HPE Discover 2025, the annual U.S. showcase of all things HPE, takes place next week, June 23-26, in Las Vegas. As always, Hewlett Packard Labs leaders will be active participants in the show, delivering talks, hosting educational sessions, and leading demonstrations of key aspects of Labs research.
But the leaders aren’t going just to teach. They’re heading to Discover also to learn.
HPE Discover 2025 is being held at the Venetian Conference & Expo Center, one of the biggest conference venues on the famed Las Vegas strip. Well over 10,000 attendees will spend the week checking out over 300 sessions and demos, including 20 technical workshops, 15 hands-on labs, 25 theater sessions and 12 tech talks at the Venetian, along with a keynote by HPE CEO Antonio Neri and a concert by country star Kenny Chesney, both at the Sphere at the Venetian resort.
A look at Labs’ research
Attendees will have many opportunities to experience Hewlett Packard Labs’ research firsthand at the show. Labs will oversee five demos in the hall's "Discover Innovation Campus." Labs leaders will also lead three high-level tech talks and participate in four panels.
A theater session led by Labs Director Andrew Wheeler will explore three of the most transformative frontiers in artificial intelligence: responsible AI, agentic AI and digital twins. These cutting-edge developments will rapidly redefine the way we live, work, and interact with technology. Wheeler will then turn to the big question — how can society guide AI to become a force for good, rather than an unpredictable disruptor?
Dunning, who is attending his fifth Discover conference, is delivering a follow-up to his well-attended 2024 talk, “Everybody’s Doing Security All Wrong.” In the 2025 discussion, Dunning will note that data security systems are still failing because users don’t understand them and can’t use them safely. He’ll describe how security providers can fix the problems and make systems correct by default.
Labs Chief Architect Kirk Bresniker will lead a theater session on quantum computing called “The Quantum Brutalist.” He plans to look into the future and describe what it will take to move quantum from hype to reality, and what companies need to do to manage their post-quantum security and identity.
Looking into the future
Bresniker said the most important thing he and his colleagues can do at Discover is to offer attendees a view of Labs’ vision for technologies that will be important in the future.
“I always think I’ve done my job when I go to Discover and I meet someone who’ll say, ‘Five years ago you gave a Tech Talk at Discover, and it was exactly what I needed to know,’” he said in the From Research to Reality podcast about HPE Discover 2025. “We do have that ability to look forward, to get (customers) there, to prepare them (for the future) so they can think about, what can I do today and tomorrow? What should I do in three years, in five years? What will it be like at Discover in 2035? I think you’ll learn by talking to the Labs team this year.”
Labs leaders also participate in four panels focusing on aspects of AI and security.
- Factories of the Future: Chief Architect Bresniker will join leaders from HPE and software developer abat+ to discuss hurdles companies need to cross to transform their factories using AI.
- Aligning IT and Business: Bresniker also will join HPE CIO Rom Kosla, HPE Global Chief Data Officer Daniel Waibel and an executive from BMO Harris Bank in a discussion of how to align IT and business to make AI work in the enterprise.
- Cybersecurity Building Blocks: HPE’s cybersecurity leaders, including Security Lab Director Nigel Edwards, will discuss effective approaches to strengthen security, using what’s already in companies’ existing environments.
- Intelligent Model Routing: Baradji Diallo, Innovation Architect, AI & Technology Strategy at HPE, will participate in a panel that will address the process of dynamically selecting the most suitable LLM model to balance performance and efficiency. This session introduces intelligent model routing, which enables automated task-to-model assignment based on latency, accuracy, cost, and hardware fit.
The five demos Labs will lead focus on work researchers are doing on a digital twin of the Earth, AI agents, data center cooling, data protection and quantum computing.
- Destination Earth: Hewlett Packard Labs is developing the infrastructure backbone to facilitate data transfers in a highly accurate digital model of the Earth currently being developed by the European Commission. Labs’ display will show how the model will monitor, simulate, and predict the interactions between natural phenomena and human activities.
- Hiring an AI Assistant: This demo illustrates how HPE is shaping the next generation of intelligent applications through LLM-based Agentic AI designs. Attendees then can visit the AI dealership of the future to build a digital twin — an interactive LLM Playground where they can “hire” their ideal AI assistant. They can test-drive a variety of models and reasoning strategies, comparing their speed and performance, just like picking the perfect car. This hands-on experience shows how agentic architectures bring real autonomy to generative AI, enabling smarter, more adaptable solutions to real-world problems.
- Data Center Cooling: Hewlett Packard Labs has developed a reinforcement learning system that optimizes liquid cooling in HPC data centers for significant energy savings. Labs’ demo shows a model for digital twins, enabling large-scale optimization across energy, emissions, water and cost.
- Data Protection: Hewlett Packard Labs has developed technology that can encrypt data when it’s in transit, when at rest, and now also during use. Labs’ demo will show how the prevents attackers gaining access to valuable data.
- Quantum Supercomputers: To scale quantum computing for practical use, Hewlett Packard Labs has developed a hardware-agnostic hybrid framework that tightly integrates HPC and QC across all layers. The demo simulates a quantum computer’s actions in various scenarios.
From thought-provoking sessions and live demos to cutting-edge AI avatars and quantum conversations, Hewlett Packard Labs is bringing its bold vision of the future to life at Discover. Whether you’re exploring Labs' demos in the Innovation Campus, engaging with researchers, or learning from tech leaders, Labs’ presence promises to inspire, inform and ignite new possibilities. Labs at Discover isn’t just an appearance — it’s a glimpse into what’s next.
To see Labs’ research agenda come to life, join us at HPE Discover 2025 or follow the Hewlett Packard Labs LinkedIn page for a glimpse into the conference. Also, learn more about Labs’ research into trustworthy and responsible AI, creating sustainable data centers, developing a digital twin of the Earth, digital twins, and quantum computing.
