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Tech is having a transformative effect on manufacturing, nowhere more so than in car manufacturing. IT is involved in every step of the process chain: from design to manufacture. And whilst advancements in technology have sped up the process; that also comes with its own challenges. The methods to train and monitor robots, as well as humans, are constantly evolving as AI plays a bigger part in the process.

And then, of course, there's integrating the manufacturing and sales process, as customers demand more and more customisability in their vehicles. In this episode, we're joined by Peter Grendel, Managing Director of ABAT+, to look at the challenges and opportunities that come with using modern technology and sustainable engineering in order to get a brand new car from concept to production. 

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About this week's guest: https://www.abat.de/en/about-us/management

Sources cited in this week's episode:
The original 4x4 patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US602310A/en
UK to ban carbon-emitting vehicles: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-path-to-zero-emission-vehicles-by-2035
Imaging the Herculaneum scrolls: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031465/
Identifying the first letters on the scrolls: https://scrollprize.org/firstletters

Despite a huge boom in technological innovation around the world and an expanding tech industry, the number of graduates who have come from STEM subjects remains relatively low. Just over a quarter of university graduates in the UK have studied a STEM course, and in the US it’s less than 1-in-5.  Within that, there is still a huge disparity in gender after secondary school compulsory education.

In this episode we’ll be looking at how we can engage the next, and future generations in science and technology-led professions, and the importance of role models in showing what can be achieved by a career in STEM, with former NASA rocket scientist, STEM ambassador, entrepreneur and confirmed future astronaut, Aisha Bowe.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.aishabowe.com/

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
Statistics for the percentage of the UK working population in STEM careers - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmsctech/95/report.html
Predicted increase in STEM employment - https://careersmart.org.uk/industries/stem/employment-growth-stem-occupations
HESA-backed report into role of women in STEM workforce - https://www.stemwomen.com/women-in-stem-statistics-progress-and-challenges
Imaging the Herculaneum scrolls: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031465/
Identifying the first letters on the scrolls: https://scrollprize.org/firstletters

The ethical question of AI has been at the forefront of its development. Today, there is a global rush to establish legal and ethical frameworks around AI, such as the European Parliament AI Act, which aim to legislate around concerns surrounding potential bias from bad data sets or algorithms, privacy concerns, and non-discrimination.

Our guest this week is Principal Data Scientist and AI Ambassador at HPE, Iveta Lohovska. We’ll be discussing the practicality of placing guardrails around AI, as well as the ethical approach that needs to be taken for training models - and whether the sheer scale of its growth is leaving us vulnerable as a society.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iveta-lohovska-40210362/?originalSubdomain=at

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
2024 Global Forum on the Ethics of AI - https://www.unesco.org/en/forum-ethics-ai
European Parliament AI Act - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence
The Outer Space Treaty - https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html
International Astronomical Union - https://www.iau.org/
Dolly the Sheep cloning - https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/natural-sciences/dolly-the-sheep/

We’re back in the studio this week, revisiting Michael’s trip to HPE’s Technology Renewal Center in Erskine, Scotland. There, over three million pieces of IT equipment are renewed or recycled every year, with over 80% finding a new home according to HPE.

So why does it matter? This week, we’ll be looking at tech renewal in more detail, with un-heard interview audio from Michael’s tour of the center with his guide, Ray McGann: Managing Director of HPE Financial Services Ireland, and Worldwide Enterprise IT Asset Lifecycle Leader.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
HPE's figures on the performance of the Technology Renewal Center: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/services/asset-lifecycle.html
World Economic Forum report on e-waste: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/the-enormous-opportunity-of-e-waste-recycling/

According to 2023 figures from the World Economic Forum, around 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste is produced every year worldwide.

Combating that is HPE’s Technology Renewal Center (TRC) at Erskine, just outside Glasgow in Scotland. It takes in around 3 million pieces of end of use tech every year to help it find a new life. In fact, according to HPE's figures, 9.2 million assets have been put back into use over the last 3 years.

This week, Michael’s been out visiting the Technology Renewal Center to discover how end of use tech is getting a second chance, with his guide, Ray McGann: Managing Director of HPE Financial Services Ireland, and Worldwide Enterprise IT Asset Lifecycle Leader.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-mcgann-978b98a/?originalSubdomain=ie

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
HPE's figures on the performance of the Technology Renewal Center: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/services/asset-lifecycle.html
World Economic Forum report on e-waste: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/the-enormous-opportunity-of-e-waste-recycling/

According to Alzheimer Disease International, there are 10 million new cases of dementia across the world every year. That’s the equivalent of a new case every 3 seconds.

It’s a devastating disease which manifests differently in different patients, but a new and novel approach could revolutionize treatment. A team from University College London is developing a foundational AI model of the human brain, with the hope it can be trained to trial individualised treatment plans for dementia sufferers, as well as better understand the disease.

Our guest this week is one of the project leaders. Parashkev Nachev is a Professor of Neurology at University College London. His team have been working in collaboration with HPE to create these AI-based digital twin, bringing together the best of AI and human medical expertise.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/people/professor-parashkev-nachev

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
AI methods for earlier Alzheimer's diagnosis: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/artificial-intelligence-ai-dementia
Statistics on Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.alzint.org/about/dementia-facts-figures/dementia-statistics/#:~:text=There%20are%20over%2010%20million,new%20case%20every%203.2%20seconds 
Precision medicine statistics: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/precision-medicine-market-worth-50-2-billion--marketsandmarkets-301918806.html#:~:text=Precision%20Medicine%20Market%20in%20terms,new%20report%20by%20MarketsandMarkets%E2%84%A2.
A wearable breast cancer screening device: https://news.mit.edu/2023/wearable-ultrasound-scanner-breast-cancer-0728

The UK’s fastest supercomputer, the Isambard-AI, is due to be completed in Summer 2024. According to the teams involved, it will reach up to 200 quadrillion calculations per second, and will give researchers and industry leaders new possibilities in the UK: the opportunity to work with the huge potential AI has to offer in the fields of robotics, big data, climate research, and drug discovery.

Our guest this week is one of the project leaders: Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith from University of Bristol. We’ll be looking at how Isambard-AI will be an open hub for all AI research in the UK, powered by around five-and-a-half-thousand GPUs. 

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmcintoshsmith/?originalSubdomain=uk

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
Supercomputer name first used - https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/history-of-supercomputing
Exascale barrier broke for the first time - https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-advisory/2023/03/4-ways-supercomputing-will-change-the-world.html
About Isambard-AI - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/september/isambard-ai.html
How the UK Government has invested £225 million - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/november/supercomputer-announcement.html#:~:text=Isambard%2DAI%20will%20offer%20capacity,climate%20research%20and%20drug%20discovery.%22
NASA’s 3D-printed engine to power space rockets - https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasas-3d-printed-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-test-a-success/

The term “open source” is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It originally started out as a rebellious gesture to allow everybody access to programmes and ideas. So how did something that began as a movement against big corporations grow into one that has been adopted by Fortune 500 companies?

In this episode we’ll be looking at where open source technology sits as a functioning tool in the age of VR and AR, and if we're going to see open source software being coded by open platform AI, with Distinguished Technologist for Open Platform at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jean-Marie Verdun.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-marie-verdun-5669902/

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
How the term “Open Source” came about: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software
Open Source technology’s roots in rebellion: https://opensource.com/article/21/4/motivates-open-source-contributors
How much the Open Source market was worth in 2022: https://www.precedenceresearch.com/open-source-services-market#:~:text=The%20global%20open%20source%20services,forecast%20period%202023%20to%202032.
WiFi 7 announcement: https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-7

Golf is arguably one of the most challenging sports in the world from a logistical and operational standpoint. Especially when it comes to connecting the hundreds or thousands of smart devices dotted around them during major tournaments across tens of square kilometers.

That was the challenge for our guest this week, Chief Technology Officer for the European Tour Group and Ryder Cup Europe, Michael Cole. We'll be looking back at this year's event in Italy and discussing what went well and how the team overcame the challenges the event presented, as well as talking about creating 21st century connected ecosystems in the most extreme environments, and what comes next.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cole-7861961/?originalSubdomain=uk

Sources and citations in this episode:
Stats on the Ryder Cup Europe's fan egagement: https://www.rydercup.com/news-media/record-breaking-ryder-cup-in-rome#:~:text=On%20Ryder%20Cup%20Europe's%20platforms,in%20Paris%20which%20totalled%20160million.
Robotic arm controlled by breathing: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2407850-robotic-third-arm-controlled-by-breathing-is-surprisingly-easy-to-use/

It’s the second of our two-part  edition on IT operations. Last week we looked at the emergence of convergence, and this time, we’re examining the idea of data presentation, and how improvements in our operations can create beautiful data flows for every level of an organization - from the data centre to the boardroom.

We’ll be examining why the way our data is presented matters to organizations. why it presents such a challenge, and why the rewards and worth the effort with this week’s guest, Varma Kunaparaju. Varma is Co-Founder and CEO at OpsRamp, an IT Operations management as-a-service platform that was recently acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

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About the expert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varmak

Sources and statistics cited in this episode:
Arxiv report on Artificial General Intelligence: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00871