Welcome to CERN Venture Connect spotlight: Microsoft for Startup Founders

• Ash Ravikumar
• Hafida Boufraioua (CERN)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium CERN Venture Connect introduction Overview of CVC

Open source technology. Microsoft + Github

• Dominique Broeglin (Microsoft)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium What does open source technology mean for Microsoft. A brief overview of why Microsoft acquired Github. Presenter: Dominique Broeglin Azure Digital & App Innovation Specialist Microsoft

Azure Advanced Analytics and OpenAI: how it can help startups

• Claudio Mirti

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium A talk about Advanced Analytics and Open AI. Presenter: Claudio Mirti Senior Advanced Analytics & AI Specialist EMEA Microsoft

High Performance Compute (Cloud-based physics-driven AI to accelerate Design & Engineering)

• Lukasz Miroslaw (Microsoft)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium High Performance Compute (Cloud-based physics-driven AI to accelerate Design & Engineering) Presenter: Lukasz Miroslaw, Senior HPC & AI Specialist EMEA Microsoft

Microsoft Quantum : Helping Startups with Accelerating Scientific discovery

• Leopold Talirz (Microsoft)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium Accelerating scientific discovery with quantum (remote) Presenter: Leopold Talirz, Senior Software Engineer - Azure Quantum Microsoft

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

• Tim Moser (Microsoft)
• Giovanna Dughera

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium Overview of the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. Beneifts for startups

Cleverdist: CERN alumni startup and Microsoft for Startups program

• Robert Gomez-Reino (Cleverdist)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium Located in Geneva, Cleverdist products are transforming industrial automation. Founded by Dr. Robert Gomez-Reino, a CERN alumnus, the team is enriched with numerous ex-CERN professionals. They are Microsoft for Startups program alumni.

Reshape Systems - Andrea Apollonio

• Andrea Apollonio (Reshape)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium Andrea was a staff at CERN and is a co-founder of Reshape systems. Reshape is the first spinoff from the CERN Venture Connect program. Reshape has been selected to be in the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub program.

The Fifth Paradigm of Scientific Discovery

• Chris Bishop

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium The impressive progress in AI over the last few years, driven by advances in deep learning, are now set to revolutionise the world of scientific simulation, with impact on a broad spectrum of practical applications. Speaker: Chris Bishop FREng FRS, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research AI4Science

Microsoft Research: Research at the speed of AI

• Hitesh Ballani

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium Hitesh Ballani, Principal Researcher Cloud Future Systems