Utilities Sessions

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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