As part of the technical program of keynote speakers and presentation of peer-reviewed papers in seven technical sessions, HiPC organises panel discussions covering broad area of interests. Each panel with offer attendees the chance to hear from experts in a popular area of high performance computing, data, and analytics and also to learn of developments in the field.
HiPC 2018 will organize the following panel.
| Plenary Panel | Data Centers in India: Challenges and Opportunities |
| When | TBD |
| Description | This session will include senior Government officials in India that are seeking to invite Cloud service providers to open Data centers in India and discuss available opportunities. Cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others) will discuss some of the challenges they face with respect to regulation, guaranteed cheap electricity supply, skills etc. The goal is to get broader discussion on important policy issues that help enable or cripple development of Warehouse scale Data centers in India. |
| Panelists | TBD |