Name: Hewlett Packard Enterprise used AI driven data to help accelerate Covid-19 vaccine research
Uploaded: 2022-04-26
Duration: 4 min 17 s
Description: CEO Antonio Neri: “We made available our systems and our patents to be able to process that data at the speed that was required.”

CEO Antonio Neri: “We made available our systems and our patents to be able to process that data at the speed that was required.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise used AI driven data to help accelerate Covid-19 vaccine research

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HPE used AI data to help accelerate Covid vaccine research

Antonio I know you're a big believer in artificial intelligence and you've been using it for many, many years. Tell us how AI has played a role in driving innovations for HPC customers. Well, it's an exciting set of new capabilities and technologies that we as a company. We want to make sure it's available to everyone. Generally speaking when you think about AI and machine learning, deep learning set of technologies has been available only to few companies or few industries. And the reason why it's because it's very complicated and obviously it's a big, big type of computational capabilities. But we're excited because we are entering war called the new age of insights and you need these types of technologies to extract values from the data at the speed we have never imagined before. I think about it today. We are generating data at the pace I have never seen before. We believe that data is going to double in the next two years From what we have created in the last 2000 years, but we only use 10% of it. So the question is how we use the remaining 90% in ways that advance communities and businesses like I'm sure there are a lot of examples about how AI technology has improved our lives. The one that stands out to me is I understand that HP has been working with a number of scientific labs to develop new treatments of the covid 19 virus and thanks to AI, it's accelerated the vaccine research. Right? Absolutely. I mean we will not have been here and be able to find a vaccine to covid in nine months generally takes many many months and years sometimes to find the right combination of drugs to be able to attack the virus. So the ability to give researchers this level of capability has been unparalleled. We as a company subscribed to at the time to the White House uh consortium where we made available our systems and our patterns to be able to process that data at the speed that was required. And we are really proud of what I have done recently Antonio you hired a chief product officer for AI and high performance computing. Why was it important to create this executive position? It's important because you need someone who think about customer challenges. Use cases and develop the right value proposition and solutions to deliver against those. And we are very excited to have higher Trish that join us, brilliant engineering mind as well as a product manager. And we're excited to have her on board so that we can define those use cases. And again, as I said earlier, make developed that technology to every enterprise than any size. What is the customer feedback you're getting about the power of AI and then paint a picture for us of how the future looks Five, 10 years from now. Yeah, well those are customers who initiated the journey and now are deploying Ai models to see the power of these technologies right whether it's to improve cybersecurity, whether it's to improve experiences for their customers and employees. We see example in every industry. Um and to me that's that's uh it's something that we should expand and make sure these technologies are available to everyone. We have numerous examples in different industry and healthcare the way they treat patients. Um you know, life MRI's with AI technologies through autonomous driving. Think about autonomous driving, the ability to have not just self driving but assisted driving and the data that's captured the vehicles to make sure it's more safety and predictive maintenance. These are simple examples. So I think as we think about the next 10 years AI has the opportunity to solve some of the biggest societal problems to find cures for Alzheimer's dementia uh to improve the quality of the communities, to improve health care and that's what we're really focused as a company is to make sure these technologies are available to everyone to solve some of these big societal problems