News on the Feed: Junivators Technical Conference 2022

0:00 learning is key to driving innovation at

0:02 this year's junovators technical

0:04 conference a number of industry thought

0:06 leaders and innovators spoke on a

0:08 variety of topics

0:09 including quantum computing machine

0:11 learning software and hardware

0:13 innovation and many other topics

0:16 juniper's vp of architecture and lead on

0:18 this initiative shidhar is here to tell

0:20 us more

0:21 shadar what do you love the most about

0:23 the genevator's technical conference

0:26 thank you for this opportunity and uh

0:28 what i really loved was the interaction

0:30 and how we could actually stretch

0:33 our minds you know over and above our

0:35 day jobs so uh the the types of

0:38 interactions among participants who

0:40 wouldn't normally be interacting you

0:42 know on the day-to-day basis but more on

0:45 the technology content and potentially

0:47 you know collaborative efforts that

0:48 could result out of this that was

0:50 something that i really loved and it's

0:52 not just the conference coming together

0:54 it's also what happened what happens

0:57 afterwards that is key and i i really

0:59 love that part about this whole

1:00 interaction and i ended up learning

1:02 quite a lot as well

1:04 and i love that it is geared toward

1:07 really inspiring new innovations and

1:09 bringing together the community

1:11 why is it important to bring together

1:13 our technical community

1:15 yeah that's that's a very good question

1:17 so uh you know initially we had this

1:19 thing about how to actually get this

1:22 whole uh the engineering community you

1:24 know sort of

1:25 stimulated about work that they're

1:27 either thinking about or they're

1:28 planning or they had on the side etc and

1:31 also part of you know the day job in

1:33 terms of the innovation we then realized

1:35 that innovation can come from technical

1:38 uh folks all across the company right

1:40 and so we opened this up to you know

1:42 with engineering being the core but

1:44 quite a bit of interactions and

1:46 presentations from folks from other

1:49 parts of the company as well the other

1:51 advantage of this is since this is an

1:53 open conference to the entire company

1:56 several folks in other disciplines not

1:58 just engineering learnt about you know

2:00 this innovation that's aspect there's a

2:02 big aspect of juniper now juniper is a

2:04 heavily technical company that's our

2:06 core dna and our success has uh depended

2:10 heavily on that and it's great to see

2:12 this you know

2:14 add to that capability and all to those

2:17 interactions we can have within our

2:18 community

2:20 i think that's amazing and i love how

2:22 just inclusive and diverse you make this

2:24 conference which speaks to you know

2:26 another key like juniper benefit as well

2:28 so

2:29 um well hey i'm going to put you on the

2:31 spot i would love to know what your

2:33 favorite session was coming out of gtc

2:35 this year

2:37 ah that's that is a difficult question

2:39 so uh

2:40 i i

2:41 there were several and so uh you know

2:44 what i'm going to do is i'm not going to

2:45 call it a favorite but i would want to

2:46 highlight you know at least one external

2:49 speaker and one

2:50 internal speaker and we had the good

2:53 fortune of having victor bal who is sort

2:57 of like the cto of 5g at microsoft he's

3:00 an industry luminary and he was there on

3:03 the first day of the conference and

3:04 talked to several initiatives

3:06 and uh that was a big eye-opener for

3:09 several of us and the whole breadth and

3:11 the depth of uh the areas in uh 5g you

3:15 know where we can innovate that

3:16 definitely was you know one thing that i

3:18 wanted to highlight

3:19 then among the internal presentations

3:22 and papers there were several one thing

3:24 i wanted to bring up was the whole

3:26 quantum computing and the quantum

3:27 networking paper

3:28 that uh you know several folks

3:30 collaborated to pull together so if

3:32 people have an opportunity they can

3:34 check that out as well

3:36 that's amazing well srihar thank you so

3:38 much for telling us more about jtc and

3:40 the digi innovators technical conference

3:42 and and some of the innovations that

3:44 were presented

3:45 and to everybody out there while you're

3:47 on the feed please take some time to

3:48 soak up some more industry news and

3:50 knowledge thanks a lot thank you for

3:52 having me thanks