Speakers

Jorge Santos is Chief Operating Officer at Verda (formerly DataCrunch), one of Europe's leading sovereign GPU cloud providers. Jorge leads procurement, logistics, and datacenter operations — spec'ing, purchasing, installing, and servicing Verda's GPU infrastructure in-house across global facilities powered by 100% renewable energy.

Verda operates under European jurisdiction, delivering sovereign compute designed for regulated and mission-critical AI workloads without the data residency and supply chain dependencies of the hyperscalers. Under Jorge's operational leadership, Verda became an NVIDIA Preferred Partner and one of the first providers in the EU to deploy NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, bringing next-generation accelerated computing online for European AI builders while navigating the real-world constraints of power, cooling, hardware availability, and regulatory compliance.