Trish Damkroger is Senior Vice President and General Manager of High Performance Computing (HPC) & AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where she leads end-to-end product strategy and innovation for the company’s HPC and artificial intelligence business unit, driving global growth and next-generation solutions in advanced computing. In this role, she has been instrumental in advancing cutting-edge technologies that optimize supercomputing infrastructure and accelerate AI performance at scale, including industry-leading frameworks for modeling and managing high-performance systems. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Lumina AI.
Before joining HPE in 2022 and Lumina AI in 2024, Trish served as Vice President and General Manager of the High Performance Computing group at Intel, where she set strategic direction for HPC technologies from exascale systems to departmental supercomputers. Prior to her tenure in industry, she held senior computational leadership roles at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, managing large multidisciplinary teams and complex technical programs. A long-time contributor to the supercomputing community, she has also played leadership roles in major international HPC conferences. Trish holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and serves on the Board of Directors for AI technology firms.
Recent Videos
Building the AI Factory: How Networking and Infrastructure Are Converging for the AI Era
Enterprise AI deployments are evolving from isolated projects into end-to-end operational platforms, and the convergence of AI infrastructure, networking, and open architectures is at the center of that shift. Trish Damkroger, SVP and Chief Product Officer for HPC and AI at HPE, and Praveen Jain, SVP and GM of Data Center at HPE, join Six Five at HPE Discover 2026 to examine how sovereign AI, networking, and infrastructure decisions are converging to shape the next phase of enterprise AI adoption.
From AI Momentum to Reality: HPE on Building the AI Factory
AI is moving fast, but most organizations are not ready for what it takes to deploy it at scale. HPE’s Trish Damkroger explains why infrastructure, not models, is now the limiting factor and how the “AI factory” is redefining enterprise execution.
Where HPC Meets Scale: How HPE and AMD Are Powering the Next Era of AI – Six Five On The Road
Trish Damkroger of HPE and Safy Fishov of AMD join David Nicholson and Ryan Shrout to share insights into how the HPE–AMD partnership is driving HPC-class AI innovation via new platforms, sovereign AI initiatives, and rapid time-to-value for organizations.
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