Programme

12:30

Admission

14:00

Welcome

Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht
Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich

Speeches given by:

Friedrich Merz
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Video message from:
Henna Maria Virkkunen

Executive Vice-president of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

Hendrik Wüst
Minister-President of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Keynote speech on the JUPITER exascale supercomputer
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert
Director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre

Video message from:
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA

Panel discussion on “AI for a strong Europe with JUPITER”, featuring:

Dorothee Bär
Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space

Ina Brandes
Minister of Culture and Science of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Ekaterina Zaharieva
Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, European Commission

Ceremonial inauguration of the JUPITER Exascale Supercomputer

Panel discussion on “Science and innovation with AI”, featuring:

Dr. Thomas Skordas
Deputy Director-General, DG Connect of the European Commission

Prof. Dr. Laurens Kuipers
Member of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens
Director of the Department Climate Physics, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology

Dr. Jaroslaw Kutylowski
CEO, DeepL

15:30

Get together

17:00

End of event


The event will be hosted by Johannes Döbbelt.

Simultaneous interpreting services will be available, offering real-time translation from German to English and from English to German.