Highlighting the explosive growth and limitless potential of Edge AI opportunities, ADLINK brought together over 140 global decision-makers from strategic partners within its ecosystem, including distributors, key accounts, ISVs, and DFSIs in the APAC and EMEA regions, at the 2024 EdgeOpen Consortium. Hosted at its headquarters in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on May 30, 2024.
ADLINK unites global partners at the 2024 EdgeOpen Consortium
Themed "Scaling Business at the Edge", the 2024 EdgeOpen Consortium spotlights two key growth engines: edge AI and green energy. Anchored upon these strategies, it aims to achieve powerful computing intelligence through AI while minimizing power consumption to reduce TCO and pursue net-zero and ESG targets.
Harnessing these strategies demonstrates how collaborative synergy can accelerate business across industrial automation, automotive, transportation, medical, robotics/AMR, and gaming applications.
With shared expertise and resources, strategic collaborations can adeptly navigate global market complexities and fast-paced technological advancements, fostering innovative solutions and sustained growth. This rationale prompted ADLINK to establish EdgeOpen, an open platform that tightly connects ecosystem partners, aiming to co-create business opportunities, overcome challenges, and achieve mutual growth.
Stephen Huang, President & COO of ADLINK, highlighted the company's growth driven by long-term partnerships and a streamlined product portfolio across the entire value chain
During his keynote speech, President and COO of ADLINK, Stephen Huang, highlighted the company's growth driven by long-term partnerships and a streamlined product portfolio integrated across the value chain. It includes computer-on-modules, GPUs, edge AI platforms, IoT gateways, AMRs, and AI edge servers.
ADLINK's strategic focus spans across four key areas:
1. Developing comprehensive edge AI solutions through ecosystem partnerships.
2. Teaming up with AUO to provide edge visualization solutions for vertical markets.
3. Differentiating through vertical-focused software atop solution-ready platforms.
4. Enhancing Design and Manufacturing Services Plus (DMS+) for embedded computing and edge AI solutions.
ADLINK has also dedicated itself to sustainability, investing in energy-saving technologies to support customers in achieving net-zero and ESG goals. This reinforces its value proposition of innovation, customer-centricity, and environmental responsibility, aligning with the ecosystem partners' shared goal of "Go Intelligent, Go Green."
The EdgeOpen Consortium event showcased ADLINK's collaborative efforts with its upstream and downstream partners to drive innovations in edge computing technologies. This initiative aims to promote intelligent and green solutions across various sectors, such as industrial automation, smart manufacturing, smart healthcare, gaming, and autonomous driving.
In the upstream supply chain for technology platforms, ADLINK partners with Intel, NVIDIA, Arm, NXP®Semiconductors (NXP), MediaTek, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., AMD, and Ampere to support the high computing power essential for edge AI. Meanwhile, ADLINK works closely with AUO for edge visualization applications. Furthermore, ADLINK integrates power-saving technologies to assist customers in achieving their green design objectives.
In the downstream industry, partners like FARobot assist ADLINK by offering solutions in intelligent AMR applications, empowering ADLINK to deliver comprehensive and differentiated solutions for smart healthcare and manufacturing. On the other hand, partnerships with BRICKS, NexRetail, and Vossic, which specialize in generative and edge AI features for food and beverage, retail, and manufacturing applications, further strengthen ADLINK's market presence expansion.
The importance of software development partners cannot be overlooked either. For instance, TIER IV, a pioneer in open-source autonomous driving systems based in Japan, collaborates with ADLINK to develop autonomous driving technology, emphasizing its commitment to deploying the technology through open-source software. It provides significant support for ADLINK's entry into edge computing applications within the high-potential automotive market.
ADLINK's channel partners are pivotal in driving edge computing innovation across diverse markets
ADLINK's channel partners are crucial in supporting edge computing innovation across various markets. MARUBUN Corporation from Japan, Data Respons Solutions from Sweden, and Alcom from Belgium shared how they leverage their extensive network, technical expertise, and tailored services to promote the adoption of ADLINK's solutions. They all exchanged successful projects and best practices on stage with all the participants.
The channel partners emphasized the importance of customized technical assistance in successfully implementing ADLINK's innovative technologies, highlighting the value of local expertise and customer-centric strategies across diverse markets.
ADLINK showcased its dynamic portfolio and real-world applications with partners for expanding enterprises at the edge
Looking ahead, ADLINK remains committed to leveraging the EdgeOpen Consortium, encouraging all partners to accelerate the development of innovative applications with faster time-to-market through shared resources. This strategy seeks to create mutually beneficial outcomes while allowing end users to benefit from the efficiency, safety, and energy savings brought by cutting-edge computing technologies. ADLINK actively invites new partners from various fields to join the EdgeOpen ecosystem, promoting collaboration to unlock better business opportunities.