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Matt Seal is a Business Development Manager at HP, working within Edge Computing, where he leads HP Edge Technology with a focus on virtual workstations and telemetry driven insights. With 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Matt brings deep expertise across Media and Entertainment and the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sectors. In recent years, he has worked closely with some of the world’s largest architecture firms, helping them define and evolve their strategies for virtual workstations—enabling secure, high performance access to compute intensive workloads from anywhere. A key part of Matt’s work is helping organizations understand how their virtual environments are actually used, leveraging telemetry and usage insights to improve performance, optimize workflows, and guide smarter technology decisions. By combining real world usage data with business and technical context, he helps customers unlock greater efficiency and value from their digital work environments. Matt is passionate about bridging the gap between IT strategy, user experience, and measurable outcomes, and regularly works with customers and partners to shape the future of edge enabled virtual workstations.
In this talk, Matthew Seal explores how architecture firms can make smarter technology decisions by replacing fear-based hardware purchasing with data-driven infrastructure planning. Using the familiar problem of over-specifying workstations “just in case,” he argues that many practices invest in expensive compute power based on worst-case assumptions rather than how teams actually work day to day. The talk examines how modern architectural workflows, from BIM and real-time visualization to simulation and AI-assisted design, place highly variable demands on CPU, GPU and memory, making traditional one-size-fits-all buying increasingly inefficient. Matt introduces HP’s vision for private cloud compute through Z Edge, Boost and telemetry-led insights, showing how firms can measure real usage, share resources more intelligently and scale performance based on evidence rather than guesswork. Ultimately, the talk reframes compute not as a fixed asset to overbuy out of caution, but as a flexible, measurable and strategic part of architectural practice.