Marc Battyani is the CTO and founder of NovaSparks, a global provider of end-to-end extreme low-latency computing solutions.

A specialist in hard real time high performance computing and networking with FPGAs as well as algorithmic code generation and optimization Marc Battyani brings 25 years of experience in the design of electronics systems and their associated domain specific compilers and cores leveraging the computing power of FPGAs and enabling their uses outside of their traditional markets.

Prior to founding NovaSparks, Marc was the founder of Fractal Concept a contract research company developing products like CT scanners, industrial ultrasound echographic systems or various smart sensors for the industrial, medical and military markets. The common point of those various projects is the use of compilers and other high level tools written in Common Lisp to enable the use of specific hardware to perform some tasks in unique and optimal ways.

Marc Battyani holds an MSc in electronics from Supelec (France) and another one in Computer Science from Paris XI (France) / UDM (Canada). He is also a known Common Lisp expert and has released several open source projects for this programming language.