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Since the birth of the car more than a century ago, innovation has been a driving force in automotive manufacturing. Today, as electric vehicles go mainstream, the auto industry is pushing harder than ever to reinvent manufacturing for a low-carbon future.

Audi is at the forefront of this push to create the factory of the future, and the auto giant has joined forces with VMware to power their production site in southwest Germany, as the two companies co-innovate to meet bold goals for sustainability and efficiency.

During VMware Explore Barcelona, I hosted a fascinating conversation with Dr. Henning Loeser, Head of the Audi Production Lab. Henning has long been a prominent voice in the

With pressures now mounting from consumers, regulators and investors, sustainability is no longer aspirational. It’s a business imperative for organizations to achieve industry leadership. There’s no stepping around the issue or doing things halfway. It’s time to commit to reducing greenhouse gas and improving Environmental Social Governance (ESG) indicators.

Artificial intelligence is ushering in a new era of precision healthcare. With its ability to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns and generate new breakthroughs, AI is already giving healthcare professionals the power to make more accurate diagnoses, develop more personalized treatment plans, and improve overall patient care.  

At the forefront of this healthcare/AI revolution is Siemens Healthineers, which is taking a multi-cloud approach to turbocharge its AI efforts with enhanced security and accuracy. 

By adopting a multi-cloud strategy, Siemens Healthineers can access and analyze data from many sources, allowing it to develop more precise and effective AI algorithms. Accuracy is paramount when you’re dealing with people’s lives.&

Each year VMware Explore is an opportunity to convene the conversation on multi-cloud, bringing together a wide range of diverse perspectives - from developers to DevSecOps, from cloud architects to platform engineering teams, and from security teams to employee-experience experts. It was no surprise that recent breakthroughs in generative AI dominated this year’s gathering in Las Vegas. 

To share more about how leading enterprises are navigating today’s paradigm shifts in technology, I was joined in my keynote at VMware

Cloud-smart organizations are out in front in delivering value through multi-cloud apps while controlling cloud costs.

Business leaders today are grappling with a tension that’s inherent to today’s digital economy: They recognize they must continue to drive app-centric innovation in the cloud in order to engage their customers and differentiate from competitors; yet at the same time many organizations are struggling with spiraling cloud costs, which cut into their profitability.

This tension is intensifying as businesses increasingly rely on multiple clouds to run their day-to-day operations. Recent VMware research reveals that 95% of organizations believe multi-clou

Global survey from Vanson Bourne and VMware highlights the value of a smart approach to innovating across multiple clouds. Discover what cloud-smart organizations do differently than their peers.

Public-cloud adoption is so widespread that it’s easy to forget we are still in the very early stages of the multi-cloud era. In fact, the practice of running business operations across multiple clouds went mainstream during the pandemic, as the average number of clouds that an organization relies on spiked from 1.3 to 2.2 public clouds over the last two years—an increase of 69%.1

This is just one of many findings in the newly released Multi-Cloud Maturity Research Report by market-research firm Vanson Bourne and commissioned by VMware. The globa

As AI technology pushes past limits in new real-world applications, regulators, investors, and the public are pushing back, asking what kind of relationship we ultimately want with AI and how to guarantee its responsible use. In response, organizations and institutions are embedding AI ethics into existing business guidelines. But a new report from IBM suggests there’s still a lot of work to do.

Alarmingly, only 40% of surveyed consumers say they trust companies to be responsible and ethical in their use of new technologies such as AI. Their doubts may be warranted, as fewer than 20% of executives strongly agree that company pract

Women remain underrepresented at the top. Let’s do something to change that. Though the leadership pipeline of women has grown in a variety of professional, managerial and SVP roles, the newest IBM research warns that many are still not breaking into the C-suite or executive board. Startlingly, fewer women hold top C-suite and executive board positions in 2022 than they did in 2021, dropping by roughly a point.

But those few who do end up in a senior seat are driven to change the status quo. In fact, 72% of women CEOs vs. 16% of male counterparts assert that “advancing more women into leadership roles in our organization is among our top formal business priorities.”

Australia’s Woodside Energy had decades of knowledge instilled in its retiring workforce of oil pipeline engineers and wanted to scale that wealth to a much more expansive workforce. When Shelley Kalms, Woodside’s Chief Digital Officer, describes her mission to transform her company into a “true learning organization,” she’s speaking about a “team effort in unlocking the collective intelligence of our organization — both past and present.”

Through using IBM Watson, Woodside created the ability to have

The Wilson Center, one of the nation’s premier nonpartisan policy organizations, teams with the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP and the IBM Data Science and AI Elite team to develop a solution to track and reduce marine litter.

Plastic waste is destroying marine ecosystems at a rapid pace – from ruining beaches to killing baby turtles to destroying coral on the sea floor. With half the world’s plastic produced in the last 13 years and 8.8 million tons washing into the oceans annually, few places on earth have escaped its reach. Plastic litter fouls the remote, icy coves of Antarctica, the pristine shores of Réunion and Mauritius, and even the unfathomable reaches of the 10,000 mete

Plastic waste is destroying marine ecosystems at a rapid pace—from ruining beaches to killing baby turtles to destroying coral on the sea floor.

With half the world’s plastic produced in the last 13 years and 8.8 million tons washing into the oceans annually, few places on earth have escaped its reach. Plastic litter fouls the remote, icy coves of Antarctica, the beautiful shores of Réunion and Mauritius, and even the unfathomable reaches of the 10,000-meter-deep Mariana Trench.

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With his furrowed brow and direct gaze, Sam pauses thoughtfully before answering a seemingly innocent question: “Why do you care about marine litter?”

“Good question. I care because the people who created me, the men and women of UNEP, IBM, Soul Machines and our member and state partners care about the oceans and our future. Solving the issue of marine litter is vital to the oceans and our planet.

“The real question to ask is: Do you care?” 

It’s a provocative question—and all the more so because it’s coming from a virtual human.

Indeed, Sam is provocative by design, explains his creator, Richard Darden, a distinguished engineer and digital human evangelist at IBM. Sam’s sol

Since the birth of the car more than a century ago, innovation has been a driving force in automotive manufacturing. Today, as electric vehicles go mainstream, the auto industry is pushing harder than ever to reinvent manufacturing for a low-carbon future.

Audi is at the forefront of this push to create the factory of the future, and the auto giant has joined forces with VMware to power their production site in southwest Germany, as the two companies co-innovate to meet bold goals for sustainability and efficiency.

During VMware Explore Barcelona, I hosted a fascinating conversation with Dr. Henning Loeser, Head of the Audi Production Lab. Henning has long been a prominent voice in the automotive industry, with a