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AI-First approach provides innovation success

Steve Young, UK SVP and MD, Dell Technologies, explains how can businesses can navigate the high upfront cost of AI while aiming for cost-saving and efficiencies, the importance of adopting an 'AI-first' approach to investment and how to go about devising and implementing an organisation-wide AI strategy that balances upfront costs versus anticipated benefits.

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Oxford Ionics’ breakthrough promises ‘useful’ quantum computing within three years

Dr Chris Ballance, co-founder and CEO of Oxford Ionics, explains how the company has developed and proven the building blocks of a high-performance, scalable quantum computer, and has also demonstrated that its quantum chips can be produced at scale in a standard semiconductor factory. Chris says that its chip provides over twice the performance of previous world records - achieved without using error correction – detailing why he believes that useful quantum computers are now within touching distance.

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AI regulation - a delicate balancing act?

Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, also a Council of Europe adviser on AI and human rights, provides some fascinating insights into the EU AI Act, the UK’s upcoming AI Bill, as well as relevant US legislation, in terms of how much AI regulation is actually based on existing laws around privacy and non-discrimination and also about achieving the balance between AI innovation and AI ethics. Ultimately, AI is set to make a major, positive contribution to our quality of life, so long as AI-driven challenges, such as misinformation and bias, can be kept under control.

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World Quantum Readiness Day focuses on futureproofing cybersecurity

Dr. Avesta Hojjati, VP of Engineering at DigiCert, explains the thinking behind the creation of the first ever World Quantum Readiness Day – detailing the very real threat that quantum computing could compromise existing cryptographic algorithms used to secure data and the need for organisations to adopt a proactive stance on quantum readiness to safeguard against potential attacks.

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Infinidat raises the bar for cyber resilient storage services

Eric Herzog, Infinidat CMO, outlines the company’s recent technology launch – the InfiniBox G4 family of cyber secure storage arrays, which incorporates InfiniSafe, InfiniVerse and Storage as a Service innovations. As ever, Eric’s technology and business insights, with a particular focus on the need for end users to understand how storage and security come together as the foundation for an effective and optimised cyber resilience strategy, are invaluable.

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AI and cybersecurity – a marriage made in heaven or hell?

Dennis Xu, VP Analyst, KI Leader, Gartner, discusses the coming together of AI and cybersecurity – in particular the rapid evolution of generative AI and its likely impact on cybersecurity – providing some valuable, actionable insights for navigating the GenAI hype to create real value. Dennis also comments on the need for organisations to reconsider their cyber resilience strategies in the wake of the recent Crowdstrike incident.

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Redefining energy-efficient processing

Brandon Lucia, a Carnegie Mellon professor who recently founded Efficient Computer, a company that is producing a general purpose chip said to be up to 100 times more energy-efficient than leading general-purpose CPUs, talks through the company’s reconfigurable dataflow processor architecture, explaining just how much of an impact he believes this innovation will have where AI and ML are used in IoT devices at the edge and, maybe overtime, in the data centre itself.

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Telecoms: to infinity and beyond!

Peter Terry-Brown, General Manager, Positioning and Timing Business Unit, Spirent, discusses the current state of the telecommunications industry and explains that its future lies skyward – exploring the possibilities of satellite-based telecommunications and a corresponding shrinking of earthbound telecoms infrastructure.

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Database monitoring and management for the digital age

Per Christopher Undheim, Product Manager, dbWatch, explains the company’s dbWatch Control Center, a database operations solution, combining monitoring, management, dashboards, reporting, security compliance, tuning and automation capabilities across multiple database platforms, allowing MSPs to become more efficient in how to discover and correct issues, allowing them to manage more databases with the same staff, lowering the cost of providing their services.

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WOMEN IN IT – SOPHIE BROWN, FLOWLIO

Sophie Brown, Commercial Director, Flowlio Ltd, talks through her career to date, from dropping out of university to her role today on the board of a software-as-a-service start-up. As a dedicated advocate for women in tech, and deeply committed to fostering inclusivity and diversity within the industry, Sophie shares her thoughts on the changes she has seen when it comes to DEI and, importantly, what still needs to be addressed to ensure that the IT industry provides the right opportunities for all.

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Dealing with downtime costs

James Hodge, GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor at Splunk, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ‘Hidden Costs of Downtime’ report – which identifies not just the financial cost of downtime - $400 billion annually – but also the damage done to shareholder value, brand reputation, innovation velocity and customer trust. The report also identifies a group of resilience leaders, and James shares the strategies which these organisations deploy to minimise downtime occurrences and their impact.

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Edge takes centre stage for Smart Textile Transition

Domenico Ardizio, System, Network & Security Administrator, ICT Infrastructures, SMS Engineering, talks through the company’s work on the Smart Textile Transition 5.0 project, which won the Edge Project of the Year at the recent DCS Awards. He discusses the challenges, the client benefits, the lessons learnt from the project, before moving on to examine edge computing’s place within a hybrid IT infrastructure solution, which also includes cloud computing.

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Arrow Electronics introduces experience centres in the US and Sweden to aid partners in leveraging AI, cloud, and cybersecurity advancements for innovative solutions.
Sectigo simplifies digital certificate operations with its new MCP Server, aiming to offer AI integration without compromising security.
Despite significant investments, UK industrial companies face divided views on digital transformation success and productivity.
UCEN Manchester partners with Check Point to provide students with cybersecurity education and experience in response to the UK skills shortage.

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