Sergio Zazzera leads the Technical Computing Department for Geosciences, Upstream Operations and Renewable Energy at Eni.
His team is focused on supporting the technical applications for the geophysics and reservoir modeling as well as drilling and operations, meeting the challenging worldwide business needs in timely and effective manner.
Most recently, he also takes care of the IT solutions for the renewable energy, gaining a significant knowledge about the perspective concerning this fast-growing new kind of energy.
For the past 26 years, Sergio Zazzera has had a distinguished career at Eni, leading teams from numerous IT aspects, including software development, infrastructure architectures, operations and outsourcing service management.  He played a key role in transforming a physical, ‘siloed’ IT approach to an extensively virtualized and flexible environment with centrally managed services.
He also holds a relevant experience in High Performance Computing systems. His department is responsible for evolving and delivering the huge amount of computational power devoted to the geophysics and reservoir simulations. One of Eni’s HPC system was ranked 11th in the 2014 Top500 list of the most powerful computer systems and it was awarded as the fastest supercomputer in the oil industry.
He is currently working with the business units on translating the vision of the Digital Oilfield challenges and the new Big Data technology into successful strategies related to the Oil and Gas industry.