What not to miss at HPE Discover 2024: HPC and AI sessions

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Join us at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas the week of June 17, 2024, to gain powerful insights, make connections and learn how to accelerate AI innovation.

HPE Discover 2024 promises to be a groundbreaking experience, offering unparalleled insights into the future of technology and AI. Whether this is your first Discover, or you’ve joined us for over a decade, HPE Discover 2024 has a curated lineup of HPC and AI sessions to enhance knowledge and inspire innovation.

Kicking off is our keynote live from Sphere, where Antonio Neri, HPE President and CEO, will be joined by NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang. There will be panel sessions, business breakouts, demos, an AI walk, a technology “petting zoo” and much more.

We invite you to engage with our experts as we redefine the boundaries of what is possible. If you haven’t yet signed up, you can register now and start building your agenda to maximize your learnings and takeaways.

Here is summary of “don’t miss” HPC & AI sessions and demos. However, this is by no means a comprehensive list. We have demos and sessions across all industries and areas, so you can customize your agenda to fit your needs. For a complete list visit our full content catalog.

“Don’t Miss” HPC & AI sessions, panels, business breakouts and demos at HPE Discover 2024

Please note, all programming is listed in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

General Session

The next five years of AI and how to prepare | Tuesday, June 18, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Session ID: GS7041

Let’s lift the lid on the business engine called AI. Whether it’s utilizing large language models for chatbot development or pushing the boundaries in lifesaving research, AI applications span across all industries. In this session, you’ll hear from industry professionals about their experiences and gain actionable insights to implement AI in your business. Join us to hear how HPE and NVIDIA are partnering to make this technology more accessible and to gain our perspectives on AI for the next five years.

Speakers: Sheida Gohari, Ph.D., Head of Artificial Intelligence, Walgreens and Neil MacDonald, EVP and General Manager, HPE

Panel Sessions

Accelerate AI training with world-leading supercomputing | Tuesday, June 18, 2:30 – 3:15 p.m. | Session ID: PNL6622

The world’s largest companies and research centers are turning to generative AI to make breakthroughs. The growth of training sizes requires specialized solutions to efficiently support strong scaling and compute-intensive workloads, which supercomputing with direct-liquid cooling is purpose-built to handle. See how you can outpace the competition with AI-capable supercomputing solutions from HPE to drive discovery and make decisions faster – from accelerating time-to-market for new drugs and vehicles to advancing renewable energy initiatives.

Speakers: Prith Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer, Ansys; Trish Damkroger, Chief Product Officer, HPC/AI, HPE; Jonathan Fiévez, CEO, Carnegie Clean Energy

AI Use Case: Smart manufacturing | Wednesday, June 19, 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. | Session ID: PNL6625

Under pressure to implement the modern manufacturing buzzwords of robotics and automation, AI, carbon-neutral, digital twins, and cybersecurity for your organization? This session explores the trends shaping the factory of the future and the challenges in implementing them. Learn how HPE helps in this transformation journey with a smart manufacturing solution together with abat+ for a true hybrid cloud experience. Listen how first-time auto manufacturer INEOS delivers the Grenadier 4x4 SUV in a plant fully run and managed by HPE GreenLake cloud.

Speakers: Peter Grende, CDO, abat+ and Casey Taylor, VP NonStop, HPE

Are AI and the public sector ready for each other?| Tuesday, June 18, 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. | Session ID: PNL6721

AI in public sector holds a massive potential to revolutionize citizen services, but it needs to be done right. It needs to be secured in an explainable manner—meaning everyone knows how decisions are being made—and then control access to the generated insights. In this session, we will explore the issues around citizen-focused AI which will include the security implications, the implications around decision support, and the avoidance of biases, answering the question, "How can this work in your hybrid cloud?"

Speakers: Shaun Johnson, CTO and Director of Enterprise Architecture, Idaho National Laboratory and Seth Kindley, CTO, Civilian Federal, HPE

Navigating AI governance and cybersecurity: Key insights | Tuesday, June 18, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. | Session ID: PNL6723

This session addresses the governance challenges of using AI in enterprises, particularly in hybrid cloud setups. Our CSO and senior leaders from Hewlett Packard Labs will explore ethical use, transparency, and prevention of AI misuse, alongside strategies for effective governance. Insights into developing governance models that bolster security while upholding ethical and regulatory standards will be shared, highlighting the balance between innovation and responsibility.

Speakers: Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow, VP and Chief Architect, Hewlett Packard Labs; Bobby Ford Senior VP & Chief Security Officer, HPE; Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Senior VP, Data & AI, HPE; Iveta Lohovska, HPE Services Data Scientist, HPE

Business Breakout Sessions

AI Use Case: Gen AI for Enterprise | Wednesday, June 19, 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Session ID: BB6661

Curious as to how your peers are harnessing the potential of Gen AI? Join HPE and NVIDIA experts who will share how other business leaders are navigating the journey of infusing Gen AI across various business functions. This session will provide practical insights on overcoming challenges, best practices, and top tips on what other organizations are doing to succeed.

Speaker: Frances Guida, Director, Compute Solutions and AI, HPE

Are you data- and AI-ready? | Wednesday, June 19, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | BB7040

There is no AI without data. Enterprises seeking to utilize AI capabilities to unlock business value are faced with a data challenge. They need to evolve their infrastructure to be data-centric and to overcome the challenges posed by increased data exchange. Additionally, these architectures need to be distributed and to be closer to where the data is generated, taking into account public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud data sets. HPE and Digital Realty have partnered to assist organizations achieve these goals by being data- and AI-ready.

Demos (at the HPE Discover Showcase during show hours)

Best practices in generative AI and LLM implementations | DEMO612

Learn how HPE Services experts help organizations unlock the benefits of AI and large language models (LLM) and achieve their business outcomes quickly and efficiently. This demo will show generative AI and LLM implementations with different techniques, such as RAG and fine tuning for different data types, applicable to many AI use cases in different industries.

Unleash your models: Simplify model deployment & inferencing | DEMO613

HPE Machine Learning Inference Software alleviates key pain points of model deployment complexity, lack of standard processes, inefficient model scaling, and inflexible deployment options. The software streamlines machine learning workflows, reduces time to market, enhances model performance, and achieves operational excellence in deploying and managing models. Revolutionize your AI workflows with an integrated solution for AI/ML data management, model training, and model deployment and inferencing built upon leading open-source technologies.

Optimize Gen AI workloads with NVIDIA and HPE | DEMO608

Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence trained on massive amounts of data to process and generate humanlike language. They have the potential to make significant contributions to productivity, efficiency, and personalized communications with your customers. In this demo, you will get a clear understanding of how HPE Software makes enterprise Gen AI easy. Unlock hidden potential by training models on your company’s data for personalized results. Join us and unleash the power of language AI in your business.

Accelerate AI production with inferencing solutions | DEMO606

Explore the latest compute AI solutions from NIVIDA and HPE engineered to simplify deployment of AI applications securely in the data center and at the edge. You’ll learn how to speed time to value for your AI initiative with Speech AI for translation and virtual assistants and Vision AI for video analytics to automate all your spaces at the edge. Get up close and be the first to see the latest AI technology showcasing HPE ProLiant servers and NVIDIA GPUs.

Jump-start Generative AI: “Ready-to-go” pre-built models | DEMO622

Rapidly prototype and tune foundational generative AI models with your data. Evaluate leading models, make trade-off decisions on model performance, speed, and cost. With the Gen AI studio feature in HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, you can start working on off-the-shelf pretrained models on Day 1, with a guided experience to compare models. Fine-tune models with an easy button to save cost and improve model performance. Seamlessly scale your selected model to train across multiple GPUs without rewriting infrastructure code.

Fight fraud with AI | DEMO616

Machine learning (ML) can be a game-changer in proactive fraud detection. Imagine training a model to spot anomalies like unusual purchases or activity spikes in dormant accounts. This demo will show you how ML continuously learns and adapts, staying ahead of evolving fraud tactics by refining its detection abilities as it receives new data.

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but this time you’ll leave with key learnings and actionabel insights that you can take home and use to help your organization innovate and accelerate its AI journey.  

For more details visit our HPE Discover 2024 page. We look forward to seeing you there!

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