Welcome

Join us for the HPE Networking Executive Exchange, a virtual breakfast session taking place on September 15 from 8.00-10.00 CET.

Please find the registration link below to reserve your place. You can also review the agenda and biographies of our distinguished speakers for further details.

Agenda

Welcome by Lene Skov, VP, Northern Western Europe, HPE
Elliot Townsend, Senior Director of Field PLM, sharing HPE Networking’s vision for a self-driving network, with a focus on the business value and strategic considerations for future-ready infrastructure
A roundtable discussion on how to maximize the value of existing infrastructure investments while accelerating modernization and enabling future business capabilities
Nenad Pacek, President and Founder of the EMEA Business Group, sharing perspectives on the current geopolitical and economic environment and its implications for business strategy

The Executive Exchange is a platform for dialogue and collaboration, where you can exchange ideas with peers and gain inspiration from leaders shaping the future of IT and business. Together, we explore how advanced networking solutions help organizations stay ahead, with real-world examples from leading enterprises.

Elliot Townsend

Senior Director of Field PLM

Biography

Elliot has worked across customer, partner, and vendor environments, starting out as a change control engineer and then operations, moving into DevOps, then into lead architecture roles before stepping into Sales Engineering and Leadership. Along the way, he has led teams in the UK and across EMEA with a consistent focus on enterprise networking, cloud, and security, supporting large scale transformations across modern enterprise infrastructure.

He has spent many years working deeply with AI and ML, evolving from early technical implementation into a broader understanding of how these capabilities reshape operating models, decision making, and organisational design. His focus is on how these capabilities progress in enterprises, where value is created as much by process, ownership, and governance as by the models themselves.

Today Elliot leads a global Field PLM team at HPE across EMEA and LATAM, working closely with CIOs and Executives to turn strategy into something that can be delivered. His focus remains on practical outcomes, strong architecture, and execution that works in production, not just in design.

Nenad Pacek

Founder and President, Global Success Advisors, EMEA Business Group

Biography
Nenad Pacek is one of the world’s leading authorities on economic, geopolitical, political and business issues that concern multinational corporations seeking faster growth internationally. He performs hundreds of speeches per year at various corporate meetings on issues ranging from global, regional and country level economic/business outlooks, to best business practices for international growth. Approximately 90% of clients are multinationals from the Fortune 500 and FT 500 lists.

Nenad Pacek is the author of acclaimed books such as “The Future of Business in Emerging Markets: Growth Strategies for Growth Markets”, “The Global Economy”, lead author of “Emerging Markets: Lessons for Business Success and Outlook for Different Markets” (two editions), and a contributor to the book “The Future of Money”. He is the lead author of the new book/special report on “The Rise of China and Chinese Multinationals” designed to help incumbent “western” multinationals properly understand the rising threat of Chinese competition.

Nenad is a former Executive Vice President of The Economist Group (Economist Intelligence Unit) where he spent nineteen years between 1990 and 2009, advising multinationals on economic and business issues and managing several business units globally (including Economist’s corporate advisory and government-related businesses). He chaired over 100 Economist Government Roundtables with Prime Ministers/Presidents and their cabinets throughout Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Register

A week before, you’ll receive a session kit to help you prepare.

To ensure timely delivery of the kit to your postal address, we kindly ask that you register by August 29.

Please note that session kits are for private sector participants only.

For questions or further details, please contact Kirsten Scharnowsky via kirsten.scharnowsky@hpe.com or +4540601244