Practiving and preparing for the future. Vijay Gadepally is a Senior Scientist and PI at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and a Visiting Scientist with MIT Connection Science. Vijay is also the Co-founder/CTO of Radium Cloud - a company focused on providing high performance cloud computing for GenAI workloads - and advises multiple early-stage venture backed startups. At MIT, Vijay was a founding member of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and currently leads numerous research efforts focused on high performance computing, artificial intelligence, high performance databases and environmentally-friendly computing. Vijay holds a M.Sc. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University and a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. Vijay’s research in high performance computing, artificial intelligence and environmentally-friendly computing has been featured in numerous articles in the popular press and has received numerous scholarly awards from professional societies. Vijay also serves on several advisory committees including those convened by the National Academies, World Economic Forum, and Open Compute Project, amongst others. In 2017, Vijay was named to AFCEA’s inaugural 40 under 40 list and was awarded MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Early Career Technical Achievement Award. In 2011, Vijay received an Outstanding Graduate Student Award at The Ohio State University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx