This week’s HP Imagine 2026 conference is giving HP Inc. the opportunity to show off how it is changing its commercial workstations, mobile PCs, LaserJet printers and software to help businesses meet what the company describes as the new workforce challenges stemming from AI, cybersecurity requirements and the need for better collaboration.
HP Inc. this week is using its HP Imagine 2026 conference in New York to discuss how the company sees the future of work and unveil new workstations, PCs, printers and software aimed at helping customers prepare for that future.
Much of that future is centered on how businesses and their employees will need to ensure AI is at their center of their work, said Reeya Sen, senior director for HP Insights.
Sen, speaking with the press at a pre-conference meeting, said that AI in the workplace is accelerating.
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“Hybrid [AI] has permanently changed how work happens, where work happens, and not to mention the fact that we have new workers amidst us, the Gen Z, the gig worker, the freelancer,” she said. “So yes, work is being redesigned in real time, but the work experience hasn’t kept up.”
HP estimates that only 20 percent of knowledge workers have a healthy relationship with work—a number that is falling every year—leading not only to a disconnect to employees but also to organizations losing creativity, output and momentum, Sen said.
“But the good news is that this is fixable,” she said. “Eighty-five percent of what shapes our relationship with work is within an organization’s control, and our research shows that when workers have the right tools, they are twice as more likely to have a healthy relationship with work. Technology is not just one of the factors shaping our relationship with work. It is a force multiplier, which then leads us to the big question, ‘What do we need to do our best work today?’”
HP’s response this week is the introduction of multiple new technologies aimed at not only making AI a more integrated part of employees’ work experience but also improving performance and collaboration in the workplace, Sen said.
These include:
- Workstations for GPU-intensive workloads
- Software to bridge paper and digital versions of documents
- Collaboration software for multiple users and devices
- New commercial mobile PCs
- HP LaserJet printers to meet changing workforce requirements
- New security to protect against Trusted Platform Modules
There’s a lot of innovation coming in the next few months from HP aimed at addressing challenges impacting businesses. For the details, read on.
HP Workstations
New from HP is the HP Z8 Fury G6i, a new workstation that Christina Gill, senior manager for the HP Z workstation business, called the most advanced workstation for GPU-intensive workflows.
The Z8 Fury G6i can be equipped with up to four Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell Max-Q workstation edition GPUs. For VFX artists, this means nearly twice the performance when using Autodesk Flame than the previous generation, Gill said. AI developers can inference the equivalent of nine LLoMA-79B LLMs up to 614 billion parameters, she said.
HP also unveiled the HP Z4 G6i workstation desktop PC (pictured), which features 12 to 48 cores of Intel Xeon processors, up to 512 GB of DDR5 memory, up to 192 MB of VRAM cache, and support for Nvidia RTX 6000 or other high-end consumer graphics cards. The Z4 G6i is targeted at AI developers, product designers, engineers, architects, video editors, 3-D artists and software developers.
HP in conversations with over 3,500 customers across various industries and roles in the last year learned that technology and workflows are evolving faster than ever, while top talent lacks the tools needed for demanding workflows and IT leaders struggle to support them, Gill said.
“We’re delivering performance for power users and assurance for IT with innovations like HP Z Boost, accelerating critical workflows and edge AI solutions, enabling smarter hybrid architectures,” she said. “HP continues to lead the industry in helping customers do more while reducing reliance on the cloud.”
One unique addition to the new desktop workstations is the optional HP Max side panel, which Gill said lets users expand the volume of the chassis by up to 15 percent to let them drop in larger cards without the need for power tools.
“IT leaders across some of the world’s top enterprises tell us that as workflows and performance demands grow, expandability is critical, especially support for larger graphics cards,” she said. “We’ve heard some really crazy stories in our discussions with customers about some of them running their workstations without the side panel or actually taking a Dremel [tool] to the side of the chassis just to be able to fit in cards that they need for their workflows. Today, we’re putting an end to this madness.”
HP Build Workspace
For the architecture, engineering and construction industry, also known as AEC, productivity has remained flat and impacted by inefficiencies, particularly in the document flow process, said Xavier Juarez, large-format AEC solutions business director at HP.
Designs are done by multiple teams in the digital world with frequent updates, but the actual work gets done at the physical site, which results in communication issues between the two that traditionally has been settled with continuous changes on paper drawings, Juarez said.
Because paper is transportable, it is still the preferred way to communicate changes, but multiple versions of a drawing eventually add coordination challenges, he said. HP’s answer is HP Build Workspace, a cloud platform that bridges the gap between the digital and physical worlds.
HP is increasing the functionality of HP Build Workspace in three ways, Juarez said.
- Drawing management, which is the ability to track different versions of a drawing in different formats via a QR code that will let users check if it is the latest version. “If it’s not the latest version of the drawing, what you’re going to have is a way to very easily compare the version you had with the version that you got as the latest one with a tool that will allow you to see additions and removals,” he said.
- Smart digitization, which is the ability to more easily bring information to the digital world. Juarez said HP already allows scanned drawings to be editable. “What we are also bringing later in the year is the ability to not only vectorize the drawing, to make it editable, but to extract insights out of it, to be able to understand what’s inside the drawing, and to count objects, for example,” he said. “And this will make them searchable, but it will also provide insights to construction teams that may be relevant for decision-making.”
- New task management tools that will allow multiple users to collaborate using the same source of truth, Juarez said.
“So you will be able to have the best of both worlds,” he said. “The ease of use and collaboration on the paper plan that you have in front of you, plus the ability to bring the information back to the digital world, but also to check if this is the latest version, which annotations were introduced by other people, if there are any tasks or mentions that you need to take into account, and in case you need to make the drawing editable again, a tool to make that very easy.”
HP IQ
HP Tuesday also introduced HP IQ to increase collaboration between multiple employees and their devices.
Matt Brown, direct of product for HP IQ, called HP IQ a way to combine context awareness, easy collaboration, a personalized user interface and enterprise-grade security to increase efficiency.
“Too often, our devices don’t talk to each other and collaboration feels clunky,” Brown said. “AI workflows even are overly complicated. We are out to transform these experiences and deliver a more seamless future of work.”
HP IQ is a new layer of intelligence that stretches across HP devices, including the company’s new AI PCs, Brown said.
“It is the foundation of our vision for the future of work,” he said. “It will enable local, private and personal workflows across all HP AI-enabled products. IQ will empower users to be more focused, productive and empowered to connect more easily, explore ideas, and make quicker decisions tailored to their workflow.
There are three components to HP IQ, Brown said.
- Seamless connectivity between devices that Brown said “will enable an entire pillar of innovation that makes collaborating in the office easier and HP devices work better together.”
- AI orchestration layer connected to a powerful model to stitch together workflows for a more efficient and focused experience. Brown said the AI will provide quality output and deep insight for a user’s own files and notes while running locally to ensure privacy and performance.
- New universal user interface that is intuitive, consistent and responsive, adapting to the user’s context, location and intent, Brown said. “We want to reduce the need to bounce between screens. You can write or speak into one text box at the top of your screen so that IQ can work around you to keep you focused and in your flow,” he said.
To provide an intelligent experience, HP is also introducing HP NearSense, Brown said.
“NearSense is the new secure connectivity layer that finally allows HP devices to find each other, connect instantly, and hand off content seamlessly across platforms and operating systems, device to device, no setup, no struggle, just instant connection,” he said.
HP Commercial Mobile PCs
HP Tuesday unveiled 31 new notebooks across its 4, 6, and 8 series, and for a very good reason, said Caleb Fleming, senior manager, business personal systems new product introduction lead.
“In today’s world, we don’t live in a one-size-fits-all world,” Fleming said. “Businesses don’t look the same. They don’t work the same. They deploy devices across different roles and locations and different jobs to be done with lots of different software and ranges of AI expertise. And that’s the reality.”
Fleming called out the new HP EliteBook 6 G2q Next Gen AI PC, calling it the world’s most configurable ARM-based AI PC. It is available with either a standard chassis or an all-new thinner, lighter chassis, which he said provides almost twice the power of the previous G1 product.
“Battery options deliver up to 28 hours of use,” he said. “That’s three hours longer than the last generation. [There are] even new OLED display options that give really remarkably vivid colors and privacy panels like the Sure View 6 to keep data private in public.”
For remote workers, the new laptop automatically switches users to the best available 5G signal in the background to reduce reliance on risky public Wi-Fi, with plans that start at $20 per month with unlimited data, Fleming said. Furthermore, he said, on-device AI lets organizations enable power workflows while keeping data private, local and governed, he said.
HP LaserJet Printers
HP also introduced several new HP LaserJet printers targeting SMB and enterprise customers that are changing how they print, said Ali Sedghi, vice president and general manager of office print solutions for the company.
While business leaders are focused on managing infrastructure, employees are trying to manage processes, Sedghi said.
“Businesses are pressured to control costs while still investing in the capabilities they need to compete,” he said. “And the data makes it clear this isn’t theoretical. Seventy-eight percent of businesses say print management is a top pain point, and 72 percent are concerned about printing expenses. Seventy-five percent of employees use AI at work, and document scanning has surged by 70 percent. Sixty-two percent list security as a key priority in hybrid work environments.”
HP is responding with several new printers.
The HP LaserJet Pro 4000/4100 series (pictured) SMB monochrome printers include what the company called the fastest automatic two-sided printing in its class. They also include Wi-Fi 6 with self-reset for reliable connectivity and offer up to 25 percent lower ongoing print costs than the previous generation.
The HP LaserJet Enterprise 5000/6000 series printers are built for larger teams with automatic two-sided scanning of up to 200 images per minute and print speeds of up to 57 pages per minute. They include HP Wolf enterprise security to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
The HP LaserJet Pro 4000/4100 series is slated to be available in May, while the HP LaserJet Enterprise 5000/6000 series should see broad availability in June.
HP TPM Guard
HP is looking to address a major security issue with the Trusted Platform Module commonly used to protect against cyberattacks, said Ian Pratt, vice president of security and commercial systems and CTO for HP’s personal systems business.
“Over the last year or two, vulnerabilities have come to light in Microsoft BitLocker and the way it uses the Trusted Platform Module, Pratt told CRN. “The Trusted Platform Module is this chip used to store some of the key platform secrets, like the BitLocker encryption key, and if an attacker can physically lay hands on a machine, there are attacks that they can do to recover that encryption key.”
Cybercriminals have discovered that if they can access a mobile PC, they can open it up and attach an inexpensive Raspberry Pi Pico to the TPM, boot the machine and get the encryption key, Pratt said.
“Once you’ve got that, you can then decrypt the hard disk at your leisure, and take any of the documents, data, other credentials on it,” he said. “Organizations know their users have sensitive data on their devices and are increasingly worried about it. In the past, if you lost a laptop that contained your customer data, as long as it was BitLocker- encrypted, then it wasn’t a reportable event. You could rely on BitLocker to keep that data safe. It’s not clear that you should be doing so going forward.”
The new HP TPM Guard aims to prevent such attacks, Pratt said.
“We work with our silicon partners to effectively create an authenticated, encrypted tunnel created between the Trusted Platform Module and the CPU, and all data goes through that tunnel,” he said. “So if you’ve got the back cover off a machine and connect to the monitoring device, you’re not going to get anything useful from it. It’s just going to be encrypted bits. This also deals with another class of attack where people take the TPM out of one machine and put it in another and then use that to trick the TPM to handing over the key.”
HP plans to add TPM Guard to all its G2 commercial laptops, Pratt said. Unfortunately, TPM Guard cannot be added to prior generations, he said.
