Olivier Blondel
Vice-President Strategic Initiatives
CORE42
About Me
Olivier BLONDEL is Core42 Vice President for Strategic Initiatives.
Core42 is uniquely positioned in the national ecosystem to develop and deploy holistic and scalable AI solutions to a wide range of clients locally and internationally. Core42 has an active and extensive partnership network, connecting leading international organizations that complement our ecosystem and support our vision
The mission is to shape and drive the strategic vision for our product portfolio, including AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity and Digital Services.
Olivier has for the past 9 years overseen the HPC & AI solutions for Turkey, the Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He facilitated the adoption of HPE HPC & AI solutions in the region and drove HPC projects as turnkey solutions in the scope of Simulation, Big Data Analytics and AI.
He has more than twenty-five years of experience in professional environments, starting as developing the French Market for a Corporate Reseller, then moving to support NEC subsidiaries outside Europe, and continuing by developing the NEC activities in Latin America. Prior HPE, he worked at NVIDIA for 11 years developing the use of the NVIDIA professional visualization environments and high-performance computing across EMEA with a specific O&G market segment focus.
He has a degree in Project Management and a lot of experience developing businesses abroad.
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The AI-energy Nexus: From Silicon To Sustainability
AI promises to accelerate the energy transition—optimizing grids, forecasting demand, and powering climate tech at scale. But behind every intelligent model lies an invisible energy cost. As AI grows more powerful, so does its appetite for compute—and electricity. Are we solving one crisis while quietly fueling another?