Our Operations Director Simon Moyes, shares his experience and take-aways from the first half of Dell World 2025.
AI is kind of a big deal...
When I heard this today, I couldn’t help but smirk as I played it back in the voice of Ron Burgundy. A number of you reading may be thinking well… well duh… But as someone who is a relative novice in the world of AI, Dell Technologies World has been a huge opportunity for learning and it has elevated my interest beyond pure curiousness.
AI sits at the core of every session I have attended, but the thing that has really stood out for me is something Michael Dell said on day one, which has been repeated in numerous sessions since. “Ai is at its worst today… tomorrow it will be better” – when you pause just for a second to think about this and with the nature of AI having learning at its core – never has anything been so true and the future is exciting, if also a little scary.
The sessions I have attended on Day 2 has been filled with powerful statements, whether it be “AI is not about automation it’s the next evolution of decision making” or “AI isn’t the next big thing, it is the thing, it’s the catalyst that determines who wins the future." Every one of them is thought provoking and makes you realise you need to be at the table.
Rather than the technical details, my thoughts turn to the outcomes and case studies that are talked about, and it really gets the grey matter going around how can we bring this to life both for CAE and our customers. We have to be enabling the conversation to ensure our customers win in their markets.
A lot of today’s talk has been about Dell’s AI factory. Their strategy for AI which helps enable their customers to realise the benefits of AI quickly.
Whilst AI factory 2.0 has been announced this week, the concept of the AI factory has been around for about a year – bringing together their five “chevrons” as they call it, Data, Services, Software, Infrastructure and use cases.
The early version shown below.
The exciting part of day 2 for me, has been seeing the use cases brought to life. The most pertinent of which was a case study for one of our customers the University of Cambridge, where they applied the Digital Twin use case to build a digital twin model to research low carbon power. Delivering 20x the AI performance of previously used technology, 5 x more simulation capability and 2 x more energy efficiency.
The full case study I found below, and whilst not delivered by us, it really helped to bring things home as some many reference cases are large North American organisations, but this one was really close to home.
Outside of the case study , the detail of the use cases within the AI factory are what really get the brain matter going and whether it be Content Creation, Digital Assistant, Design and Data Creation, Computer Vision or Digital Twins it made me think that the opportunity to help our customers in this area are huge, and it is something that will continue to drive my interest outside of this week's learning!
For some I know much of this may be old news, but for those new to it like me – the opportunity is endless, and I recommend you take some time to read up around the opportunity and potential for your organisation – if you aren’t already thinking about it – your competitors are!
Day 2 of Dell Technologies World has been a true eye opener for me, but most importantly it has enabled me to bring the conversation to the forefront of my thinking and I am convinced that working in partnership with Dell is a way to enable for our customers.
Day 2 has also been filled with a number of technical launches including Dell Private cloud and the launch of Gemini with Google, but I will leave Imran to share those on a later blog where he can do more justice to them from a technical standpoint!