HP and Sundance Executives talk digital
I met Satjiv Chahil (pictured at right with Sundance’s Ian Calderon), when he was at Apple (he founded the New Media division). At that time, he and his colleagues were talking about things that seemed a long way off–digital networks that allowed you to use desktop computers to make and move content, whether around a facility or to remote collaborators. At that time people could only just begin to envision that network extending to audiences–this was before digital cinema and before video sharing on the web. But the “what if,” was there even then. Now Chahil is SVP, Global Marketing, Personal Systems Group at HP. Now he and other Apple/HP colleagues like HP CTO Shane Robison are in the thick of that vision coming true.
“For people in technology it seems these things take much longer than we expect,” he says wryly, as we talk at New Frontier on Main, . Yet at the same time Chahil marvels that HP is now at the center of what gets called an ecosystem by many people these days. The word is awkward but evocative. more
