Biography
Ziad Matar is co-founder of Tokenando, an intelligence business focused on the economics of artificial intelligence, wher he is also editor-in-chief of The Compute, its flagship publication. He is managing partner at Meditari, the AI advisory firm he founded in 2018.
Ziad brings 30 years of experience at the cutting edge of technology: he started his career at Ericsson in 1996, then moved to Qualcomm in 2008, where he led strategic business development across the Middle East and Africa before turning full time to building his own ventures in 2018. He has been a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) since 2012 and served as president of its Dubai chapter in 2019 and 2020.
Ziad produces 2 podcasts: Sprezzatura, which he co-hosts with his friend and partner Radin Rahimzadeh based in San Francisco; and Wirelessly Yours, where he interviews founders and technologists about emerging technologies and business.
Session
- AI FoundationsModerator
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 Gerald Mullally, Milos Mastník, Diego Perino, Raphaëlle Achach