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How could considering the whole lifecycle of technology help save money? | Maeve Culloty Apr 09, 2026

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How could considering the whole lifecycle of technology help save money? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of HPE Financial Services and examining the importance of reuse and refurbishment in the rapidly changing technology ecosystem. Maeve Culloty, President and CEO of HPE Financial Services tells us more.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations.

About Maeve:

https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/maeve-culloty.html

Bathtub episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYAGoSXPceU&list=PLtS6YX0YOX4c12MoKvNgYw6zwNogLW3E7&index=52

Sources:

https://weee-forum.org/ws_news/of-16-billion-mobile-phones-possessed-worldwide-5-3-billion-will-become-waste-in-2022/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28802646

0.034g gold per phone

0.034 x 5.3x10^9 = 180,200,000g = 180,200kg

180,200 x 2.2 = 396,440lbs

What is a self-driving network? Apr 02, 2026

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What is a self-driving network? This week, Technology Now is diving into self-driving networks 1-0-1. We explore what they are, how they work, and what benefits they have over regular networks to find out why an organisation might choose to use a self-driving one instead.

About Sujai:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujai-hajela-270a83/

Why is data so important in healthcare? Mar 26, 2026

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Why is data so important in the healthcare sector? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of data analysis in healthcare. We will be asking how different methods of data analysis can lead to different outcomes, we’ll be exploring how AI can be used to help find patterns in huge quantities of data, and we’ll be asking how historical legal rulings still influence our healthcare sector today. Lisa Marceau founder and CEO of Joyous and Alpha Millennial Health, tells us more.

About Lisa:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamarceau/

Sources:
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/john-snow-cholera-broad-street-pump/

Tulchinsky TH. John Snow, Cholera, the Broad Street Pump; Waterborne Diseases Then and Now. Case Studies in Public Health. 2018:77–99. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2. Epub 2018 Mar 30. PMCID: PMC7150208.

https://orwh.od.nih.gov/toolkit/recruitment/history

Petersen I, Peltola T, Kaski S, et al., Depression, depressive symptoms and treatments in women who have recently given birth: UK cohort study, BMJ Open 2018;8:e022152. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022152

Why are countries investing in giant data centres? Mar 19, 2026

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How are data centres tied to countries’ data strategies? This week, Technology Now takes a step back to look at why and how countries are investing in AI projects. We ask how large data centres are funded, built and powered, we explore how technology is procured for these projects, and we examine the impact of these giant structures on data sovereignty. Talal al Kaissi, interim CEO of Core 42, tells us more.

About Talal:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/talal-m-al-kaissi-20059a5/?originalSubdomain=ae

Sources:
https://www.cargoson.com/en/blog/number-of-data-centers-by-country

https://regional.chinadaily.com.cn/hohhot/2022-06/08/c_793607.htm

https://www.seas.upenn.edu/about/history-heritage/eniac/

https://www.vailwilliams.com/from-first-generation-to-hyperscale-the-whirlwind-evolution-of-data-centres/

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/worlds-first-general-purpose-computer-turns-75#:~:text=ENIAC%20weighed%2030%20tons%2C%20took,five%20million%20hand%2Dsoldered%20joints.

https://www.themeasureofthings.com/results.php?search=10%2C700%2C000+square+feet+%28sq.+ft%29%2C+a+measure+of+area&unit=f2&comp=area&amt=10700000&searchTerm=10%2C700%2C000+square+feet+%28sq.+ft%29%2C+a+measure+of+area#google_vignette

How can technology fight modern slavery? Mar 12, 2026

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How can technology be used in the fight against modern slavery? This week, Technology Now is exploring the impact of modern slavery and how technology can be used to try and reduce it. We ask what the scale of the problem is today, we examine what modern slavery can look like, and we discuss how organisations and consumers can work together to try and combat this practice. John Schultz, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary for HPE, tells us more.

About John:
https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/john-schultz.html

Sources
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2025/12/when-good-intentions-are-not-enough-the-importance-of-data-and-ai-in-solving-the-modern-slavery-epidemic.html

https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/john-schultz.html

What's going on at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026? Mar 05, 2026

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What’s happening at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026? This week, Technology Now is on the ground in Barcelona at the 20th Mobile World Congress to delve deeper into the future of networking. We ask what are the big themes of this year’s Mobile World Congress, we explore why events like this are important to organisations like HPE, and we examine why consumers should care about events like this. Rami Rahim, President and General Manager, HPE Networking tells us more.

About Rami:
https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/rami-rahim.html

How can we coexist with AI? Feb 26, 2026

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How has the idea of ethics been affected by the rise of AI? This week, Technology Now is exploring the ideas of ethical and responsible AI. We examine how integrated into society AI has become, we ask how we co-exist with AI, and we look into how regular people, organisations, and governments are having to respond to the increasing adoption of AI. Kay Firth-Butterfield, CEO of Good Tech Advisory LLC and the world’s first Chief AI Ethics Officer, tells us more.

About Kay:
https://kayfirthbutterfield.com

Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66807456

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65735769

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq808px90wxo

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64640/ai-impact-statement-murder-victim
https://www.academia.edu/123541578/The_Clinical_Chemist

How does a quantum computer work? Feb 19, 2026

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How does a quantum computer work? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of quantum computing. We delve into how quantum computers work, we explore what’s needed to build them and we ask what we should expect from this field of research in the future. Dr Michaela Eichinger, Product Solutions Physicist at Quantum Machines, tells us more.

About Michaela:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-eichinger/?originalSubdomain=ch

Sources
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/quantum-computing-what-who-how-and-when/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/press-release/#:~:text=Their%20experiments%20on%20a%20chip,passed%20a%20current%20through%20it.

https://www.britannica.com/science/zero-point-energy

https://www.space.com/how-cold-is-space

K.W. Taconis, Dilution refrigeration, Cryogenics, Volume 18, Issue 8, 1978, Pages 459-464, ISSN 0011-2275, https://doi.org/10.1016/0011-2275(78)90204-7., (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/001122757890204

How is AI changing the way we store data? Feb 12, 2026

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How is AI changing the way we store data? This week Technology Now dives into the topic of data storage in the world of AI. We explore intelligent storage, how data sovereignty is influencing how we store our data, and consider where the world of storage could be going in the future. Jim O’Dorisio, Senior Vice President and General Manager HPE Storage, tells us more.

About Jim:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/odorisiojim/

Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/#statisticContainer

https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/how-much-data-is-used-and-stored-in-the-world/#:~:text=expanding%20digital%20universe.-,Global%20Data%20Usage,over%20180%20zettabytes%20by%202025.

1 billion terrabytes in 1 zettabyte. If a smartphone has 1Tb storage, then you need 180 billion smartphones to make 180Zb of storage. 180 billion > 100 billion

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/memory-storage/
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/308

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6129/

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/308/963

How are hospitals innovating with technology? Feb 05, 2026

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How are hospitals using AI and HPC to assist them in helping save lives? This week, Technology Now is joined by Keith Perry, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to explore how St Jude uses the latest technologies to help treat and prevent illness and catastrophic disease, giving patients and families more time, and more hope, when it comes to diagnosis.

About Keith:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-perry-8562347/

Sources:
Hernigou P. Ambroise Paré III: Paré's contributions to surgical instruments and surgical instruments at the time of Ambroise Paré. Int Orthop. 2013 May;37(5):975-80. doi: 10.1007/s00264-013-1872-y. Epub 2013 Apr 12. PMID: 23580029; PMCID: PMC3631503.

https://www.surgicalholdings.co.uk/history-of-surgical-instruments.html

Smith-Bindman R, Kwan ML, Marlow EC, et al. Trends in Use of Medical Imaging in US Health Care Systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-2016. JAMA. 2019;322(9):843–856. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.11456

https://caferoentgen.com/2023/10/07/a-tale-of-two-hands-the-story-behind-the-two-famous-radiographs-captured-by-wilhelm-roentgen/

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/shoe-fitting-fluoroscope/index.html

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