Jim Blakley of Carnegie Mellon University’s Living Edge Lab shares insights on edge computing, AI-driven drones, private 5G, industry partnerships, and real-time innovation.

This special In the Arena episode features co-host Robert Bielby and Emobi CEO Lin Sun Fa as they dive into EV security, advanced charging tech, and the future of automotive innovation.

In this episode, Inventec’s Edward King discusses how AI workloads are shifting to the edge, and how innovations like liquid cooling and ruggedized infrastructure can power the next wave of tech advancements.

TechArena host Allyson Klein and Solidigm’s Jeniece Wnorowski chat with Cheetah RAID VP Doug Emby about the innovative solutions his company is delivering to edge environments across a wide swath of applications from the entertainment industry to defense, and how innovative SSD designs from Solidigm help provide a foundation for storage performance and efficiency.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Carsten Brinkshulte, CEO of Dryad Networks, about his company’s mesh network solution aimed at alerting forest fires before ignition, how his team tapped IOT and AI technology to develop their solution, and his aim to deploy hundreds of thousands of sensors in forests across the globe in 2024.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Varnish CTO Frank Miller about his company’s innovation in delivering media at the edge.