Category: Industry collaboration

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Joint workshop with AmCham

Within the scope of focused communication and productive industry interactions, NCC Montenegro is organizing joint workshop with business association AmCham (American Chamber of Commerce) on 17.11.2023. Industry workshop will provide Montenegrin companies with:

  • Brief introduction to HPC systems, technologies, applications and benefits,
  • Presentation on HPC success stories and best practices from various industries,
  • Demonstration of the HPC4SME tool to evaluate companies’ HPC readiness
  • Presentation of HPC activities of NCC Montenegro,
  • Networking opportunities and follow-up consultations with HPC experts

We believe that this workshop will increase awareness on HPC&AI opportunities, provide valuable insights and inspirational use cases to the members and partners of AmCham Montenegro, enabling them to stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends, and to discover supercomputing power to enhance their business and competitiveness.

The Agenda of upcoming event :

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HPC opportunities for financial industry services

Representative of NCC Montenegro, Sanja Nikolic participated in the Round Table “Montenegrin Finance and Internationalization”, organized by Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art. On this event, topics related to the international competitiveness, financial opportunities and fast-paced digitalization with HPC&AI, were lively discussed with representatives of academia, banking sector, investment & trading institutions.
Mrs. Nikolic presented technical and commercial aspects of HPC systems and emphasized HPC/AI powered use cases in the financial services industry. EuroCC/EuroCC2 supercomputing opportunities and NCC Montenegro activities related to HPC/AI study programs, trainings and industry success stories were also elaborated.

Event in media :

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NCC Montenegro at HPC Industry Summit in Berlin, Germany

Representatives of HPC NCC Montenegro, University of Donja Gorica participated at HPC Industry Summit, which took place at GLS Campus Berlin, Germany from 18-19 October 2023 organized by EuroCC and FF4EuroHPC projects.

HPC Industry Summit

In today’s rapidly evolving industrial landscape, the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) has become paramount for staying ahead of the competition. HPC Industry Summit provided a unique platform for attendees to explore the industrial uptake of HPC and to discover a wealth of use cases and success stories from SMEs in various sectors, demonstrating how HPC has catalyzed breakthrough innovations, streamlined processes, and maximized productivity.

NCC Montenegro participated in the event
Ms Bojana Malisic was a panelist in the panel discussion

During the event and first day, NCC Montenegro representative, Ms. Bojana Malisic participated as a panellist in the session ‘𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝗣𝗖 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆’ and shared the status of the MNE HPC user base and how we can engage more efficiently with industrial users to increase the use of HPC in business processes in Montenegro and Europe. During the discussion, we addressed the challenges and the strategy to collaborate with academic and industrial users successfully.

NCC Montenegro at the HPC Industry Summit

Attendees had opportunity to dive into the world of cutting-edge infrastructures and services specifically tailored to assist businesses in harnessing the full potential of HPC and to gain actionable insights, network with industry leaders, and uncover the transformative power of HPC in transforming your organization’s success.

The live stream were available via the FF4EuroHPC YouTube channel at the folowing link.

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EuroHPC JU Information Day for AI on Supercomputers

EuroHPC JU organizes a virtual event “Information Day on AI and Supercomputers. This three-hours virtual event will take place on September 26th, 9:30 – 12:30 CEST. The virtual event will discuss:

  • how EuroHPC JU supercomputers can be used for AI applications,
  • the access possibilities to these supercomputers,
  • the current and upcoming AI related calls and activities,
  • the support possibilities of EuroCC national competence centres
  • examples of numerous success stories that used many of the possibilities provided by EuroHPC JU.

Interested participants can register to the event at the following link.

EuroHPC JU organizes a virtual Information Day on AI and Supercomputers on Sep 26th

EuroHPC JU is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe. It is jointly funded by its members with a budget of around EUR 7 billion. At the moment EuroHPC JU is operating six of the biggest and fastest supercomputers in Europe and globally, equipped with different types of GPUs and CPUs as well as other types of processors for users to use. Whether these are situated in your own country or in neighbouring countries you can access them for free.

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NCC Turkey presented White Paper – SME HPC Maturity Model

NCC Montenegro representatives attended CASTIEL supported, presentation of White Paper “Development of a Maturity Assessment Tool to Improve SME HPC Capabilities” for EuroCC2 industry working group. Dr Özlem Sarı, NCC Turkey, presented industrial users acquisition process and development of HPC Maturity Assessment Tool to improve SME HPC capabilities.

During the presentation, Proof of Concept study, Course of Action, GAP analyses, as well as methodological approach and validation process were duly elaborated. In addition, there was a vibrant discussion on challenges faced and experiences were shared regarding SME collaboration and industry interaction, especially regarding assessment results/HPC maturity levels, identifying HPC-suitable problems and business benefits of HPC integration.

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Association of Montenegrin Managers recognizes the importance of AI

Association of Montenegrin Managers constituted a the Committee for the AI applications and advanced technologies. In accordance with the decision of the Presidency of AMM, Ivan Šoć, the founder of Five Group, was appointed as the Chairman of the Board. Dražen Raičković, executive director of the company Business Universal Media, will be the deputy president, and Katarina Savković will be the secretary of the Board. In addition to the aforementioned, representatives of business, science and the media also joined the Board: Pavel Chagoiko – General manager – EPAM Systems, Tomo Popović – associate professor – University of Donja Gorica, Stevan Šandi – research associate – University of Donja Gorica, Slavko Kovačević – teaching associate – Faculty of Electrical Engineering (University of Montenegro), Filip Ivanović – Director of Digital – TV Vijesti. Find more info about the AMM at the following link.

Association of Montenegrin Managerers formed the Committe for AI applications (photo: AMM)

The AMM recognizes the increasing importance of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, especially in the field of business application, but also open questions and insufficient regulation concerning security, privacy and other aspects. The AMM made a decision to include artificial intelligence in its Statute and the constitution of this committee is just beginning.

AMM Commitee for AI applications and advanced technologies (photo AMM)

For EuroCC Montenegro, this an important development and an opportunity to engage the industry and business executives to promote the use of HPC and provide support in capacity building in HPC and AI.

The AMM organized the Kick-off meeting on 20.07.2023. (photo: AMM)
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NCC Montenegro participated at “Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting”

Representatives of NCC Montenegro participated (online) in the “Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting” organized within the scope of ASHPC23 – Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2023 (June 13–15, 2023) at the Institute of Information Science in Maribor (IZUM), to actively discuss, exchange experiences and follow up-to-date EuroCC2 and NCCs’ initiatives. Agenda of the NCCs’ meeting covered topics:

  • NCCs industry’ approach (SMEs engagement, service portfolio, infrastructure access, expected outcomes etc.),
  • EuroCC2 training activities (training formats, joint training events, regional collaboration, collaboration with CoEs and EDIHs, targeting SME audience etc.)
  • NCCs communication and disseminations tools (networking events organization, effective communication channels, choosing subjects & speakers, attracting industry stakeholders etc.)

NCC Austria presented their SMEs/Start-ups boosting initiative “EuroCC Supercomputing accelerator” and training initiative on webinar series assuming NCCs and CoEs shared contribution and collaboration. NCC Slovenia presented “SLING Open Doors Days”, their success story on successfully organized community and networking event.

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