ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026

At ITQ, we are all very ambitious and committed to helping the company grow — and that is something we achieve together.
Driving growth is always a combination of RUN activities (our day-to-day business and the customer assignments we work hard for every single day) and CHANGE initiatives. These initiatives are essential to keeping ITQ relevant in an ever-evolving market, allowing us to become the full-service provider and increasing our relevance across Europe.
To address CHANGE at a company-wide level, we have defined Strategic Initiatives that receive significant focus and attention every day. What role do these initiatives play in our long-term strategy? Why are they truly game-changing? And how do they help us collectively build our joint future?
You’ll discover the answers in this short lightning session.

Private AI: The story so far
What we set out to do, where we've landed, and what we wish we'd known on day one. A concise update on our Private AI Strategic Initiative, with plenty of room for your questions.

AI infrastructure is moving beyond simply hosting models. The next generation of platforms must support complete AI systems: model serving, intelligent routing, shared inference services, agents, tools, memory, and isolated execution environments.
In this session, we take a look behind the curtain at where VMware Private AI Services (PAIS) is heading. We will introduce the new VMware AI Factory initiative, walk through the PAIS Model Runtime 4.0 architecture, and show how its components work together to provide models as a scalable platform service.
We will then expand the view beyond model inference and examine VCF as a platform for agentic workloads. We will look at where agents run, how they consume shared model endpoints, why agents need isolated execution environments, and which infrastructure services are required to support them.
The goal is to connect the individual technologies into one architectural picture and show how VCF, PAIS, and the VMware AI Factory fit together as the foundation for enterprise AI.

The world of IT is changing rapidly, so the VCF Storage and Data roadmap also constantly evolves. In this session Duncan Epping will share with you what you can expect for Storage and Data services in the upcoming releases of VCF. And, of course, it wouldn’t be a VMware session without mentioning  AI, but instead of fluffy slides, I will bring some demos for you!