 Alright, hi everyone. My name is Marilyn Vesanta. I work for VMware and I run all the product management for our edge competing platform So if you asked me I've been in this role now Think it's like 14 16 months. If you asked me before that what did I know about the edge? I would have told you exactly zero So for me This has just been a come and you know, it's interesting now 16 months later. I am so excited and I love Being focused in this area. It's just all the innovation that's happening all the interesting customer challenges that we can solve and it's interesting because You talk to some people and they're like edge. I'll call them edge deniers There are people who are like, oh, you've done edge. We've already done edge And I'm like no no no, but we're doing it in a new and fun creative way And so it's an interesting Conversation to convince people of the different use cases. So on to that is What we see is like well everyone we're saying, you know, we know that edge is the future Essentially in the 2000s we had kind of the revolution of VMware and the virtualization and we were really kind of augmenting and improving that IT experience and then the 2010s really brought us to the public cloud and everything went to cloud and we're really augmenting that web experience and making that new and Exciting and easy to consume and what how we see about edge now is I think it's about augmenting the human experience And so it's all about the use cases that are making edge of reality because taking compute to the edge taking Kubernetes to the edge While exciting from a technology perspective, what's really the driver? What's really the business value and what's really the new and exciting things that we're providing for our customers to really have Worklets at the edge that then is driving the need for us to do, you know, shrinking the stack optimizing Kubernetes Doing great open source software to be able to enable these new use cases at the edge So I wanted to focus in on one vertical and tell a few customer stories So I wanted to talk a little bit about manufacturing So this is an area where it's it's interesting because again when I go speak to customers Everyone's like on a different part of the journey Everyone knows they need they need Kubernetes at the edge. They know they need to modernize their apps They know they need to do new edge native applications because you can't just take your app that you wrote from the public cloud and take it Over to the edge you've got to think of all the different constraints from Network to the runtime to the different devices to what you're trying to accomplish and so for manufacturing. It's interesting because I Wanted to say something. I don't think it's controversial, but I think it's How I see at the edge while everyone's in the different journey of modernizing. I don't think VMs are going away I'm of the opinion that we're going to have to have them kind of coexist But what's interesting about manufacturing is that because the manufacturing industry is still a very physical world We can actually just jump them right directly to Kubernetes and our modern apps So it's one of these things of but then how do we do that? a lot of that is needs to be focused around how we're enabling the different Ecosystem the partner ecosystem because one of the first roles I had at VMware was Solution engineering and I think back that this new role with edge is very reminiscent to like Mike first Roll at VMware 10 years ago, which was around BDI and just like the edge. How do you make a platform real? It's all about bringing together the vertical solutions and that's the really exciting part about manufacturing So what I was trying to say is a manufacturing What's happening right now is that for every new use case typically a whole new set of hardware gets deployed deployed in the factory And so it's it's you got a lot of hardware sprawl You have all these applications that don't know how to speak to each other So how are you going to enable new real-time decision-making or all that feedback loop? To have these applications kind of talk together and like I said some of these vendors have completely moved to Kubernetes Some of them are still on bare metal and some of them are the legacy companies that have had You know, they've created that manufacturing software 20 years ago The developers long gone and no one knows how it works and so they just know it runs in that VM And so you restart it kind of forever So it's manufacturing is an interesting place for so many things are coming together And I'm not even talking about all the different IOT use cases all the small form-fact hardware that our previous speaker Is just talking about so all of how do we enable all of this together and so So that kind of really brings the the next part of the story that I want to talk about okay so I Kind of want to wrap up in terms of I just kind of talked about how we're enabling for manufacturing the different part of the ecosystem so the The overall business driver like I was saying is all about bringing those different apps together So we know we have the different challenges to solve at the edge We're solving runtime with all the modern bits with Kubernetes Connectivity we're also solving with optimizing the platform and putting the hardware closer with app management You can hear our various speakers talk about tap and our different types of programs But what I want to close upon is like I was just showing with a big picture of manufacturing if you have all these discrete systems And we're all trying to enable new business valley with new immersive real-time experiences How are we going to bring that together at the edge? And then this leads me to the talk that I will give a little bit later with it About data management So that's the kind of last bit of my talk is for me the ability to do a full solution at the edge Bring along our partner ecosystem So we can help our customers really full realize their value and how do we bring all of their data together across all of the systems And one common platform at the edge Thank you