5G technology is revolutionizing enterprise computing by enhancing data movement and connectivity. In this episode, Bill sits down with Jim Brisimitzis, Founder and General Partner at 5G Open Innovation Lab, to explore his career from Nortel to Microsoft and the transformative potential of 5G technology. Jim discusses the evolution of private 5G networks, enterprise use cases, and the critical role of connectivity in driving innovation.

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“My belief is this moment of AI, the evolution of 5G, the emergence of private networks, and edge as opportunities is truly a transformation point for the industry.”

“The network is evolutionary, but the use cases on the backend of those networks that they're now enabled is revolutionary.”

“I've seen these major waves of technology evolutions that got me really excited about 5G and Edge.”

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Timestamps:
(02:00) Jim’s career journey

(05:48) What is the 5G Open Innovation Lab?

(19:41) Private 5G vs. Wi-Fi in Enterprises

(25:02) The private 5G network: Evolutionary or revolutionary?

(31:42) Automation and workforce resistance

(34:30) Addressing the silver tsunami

(37:02) The role of technology in knowledge transfer

(40:26) Jim’s key lessons learned

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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How will progress at the edge change our homes, cars and the electrical grid? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Kai Hackbarth, Senior Tech Evangelist at Bosch Global Software Technologies for a wide ranging discussion around Kai’s work at the OSGI foundation, and the complexities of smart homes, smart vehicles and the challenges posed to the electrical grid.

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“Electricity is not the answer for cars. to call it like this. So, if everybody drives an electric vehicle, no grid can manage this.”

“The grid was never designed for renewable energy sources.”

“I think hydrogen will come, right? It's not yet ready for cars”

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Timestamps:
(00:00) How Kai got started in tech

(06:28) Kai’s definition of edge

(13:06) Smart homes and smart assisted living facilities

(20:39) Kai’s work with the OSGI

25:29 Challenges and innovations in smart grid technology

28:49 The future of electric and hydrogen vehicles

32:51 Software-defined vehicles and industry challenges

39:00 Developments in edge tech and sustainability

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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Organizations need access to digital infrastructure and communications networks to leverage AI in a cost effective way. In this episode, Bill sits down with Greg Cudahy, Global Leader of TMT and Global Industries AI Leader at EY, to discuss digital infrastructure in an emerging AI world. The two talk about the judgment calls we will have to make about AI and how culture impacts AI use.

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“The people part of generative AI is every bit as important to get traction as the technology is.”

“All the forecasts are saying that roughly 75 percent of the data over the next 10 years that we see, that's acted upon for AI or any other business use, is going to come from edge computing. It's a groundswell. This is a huge trend.”

“As edge computing rises, you're creating more points of entry for bad actors. So the importance of cyber has never been higher.”

“Moving all this data that AI requires means huge investment in communications networks, even more than we've got today…. People don't think about moving the data. They think about what I'm going to do with it. They don't think about what this gigantic swell of volume of data is going to go….Enabling communications infrastructure has got to be a priority for virtually every nation state right now.”

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Timestamps:
(01:25) How Greg got started in tech

(09:38) AI shifting from a feature/function to a focus business outcome

(14:35) Bespoke models at scale

(19:00) What bandwidth do we allow AI to work within?

(32:59) How corporate and geographic cultures impact the use of AI

(34:46) Navigating regulation and security concerns with AI at the edge

(41:29) The need to invest in communications networks to move data

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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“How can you take the trust that you have in the data center when you deliver data, and how can you stretch that from the far edge, to a gateway, to an edge server, to the core, to the cloud?” Steve Todd, Fellow & VP of Data Innovation and Strategy at Dell Technologies, predicted 25 years ago that the problem of data trust on the edge would be important today. In this conversation, he discusses the long process behind building a solution.
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“The light bulb went on; there's an intersection, I believe, between distributed ledgers and delivering trusted data.”

"The other thing I think that is happening at just the right time, is the importance of AI, the importance of model building and deployment of inference towards the edge. Everybody's investing in that right now and there hasn't been a corresponding level of investment into knowing that the data is trustworthy."

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Timestamps:
(01:35) How Steve got started in tech and his career journey

(08:16) The intersection between distributed ledgers and delivering trusted data

(11:04) How can you take the trust you have in the data center and stretch it to the edge?

(14:11) The power of open sourcing Project Alvarium, a community building Data Confidence Fabric

(22:11) How did Steve predict this need years ago?

(29:43) What does Steve see coming next?

(34:35) What is the Hedera network?

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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Bumpy Landing: Distributed Ledgers In A Centralized World

Building Data Confidence at the Edge

Are we in the age of bespoke models? How long will that last? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Jaxon Repp, Field CTO at HarperDB, a globally-distributed edge application platform. They discuss solutions to managing distributed data, customized AI models and bringing the east of cloud to the edge.

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“I think that we are in the age of bespoke models now. But I think like all things, unless you're flying a remote drone armed with missiles, you probably will be able to make do with a model that just handles the basics.”

“There's a lot of upside to still having the horsepower to do the cool things and not necessarily pushing out all the way to the edge.”

“If I can train on a set of averages, some sort of compressed nature, I can dramatically reduce the amount of data that I have. If I can train on summaries as well as I can train on the raw data, then I'm not going to hold on to that raw data for anything other than, you know, super emergency cases.”

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Timestamps:
(01:17) How Jaxon got started in tech and to HarperDB

(07:25) Determining product market fit

(13:18) How do we bring the ease of cloud to the edge?

(18:37) Solutions to distributed data

(25:50) The future importance of bespoke models

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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How will generative AI impact the factory floor? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Jason Nassar, who is responsible for Dell Technologies’ global strategy for manufacturing edge products and solutions as a Senior Consultant Product Manager. The two dive into the future of generative AI on the factory floor, musing about the role of robots and small language models.

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“I think as the technology improves itself and it's going to happen faster than we think, there will likely be robots and even humanoid robots that are going to be performing tasks that in the past people performed.”

“At the end of the day, these LLMs or large language models, they're best put in the cloud right now, large data centers actually processing this. But this is quickly going to move directly to the edge. And that means that this technology is going to be utilized on the factory floor.”

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Timestamps:
(02:00) How did Jason get started in tech?

(02:40) IT and OT in manufacturing

(06:45) Evolution of customer needs in manufacturing

(20:54) What is possible with traditional AI?

(14:54) The potential of generative AI in manufacturing

(19:00) Hallucinations and human error

(20:50) The future of work and education

(33:32) Robots on the factory floor

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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What is a mirrored consumer and how can digital twins be used in retail? In this conversation, Bill speaks with Deepak Chaudhary, Lead for Intelligent Edge Solutions at Accenture, where he is focused on driving digital transformation, modernization, and platform development, particularly emphasizing intelligent edge computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence at the edge. Deepak and Bill dive into mirrored consumers, digital twins in the retail space that mimic consumer behavior. They also discuss the complexities of digital transformation and some of the challenges being tackled with edge technologies in retail.

"Mirrored consumers are the digital representation of our customer's profile persona. And that profile is being derived from first- or third-party data points. Maybe it can be variables, it can be sensors, it can be history, haptic technologies we are using. And by understanding the consumer through a mirrored consumer, we can understand what will be the next step of the consumer journey in daily life?"

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Timestamps:
01:15 How Deepak got started in tech

05:18 Why do customers turn to Accenture?

09:43 How have customer needs evolved in recent years?

12:02 What is a mirrored consumer?

14:34 How is technology changing the consumer landscape?

19:23 Creating digital twins

23:12 Digital twin examples

30:00 Hyper-personalization in retail and dynamic pricing

33:50 Generative AI at the edge and small language models

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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How can we create a “digital nervous system” and how will this change the edge? In this conversation, Bill speaks with David Sprinzen, the VP of Marketing at Vantiq, an application development platform for real-time edge-native applications. David and Bill discuss how modern technology can pull inspiration from the human nervous system, and dive into the future of generative AI at the edge. They also talk about data privacy, hallucinations, and small language models.

“In the new world what we're looking at with technology is effectively creating a digital nervous system. That means, how do you take data in from sensory inputs from cameras, from sensors, from IOT devices, from humans, and how do you make sense of it? How do you react to it? How do you store it?”

“Data is not value in and of itself, data is a mechanism by which you derive value.”

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Timestamps:
(01:20) How David got started in tech

(07:37) What drives people to the edge?

(12:08) What does edge native mean to David

(20:30) What does naturally distributed mean?

(22:11) How Vantiq thinks about “low code”

(28:33) Data management needs more attention

(30:40) The role of generative AI

(33:42) The future of small language models at the edge

(36:08) AI at the edge in healthcare

(40:08) Digital twin city project

(42:26) How does Vantiq identify the best projects?

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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