Innovation with impact: Using technology as a force for good, Spotlight on 5G

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Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:01):
I’m Clarence Reynolds at MWC26, and as organizations confront climate pressures, social responsibility, and rapid digital change, technology partners are being asked to deliver more than just infrastructure. Sue Preston, the Vice President of Worldwide Advisory and Professional Services at HPE, joins us to discuss how her team turns innovation into a practical force for good. Sue, thank you for being with us today.

Sue Preston, HPE (00:25):
Thank you.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:27):
How is your team working as a trusted partner to help customers navigate today’s ongoing challenges?

Sue Preston, HPE (00:34):
Yeah, great question. So running advisory and professional services across the globe, I spend a lot of time with customers. And the thing is with my teams, because it’s advisory and then into the professional services piece, we’re always looking at customer’s top challenges, but then how do we deliver those solutions sustainably? And the other thing is because I work across all of the BUs, be it AI, hybrid, networking, it’s bringing everything together. And then with that, my sustainable data center business as well. So innovation all the way.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (01:07):
Can you give us one or two examples of how your team is working to help people through these challenges?

Sue Preston, HPE (01:14):
Yeah, absolutely. So if I think of sovereignty, so looking at AI factories at scale and it’s across AI, data, cloud. But then if we think of the impact of AI, and that is having on the environment, on the power consumption and everything else, some of the things that we’re doing, so recently TELUS in Canada, they built their first AI factory. That was my team’s engaging with TELUS. And then also looking at how they were using renewable energy in order to deliver that power to the data centers. And again, societal. So if we think of investment into the Canadian business, then startups and investments in some of the AI…

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