Data and AI Virtual Forums
Overcome challenges and accelerate your journey to AI
Why attend?
AI is the main ingredient to help you pivot quickly in today’s environment and ensure a successful digital transformation. To scale AI, you need to overcome the challenges of talent scarcity, data complexity and a lack of trust in AI systems.
IBM launched its Data and AI Virtual Forum series to give you the tools to tackle the talent, trust and data barriers to AI. Experience client stories, hear from industry leaders, connect with IBM executives and experts, and understand how IBM is helping you accelerate your journey to AI.
Global events
Talent
Do you have the right talent to put AI to work? Learn how to bridge the talent gap using AI automation.
Trust
Do you trust your AI outcomes? Learn how to build and scale AI with trust and transparency.
Data
Is your data ready for AI? Get a prescriptive approach to ensure your data is simple, accessible and business-ready.
Keynote
The secret behind a smarter business: Look at the data
Responding to changes in the economy, consumer tastes, or geopolitical realities are common business obstacles. Enterprises must become smarter, operate and engage the world intelligently, respond to market changes resiliently and optimize costs to innovate. Attend this keynote to hear Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud® and Data Platform, share how IBM is helping clients unlock the value of their data to put AI to work.
Hurkan Balkir, Vice President, Architecture and Application Development, Marriott International
Rajeev Ronanki, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Anthem
Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud and Data Platform
Featured session
ING: Insights from the journey
What does the Chief Information Architect of an international bank serving 38 million clients in 40 countries have to say about unlocking data to unify access to it across the organization? A lot. Ferd Scheepers, innovation vanguard and visionary, shares ING insights and outcomes, such as accelerating time to market and shortening the sales process from years to months.
Ferd Scheepers, Global Chief Information Architect and Chief Architect, ING Tech GS
Ayal Steinberg, Vice President, Sales, Data and AI, IBM
Featured speakers
Marisa Ferrara Boston, Automation and AI Lead Architect, Audit Technology, KPMG LLP
Dr. Anne Bowser, Deputy Director with the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) & Director of Innovation, The Wilson Center
Kelly Combs, Director Advisory, Emerging Technology Risk Services, KPMG LLP
Chris Driscoll, Innovation Delivery Manager, Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court
Chad Houck, Chief Deputy Secretary of State for Idaho
Ritu Jyoti, Program Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Research, Global AI Research Lead, IDC
Curren Katz, PhD, Director of Data Science R&D, Highmark Health
Aaron Levie, Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder and Chairman, Box
Omer Minkara, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Aberdeen
Itumeleng Monale, Executive Head of Enterprise Information Management Personal & Business Banking, Standard Bank of South Africa, South Africa
Arun Murthy, Chief Product Officer, Cloudera
Jennifer Page, Marketing Manager, Hill Country Memorial Hospital
Dr. Klaus G. Paul, R²Data Labs at Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
Laurent Prud’hon, Cognitive Factory Leader, Euro Information
Mara Reiff, Vice President, Strategy and Business Intelligence, Bell Canada
Sujay Santra, Founder and CEO, iKure
Srividya Sridharan, Vice President, Research Director Serving Customer Insights Professionals, Forrester Research
Daniel Hernandez, General Manager, Data and AI, IBM
Alan Bivens, Director, Public Cloud Data Services, IBM
Seth Dobrin, Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Data and AI, IBM
David Cox, Director, MIT-IBM Watson® AI Lab, IBM Research AI, IBM
Madhu Kochar, Vice President of Offering Management, Data and AI, IBM
Adam Kocoloski, IBM Fellow, Vice President, CTO, IBM
Kristen Summers, AI CTO, Data and AI Expert Labs and Learning, IBM
Paul Zikopoulos, Vice President, Cognitive Systems, IBM
Jean-Philippe Desbiolles, Global Vice President of Data, Cognitive and AI - Financial Services, IBM
Jessica Rockwood, Vice President of Development, Multicloud Management & AIOps, IBM
Data and AI virtual regional events
Africa
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Australia and New Zealand
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Argentina
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BeNeLux
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Brazil
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DACH
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Denmark
15 Sept
India
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Israel
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Japan
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Middle East and Pakistan
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Poland
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Spain
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Turkey
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UK and Ireland
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More virtual events to come!