Sheenam Ohrie, Vice President, Dell Digital, Dell Technologies

“To ensure diversity and gender parity, one must start by building an inclusive hiring framework. At Dell, if you want to hire somebody at any position externally or internally, we ensure that at least two women are shortlisted amongst the top 5. Our talent acquisition team ensures that the panellists comprises of women, who conducts the interview process.

A recently launched report by Dell Technologies - 2030 Progress Made Real, focuses on social impact goals and our commitment towards hiring, developing and retaining women team members. The aim is to have women account for 50% of the company’s global workforce and 40% of global leadership.

2020 marks the beginning of what we at Dell Technologies are calling the Next Data Decade, and we are no doubt entering this era with new and higher expectations of what technology can make possible for how we live, work and play. Our customers are the owners of this data decade, where they will disrupt their industries in a major way and our job is to ensure that nothing stops them from reaching their goals. Keeping innovation at core, Dell Technologies is integrating emerging technologies like AI, ML, robotics, blockchain, etc. to drive transformation for its customers. We are leveraging the data we have today to derive insights and create actions that will drive compelling experiences for our customers. Using data science to understand key influences and using machine learning to predict next best actions and identifying patterns are powerful capabilities, we are incorporating these into our transactional systems. We recently launched ‘Dell Technologies On–demand’, which is a set of consumption-based and as-a- service offerings on the industry’s broadest infrastructure portfolio. On-demand delivers IT with the agility of the cloud, and the control, performance and predictability of the on-premises infrastructure. Customers need on-demand and consistent infrastructure that can yield predictable outcomes across all of their clouds, data centers and edge locations. Dell is poised to help its customers via intelligent automation and unlock the full potential of data for better results and outcomes.

Lead from the front, be confident and continue to learn and unlearn. Define your happiness priorities and go out and achieve them. The world out there is ready to be conquered – what are you waiting for!”