From The Experts (FTE)™

Challenge: Enterprise IT and the Line of Business counterparts have an equal stake in driving meaningful business outcomes from AI adoption. Many enterprises face severe challenges in moving AI projects from pilot to production. This is driven by the sense of urgency to accelerate time to production and because of siloed deployments that cannot be standardized for enterprise-wide adoption.

Discussion: Sri shares his experience with clients' overcoming this challenge sharing best practice to increase the probability of success AND leads the group discussion with other leaders working through this right now.

Why it matters?!

70% of companies report minimal or no impact from artificial intelligence implemented. Many companies don't have the objectives, quality data, talent, or budget to scale for success. Scaling artificial intelligence can create a massive competitive advantage, but how do you make it happen to have an impact?

Joey Zwicker, VP of AI Portfolio and Sales Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, explores key indicators, practical lessons learned, and success factors to recognize and prioritize for your AI success. As Co-Founder and COO of recently acquired Pachyderm, Joey shares practical use case examples and a glimpse into the future of AI at HPE.

Why it Matters!?

Adapting AI resources for continuously changing business requirements requires scalability, meterability, manageability, on-demandability... lots of flexibility. When faced with a decision to develop AI resources in the Cloud or on Premises, business owners struggle making a choice. On-premises compute gives you more control and is often the cheapest solution, but the Cloud gives you fast access and flexibility.

Bill Mannel Chief Technologist, Americas HPC & AI Solution Sales explores what's at stake for the business and how these decisions are made.

What are the key decision criteria (pros and cons) that will help you determine when to develop AI resources on premise, in the cloud, or both? How are other leaders responsible making decisions and implementing AI infrastructure for their organization approaching this today?

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AI and groundbreaking techniques like ChatGPT are not only revolutionary but controversial. Most agree we now live in the AI era where companies must adopt AI (and quickly) to survive... yet many AI projects fail to get off the ground. Dale Brown, AI Software Global Head of Sales with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, explores the key elements for successful AI projects and shares real customer examples.

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What's hindering your to business value with AI/ML? How do you know your AI/ML initiative is on track? Join this interactive discussion with Dale and other leaders focused on solving business problems with AI.

We cannot beat climate change without aviation being decarbonized. The aviation sector emits almost one billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and by 2050, the commercial aircraft emissions are predicted to triple. Known approaches like SAF/Bio based fuels have limited replacement potential and Hydrogen combustion being at higher temperature is still a cause of NOx and contrails. Hydrogen as an aviation fuel is in for the long haul and is a true Zero emission on board solution. SiriNoR Co-Founder and CEO Abhijeet Inamdar shares roadmap highlights of the only known subsonic and supersonic jet engines for zero emission aviation based on a hydrogen-electric drivetrain. What commercial and technical barriers are ahead and where is SiriNoR seeking partners?

Why It Matters!?

Corporations, governments, and consumers are prioritizing sustainability like never before. Commitments to global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) and renewable energy are now top priorities for CEO’s and CFOs with quantifiable and verifiable impacts required. Increasing demand for renewable supply along with extreme weather and heat, and grid reliability challenges, estimates show our grids will need to expand 5x or more.

Trinity Lloyd, Sustainability and Energy Transition Lead at Google, shares how they are leveraging technology to connect and transform these challenges into power solutions that meet community and business needs simultaneously at scale around the world.

Why it Matters!?

As market players accelerate the energy transition towards lower-carbon commodities, while ensuring energy security. The price discovery process can be both alluring yet opaque amidst a developing market.

Learning to properly navigate the price discovery process of early-stage projects, and offtake agreements is crucial to mitigating ones risk and for developing a commoditized market.

How will pricing be structured for low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia offtakes? What process and tools should project developers and investors have in place to better evaluate agreement risks, and increasing confidence in the marketplace? Santiago Canal Soria, Hydrogen Pricing Analyst, S&P Global Commodity Insights, explores some of the current challenges delaying the development of the market making process, and the tools available to frame new investment opportunities.

Did you know that 70-75% of change pursuits do not actually succeed well? What practices can we learn and apply from the 25-30% of these initiatives that do succeed? Reflect on a present or past change experience and join the conversation as FTE guest expert Marise Mikulis, CCMP, demystifies change adoption. Marise will explore the core change factors of execution approach, resistance, and persistence. She’ll offer some fresh perspectives on success levers, ranging from neuroscience, to documented best practice methods and metrics, and establishment of durable new norms.

Geothermal energy is clean, stable, and cost effective with a small footprint that can be built anywhere AND its right under your feet everywhere! So what's holding geothermal down? Kevin Mullen, CEO GreenQuest Power, shares how they are removing the remaining barriers and key challenges ahead. What does a technology package that drills deep enough to get to the heat both faster and more cost efficient look like? What technologies could be adapted to help downhole? What Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) models are best suited to navigate "non-standard" financing required for geothermal power projects? Which project finance and technology partners would be most attractive our atypical project and technology? Which regions are more likely to provide a power purchase agreement large enough to support the project?

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Considering the projected recession ahead and the related change in consumer demand, how are you implementing COVID lessons learned to build resiliency into your supply chain for the next disruption? Ocean freight and international sourcing expert Steve Hughes, President & CEO HCS International, shares insights on the key adjustments global manufacturers and ocean shippers are making to mitigate supply chain freight risk.