Rice Engineering Leader Speaker Series
February 15, 2024
Rice University
Speaker Timestamps
0:07 Fred Higgs, Faculty Director for the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
2:42 Paul Cherukuri, VP for Innovation and Chief Innovation Officer at Rice University
5:36 Chris Ordonez, Master of Engineering Management and Leadership student, Rice University
5:38 Antonio Neri, CEO of HPE - Guest Speaker
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Since being named CEO in February 2018, Antonio Neri has leveraged his deep experience as a business leader and technologist to transform HPE into a global edge-to-cloud company. He has led the introduction of leading innovations such as HPE GreenLake, the company’s unified, automated, and secure hybrid-cloud experience, and Frontier, the world’s first supercomputer to break the exascale speed barrier.
Join the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership for a fireside chat with Antonio Neri, CEO of HPE, where Neri will share his journey from call center agent to Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Neri will also discuss his leadership philosophy including the importance of mentorship and lessons learned, differences in leadership needed for a technical
organization, the significance of culture, and other advice for emerging engineering leaders.
ABOUT ANTONIO NERI
Antonio Neri is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), responsible for leading the development and delivery of enterprise technology solutions and services that help organizations accelerate business outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Antonio has accelerated the company’s innovation organically and through targeted acquisitions, including Aruba Networks, Axis Security, Cray, Determined AI, Nimble Storage, Pachyderm, Silicon Graphics, Silver Peak, and Zerto, among others.
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RICE ENGINEERING LEADER SPEAKER SERIES - a leading engineer’s perspective Hosted by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership, the Rice Engineering Leader Speaker Series features executives and thought leaders from technology organizations who uniquely employ or depend on engineers. These accomplished leaders share experiences in navigating change and how engineers can equip themselves to lead the way. Through this series, the Rice and Houston communities learn about how products and workplaces are being disruptively transformed through technological advancements and how engineers will be expected to not just adapt to but lead this transformation.