Biography
Miloš Mastník is CEO of Czech Radiocommunications (CRA), where he leads the Prague Gateway DC data center project and CRA's positioning within the AI Gigafactory CZ initiative — a Czech national effort (with IT4Innovations) to build large-scale infrastructure for training and deploying large AI models, part of the EU's five-site AI Gigafactory program. He has represented CRA at Czech government meetings on the country's AI Gigafactory coordination council.
Session
- AI FoundationsSpeaker
Panel 19 - From BSC to Brussels: Europe's Supercomputing Bet on AI
Wednesday 23 September, 16:15 – 16:55Panel StageFrontier AI runs on supercomputers — and right now, Europe is on a building spree. The AI Factories initiative is wiring 13 supercomputers across the continent. Barcelona's MareNostrum 5 already sits in the global top tier. National centres are competing for GPUs, talent and political backing, on the bet that sovereign compute means sovereign AI. But does it? We bring together the people running Europe's biggest AI compute infrastructure, the policymakers funding the push, and the startups and researchers actually trying to use this hardware — to ask whether Europe is building real industrial capacity or expensive symbolism, who gets access, how it stacks up against the hyperscalers, and what the next five years of European AI infrastructure actually look like.
With Ziad Matar, Gerald Mullally, Diego Perino, Raphaëlle Achach