🎙️ Tomasz Parkoła from PCSS Poznańskie Centrum (Poznan Supercomputing Centre) gives the keynote in the afternoon at the #ECHOES annual meeting in Poznan >> he discusses the EU AI Factories vision in relation to the Cultural Heritage sector & specifically as lead infrastructure partner in both #ECHOES (Culture Cloud) & #PIASTAI (the AI Factory node in Poland), PCSS can provide relevant perspectives on what productive synergies might look like.

📌 Some brief points from the presentation:
- 5% of global AI infrastructure - European; 75% US; 15% China >> so we have a way to go.
- But sector transformation is generally still low - relating mostly to media & tech sectors, close to CH sector, but not quite there yet.
- Also raw infrastructure is not enough >> this is an opportunity (for AI Factories) >> services on top are needed -- platform-as-a-service + AI models or pipelines (on demand).

⚙️ Here the activities in #ECHOES (& #ECHOLOT) that require such infrastructure and services could benefit from long-term & sustainable joint collaboration (& funding).