Published: May 18, 2026 at 10:48 pm
The last time I was in the States I was 21 years of age and known as Coach Jonathan.
A quarter of a century on, I’ve exchanged soccer camps for a technology convention – but the hot wind that hit me when I stepped out of the airport in Las Vegas yesterday took me right back.
All checked in at The Venetian and ready to check out the world-famous Strip, I was stopped in my tracks by the mother of all dust storms and had to retire back into the hotel!
Luckily hotels here are not like anywhere else so there was no danger of becoming bored: the resort contains bars and restaurants, a pool complex, shopping mall, a huge casino and even gondolas moving through waterways. The sight from my hotel room of a golden Trump Tower rising against the backdrop of the desert and mountains was another reminder of the excess of the place.
The sense of scale continued this Monday morning when I entered the immense convention centre – again, within the confines of The Venetian – where Dell Technologies World is taking place.
Joining Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, on stage for the ‘Unleash the Future’ keynote were leaders at several world-leading companies that are working directly with Dell to harness the power of AI.
But it was the arrival of Jensen Huang on stage which really got the packed main stage audience buzzing. Huang is the founder and CEO of chipmaker NVIDIA, which started out making graphics chips for PC games but is now the world’s most valuable company. It is the partner for Dell’s AI Factory solution now used by more than 5,000 customers worldwide.
In his trademark leather jacket, Huang said the top software engineers of today are working with an AI agent to generate code before validation and deployment at a speed which would have been unthinkable a few years ago – but the engineers of the future will orchestrate entire teams of AI agents to unlock insights across every workload.