Name: Leveraging Edge AI to Transform Retail Operations
Start: 2024-10-16T11:00:00Z
End: 2024-10-16T11:00:06.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

The software-defined edge is a distributed digital infrastructure for running workloads across dispersed locations, placed close to the where endpoints are producing or consuming data.



Around the world, enterprises are reimagining business operations and customer experiences with software-defined edge. 

Join us to learn how organizations are applying real-time data analysis and decision-making at the edge to automate operations, enhance security, personalize customer interactions, and more. We’ll explore innovative use cases across multiple industries to see how edge computing is helping enterprises drive competitive advantage and accelerate digital transformation.

Featuring:
Saadat Malik, Vice President & General Manager, Edge Computing, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

The Role of the Edge for Enterprises in the Digital Era

Edge use cases are no longer fringe. Enterprises worldwide are applying AI intelligence at the edge to automate operations, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences. How can these organizations efficiently manage hundreds of thousands of distributed OT devices? And how can their service provider partners enable these edge capabilities, along with new offerings like fixed wireless access and open network APIs? With software-defined edge. 

Join us to learn how software-defined edge combines compute, security, programmability, and connectivity to unlock business transformation. You’ll walk away an expert on how VMware’s software-defined edge stack provides the foundation for tomorrow’s IT and OT success.

Featuring:
Sanjay Uppal, Vice President and General Manager VMware Software Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

When The Edge Becomes The Mainstream - What’s next in Software-Defined Edge

With the emergence of AI and compute at the edge getting faster, it becomes essential for the edge to support real-time applications for use cases such as robotic automation in manufacturing, personalized experience in retail stores, protection and control in electric utilities and tactical operations in defense. 

Watch this demo to know how VMware Edge Compute Stack provides a platform to run real-time applications ensuring the required protocols are supported while ensuring the expected latencies are met.

Real-Time Applications on VMware Edge Compute Stack

For modern organizations, achieving optimal performance with robust network security is paramount. Join VMware experts to learn how VeloCloud SD-WAN, our industry-leading SD-WAN solution, can transform your enterprise network. Find out how the VeloCloud SD-WAN architecture can propel business transformation with new connectivity options like satellite and fixed wireless access (FWA). Discover how to deploy VeloCloud Edges quickly, operate efficiently, simplify management, integrate AI-based analytics, and protect your network from threats. 

Using real-world case studies and deployment best practices, you’ll learn how to guide your organization toward a more efficient, resilient, and secure future.

Featuring:
Kishan Ramaswamy, Product Management Leader, Software Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Unlock Network Transformation with VeloCloud SD-WAN, Satellite, and FWA

Generative AI, computer vision, and other emerging innovations are transforming business operations at the edge. At retail stores, factories, power plants, and other dispersed locations, new edge applications can automate operations and analyze and act on data in real time—but only if businesses can deploy and operate them efficiently at scale. 

Join us to learn how VMware Edge Compute Stack, an edge-optimized runtime and orchestration platform, can drive down complexity and unleash the full potential of new edge technologies. You’ll learn how new and upcoming capabilities in VMware Edge Compute Stack and VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) can help your organization tap into the edge revolution.

Featuring:
Anand Srinivas, Senior Director, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Gain an Edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack

More organizations want to deploy applications out at the edge, close to where data is generated and consumed. Yet edge environments bring fundamentally different challenges than traditional cloud or data center deployments. Organizations must overcome constrained hardware resources, deploy behind private networks, and manage assets across thousands of sites—all while preserving agility via tried-and-true DevOps processes like GitOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). 

Join us to learn how VMware Edge Compute Stack and VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) helps organizations overcome all of these challenges. We’ll share specific use cases and demos, and show how this purpose-built edge solution benefits end customers and partners alike.

Featuring:
Alan Renouf, Technical Product Manager for Edge Compute Stack, VMware Software Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Edge Evolution: Unveiling VMware's Solutions for Agile Edge Management

When the Edge Becomes the Mainstream - What’s Next in Software-Defined Edge

Manufacturers face immense pressure to produce more goods, with higher quality, while improving process agility. Edge computing offers a compelling solution, enabling them to apply AI/ML technologies for predictive maintenance, real-time quality inspection, and more. This session details how edge trailblazer, Audi, has revolutionized factory automation with VMware Edge Compute Stack. 

You’ll learn how Audi is virtualizing not only industrial PCs (IPCs), but also programmable logic controllers (PLCs), to transform edge deployments. We’ll discuss the shift to software-defined automation and considerations for supporting low-latency workloads and collaborating with technology partners. Join us to learn from Audi’s successful deployment and gain insights for your own shop floor scenarios.

Featuring:
Ken Guo, Product Management, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Virtualizing the shop floor to enable industry 4.0

By 2025, Gartner predicts that nearly 50% of enterprise data will be generated at the edge. As edge use cases proliferate, manufacturers must find new strategies to manage this sprawl. 

How can you implement the edge intelligence needed to enable new use cases at distributed manufacturing sites with limited IT resources? How will you manage applications when standard push-based administration won’t work? How can you guarantee the right connectivity to those edge locations, with the right performance, when connectivity parameters are dynamic? Join this session to explore answers to these questions, and others, and learn how to scale your manufacturing edge.

Featuring:
Kangwarn Chinthammit, Director Product Management - Edge Compute Stack, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Scaling at the edge

Discover how software-defined edge is revolutionizing manufacturing by enabling real-time data processing, enhancing operational efficiency, and boosting resiliency. 

This session highlights how transformative edge computing innovations like edge AI and computer vision can optimize product quality and improve worker safety. You’ll see how manufacturers are using edge data analytics to improve production uptime, and increasing business agility by digitalizing and virtualizing shop floor applications. You’ll learn how a scalable, repeatable edge computing platform can help streamline operations, drive innovation, and unleash sustainable growth in the Industry 4.0 era.

Featuring:
Kangwarn Chinthammit, Director Product Management - Edge Compute Stack, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Case studies from the edge

Staying competitive means keeping up with technological advancements, including critical software that drives manufacturing processes. But manufacturers find it challenging to update software, given the constraints of continuous production and limited technical staff. 

This demo will show how to incorporate smart technologies with automated deployment and lifecycle management of applications and infrastructure across the shop floor and across your production sites.

Featuring:
Chris Taylor, Head of Edge Compute and Service Provide Product Marketing, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom
Ken Guo, Product Management, Vmware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Zero Touch Operations of Apps and Infrastructure

Brands are using edge computing to transform how they do business, and retail will never be the same. As customers return to in-store shopping in a post-pandemic world, new edge innovations are improving customer experiences, optimizing store operations, and enabling seamless experiences across physical and digital channels. 

Join us to learn how VMware and its partners are helping retailers scale out innovation and unlock data-driven decision-making at the edge.

Featuring:
Ryan Wehner, Industry Director, ECS, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Transforming the Retail Experience with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Explore advanced strategies to enhance operational efficiency, streamline network management, and integrate cutting-edge analytics across retail outlets. 

In this session, you’ll learn how to safeguard your network against evolving cyberthreats while ensuring the rapid deployment and scalability needed to deliver amazing customer experiences in a digital world. We’ll explore case studies of retailers successfully navigating their operations towards a more secure, efficient, and resilient future.

Featuring:
Chas Cockshoot, Product Management, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Managing Varied Use Cases Across Retail Locations

Presented by VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Compute Virtualization and SD WAN in-a-Box

Discover how to revolutionize your tactical edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack. 

In this session, you’ll learn how to deploy and manage a secure and scalable edge infrastructure that enables real-time data processing and analysis. We’ll explore how VMware Edge Compute Stack, which supports both cloud-native and virtual machine workloads, can transform your tactical edge operations by improving situational awareness, enhancing decision-making, and increasing mission effectiveness.

Featuring:
Ramkumar Venketaramani, Senior Director Edge and Private Mobility, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom
Dhruv Tyagi, Product Marketing Engineer, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Transforming the Tactical Edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Learn how you can achieve comprehensive edge visibility and monitoring for tactical edge operations. 

In this session, we’ll explore how edge visibility solutions enabled by VMware Edge Compute Stack can provide real-time visibility into your edge infrastructure, applications, and data flows. Discover how to use this visibility to enable autonomous operations, automate decision-making, and optimize your edge infrastructure for maximum performance and security.

Featuring:
Vincenzo Palmieri, Private Mobility Solution Architect, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Edge Visibility Fit for Tactical Edge Autonomous Operations

Scale your edge infrastructure into your data center using GitOps, a DevOps approach for fast, reliable deployment of applications and infrastructure. 

In this session, you’ll discover how GitOps can help you achieve mission readiness more quickly by automating the deployment and management of edge infrastructure. Learn how this approach reduces risk of human error and improves collaboration among development, operations, and security teams. Explore how VMware Edge Compute Stack can accelerate edge-to-data center integration and improve your overall mission effectiveness.

Featuring:
Xiao Gao, Research & Development Edge Compute Stack, VMware Software Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Scaling Edge into DC, how GitOps enables faster mission readiness

Explore how VMware Edge Compute Stack enables rapid disaster response where every second counts. We'll walk through a scenario where a natural disaster occurs and see how VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator uses GitOps to quickly update edge applications, ensuring that remote troops receive real-time information and can respond effectively.

VMware Edge Compute Stack for the Tactical Edge Demo

This demo will showcase how computer vision at the edge improves situational awareness for defense forces by detecting and identifying different types of tanks in real time. You’ll learn how VMware Edge Compute Stack provides a secure and scalable platform for AI-powered edge applications, and how it enables real-time insights for enhanced decision-making.

Intelligent Edge: Real-time Tank Detection with VMware Edge Compute Stack and Computer Vision

The electrical grid is undergoing rapid transformation driven by renewable energy, smart grid technologies, and the critical need for real-time data insights. To stay ahead, utilities must modernize their infrastructures for greater efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.

This session will explore how virtualization can optimize your existing utility infrastructure. You’ll see how grid operators are using VMware Edge Compute Stack to enhance grid operations and reliability, reduce physical hardware footprint, and apply data analytics for informed decision-making. Join us to learn how you can revolutionize your electrical grid operations.

Featuring:
David Fry, Senior Product Manager, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Empowering Utilities with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Join us for a demo of VMware Edge Compute Stack, showcasing how electric utilities can accelerate their edge computing journey with a centralized management system and edge-optimized runtime. See how VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator provides zero-touch provisioning, unified monitoring, and support for disconnected and low-bandwidth environments. Explore how this solution enables the deployment of various applications, including substation monitoring, energy tracking, and predictive maintenance, to transform the electric utility industry.

Featuring:
Abhinav Rishi, Senior Member Technical Staff, Edge Compute Stack, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Accelerating Edge Computing for Electric Utilities with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Utility companies worldwide recognize the critical need to modernize electrical grids. Recognizing the immense advantages that virtualization can bring to their operations, many have already embarked on their journey toward grid modernization. However, navigating this transformation can be challenging, and utilities often seek guidance from experts who have successfully implemented these technologies in real-world scenarios. 

In this session, our panel of experts will share their experiences and insights from deploying VMware Edge Compute Stack within the electrical grid industry. Through a series of case studies and success stories, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of how this powerful platform can help modernize grid infrastructure and operations. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the best and position your utility for success in the rapidly evolving energy landscape.

Featuring:
Ramkumar Venketaramani, Senior Director Edge and Private Mobility, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Lessons from the Trench in the Utilities industry

This demo will showcase the capabilities of ABB SSC 600 Lite running on the VMware Edge Compute Stack. You’ll learn how this solution enables smart substation control and protection by providing real-time monitoring, fault prediction, and analysis.

Achieving Substation modernization with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Growth Summit: Evolving with Software-Defined Edge

Discover how computer vision and edge AI can enhance loss prevention and customer behavior analysis, without compromising privacy. 

You’ll learn how C2RO’s GDPR-compliant platform, empowered by VMware Edge Compute Stack, provides detailed demographic insights and behavior analytics without using facial recognition. You’ll see how the solution improves operational efficiency, deters theft, and enhances customer experiences by extending advanced data intelligence and scalability across multiple locations.

Featuring:
Saadat Malik, VP & GM, Edge Computing, Vmware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Leveraging Edge AI to Transform Retail Operations

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