Core42 Chief Growth Officer Edmondo Orlotti dives into how Core42 and G42 are building sovereign, national-scale AI infrastructure and what enterprises can learn as they face their own challenges with data governance, GPU scarcity, fragmented environments and global regulatory pressure.
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More about this week's guests:
Mike Trojecki is a technology leader with 25+ years of experience spanning security, networking, cloud and AI. A former U.S. Air Force Tech Controller supporting White House and Air Force One missions, he brings a deep commitment to precision and reliability. He now leads WWT's AI Practice, helping organizations build high-performance architectures and data-driven solutions that unlock real business value.
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Edmondo Orlotti is Chief Strategy Officer at Core42, part of G42, an AI company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE. His previous assignments were in AI & HPC at global level with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and with NVIDIA Professional Systems Group. He has been addressing advanced simulation and analytics needs of industrial and academic environments from the very beginning of the deep learning age, from data center to edge. With over 25 years of experience in the IT sector at global level and an interdisciplinary background, covering marketing and sales roles, he has always been focusing on IT innovation. In the automotive industry, working with Formula 1 teams up to large automotive OEMS, he's been addressing their HPC & AI challenges from the manufacturing floor up to autonomous driving.
Edmondo's top pick: A Guide for CEOs to Accelerate AI Excitement and Adoption
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