Technology Untangled: 2024 Untangled
Technology Untangled
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
5.0 • 69 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We’re back, with a one-off episode looking at the challenges and opportunities tckled by leaders in their field throughout 2024, and looking ahead to 2025.
2024 has been quite a year. From elections and changes of Government around the world, to war, to lingering economic uncertainty - it has felt like the world is in a state of flux.
But with uncertainty comes opportunity. Opportunities to find new competitive advantages. Opportunities to do things better this time around... And opportunities to make the most of the incredible pace of technological change bubbling under the surface.
For HPE President and Chief Executive Officer Antonio Neri, 2024 was the year in which plans were consolidated to feed the ever-growing generative AI market. Whilst the last few years have been about providing the computing power to drive generative AI, it’s now time to look to other pieces of the puzzle - in particular networking and cooling, to ensure that training and inference are not only done quickly and without bottlenecks, but efficiently and sustainably too.
AI has also been on the mind for Cathy Li, the head of AI, Data and the Metaverse at the World Economic Forum. Cathy’s focus for the last year - and into 2025 - has been on working towards global consensus on AI, including worldwide standards and regulations which mean that the entire world has access to AI’s potential, but also so that AI providers can tap into opportunities worldwide. That could mean seeking out more sustainable energy solutions or better infrastructure, without having to worry so much about local AI regulations.
Meanwhile, over in the world of motorsport, the race to stay competitive is never ending, and with development on a new generation of cars starting in early 2025. That’s top of mind for George Russell, a driver with the Mercedes AMG-PETRONAS Formula 1 team. He joins us to talk through what it means to stay competitive when success or failure hangs on tenths of a second.
Sources quotes in this episode:
AI Market size predictions: https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1474143/global-ai-market-size#:~:text=The%20market%20for%20artificial%20intelligence,billion%20U.S.%20dollars%20in%202030.
World Economic Forum statistics on data centre energy use: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/europe-data-centre-plus-other-technology-news-to-know/
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| 0:00.0 | When you go underneath the technology, |
| 0:05.0 | the potential it has, it's just mind-blowing. |
| 0:09.0 | That comes with opportunities and challenges because we need to make sure this technology is inclusive, |
| 0:14.0 | it's safe, is responsible, is ethical, but the technology has tremendous potential. |
| 0:20.0 | I will say, I think, this is the biggest disruption we're going to see, at least in my generation. |
| 0:24.6 | 2024 has been quite a year. |
| 0:27.6 | From elections and changes of government around the world, to war, to lingering economic uncertainty. |
| 0:33.6 | For the last few years, it's felt like the world is in a constant state of flux. |
| 0:38.5 | But with uncertainty comes opportunity. |
| 0:41.7 | Opportunities to find new competitive advantages. |
| 0:44.6 | Opportunities to do things better this time around. |
| 0:47.9 | And opportunities to make the most of the incredible pace of technological change bubbling under the surface. |
| 0:59.1 | So as we wave goodbye to 2024 and enter the middle of the decade, |
| 1:03.1 | we're going to be examining the changing pace of technology, |
| 1:07.8 | how leading figures from across the spectrum are maintaining a competitive edge and what lies ahead in the near future. |
| 1:23.0 | You're listening to Technology Untangled, a show which looks at the rapid evolution of technology |
| 1:29.0 | and unravels the way it's changing our lives. We are hosts, Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell. |
| 1:39.3 | 2020 has been a year of opportunities and challenges. |
| 1:56.8 | There was uncertainty in certain global markets, fear of another tech bubble, and geopolitical unease, with elections in Russia, the UK, the U.S., France, and a whole host of other major economies. |
| 2:00.4 | So what's the feeling been like among leaders in the tech field? |
| 2:05.6 | Antonio Neri is the president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. |
| 2:11.7 | Obviously, we went through a heightened geopolitical environment, which I think has gotten worse. |
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