Slide 18th October 2024
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Get ready for a spine-tingling tech experience this Halloween!

Trick or Tech? In the world of cybersecurity, the stakes are higher than ever – the wrong “trick” could leave your business vulnerable to attacks. That’s why we’re inviting you to Trick or Tech, our exclusive Dell Technologies event where industry leading innovation meets spooky fun.

You’ll uncover the treats of cutting-edge technology that can secure your business from the latest cyber threats. Also we will be covering the latest innovations in lightning fast unified data platforms and data protection solutions.

What to Expect:

  • Trusted Advice: Hear from top senior experts about the latest trends in IT and cybersecurity
  • Latest Updates: Experience the newest tech solution presentations and learn about the latest technologies that can transform your business
  • Real life studies: Witness how these technologies are impacting our customers and what challenges they are addressing
  • Invaluable feedback: Have your questions answered during interactive Q&A as we discuss a number of topics including the current VMWare predicament
  • Halloween Fun: Take your seat within a location used in a well known horror movie, the magnificent wood-panelled boardroom within the 19th century Heatherden Hall. Enjoy a ghoulishly good atmosphere while networking with peers, dine with the incredible Art and Production Manager from the film Aliens! Conclude the day with a private VIP screening of Alien Romulus, this years must see Horror!
SHOWCASE OF LATEST TECH

Find out what’s next in intelligent data infrastructure from leading experts, the perfect event for IT professionals with an interest in Dell Technologies.

GUEST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Make connections with peers and forge deeper relationships with industry experts.

SPECIAL GUEST LUNCH

Enjoy an exclusive opportunity to meet and hear from the incredibly talented Terry Ackland-Snow (Aliens Supervising Art Director). Hear first-hand how that iconic, and slightly gruesome, scene in which ‘Bishop’ is attacked by the ‘Queen’ was created!

VIP MOVIE EXPERIENCE

Conclude the day with a Private Screening of Alien: Romulus from the iconic John Barry Theatre.

Event Details

Night of the Living Data: The Smart Choice for Flash Storage
Running 24 x 7 behind the scenes of most modern organisations – the data storage platforms often get overlooked in their role to deliver today’s modern application workloads. This session will set the scene to outline how you can build an agile, performant and most importantly, secure, data infrastructure around Dell’s Intelligent, adaptable storage for block, file, virtual volumes (vVols) workloads.

Close Encounters of the Cyber Kind: Data Protection for all your Workloads
Protecting your endpoints, servers and networks is one thing – but building a powerful data protection platform that can assist in protecting data, investigating incidents and remediating from a cyber-attack is essential with today’s increasingly automated threats. In this session we will explore Dells comprehensive software bundle with backup, recovery, and management tools. Providing security, flexibility, performance, and consistency of experience wherever your data resides.

Spells for Smarter IT: Transform Your Business With Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) are transforming business at an unprecedented pace, offering a variety of advantages that can give your business a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving landscape. They can unlock key insights from your data and elevate your productivity, customer experience, and innovation. This session looks at how you use cases, or goals, and data determine the strategy, technology, and tools needed to transform your business needs into practical solutions. Dell AI and GenAI solutions can unlock data insights, improve productivity, redefine your experience, and accelerate innovation.

The Art of Film: Creating the Worlds of Bond, Aliens, Batman and Many More
Terry Ackland-Snow lifts the lid on his extraordinary career, from being held hostage by a wannabe film crew in Jamaica to forgetting to add doors to the Batmobile. It is an insight into a lifetime of working in the film industry, mixing the amusing anecdotes with revelations about just how the magic in these movies was created.

Terry has worked on film sets since he was 18 and has been the Chair of the British Film Designers Guild, as well as an adjudicator for the BAFTAs.  His roles have included Art Director, Supervising Art Director & finally Production Designer   Since retiring in 2001, Terry has turned his hand to teaching, setting up Film Design International at Pinewood Studios to share his expert knowledge with the next generation of film designers. We’re delighted to welcome Terry as our very special guest, having worked on some of the biggest films over the last 60 years including titles such as The Pink Panther, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Superman 2, Labyrinth, Aliens, James Bond and Batman! We cannot wait for Terry to share his memorable moments over an incredible career and show us some of the fascinating impressions he’s left on us all through his art and creation.

Agenda

09:00  Registration
09:30  Celebrating 25 Years of SAXIS Group
09:45  The Smart Choice For Flash Storage
10:30  Break
10:45  Transform Your Business With Artificial Intelligence
11:45  Data protection For All Your Workloads
12.15  Special Guest Lunch - Q&A with Aliens Production Designer and Art Director
13:30  Private Movie Screening of Alien: Romulus
15:30  Close

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