Brigid McDermott

Brigid McDermott

Vice President, Blockchain Business Development, IBM

Brigid McDermott is Vice President of Blockchain Business Development, responsible for driving the growth of Blockchain for IBM, including leading partnerships, alliances, acquisitions and ecosystem development. Blockchains are an emerging technology pattern that can radically improve banking, supply-chain and other transaction networks, giving new opportunities for innovation and growth while reducing cost and risk.

Blockchain in food safety

Improving confidence in food safety with IBM Blockchain

The spinach on the grocery store shelf is bright green and looks delicious, but how do you know it is actually safe for you to eat? What if your retailer could see and validate with certainty where that spinach was grown, handled, stored and inspected, as well as every stop it made on its journey […]

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Blockchain development

The tipping point for blockchain

How did the modern world begin? Not with a bang, but instead with something most people have never even heard of: packet-switching. Packet-switching is the idea that large messages can be transmitted more efficiently by breaking them up into small, identically-sized chunks. This seemingly modest idea paved the way for researchers and the Department of […]

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