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Ugo Varetto is Chief Technology Officer at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre located in Perth, Australia. He has held key roles in significant research projects, such as the EU funded “Human Brain roject”, has contributed to numerous European supercomputing projects and has worked in commercial companies and government and academic institutions in the USA, Europe and Australia. Mr. Varetto has been developing GPU-accelerated software for computer graphics since 1995 and scientific computing since 2006, and was actively involved in the deployment of the first GPU-enabled supercomputers. He is currently working on designing and implementing scalable data-intensive computing and storage solutions on hybrid supercomputers and object storage systems, while contributing to international research projects such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Mr. Varetto is currently leading the deployment of two room temperature quantum computers and is partner investigator in a quantum communication research project.