecture (3Dfx Interactive)
• Xbox (NVIDIA)
• award winning nForce chipsets
• Tesla GPGPU products.

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With more than 20 products delivered, ranging from low-cost to high-end,
Dr. Omtzigt has the experience and creativity to lead the
industry into a new phase of workload optimized computing.

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Ms Kneitner has built multi-national, multi-disciplinary teams
to deliver world class SaaS products and services.

She has demonstrated abilities in building high-performance corporate cultures
that increase employee satisfaction, productivity and retention.

With a service record in customer support, customer success, marketing,
business and account management, she creates complex, actionable strategies
that are centered around providing an outstanding customer experience.

Empower, collaborate, amplify - these are the core management values Ms Kneitner promotes,
evidenced by industrial and academic collaborations she’s created and continues to foster,
as well as intra-organizational feedback of co-workers and mentees.  

Her guest lecture on the intersectionality of AI, High Performance Computing and Neuro Marketing
will take place during the Spring semester at Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Alongside her work at Stillwater Supercomputing and Stillwater Robotics,
she is completing her Law Degree at Sutherland School of Law in Dublin, Ireland.

Ms Kneitner holds a certificate in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults issued by Society of Saint Vincent de Paul,
has done volunteer work to help people living in direct provision and organized charity drives to aid a local no-kill animal shelter. 

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Gerry McNally is a chartered accountant and a member of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland.  
He trained in PwC and worked in a number of SMEs before setting up a company
providing outsourced accounting and finance function services to SMEs.

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He has worked extensively in the last thirty years with start-up companies in the technology and telecoms sectors.
Gerry is passionate about the importance of the SME sector to the Irish economy and works substantially
to promote Irish business both at home and abroad.

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Dr. David E. Keyes is the inaugural Dean of the Division of Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences
and Engineering (CEMSE) at KAUST, an adjunct professor in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at
Columbia University, and an affiliate of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy.

He was awarded an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989.
For his algorithmic influence in scientific simulation, Dr. Keyes was recognized
as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, with the
Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE Computer Society, and with ACM’s Gordon Bell Prize.

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In 2011, Dr. Keyes received the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Dr. William Douglas "Bill" Gropp is Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Gropp helped to create the Message Passing Interface, also known as MPI, 
and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, also known as PETSc.

He is also the Deputy  Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.

Dr. Gropp was  awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2008, and in 2009, Gropp received an R&D 100 Award for PETSc.
In  February 2010, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering,
“For contributions to numerical  software in the area of linear algebra and high-performance parallel and distributed computation.”

In March  2010, he was honored with the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing. 

Dr. Leslie F. Greengard is an American mathematician, Doctor of Medicine and computer scientist.
He is co inventor of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the  20th century.

He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the Wesleyan University (1979), an M.D. from the Yale  School of Medicine (1987), and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University (1987).
In 2006, he was  elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Greengard  is a professor of mathematics and computer science at and was director of the Courant Institute of  Mathematical Sciences,
an independent division of the New York University (NYU).

Dr. Greengard is also a  professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. 

Dr. John L. Gustafson is an American computer scientist and businessman,
chiefly  known for his work in High Performance Computing (HPC) such as

• the invention of Gustafson's law 
• introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS
• leading the reconstruction of  the Atanasoff–Berry computer
• inventing the unum number format and computation
• winning a  Gordon Bell Prize.

Currently he is a Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore.

He was the Chief  Graphics Product Architect and Senior Fellow at AMD from September 2012 until June 2013,
and he  previously held the positions of Director of Intel Labs-SC, CEO of Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc.
and  CTO at ClearSpeed Technology.

Gustafson holds applied mathematics degrees from the California Institute  of Technology and Iowa State University.

Mr. Prabhu is an expert at leveraging innovative technology to expedite new product development with a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering.

During his 20+ years in the industry, he has amassed diversified, multidisciplinary credentials and experience that encompasses the areas of electromechanical, electromechanical-optical, mechanical, optical, automation/robotics, computational engineering, hardware, software, firmware and engineering/technical management as well as business skills. 

His experience entails successfully taking complex multidisciplinary products from initial design/planning stage to final manufacturing and EOL(End of Life). He has extensive and responsible broad-based with depth experience in storage(HDD)/enterprise storage(HDD/SSD)/networking, semi, capital equipment, automation/robotics, camera modules/consumer products, telecom (wired/wireless) solutions, and contract manufacturing industries at domestic as well as international levels.

He bring to the table an extensive background in providing leadership to a multidisciplinary staff of design, development, system, component, product, process, test, manufacturing, quality/reliability and field application engineers, as well as working with marketing/sales personnel to improve product yields and, thereby, company profits. 

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