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Written by: Martin Dale Bolima, Tech Journalist, AOPG.

Lenovo has reaffirmed its commitment to shaping the future with technology at its flagship global event, Lenovo Tech World, where the company also announced innovations in the areas of work, collaboration, communication and sustainability, as well as in the metaverse.

“Innovation is one of the most reliable forces to shape the world for the better. At a time of uncertainty, technology provides a level of predictability. In the context of constraints, technology breaks barriers to unleash your imagination. And in a world where a digital divide persists, technology brings access to a levelling ground and unlimited possibilities . . .” said Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO at Lenovo, in his keynote. “Technology is only getting more advanced over time to drive global digital and intelligent transformation and to solve community’s greatest challenges.”

Yang added: “At Lenovo, we believe in technology. We are doubling our investment in innovation. In a fast-changing world, our commitment remains unchanged: To make lives better; work more productive, and our planet more sustainable. These have to be done through new IT, with the client, edge, cloud, network and intelligence working together to deliver the promise of technology.”

Melding Worlds to Make Work More Productive

Among the key innovations, Lenovo unveiled at Tech World 2022 is the future workspace—dubbed Cyber Spaces—that combines the virtual and the physical worlds. It aims to bring together Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities, along with other technologies such as digital twins and holographic imaging, to enable the seamless interplay between people, objects and spaces in the physical world and their virtual equivalents.

“There was a time when to work meant to come into our designated place and meeting in person. That will become collaborating from different locations using different devices or technology,” said Yang. “Now, you can even meet your co-workers in a virtual room and customise the room for different formats, like one-on-one, one-to-many presentations and town halls.”

These innovations to the workplace of the future, Yang emphasised, will blur the boundaries of the traditional workplace—until such time when work will no longer be constrained to a physical space but instead be done in “the infinite space of collaborative or immersive experience.”

Making Its Way to the Metaverse

Lenovo is further merging the physical and virtual worlds with its foray into the metaverse, which will “enable a new era of highly immersive and customised digital experiences that blend our physical and digital worlds and fuel exciting use-cases for the enterprise,” according to Cristiano Amon, CEO at Qualcomm.

In particular, Lenovo’s foray into the metaverse will, Amon explained, make digital twins more pervasive—so much that it will transform product development in fields such as manufacturing and retail. But that is not all because Lenovo and Qualcomm are collaborating to realise the metaverse’s full potential by involving smartphones and mobile PCs in it. The two tech titans play to expand the metaverse that way by providing it with “the most cutting-edge edge platforms and comprehensive technologies and solutions from connectivity to sensors, processing perception, AI and more to power a new era of connected devices.”

Ushering in the New Age of Computers and Next-Generation Computing

Incidentally, Tech World 2022 coincided with Lenovo’s global Think30 celebration, which honours 30 innovative years of the ThinkPad and ThinkSystem series. Purposefully designed and engineered for innovation, both systems are at the core of Lenovo’s commitment to building the most advanced computers. And at Tech World 2022, the company reaffirmed that commitment by announcing more innovations to the PC.

“Even in the computer, there is ample room for innovation,” Yang pointed out. “Besides faster computing, faster transfer of data and bigger storage capacity, our innovation focuses on adaptive intelligence, security, environmental friendliness and innovative form factors.”

True to this vision, Lenovo unveiled a new lineup of innovative computers at Tech World 2022, including the ThinkPad X1 Fold, a foldable PC in its newest, most advanced iteration. Lenovo also announced a new, edge-focused computing architecture because, according to Yang, “computing devices alone can no longer meet the customer’s computing needs,” due to the still ongoing data explosion.

“Computing needs to take place anywhere. This ubiquitous computing demand has inspired a new computing architecture from client to edge and to cloud, connected through a high-speed network,” Yang explained. “Computing has become a new type of utility, like water or electricity… Edge computing allows data to be acted upon closer to where it is generated. So, it reduces reliance on connectivity, responds more effectively and improves user experience.”

To this end, Lenovo has also launched a full-stack edge portfolio. This portfolio includes the Lenovo ThinkEdge series of servers, like the SE350 and SE450, as well as Lenovo XClarity, the company’s proprietary software that allows it to unify and manage all Lenovo edge devices, and Lenovo Edge Cloud Platform, a secure, reliable and manageable software-defined edge infrastructure for various applications.  Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, talked more about this “computing everywhere” concept and noted how it can enable intelligent transformation by harnessing data across all industries using Lenovo’s servers, storage and services.

Advancements All-Around

Throughout Tech World 2022, Lenovo unveiled even more innovations, including proof-of-concept of rollable smartphones (in collaboration with Motorola) and laptop PCs, the Lenovo Freestyle app, which facilitates seamless collaboration between a tablet and PC, and Remote Work Enablement, which provides hardware, software and services to employees anywhere and at any time.

Lenovo also announced several of its Artificial Intelligence solutions, notably its Production Decision Engine to analyse digitalisation challenges, Smart Services for forecasting repair needs and optimising support and Virtual Classroom for online learning. In addition, Lenovo underscored its commitment to a greener future by introducing its sustainability-related solutions and articulating its goal of reducing emissions according to the Paris Agreement’s Science-Based Targets initiative.

These announcements, according to the speakers during the event, are part of Lenovo’s thrust to make lives better, work more productive and the planet more sustainable. These can be made possible only with innovation— one of the most reliable forces to shape the world for the better. And Lenovo is hoping to be at the forefront.

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