Join us for the Bechtle Technology Summit 2026.

AI is only as good as the data behind it. This roundtable explores how organisations can build a trusted, AI-ready data foundation, covering data quality, governance, security, sovereignty and access.

We’ll discuss how organisations can unlock the value of their data while supporting secure, reliable AI outcomes across devices, workstations and data centres.

^{Presented by:
Vlad Comanici, Commercial AI Solutions Architect, Europe and META, Lenovo}

AI agents are powerful, but every prompt, action and retry consumes tokens and adds cost.

Learn why inference is moving to the edge, which workloads belong on-device, and how hybrid AI combines local privacy, speed and smarter tokenomics with cloud-scale intelligence for the moments that truly need it most.

^{Presented by:
Laura Osborn: AI Solution
Architect, EMEA Lead}

Cyber security is only as strong as the people and processes behind it. Attackers continue to exploit human behaviour despite growing investment in technology.

This panel explores how organisations can bring people, process and technology together, build a security-first culture, and turn awareness into measurable behavioural change and stronger cyber resilience.

In this panel, we'll be joined by:

Hosted by:

Alice Lee, Bechtle

Discover the world of Bechtle and the capabilities available to support your organisation. This session will explore our international reach, ecommerce capabilities and the added value we bring through our services and solutions, helping customers simplify IT procurement, access expertise and achieve more from their technology investments.

^{Presented by:
Steve Trueman
Jon Tupper}

With technology changing at unprecedented speed, this session explores how customers can cut through the complexity, define their own convergence journey and build a Digital Enablement Platform ready for the next 5–10 years.

^{Presented by:
Alex Holben
Strategy & Technology Officer}
 

Beyond the Meeting Room: See how Neat and Neat Pulse can power smarter buildings through real-time insights, automation and control, while connecting physical workplace data into the corporate AI ecosystem through MCP.

^{Presented by:
Jeremy Lampard 
Senior Solutions Engineer - Team Lead UK&I 
Neat}

The AI conversation has moved on. The question now is how you make it work for your business. Where do you start, which use cases matter, and how do you maintain control of your data?

Join Bechtle and Dell for a discussion on how Private AI is helping organisations move from experimentation to real business outcomes.

^{Presented by:
Neil King
Lee Larter (Dell Technologies) 
The Club Company}

A walkthrough of the identity attack behind most of today’s phishing-driven breaches, how it works, how we catch it, and what to do about it with a live, sanctioned demonstration.

^{Presented by:
Owen Lashley}

Discover how existing IT infrastructure can become the foundation for a smarter building. Explore how self-driving networks and Bechtle's Vision Dashboards can turn infrastructure data into real-world outcomes, with live demonstrations covering occupancy analytics, space utilisation, healthy environments and ESG monitoring.

^{Presented by:
Stuart Pass, Bechtle
Jon Howell, HPE}

A live technical walkthrough of HP WXP, showcasing how organisations can proactively identify device, application and user experience issues before they impact productivity.

Explore real-world use cases, AI-driven insights, fleet analytics, and actionable recommendations that help IT teams improve employee experience while reducing support overhead.

^{Presented by:}

As organisations move from AI experimentation to production and AI at scale, where and how should AI workloads run?

This panel explores how organisations can make smarter workload placement decisions across edge, data centre and cloud, balancing data location, sovereignty, security, performance and cost.

We’ll discuss how AI inferencing, Agentic AI and increasingly demanding AI workloads are shaping infrastructure decisions and the foundations needed to build and operate Hybrid AI at scale.

^{Nick Walter, - Platinum 360 Sales Manager, Lenovo}

Hosted by:

Lee Alesbrook

The biggest workplace decisions rarely belong to one department.

This interactive session explores how teams can work across traditional boundaries to create better workplace outcomes, from the office shell through to smart buildings, using real-world scenarios and lessons from our own workplace journey.

^{Presented by:
Hugh Daniels
Jack Greenwell}
 

Human behaviour continues to be one of the biggest contributors to cyber risk, but are employees really the problem?

Join Bechtle, KnowBe4 and security leaders to explore how people, culture and technology can work together to reduce cyber risk, using real-world lessons and practical approaches.

^{Presented by:
Peter Wilson, Bechtle}

What if your security provider couldn’t see your most sensitive data, even if they wanted to?

Explore how Zero-Knowledge Privileged Access Management can protect critical credentials and privileged access by design, not by promise.

^{Presented by:
Simon Wukits - Senior Channel
Sales Engineer, Keeper Security}

From reactive IT to intelligent, autonomous infrastructure.

Cover AIOps, predictive analytics, observability, automated remediation, autonomous networking, infrastructure orchestration and human oversight.

^{Alex Fulton, HPE
Nuffield Health}

^{Hosted by:
Ben Reynish}

Managed Services are changing, and so are the reasons organisations choose them.

In this session, we’ll explore the trends shaping the market, what’s driving organisations towards Managed Service partnerships, and how Bechtle’s refreshed Managed Services model is evolving to meet those demands.

^{Presented by:
Connor Slasberg}

See Lenovo and NVIDIA’s full-stack approach to Hybrid AI in action. Using practical AI use cases, this technical breakout explores how validated Lenovo Hybrid AI Factories can support AI from workstations to data centres, alongside end-to-end services and the partner ecosystem.

We’ll also explore how Lenovo AI Express with NVIDIA provides a fast on-ramp to the Lenovo Hybrid AI Factory with NVIDIA, helping organisations move from AI ambition and experimentation towards production and AI at scale.
 

^{Presented by:
Vlad Comanici - Commercial AI Solutions Architect, Europe and META, Lenovo}

AI is changing cyber threats and defence.

This session explores how attackers are using AI, the challenges this creates for security teams, and how an augmented SOC can combine AI with human expertise to investigate and respond faster

^{Presented by:}

Building future proof infrastructure. This session will provide an overview of Dell’s approach to building and managing an agile and simplified infrastructure environment at scale, leveraging Dell Private Cloud, Dell Automation Platform and Dell Distributed Private Cloud.

^{Presented by:
Lee Larter, Dell Technologies}