AI/ML & HPC in Manufacturing and Consumer Packaged Goods
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Presented by experts from Rescale, Mondelez International, NVIDIA, Kinetic Vision, and Microsoft Azure, tune in to learn best practices for leveraging AI to solve complex engineering problems
In this industry roundtable, hear our panelists share timely insights regarding the ways that AI/ML and HPC are solving some of today’s most pressing challenges in manufacturing and CPG, including:
- Accelerating the process of creating high-fidelity simulation models by up to 90%
- Creating groundbreaking methods of designing and delivering industry-leading products
- Optimizing and accelerating assembly line efficiencies
- Democratizing access to advanced computational tools
- Fostering innovation across a diverse range of organizations—from startups to enterprises
Meet the Industry Panelists

Michael Eidell
Principal Engineer
Michael received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics from Stockton University and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia focusing on Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling of supersonic combustion. His experience includes roles at Corvid Technologies and GE Aviation as an engineer. In 2020 he joined Kinetic Vision to pursue his passion of working directly with advanced technologies in CFD, Computer Vision, and Physics-Informed Neural Networks.

Nicolin Govender
Principal Scientist
Prof Nicolin Govender is a principal scientist at Mondelez International in the position of global lead for granular materials and physics based digital twins. He is a visiting professor at the university of Johannesburg in the area of 4IR in addition to having an association at CERN where he advises on the use of GPU computing for High Energy physics. His seminal contribution has been the area of computational mechanics developing a GPU-based code (Blaze-DEM) that made possible simulations of granular materials using polyhedral particles in an industrial context. He has held multiple grants from NVIDIA, EU Commission, SNCF, and the DOE (Utah) to name a few.

Karl Podesta
Technical Specialist – Azure HPC
Karl is a Senior Specialist for High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence (HPC & AI) at Microsoft Azure. He is part of the Microsoft’s Global Black Belt Team, and works directly with Microsoft’s largest customers in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region (EMEA). Karl’s role includes working on customer-related POCs (Proof of Concept setups), pilots, demos, presentations, and content. He’s from Dublin, Ireland, and prior to joining Microsoft in 2016, spent 15+ years in technical roles, including Linux & HPC engineer, architect, trainer – and working in Oil & Gas, Financial, and Life Science domains.

Bhoomi Gadhia
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Bhoomi is a senior product marketing manager at NVIDIA, focused on NVIDIA Modulus, an AI framework for developing physics-informed machine learning neural network models. She has over 10 years of experience in computer-aided engineering applications, working in technical and product marketing roles at Hexagon MSC Software and Ansys. Bhoomi resides in California and holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
Discover New Possibilities for Product Design and Engineering with HPC and AI/ML
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for high performance computing (HPC) are enabling groundbreaking innovation and enhanced efficiencies for manufacturing and consumer packaged goods organizations. From delivering real-time data insights of consumer preferences to finding unique patterns in ingredient combinations that can lead to new recipes, AI/ML is transforming what’s possible.
Discover how Rescale is supporting innovation by providing organizations with easy access to cutting-edge, cloud-based HPC+AI solutions with industry leaders Microsoft and NVIDIA. And get a behind-the-scenes look at HPC+AI in the cloud with a demo of NVIDIA Modulus on Rescale.
About Rescale
Rescale is high performance computing built for the cloud to empower engineers while giving IT security and control. From supersonic jets to personalized medicine, industry leaders are bringing new product innovations to market with unprecedented speed and efficiency with Rescale, a cloud platform delivering intelligent full-stack automation and performance optimization. IT leaders use Rescale to deliver HPC-as-a-Service with a secure control plane to deliver any application, on any architecture, at any scale on their cloud of choice.
