Tino Vazquez
Constantino Vázquez Blanco is a long-time open source advocate and currently drives innovation around Cloud-Edge Continuum platforms at OpenNebula Systems. With extensive experience in building and validating GPU-enabled clusters, energy-aware orchestration frameworks, and AI-ready infrastructures, he has been leading multiple initiatives under the European IPCEI-CIS project. His work focuses on bridging research and production through open, community-driven testbeds—covering advanced virtualization, storage, and automation frameworks. Constantino is passionate about sustainable cloud design, open collaboration, and enabling the next generation of edge-to-cloud platforms powered by open source.
Session
The European Union is in the process of investing significant amounts of public funding in deploying advanced AI infrastructures across the continent, which are expected to support EU businesses (particularly startups and SMEs) develop new AI models by providing easy access to the computational power they need. This talk will introduce how the €3B Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) is developing an open source software stack that will provide those AI Factories with a sovereign alternative to the proprietary solutions offered by non-EU Big Tech vendors. This stack is already being deployed across Europe as part of Fact8ra.AI