From Research to Reality
A podcast from HPE Labs that delves into the many phases of technology innovation: ideas, research, development, management, marketing, and more. Host Dejan Milojicic, distinguished technologist at Labs, engages in searching conversations with subjects from diverse backgrounds, including engineers, scientists, mathematicians, business people, and technical managers.
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Dejan Milojicic
HPE Labs, Fellow and Vice President
Milojicic has built a distinguished career at HPE Labs, contributing expertise across multiple technology domains such as cloud computing, service management, support automation, and systems software.
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March 6, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 1 Photonics
Dejan Milojicic hosts Marco Fiorentino to discuss research and tech transfer of integrated photonics, how it is developed and brought to market, and the Clean Room, where you get your hands dirty. Marco shares his journey from Italy, the East, and the West Coast.
July 25, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 7 Quantum and quantum-inspired
Dejan Milojicic hosts Aishwarya Natarajan and Grace Johnson. They discuss Quantum and Quantum-Inspired technologies and their impact on the world. They discuss their career paths and the future of quantum.
September 14, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 2 Climate models and digital twins
Dejan Milojicic hosts Utz-Uwe Haus, HPE Distinguished Technologist at HPE Labs. Utz-Uwe will talk about the climate models that he is contributing to the European Commission’s flagship project Destination Earth--building a digital twin of planet earth.
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Season 6
September 4, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 6 Storage in the era of AI
Guests: Alex Veprinsky and Pavana Prakash, Chief Storage Architect and Research Scientist
July 23, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 5 ILO: Integrated Lights Out
Guests: Ted Emerson and Chandrasekhar P, ILO ASIC and firmware architects
June 05, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 4 Slingshot and design space exploration
Guests: Duncan Roweth and Pedro Bruel
May 21, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 3 Labs at HPE Discover
Guest: Several Labs scientists
May 01, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 2 Clean room
Guest: Carl Chow, Clean Room Engineer, HPE Labs
March 06, 2025 | Season 6, Episode 1 Photonics
Guest: Marco Fiorentino
Season 5
December 19, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 11 Animal tracking
Guests: Shivang Aggarwal, Research Engineer, HPE Labs, Lianjie, Shivang, Senior AI Research Engineer, HPE Labs and Alex van der Heever, General Manager, Tracker Academy
November 14, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 10 Interns 2024
Guests: Summer 2024 HPE Labs interns and mentors
October 1, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 9 Digital twins
Guest: Soumyendu Sakar, Senior Distinguised Technologist, HPE Labs
August 19, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 8 Human resources
Guest: Stefani Ewell, HR Business Partner supporting HPE Labs
July 25, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 7 Quantum and quantum-inspired
Guests: Aishwarya Natarajan and Grace Johnson, Research Scientists at HPE Labs
June 13, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 6 Innovation in presales
Guest: Jordan Nanos, Principal ML Architect at HPE Global Sales Technology Office
April 18, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 5 Unsung heroes—Research engineering and operations
Guests: Ken Burden, Network Architect, and Pete Haddad, Manager, of the Research Engineering Operations at HPE Labs
March 28, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 4 Liquid cooling
Guests: Jason Zeiler, the senior product manager in HPC/AI Business in HPE
March 7, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 3 Technology predictions and megatrends
Guests: Mary Baker of HP Inc. and Kirk Bresniker of HPE
February 29, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 2 HPE Labs interns 2023
Guests: 20 interns and 5 mentors from HPE Labs
January 23, 2024 | Season 5, Episode 1 Artificial intelligence
Guest: aolo Faraboschi, HPE Fellow and VP, Director of AI Research Lab
Season 4
December 19, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 6 Executive assistants, engines behind executive teams
Guest: Michelle Murray, Executive Assistant in HPE Labs
October 5, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 5 Architecting high-end HPC software
Guest: Larry Kaplan, Senior Distinguished Technologist in the HPC & AI HPE Business
September 14, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 4 How sustainable products are made
Guest: Scott Shaffer, HPE VP, Server Advanced Development, and US COE
September 14, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 3 On fellowship and scotch, unfiltered
Guest: Ray Beausoleil, senior fellow at HPE Labs
September 14, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 2 Climate models and digital twins
Guest: Utz-Uwe Haus, a newly promoted HPE Distinguished Technologist at HPE Labs
March 21, 2023 | Season 4, Episode 1 Technical leadership with Suparna Bhattacharya
Guest: Suparna Bhattacharya, newly promoted HPE Fellow and VP at HPE Labs
Season 3
November 10, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 7 Legal in metaverse 101
Guest: Jeff Fougere, an innovation Strategist at HPE
October 17, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 6 Silicon design 101
Guest: Jim Greener, Director of Silicon Design Lab in HPE Labs
September 22, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 5 Technology predictions 101
Guest: Tom Coughlin interviews Dejan Milojicic, Distinguished Technologist HPE Labs
September 21, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 4 Sustainability 101
Guests: Tiffani Jarnigan, Director of Sustainability Innovation and Partnerships at HPE ESG and Cullen Bash, VP and Lab Director System Architecture Lab, Hewlett Packard Lab
July 19, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 3 Quantum computing 101
Guest: Ray Beausoleil
July 12, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 2 Heterogeneous computing, point of view and call for action
Guests: Five colleagues across HPC/AI business and HPE Labs: Nic Dube, Paolo Faraboschi, Arti Garg, Ken Leach, and Rangan Sukumar.
January 25, 2022 | Season 3, Episode 1 Driving innovation at HPE Labs
Guest: Andrew Wheeler, Fellow and VP, Director of HPE Labs
Season 2
October 27, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 14 IoT customers
Guest: Lin Nease, Fellow and VP, Chief Technologist for IoT at Point Next (advisory and professional services), Hewlett Packard Enterprise
September 23, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 13 Trustworthy AI
Guest: Soumyendu Sarkar, Senior Distinguished Technologist at HPE Labs
July 7, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 12 Orchestrating edge
Guests: Faraz Ahmed and Lianjie Cao, research scientists at HPE Labs
June 17, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 11 Accelerating edge
Guests: Anu Mercian and Diman Zad Tootaghaj, senior research scientist and research scientist at HPE Lab
June 2, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 10 Open FAM
Guest: Sharad Singhal, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
May 21, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 9 IEEE computer society Richard Merwin Award 2021
Guest: Dejan Milojicic interviewed by Cullen Bash
May 4, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 8 Fluid HPC
Guest: Pete Beckman, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Lab
April 20, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 7 Ethics in AI
Guest: Kirk Bresniker, Fellow and VP in Hewlett Packard Enterprise
April 2, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 6 AI, customers' point of view
Guest: Al Amin, Strategist in Worldwide Presales at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
March 8, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 5 Self-learning data foundation for AI
Guest: Suparna Bhattacharya, Distinguished Technologist at HPE Labs
January 6, 2021 | Season 2, Episode 4 Convergence of HPC and AI
Guest: Paolo Faraboschi, HPE Fellow, VP & Director of the AI Research Lab
December 9, 2020 | Season 2, Episode 3 Future of HPC interconnects
Guest: Duncan Roweth, HPE Distinguished Technologist, CTO Office for HPC and MCS
November 24, 2020 | Season 2, Episode 2 Scientific big data edge
Guest: Rangan Sukumar, HPE Distinguished Technologist, CTO Office for HPC and MCS
November 12, 2020 | Season 2, Episode 1 Future of HPC
Guest: Nic Dube, HPE Fellow and VP, Chief Technologist for HPC
Season 1
October 27, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 28 Radical transparency
Guest: Martina Trucco, Marketing and Communications executive
October 13, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 27 Go where the dashboard is red
Guest: Jill Sweeney, Section Leader for HPE Total Customer Experience and Quality
September 22, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 26 Indian summer of AI
Guest: Sorin Cheran, HPE Fellow and VP of AI Strategy and Solutions
September 3, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 25 Innovation for social impact
Guest: Janice Zdankus, the VP of Innovation for Social Impact
August 18, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 24 High performance computing in the cloud
Guest: Jean Luc Assor, Worldwide Director, HPC Cloud Solutions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise
August 4, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 23 Cybersecurity arm race! Who is driving it?
Guest: Martin Sadler, OBE
July 20, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 22 Advantage of the first mover
Guest: Dr. Tom Bradicich, the VP and Hewlett Packard Fellow, Global Head of Edge and IoT Labs at HPE
June 23, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 21 Patents uncovered
Guest: Aamir Haaq, Head of Patents and Joshua Dingot, Patent Portfolio Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
May 26, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 20 Editor in Chief of an IT research lab
Guest: Curt Hopkins, Editor in Chief of HPE Labs
March 31, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 19 From AI for soccer games to deep learning cookbook
Guest: Sergey Serebryakov, Senior Researcher in HPE Labs
March 10, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 18 Design for user experience (UX)
Guest: Sulekha Kuthiala, Design Strategist in the User Experience (UX) area
February 25, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 17 The most traveled technologist
Guest: Chris Whitney, head of Autonomous Systems at Monarch Tractor
February 11, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 16 What on earth is VCSEL?
Guest: Mike, HPE Labs Distinguished Technologist
January 28, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 15 The life of a CISO
Guest: Elizabeth Joyce, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
January 14, 2020 | Season 1, Episode 14 Special guest: Steve Pawlowski from Micron
Guest: Steve Pawlowski, VP of Advanced Computing Solutions at Micron Technology
December 17, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 13 Broken barriers, industry firsts
Guest: Amit Sharma
December 3, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 12 Strategy, strategy and strategy
Guest: Laurel Krieger, chief of staff for HPE’s CTO and Labs
November 19, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 11 Silicon photonics for all
Guest: Research scientist Ashkan Seyedi
November 5, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 10 Networking through time and space
Guest: Senior researcher Christina Vlachou
October 22, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 9 A whole load of subjects that begin with C
Guest: Puneet Sharma, Distinguished Technologist at HPE Labs
October 8, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 8 Exascale computing to address real world problems
Guest: Paolo Faraboschi, HPE Fellow and VP
September 24, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 7 You can’t make your ideas real if you don’t make money
Guest: Rebecca Lewington, marketing lead for analytics and advanced architectures
September 10, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 6 The IT industry welcomes all kinds of engineers (even mechanical ones)
Guest: Cullen Bash, HPE Labs Systems Architecture Lab Director and VP
August 13, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 5 There’s never been a better time to be a rule-breaker
Guest: Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow and VP
August 13, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 4 Turning the tables—who is this Dejan person anyway?
Guest: Dejan Milojicic, HPE Labs, Fellow and VP
July 30, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 3 Memory-driven computing and diversity, back-to-back
Guest: Kim Keeton, Distinguished Technologist
July 16, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 2 Subvert the dominance of electrons in our society and replace them with photons
Guest: Ray Beausoleil, HPE Senior Fellow and SVP
July 11, 2019 | Season 1, Episode 1 Introducing our podcast
Overview: Introducing a podcast about the many phases of technology innovation: ideas, research, development, management, marketing, and many others. We’ll talk to a wide range of people with diverse and rich backgrounds including all species of engineers, scientists, mathematicians, business people and technical managers. We hope you will enjoy listening to these podcasts as much as we do making them.