EPI Forum 2025 - European Processor Initiative

EPI FORUM IN PARIS REGISTER NOW FOR EVENT ON 6-7 OCT, 2025 - EARLY BIRD UNTIL SEP 7

The European Processor Initiative is announcing its annual EPI Forum. It is to be held 6-7 October, 2025 in Paris, France.

It will be held at the magnificent Hotel Arts et Métiers.

EPI Forum will gather experts from the HPC ecosystem, stakeholders in the field and EPI researchers and engineers to discuss and present EPI’s achievement so far and future developments in the Initiative.

Early bird registration ends on September 7th, find details below and catch the better price now!

More organizational details to follow, including announcements of keynotes and agenda – stay tuned!

REGISTRATION – EARLY BIRD UNTIL SEP 7!

Early bird registration is now open, and the early bird fee is active until September 7th. The early bird fee is 80 EUR, VAT included, and registration is done via the following link: Information — EPI Forum

Registration is done based on first come, first served basis, until venue capacity is filled, so we recommend early registration. Full price in September will be upped to 160 EUR, VAT included.

CANCELLATION AND DATA PRIVACY POLICY

If you are unable to attend, please have a look at our cancellation policy:

EPI FORUM REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION POLICY 2025

PRESS

If you are a member of the press, please do not use this link to register. Instead, e-mail us at epi-forum [at] european-processor-initiative.eu.

VENUE

The venue of the event is L’Hôtel des Arts & Métiers, Paris.

AGENDA

The Forum starts on 6 October and finishes at October 7, 2025.

More details about the agenda are to follow, while the main theme of discussion will be European technologies for true digital and AI freedom:

• Empowering European Digital and AI Sovereignty
• Breaking HPC silos
• Driving Sustainability in HPC, Edge Computing, and AI

The Organizing committee reserves the right to implement changes to the Agenda. Should you have any inquiries related to the EPI Forum, please contact us at
epi-forum [at] european-processor-initiative.eu.

EPI FORUM IS SPONSORED BY

EPI Forum speakers In alphabetical order

David Atienza EPFL

David Atienza is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Vice President of multi-disciplinary research centers and technology platforms, and Head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at EPFL, Switzerland. Previously, he was the Scientific Director of the EcoCloud Sustainable Computing Center at EPFL. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from UCM (Spain) and IMEC (Belgium).

His research interests include system-level design methodologies for high-performance multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architectures and low-power edge AI systems, including architectures and thermal-aware designs for many-core servers and data centers. He is a co-author of more than 400 papers, two books, and has 14 licensed patents in these topics.

He served as DATE General Chair and Program Chair, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TCAD and ACM CSUR. Among others, Dr. Atienza has received the CODES+ISSS 2024 Test-of-Time Best Paper Award, the ICCAD 2020 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award, the 2018 DAC Under-40 Innovators Award, and an ERC Consolidator Grant. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, served as IEEE CEDA President (period 2018-2019), and was the Chair of the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) between 2022 and 2024.

Carlo Cavazzoni Leonardo

Carlo is the Head of Leonardo Hypercomputing Continuum @ Leonardo.com. Before joining Leonardo in May 2020, he spent more than 20 years in Cineca (Italian supercomputing centre) dealing mainly with support of user communities and EU initiatives. From an education stand point, he holds a PhD in physics from SISSA/ISAS international schools. He is presently a member of the ETP4HPC steering board, and Leonardo representative in the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud. He has collaborated with different user communities to enable applications on massively parallel HPC systems and innovative architecture solutions. He is author and co-author of more than 100 peer review articles, including Science, Physical Review Letters, Nature Materials, and many others.

Marc Duranton CEA

Dr. Marc Duranton is Senior Fellow of CEA and member of the Digital Systems and Integrated Circuits Division of CEA, where he is involved in realizations (hardware accelerators and software tools) for Artificial Intelligence and for distributed systems from IoT to HPC.

He previously worked in Philips and NXP where he led the development of the family of L-Neuro chips, digital processors using artificial neural networks and on several video coprocessors for the VLIW processor TriMedia.

His interests include High Performance Computing, Deep Learning, distributed and embedded Artificial Intelligence systems, emerging paradigms for computing systems, distributed and federated computing, models of computation and communication with time guaranties. He is in charge of the roadmap activities of the HiPEAC community ( https://www.hipeac.net/vision/ ) and is involved in the SRA of the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC SRA) and in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the Electronics Components and Systems (ECS SRIA).

Materials from 2024 Barcelona forum edition

The European Processor Initiative held its first Forum on 9 and 10 October, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain.

EPI Forum gathered experts from the HPC ecosystem, stakeholders in the field and EPI researchers and engineers who discussed and presented EPI’s achievements so far and future developments in the Initiative.

Agenda of the event that was held can be found here: EPI FORUM AGENDA,

while the presentations and materials are available in our repository here:

https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/dissemination-material/epi-forum-in-barcelona/

EPI Forum organizing committee wishes to thank the sponsors, speakers and panelists listed below for participating and making it a successful event. Stay tuned for announcements of the second EPI Forum next year!

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