Jean-Pierre Panziera is the Chief Technology Director for Extreme Computing at Atos and Chairman of the ETP4HPC association and a member of the EuroHPC JU’s governing board. He started 1982 in the oil industry then moved to the Silicon Valley and took part in a couple of startup projects, including a parallel supercomputer for Evans & Sutherland in 1989. During the following 20 years, he worked for SGI where he became Chief Engineer. In 2009, he joined Bull, now an Atos company, where he is responsible for the HPC developments. Jean-Pierre graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris.