Manufacturing Sessions

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

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

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

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

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