India, June 18 -- HPE has sharpened its AI strategy around two themes, AI-native networking and agentic enterprise operations, as the company moves beyond building AI infrastructure to helping customers run AI-driven businesses at scale.

Delivering the keynote at HPE Discover 2026, Antonio Neri, President and CEO of HPE, made a broad set of announcements spanning AI networking, self-driving operations, agent governance, sovereign AI and hybrid cloud management. Collectively, they signal the next phase of HPE's AI strategy, moving beyond infrastructure deployment towards operationalising AI across the enterprise.

The shift becomes clearer when compared with HPE Discover 2025 in Barcelona, December last, where HPE positioned AI Factories ...