INSTITUTION FOCUS / TECHNOLOGY INTO IMPACT

Hewlett Packard in Greece

From national scale
to the personal edge.

HPE’s contribution connects advanced national computing with enterprise expertise and Greek scientific talent. HP Inc. brings a separate workplace-computing story through AI PCs and workstations.

Thought Leaders / Technology leadership

The people behind the infrastructure.

Michalis Kasimiotis — Μιχάλης Κασιμιώτης — leads HPE in Greece and Cyprus. His published perspective connects computing capacity with business access and scientific talent.

Michalis Kasimiotis

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Michalis Kasimiotis

Managing Director, Greece & Cyprus

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Published interview · Greek quotation and editorial summary

«έχει πραγματοποιηθεί σημαντική πρόοδος στον ψηφιακό εκσυγχρονισμό κράτους και επιχειρήσεων»

Kasimiotis connects Greece’s AI opportunity with access to advanced computing, the participation of smaller businesses and the ability to attract and retain scientific talent. His interview describes HPE’s evolution towards integrated solutions spanning data, AI and networking.

Contribution. Leads HPE in Greece and Cyprus, connecting the company’s infrastructure capabilities with enterprise and public-sector digital transformation.

NewsIT interview · 27 November 2025 ↗Editorially reviewed 2026-11-06
01 / NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

DAEDALUS becomes the computing core of PHAROS.

Built on advanced HPE architecture with NVIDIA GH200 accelerators and direct liquid cooling, DAEDALUS anchors Greece’s capacity for demanding AI and scientific workloads.

  • Research, start-ups, SMEs, industry and the public sector
  • Generative AI, large language models and scientific simulation
  • Greek language, culture, health and sustainability
Read the GRNET briefing
The real DAEDALUS supercomputer
DAEDALUS · EuroHPC JU / GRNET 85.69 PetaFlops
02 / GLOBAL CAPABILITY

HPE Ezmeral Global Center of Excellence

Established in Athens to support open-source, data, analytics, machine learning and AI capabilities for enterprise customers around the world.

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03 / AI AT WORK

AI PCs and local intelligence

HP’s Greek portfolio brings dedicated AI processing into business laptops and workstations, supporting responsive local workflows and new modes of productivity.

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FROM TECHNOLOGY TO PRACTICE

A practical route from infrastructure to adoption

Explore evidence, workloads, evaluation methods and practical decisions across enterprise AI, national compute and the personal edge.

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Contribution in context

Compute. Expertise. Adoption.

National research infrastructure

HPE supplies the technology foundation for DAEDALUS. GRNET operates the national computing infrastructure and coordinates PHAROS, connecting capacity with a wider research and business ecosystem.

EuroHPC PHAROS overview ↗

Greek expertise, global applications

HPE’s 2023 announcement established an Athens-based Ezmeral Center of Excellence, connecting specialised engineering talent with international enterprise data and AI needs.

HPE announcement ↗

AI at the point of work

HP Inc. is a separate company. Its AI PCs and workstations form the workplace pillar, where task performance, local processing and user experience need to be evaluated in practice.

HP Greece AI PCs ↗

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Proposed founding programme

AI in Practice.
Evidence before scale.

Compute to Impact

A case lab defining the workload, data, evaluation and operating plan needed to turn compute access into an applied project.

AI at Work Lab

Task-based demonstrations and measured pilots across local AI, workstations, enterprise tools and human review.

Research to Deployment

A structured conversation between researchers and organisations, producing a pilot brief and an evidence plan.

Public Value Forum

A working dialogue on service quality, Greek-language access, accountable deployment and demonstrable public benefit.

Formats under development. Dates, speakers and institutional participation will be published when confirmed.

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