The Value of Dialogue and Feedback at HPE ProLiant Gen12 Deep Dive with Scott Shaffer – Tech Talks
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Scott Schaefer, VP of Advanced Technology and Chief Technologist at HPE, shared that the most valuable part of Tech Field Day for him was the live feedback and discussions with delegates. He emphasized the importance of dialogue in understanding what resonates and what questions arise. Reflecting on a moment during a technical session, he noted that he could have better articulated HPE’s broader value in AI, beyond the technical details. Scott also considered ways to enhance interaction, suggesting that more roundtable-style discussions could be included after each session instead of just at the end. He felt that successfully delivering HPE’s core messaging on camera was a key measure of the event’s impact.
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Transcript
Hi, my name is Scott Schafer and I'm the Vice President of Advanced Technology and Chief Technologist for our computer organization here at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The best thing for me is getting the feedback from the delegates, getting the actual discussion, getting their feedback on what works, what they think, what questions they have, and what are their Yeah. Really what are they thinking?
That's, that's worth a lot. Yeah. You know, I think, uh, Jack asked me a question that, uh, uh, didn't snap to immediately, which was, what was he, he was trying to kind of get the, Hey, what does the HP bring to the table when it comes to ai?
Mm-hmm. And we were in the middle of a technical session, so I was thinking technical, and I think he was looking for, uh, backing up and giving a little bit more of the HPE value prop. And so I would've done that differently.
Okay. Again, the values in the dialogue, the values in the discussion, and so, you know, more of that is what, you know, we get out of it a lot. I think the audience, I can't help it.
I am thinking about the audience online as well. Mm-hmm. And I think they get more out of interaction.
I wondered if there, um, you know, just having the kind of the round table at the end, is there, is there any way to cause more of that round table to occur after each session rather than only at the end? I'm not, I like the, at the end, there's nothing wrong with that. Mm-hmm.
But I wonder if there was a way to have a round table, um, with each session somehow. Yeah. Uh, we got to give our exact pitch that we put together with the main points we wanted to make, and we were able to do that.
And so to the extent that that came across on camera, then we were successful. If that's what you mean.
