Breakout sessions

Learn how to accelerate your business outcomes by bringing the cloud experience to all your apps and data, while maintaining security and control, and unlocking real-time opportunities at the edge.  Hear about the latest HPE GreenLake innovations and discover how, together with our partner ecosystem, we can help you build the right hybrid cloud strategy for your most pressing challenges.

Speakers:

Vishal Lall, General Manager, HPE Ezmeral

Tom Gilbert, Head of Cloud and Middleware, Barclays

Chris Che, Head of Nokia DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

5G is the catalyst that will revolutionize industries by enabling smarter, safer factories, enhanced patient care, improved national defense, smarter cities, and new business models for telcos. Secure, seamless connectivity across private and public networks, from wired to wireless is foundational to digital transformation initiatives – no matter how remote or rugged your edge. Attend this session and hear real-world examples and best practices of 5G connected edge implementations and explore how you can apply these ideas in your own company.

Speakers:

Tom Craig, Global Vice President and General Manager, Communications Technology Group, HPE

Florian Doerr, Head of Data Practice, Central Europe, HPE

Dalia Adib, Director, Consulting, STL Partners

Digital transformation is the new standard and we’re seeing its impact on an organization’s infrastructure; there is an insatiable demand for more compute. More apps and data to process, more ways to consume cloud services from public to private to hybrid and multi-cloud; more technologies to deploy that need to be well integrated and easy to deploy. This is coupled with the demand for better security to support a distributed workforce. An increasing number of organizations are adopting carbon-neutral computing to achieve more sustainable IT. The considerations for your infrastructure to handle this demand for have never been so critical.

Speaker:

Guenther Wernhard, Intel Data Center Director

Join HPE Storage leaders to get a glimpse into the future of infrastructure management and data protection across edge to cloud. We’re headed towards a data-first world with applications and data spread across on-premises, edge, co-located and public cloud. With this shift, it is more important than ever for IT leaders to deliver cloud experiences to end users everywhere. Learn how HPE GreenLake can help you speed your data-first modernization with unparalleled simplicity and the cloud operational experience wherever your workloads run.

Speakers:

Patrick Osborne, SVP & GM, Cloud Data Infrastructure, HPE Storage

Chris Schin, VP, Cloud Data Services, HPE Storage

When considering hybrid cloud security, who has the ultimate responsibly to secure data in the cloud? Understanding risk and how to manage it with your service provider is critical to successful cloud transformation. Learn how HPE approaches shared responsibility for secure cloud adoption and the key considerations for data, managing risk, operations, and compliance. HPE CSO Bobby Ford and Deputy Director, HPE Global Security COE Simon Leech will share insights on how HPE is optimizing shared responsibility to protect HPE, our customers, and partners.

Speakers:

Bobby Ford, Senior Vice President & Chief Security Officer, HPE

Simon Leech, Deputy Director, Global Security CoE, HPE

Paul Hastings, Chief Financial Officer, Zenseact

Why does the exascale era’s convergence of supercomputing and AI at scale matter? It’s one of the exascale era advancements that is setting the direction for the future as it transforms how organizations operate, solve, and compete. In this session, we’ll spotlight how organizations are using HPE progressive technologies to solve challenges that until today, have been too challenging or too expensive with traditional computing. Learn how organizations are implementing supercomputing technologies in a flexible consumption model to tackle their most diverse workloads and improve their ability to execute AI at scale. And be prepared to steer your own organization into the future with better insights from data, faster innovation, and a competitive advantage.

Speakers:

Trish Damkroger, Chief Product Officer, HPC/AI, HPE

Dr. Tiina Kupila-Rantala, CSC Vice Managing Director

Jonas Andrulis, CEO and Founder, Aleph Alpha

Jysoo Lee, Facilities Director Research Computing Core Laboratories, KAUST

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, enables customers to protect, recover, and move data and applications across private, public, and hybrid clouds. As part of the HPE portfolio for disaster recovery and data protection, Zerto is changing the way organizations modernize in a multi-cloud paradigm. Come hear from Vera Wolf, Vice President, EMEA sales, Zerto and Omer Asad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, HPE Storage as they share new announcements and outline the joint vision to deliver ransomware resilience, continuous availability, and a world of uninterrupted business.

Speakers:

Chris Schin, Vice President, Cloud Data Services, HPE Storage

Vera Wolf, Vice President, EMEA sales, Zerto, an HPE company

Egon Van Dongen, Systems Engineering Manager EMEA, Zerto, an HPE company

Bartek Paczkowski, Disaster Recovery Manager, ING

Mariusz Paszkowski, Disaster Recovery Manager, ING

Technology provides a platform for transformation, but to deliver transformational outcomes, you need the vision, discipline, and skills to get the most from the tech. Hear how HPE customers are harnessing data, automation, and expertise to advance their organizational goals. Learn how you can make more informed technology choices, free up teams to focus on the things that matter and execute on your transformation. And discover how you can apply these learnings to deliver on what’s most important for your organization.

Speakers:

Sue Preston, General Manager & Vice President, WW Advisory & Professional Services, HPE

Craig Partridge, Global Senior Director, Solution Advisory Practice, HPE

Yara-Yasemin Schuetz, Global Digital Advisor Solution Advisory Practice, HPE

Data is everywhere now – making it even more of a challenge to meet needs for data sovereignty, regulatory and compliance.  Join our thought leaders as we explore data-first strategies that enable you to more seamlessly access, share, analyze and act on data – while addressing sovereignty and governance requirements.  And, we’ll highlight opportunities for data-sharing and value creation in the ecosystem through intelligent data services  – and others to accelerate your business across edge to cloud.

Speakers:

Hartmut Schultze, Business Architect, HPE

Andy Longworth, WW Data AI and Analytics Solution Architect, HPE

Günther Tschabuschnig, President Executive Board, Green Data Hub

Penjani Mkambula, Global Programme Lead, Food Fortification, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Penny Madsen, Senior Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, IDC

If you are a CxO, LOB, or IT strategist charged with delivering the next level of operational excellence and quantifiable results across your distributed enterprise, this session is for you. We'll discuss the data processing needs of the modern distributed enterprise and share insights on how to use metrics like data gravity to make the right investment decisions. We'll further discuss data lifecycle principles across edge, core, and public cloud. Finally, we'll share three easy steps for you to get started with your own edge-first strategy.

Speaker:

Denis Vilfort, Director, PAN-HPE marketing