Now in its third year, StartupHPC-16 focuses on hot markets, case studies, and funding. Contributed talks combine with spirited discussions in this open forum, offering attendees a mix of rare and deeply personal experiences, professional best practices, and practical learnings.

StartupHPC returns with its ever popular 'perspectives from the trenches' and 'CxO Probe' series featuring a cast of new and notable champions and challengers:

• HPC Fund: who invests in HPC-inspired start ups? What does it take to have a fund focused on HPC?
• Markets: what are the hot market segments that need your HPC expertise and mindset? We'll cover AI, IoT, Security, and other growing segments as well as opportunities in Data Center and Cloud.
• Champions: this year, StartupHPC will champion a few selected startups! We'll cover the process and progress.
• Group discussion: new this year, this is a session that is focused on active audience participation to discuss and advance the community and raise awareness for top-of-mind issues.
• First person stories and CEO panel: How did they take the plunge? What did they learn? How can we learn from their experience?
• Case study: follow a success story from seed funding to incubation and initial networking to launch.

StartupHPC-16 speakers represent a very distinguised group of experts the combine entrepreneurship, technology depth, and market insight. We are really pleased with the agenda:

Speakers include:

• John Gustafson, Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Author of "The End of Error: Unum Computing"
• Gary Grider, Division Leader of High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Debra Goldfarb, Chief Analyst at Intel Corporation and pioneering HPC market analyst
• Mark Canepa, Worldwide VP of Pre-sale, Service & Support, DDN, and former CEO of Extreme Networks, EVP of Storage for Sun Microsystems
• Earl Joseph, IDC Program Vice President and Executive Director HPC User Forum
• Sumit Sanyal, Founder and CEO of minds.ai
• Tom Lyon, Co-Founder of DriveScale, Founder of Nuova systems whose acquisition by Cisco led to the successful UCS servers and Nexus switches, and Employee #8 at Sun Microsystems.
• Manuel Arenaz, Founder of Appentra
• Bruce Gilpin, Co-Founder of Versity
• Burak Yenier and Wolfgang Gentzsch, Founders of UberCloud
• Meghan Wingate McClelland, Angel Investor, exascale strategist, HPC practitioner
• Andy Lawrence, Founder, Didgets
• Dmitry Spodarets, Founder & CEO, FlyElephant

We're honored to have such prominent invited speakers. Their enthusiasm to participate is an indication of how much fun we're all going to have listening to them and interacting with them.