Optimizing the Edge

This Session Will Explore…

• Edge enabled enterprise transformation has the potential to accelerate delivery value, reduce operational cost to ensure efficiency. 
• How to evaluate edge performance to ensure it is a worthwhile investment for your organisation. 
• The ongoing chicken and egg debate: Can we afford to wait for monetizable applications before making the investment needed to scale up edge infrastructure? 
• Do the benefits of edge outweigh the significant financial cost of accelerating its deployment? 
• To what extent do cellular private networks offer the solution to scale up the edge in strategic and commercial locations? 
• Will the footprint of edge infrastructure naturally grow in line with the deployment of 5G networks?   

• Exploring ways to utilise your enterprise and company data in new ways through edge technologies. 
• What turns Edge into Industrial Edge, and what are the essential applications and use cases? 
• In what ways can Industrial Edge work alongside cloud? 

This Session Will Explore…

• Perspectives on the Edge landscape right now. 
• What are the key challenges being faced across industries that need to be addressed? 
• What questions still need to be answered about the efficacy of this technology? 
• Use cases and demos of how Edge is impacting industries. 

• Delivery of content-rich experiences to customers. 
• Increased Operational Efficiency. 
• Bespoke customer experiences. 
• Security & Surveillance. 
• The infrastructure needed to drive the newest innovations.

• Why is Edge Computing essential to computer vision operations? 
• Computer Vision on Edge Vs. Cloud. 
• Edge Robotics – are we ready? 

• The impact of Edge Computing on how we think not just about data but how we use the data for smarter predictability and decision making, 
• A look at Edge Computing using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 
• How Edge Computing can be used alongside areas of modern technology such as Blockchain, Digital Twin, Augmented and Virtual Reality an as an extension of Internet of Things (IoT). 

• Future roadmap toward widespread adoption of intelligent Edge. 
• The possibilities created by fast and local critical decision making. 
• Predictions for the next round of innovations within the space – where will Edge be by 2025? 

• Conflict between building own edge cloud or using a platform to set up a cloud instance locally.
• Micro Clouds and Multi-Clouds.

• Real-time decision everywhere, all the time – what industries can progress further through Edge adoption?  
• The combination of Edge and 5G creating a hyper-connected ecosystem.