After merging a year ago, Dell-EMC conducted its first flagship event called Dell-EMC Forum (DEF) 2017 at the Shangri-La at the Fort, Bonifacio Global City.
DEF 2017 is a one-day technology experience event designed for IT professionals to connect with peers, discuss strategies, gain insights and explore the comprehensive Dell-EMC solutions that drive IT transformation.
Waving the ?Realize? theme, the forum centers on how Dell-EMC can help businesses take the steps in realizing their digital future in the new digital transformation era.
?The new digital era today is really the next industrial revolution where data becomes the main driver. This ruthlessly redraws the business landscape in the Philippines. Yet, this monumental change is rich with opportunities,? said Ronnie Latinazo, country general manager of Dell-EMC Philippines.
?We are bringing these experts and showcase to help IT stakeholders in the Philippines rethink their business processes to become more agile, flexible, innovative, user-oriented and customer focused, and demonstrate how technology plays a fundamental role to help them achieve this.?
Paul Henaghan, vice president for data center solutions in Asia Pacific and Japan at Dell-EMC, commented:
?Technology innovation is advancing at an exponential rate, powering a new era of digital transformation. Our world and work are more immersive, more collaborative, more mobile and more competitive than ever before. As these demands drive today?s business, IT becomes the business. It is important for decision makers to understand that real digital transformation takes real work.?
The DEF 2017 usually showcases a comprehensive portfolio of Dell-EMC products and solutions from edge to core to cloud that will help businesses accelerate deployment of their overall IT transformation strategy. The DEF 2017 in Manila, on the other hand, there were 21 break-out sessions that focused on three key topics:?Digital Transformation,?IT Transformation,?Workforce Transformation.
Samuel Guevara, executive director of the Philippine Development Foundation, and Dindo Marzan, managing director of Voyager Innovations discussed how emerging technologies will recast human relationship with machines in the future ? creating deeper and more immersive partnerships.
?People have been working alongside machines for decades and we are seeing fast adoption of the emerging technologies such as VR, Cloud and AI, enabling an evolution in the relationship and dynamic between humans and machines,? said Pang Yee Beng, senior vice president for commercial business for South Asia and Korea at Dell-EMC and managing director for Dell Malaysia.
?This partnership will be a symbiotic one, with machines bringing speed, automation and improved efficiency, and humans providing judgement, creativity and problem solving capabilities.?
Report claims that in 2030, every organization will be a technology organization and as such businesses need to start thinking today about how to future-proof their infrastructure and workforce.