Nick Brown is a senior research fellow at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh, with interests and extensive experience in High Performance Computing (HPC). He works at the UK’s leading supercomputing centre and his main interest is in the role that novel hardware can play in the future supercomputers, and is specifically motivated by the grand challenge of how we can ensure scientific programmers are able to effectively exploit such technologies without extensive hardware/architecture expertise. He is heavily involved in the global HPC and RISC-V community, for instance, leading knowledge exchange for the ExCALIBUR exascale software program, organizing and chairing the RISC-V for HPC workshop series at ISC and SC, the UrgentHPC SC workshop series, and has led numerous mini-symposia and miscellaneous workshops. He has served on the organizing committee for several top HPC conferences and has worked on a number of large-scale parallel codes including developing the Met Office’s high-resolution atmospheric model.