Clustering Event - HiDALGO2

Clustering Event

The HiDALGO2 Clustering Event “HPC and Big Data Technologies Addressing Global Challenges” was held on 4 November 2025 at the High‑Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Germany.

Organized by Future Needs, the HiDALGO2 leader in Outreach, Awareness, and Impact Creation, the event brought together leading researchers, industry experts, policymakers, and SMEs to explore how high-performance computing (HPC), big data and AI technologies can tackle complex environmental and societal challenges.

Highlights included keynote addresses, panel discussions, and live demonstrations of five real-world pilot use-cases — covering urban air pollution, energy efficiency in buildings and cities, wildfires, renewable energy forecasting, and water-pollution & material transport models.

The event served as a dynamic platform for cross-sector collaboration and innovation, offering participants direct engagement with Europe’s leading HPC research infrastructure and helping to pave the way for enhanced simulation-based solutions to global challenges.

Speakers

Marcin Lawenda

Project Coordinator – Senior Research Fellow at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)

Matteo Mascagni

Project Officer – Programme Manager R&I, European Union’s “EuroHPC-JU”

David Caballero Valero

Researcher at Wildfires Pilot – International freelance consultant on risk assessment and awareness at MeteoGRID

Svetlana Valger

Academic staff member/Researcher at Stuttgart Technical University of Applied Sciences

Zoltan Horvath

Urban Air Project Pilot Leader – Professor, Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computational Sciences at Széchenyi István University

Christophe Prud’homme

Urban Building Model Pilot Leader – Professor in Applied Math at University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA) and Director of Cemosis

Clara García-Sánchez

Associate Professor at Delt University of Technology (TU Delft)

Yannick Hofmann

Media Artist & Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO

Tarek Gaber

Associate Professor at University of Salford

Georgia Nikolakopoulou

Head of Communication and Dissemination at Future Needs

Michal Kulczewski

Renewable Energy Sources Pilot Leader – Senior Specialist at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)

Ravi Ayyala Somayajula

Researcher at Material Transport in Water Pilot – PhD researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)

Martin Kronbichler

Professor at Ruhr University in Bochum – dealii-x Project Coordinator

Guntram Berti

Mathematics Consultant & University Professor, Consulting Mathematical Methods & Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg

Konstantinos Iliakis

Senior Researcher at National Technical University of Athens

Bastian Koller

Managing Director at High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (HLRS)

Andreas Athenodorou

Associate Research Scientist at The Cyprus Institute – NCC Cyprus

Dennis Hoppe

HiDALGO2 Contributor – Head of Converged Computing at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)

Speakers

Marcin Lawenda

Project Coordinator – Senior Research Fellow at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)

Matteo Mascagni

Project Officer – Policy Officer at DG CONNECT – “High Performance Computing & Quantum Technologies” Unit at Europe

David Caballero Valero

Researcher at Wildfires Pilot – International freelance consultant on risk assessment and awareness at MeteoGRID

Svetlana Valger

Academic staff member/Researcher at Stuttgart Technical University of Applied Sciences

Zoltan Horvath

Urban Air Project Pilot Leader – Professor, Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computational Sciences at Széchenyi István University

Christophe Prud’homme

Urban Building Model Pilot Leader – Professor in Applied Math at University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA) and Director of Cemosis

Clara García-Sánchez

Associate Professor at Delt University of Technology (TU Delft)

Yannick Hofmann

Media Artist & Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO

Tarek Gaber

Associate Professor at University of Salford

Georgia Nikolakopoulou

Head of Communication and Dissemination at Future Needs

Michal Kulczewski

Renewable Energy Sources Pilot Leader – Senior Specialist at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)

Ravi Ayyala Somayajula

Researcher at Material Transport in Water Pilot – PhD researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)

Martin Kronbichler

Professor at Ruhr University in Bochum – dealii-x Project Coordinator

Guntram Berti

Mathematics Consultant & University Professor, Consulting Mathematical Methods & Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg

Konstantinos Iliakis

Senior Researcher at National Technical University of Athens

Bastian Koller

Managing Director at High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (HLRS)

Andreas Athenodorou

Associate Research Scientist at The Cyprus Institute – NCC Cyprus

Dennis Hoppe

HiDALGO2 Contributor – Head of Converged Computing at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS

About the Venue

HLRS is home to one of Europe’s fastest supercomputers and a large team of HPC experts, HLRS provides essential tools and solutions for cutting-edge academic and industrial research, particularly in the sciences and computational engineering. Based in the beautiful city of Stuttgart, HLRS is a place for innovation, collaboration, and technological advancement.