Diamond Panel: “The Edge Part of Edge to Cloud Data Fabrics”
Abstract:
As insights from things at the edge become more important to enterprises and society, and hence their data become first class citizens in IT data management fabrics. Challenges with things data include reliable connectivity to the data fabric, paucity of IT skills at edge locations, and edge data vulnerability to hackers. Join our Diamond Panel and hear a variety of views and best practices addressing these challenges, from Cisco and SAS.
Speakers:
Dr. Tom Bradicich is VP, Hewlett Packard Fellow. Beginning his career at IBM, Tom was an IBM Fellow, VP, Distinguished Engineer, and Server CTO. Prior to HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Tom was an NI Fellow at National Instruments, an Operational Technologies (OT) company. HP / Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE):Tom is currently Vice President, Hewlett Packard Fellow, and Global Head of Edge and IoT Labs & CoE, at HPE. He and his team develop and commercialize advanced as-a-Service (aaS) software and technologies, focusing on cloud managed remote infrastructure, edge-as-a-service, and converged IT/Operational Technologies (OT). Tom incepted and directs the HPE Channel-to-Edge Institute partner program, and leads company-wide strategies and venture/M&A assessments. Most recently Tom was HPE VP and General Manager, leading the global business unit, Servers and Edge Systems and Software, with P&L, worldwide sales, R&D, and customer experience ownership. In 2018, achieving revenue growth of over $250M, Tom’s business unit was the fastest growing in HPE. He directed the founding of HPE’s three global Innovation Labs for partner and customer collaborations, and led HPE’s first corporate IoT strategy. His sales teams were noted for exceeding sales quotas, and delivering first-of-a-kind products that greatly enhance customer business outcomes. At HP, Tom was VP, Server Engineering, developing and launching servers, storage, and software. Tom is named in CRN’s Top 100 Executives and Top 25 Disrupters in 2016, 2017, and 2019, inducted into the NC State University Alumni Hall of Fame, received the IBM Chairman’s Award, and elected to the IBM Academy of Technology. He currently serves on: Board of Directors of Aspen Technology (AZPN), a publicly traded OT and AI software company Chair, IoT Community industry body (iotcommunity.net)
Board of Advisors and Diversity Committee, University of Florida Throughout his career, Tom has led teams to develop, launch, and manage dozens of software and hardware products. And, the creation of several new product categories such as notebook computers, smartphones (IBM Simon™), Converged Systems (IBM BladeCenter™), Converged Edge Systems & Sofware (HPE Edgeline™), and OT and edge management software and platforms (HPE OTLink). Tom’s teams designed and launched the first 64 bit enterprise ARM server, the first x86 server with on-chip graphics, and IBM’s first prototype notebook computer.
Khondoker Huq is the Global Head of Market Strategy for AI and IoT at SAS, where he is responsible for defining and driving IoT-enabled industry solutions Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for Manufacturing and Industrial, Oil & Gas (O&G), Energy & Utilities (E&U), Retail & Hospitality, Insurance, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS), Agriculture, and Smart Infrastructure. He has over 25 years of working experience with Fortune 500 enterprise customers in various leadership roles across various disciplines – new market development, complex solutioning (concept to commercialization), product development, and solution delivery. Khondoker has led and driven transformational strategies in information (IT) and operations technologies (OT) (e.g., BSS/OSS – CRM, Order Management, Inventory, Provisioning, Billing, Payment Systems, and ERP) – including a focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) for the last decade (2010 – 2022). Prior to SAS – Khondoker has been instrumental in developing HPE’s IoT Platform strategy and working with enterprise and telco customers and 3rd party partners globally to enable AI and IoT GTM. His key areas of interests are innovation, customer obsession, partner economy, and digital disruption. Khondoker has a B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and an MBA with concentrations in Information Systems, Operations Research, and Decision Sciences.
Matt Bolick has worked in Technical Marketing at Cisco in RTP for the last 23 years running an obstacle course of technologies including SNA, ATM and Ethernet switching, Service Provider Aggregation, Metro Ethernet, Network Management and Enterprise Branch Architectures. He also worked on a wide variety of products no longer shipping including the Cisco 7500, 7200, Lightstream 1010, Catalyst 8540 & 5500, Cisco ASR, and Cisco ISRs before finally settling down for the last several years as a Technical Marketing Leader for the IoT group at Cisco working on Industrial switching, routing and wireless as well as other cool technologies like LoRaWAN and wireless mesh. Matt is also a father of 2 small kids (Sebastian is 5 and Moxie is 2) so he doesn’t get a lot of free time. When he does manage to escape you might be able to find him in the water or the sky. He’s both an avid SCUBA diver and private pilot; both places with lousy Wi-Fi.