Medicine and the Message: Consumer Engagement and the Power of Nontraditional Data
The journal Health Affairs estimates that the U.S. spends nearly $500 billion annually on pharmaceutical treatments. Focusing on clinical value alone isn’t enough to meet business growth targets — customer experience plays a critical role in long-term brand success. But experience doesn’t occur in isolation: To win trust and boost spending, pharma brands must use […]
Could Autonomous Car Technology and AI Transform Homecare for the Elderly?
With backgrounds in medicine and health economics, we have long been interested in how the latest technologies can augment our ability to care for each other. Today, with the world’s population over 60 expected to more than double by 2050, growing faster than all other younger groups, the need for more innovative, scalable approaches to […]
AI Comes to Life in London’s Barbican Exhibition
The Barbican Centre in London today opened its doors to a new “festival-style” exhibition, AI: More than Human, which explores creative and scientific developments in artificial intelligence (AI) through the years. This groundbreaking exhibition endeavors to demonstrate and illustrate the potential that AI systems hold to revolutionize our lives. Since the term “artificial intelligence” was […]
How IBM’s ‘Team Able’ Runs Through Accessiblity Challenges
On, Thursday, May 16, IBM site locations and iX Design Studios across the U.S. will celebrate the eighth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) – a worldwide observation to raise awareness of digital access and inclusion issues for people with disabilities. As an IBMer with a disability, and a founding member of IBM’s Team Able, […]
Tech for Good: Building New Collar Skills
Intelligent automation is disrupting and transforming economies around the world, and France is among them. While French unemployment declined in 2018 it is still among the highest in Europe, at nearly 9 percent. Despite this fact, some companies still struggle to find candidates with the necessary skills and expertise needed to compete in the 21st […]
IBM Watson Wins Prestigious Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
Switzerland’s Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute has awarded IBM Watson the 13th Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in recognition of the crucial role artificial intelligence will play in helping humanity address some of the world’s greatest challenges. John E. Kelly III, IBM’s Executive Vice President, accepted the award on behalf of IBM during a special ceremony on May 7 […]
What We Learned Breaking a Guinness World Record
Setting a world record takes skill and effort. Breaking a world record takes something more. But that’s what we did several weeks ago in Guadalajara, Mexico. In mid-April, and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, our group at IBM Guadalajara conducted the world’s largest AI software development class ever held, with 775 participants […]
On International Space Day, Students Create Virtual Assistants with AI
To celebrate International Space Day, IBM hosted 35 students from the Brooklyn-based Pathways in Technology Early College High School program, who got an inside look, and first-hand experience, in how to leverage artificial intelligence for the advancement of space exploration. The P-TECH students learned about CIMON (short for Crew Interactive MObile CompanioN), which was developed by Airbus […]
Intelligent Tech Turns the Tide on Trafficking
Human trafficking and modern slavery are on the rise around the world. In its latest report, The International Labour Organisation found there are approximately 40.3 million victims of modern slavery. In the UK alone, authorities have seen the number of incidents reported rise by 36 percent in a year, with the Home Office estimating a […]
How IBM is Using AI to Speed Partner Lead Sharing
Passing quality sales leads from our salespeople to partners is crucial to bolstering a thriving partner ecosystem, and data shows that the faster we can pass these leads on, the greater the chance of closing the deal. According to a 2017 study by IBM’s Chief Analytics Office (CAO), sales leads that are passed within a […]
The Royal Canadian Navy Drives Change for Tomorrow’s Sailors
As the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) looks to the future and builds tomorrow’s Navy, we want to build that Navy around our sailors – inspiring them, their families and Canadians at large with a digitally-enabled organization that stands tall for Canada and Canadians. We need to take an institution, break with tradition, and embolden our […]