Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicks off the Ignite 2021 with 5 ‘Key Attributes’ To Drive Cloud
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off the Microsoft Ignite 2021, the company’s premier enterprise conference, with a virtual keynote focused on the critical role of the public cloud today, and the key attributes that it believes will drive the next generation of innovation from the cloud.
Satya was joined for this one of-a-kind keynote by Mixed Reality Technical Fellow Alex Kipman.
During the keynote, Satya unveiled Microsoft Mesh, a mixed reality platform that powers collaborative experiences with a feeling of presence – meaning users feel like they are physically present with each other, even when they are not.
Microsoft Ignite will feature 48 hours of free and continuous digital content and the innovation our changing world will require from the cloud.
“We will need to foundationally transform how cloud can drive the next level of broad economic growth that everyone can participate in.”
Nadella’s five key attributes to drive the next generation of cloud:
Ubiquitous And Decentralized Computing
Every organization small or large, in every industry, in every country will require more ubiquitous and more decentralized compute power. Cloud and edge computing will evolve to meet all of these real-world needs.
Sovereign Data And Ambient Intelligence
The volume, variety and velocity of data will go through explosive growth in the cloud–and in particular at the edge, driving that decentralized architecture of compute.
Data governance and provenance will take on new importance. Large-scale, multimodal models will become first-class platforms unto themselves–creating that ambient intelligence all around us.
We will develop new methods of federated machine learning to drive the next generation of personalized and yet privacy-preserving services.
The Cloud Advantage
Every organization will need to harness these five attributes to build their own digital tech intensity so they can create proprietary technology required to generate durable, competitive advantage. They will need not only to adopt technology, but build their own technology.
These cloud advances are what will enable every organization in every sector to create that broad economic surplus in every community, in every country, a cloud that helps small businesses become more productive, multinationals more competitive, nonprofits more effective, and governments more efficient.
A cloud that improves health care and educational outcomes amplifies human ingenuity, and allows people everywhere to reach higher.
This is what the Microsoft cloud delivers, and it underlies everything we will show you this week. The Microsoft cloud is built to accelerate your transformation today and going forward.
Expanded Economic Opportunity For The Global Workforce
We need to create these continuous feedback loops between the work, skills, learning and credentials required both for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We need to define productivity much more broadly inclusive of collaboration, learning and wellbeing to drive career advancement for every worker, including frontline and knowledge workers, as well as for new graduates, and those who are in the workforce today.
Trust By Design
Fundamentally, a technology provider should succeed only when it helps the world around it succeed.No one wants to build technology that rapidly scales, but breaks the world around us.
No customer wants to be dependent on a provider that sells them technology on one hand and competes with them on the other. We need to have ethical principles govern the design, development and deployment of AI.
