Neil MacDonald, UK & Ireland Channel Director for HP Inc., discusses the importance of sustainability to the IT Channel, with a major opportunity for companies to become environmental trusted advisors to end users. Neil outlines the many programmes and initiatives which HP has developed to address key sustainability issues, such as a packaging re-think, tech take back and closed loop recycling, all of which help their Channel partners to deliver measurable sustainability benefits to their...
Read MoreSteve Young, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Dell Technologies UK, discusses the complexities of digital transformation, focusing on the importance of avoiding multicloud by default by developing a multicloud by design strategy. Properly implemented, such a cloud smart approach should deliver the speed, flexibility and agility which are the hallmarks of today’s leading digital organisations.
Read MoreCharissa Jaganath, Head of Responsible Business at IT services business Logicalis, discusses the company’s sustainability commitment as outlined in its CIO Summit: Forging a Digital Path to Sustainable IT. She explains how sustainability and a wider ESG focus is front and centre for both Logicalis itself and its ecosystem of partners and customers.
Read MoreAngelika Holl, Chief Information Security Officer at Zeppelin Group and Member of ISACA’s Emerging Trends Working Group, discusses the reasons why women are leaving the UK tech sector, and explains the ways in which companies can address this problem as a key part of ensuring that the industry’s current skills shortage doesn’t become a crisis. She is optimistic that, with the right company, industry and government initiatives in place, the digital future is in safe hands.
Read MoreJonathan Wright, Director of Products and Operations at GCX, discusses the challenge facing channel organisations as they seek to manage the delicate balance of existing vendor relationships with customer demands for the very latest technology solutions. Through the example of SD-WAN and SASE, he explains how the channel needs to be able to recognise and embrace new opportunities and work with potentially new vendors as part of this process.
Read MoreEmily Bristow, SVP Global Head of Professional Services at SS&C Blue Prism, discusses the use of both automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technology solutions to enhance the digital customer experience. She shares some great insights as to the way in which these technologies can help to optimise customer interactions, emphasising that these solutions are primarily designed to augment, rather than replace, human experience.
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