Join IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna as discusses how the agility of hybrid cloud and the intelligence of AI are accelerating digital transformation, and how companies in every industry can build a stronger digital foundation to reinvent the way they do business and engage the world.

Join Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President of IBM Global Markets, as she shares how global businesses are reinventing and retooling to do business in a new global economy. Drawing from client experiences, van Kralingen will offer a preview of how companies are turning to powerful new technologies to build more resilient and secure systems for powering the future of the world’s commerce.

Leaders face one universal truth: they need digital technologies to deliver value and innovations to customers. This digital-first approach starts by enabling employees to make more informed decisions and work more efficiently by reducing the complexity of their jobs. Automation solutions and AI tools that require little-to-no coding are poised to speed organizations' digital transformations by helping them enhance offerings, anticipate customer needs, and manage assets in the office or field.

Technology has changed who, what and how we trust. Yet, in our digital era, people are asked to take unprecedented risk by leaping faster and higher than ever before. Rachel Botsman, Trust Fellow at Oxford University and the author of Who Can You Trust?, will discuss the importance of trust in the digital age and how that affects your organization's ability to survive and thrive.

The staggering popularity of Netflix's The Queen's Gambit has had an energizing impact on the world's interest in the game of chess. Maurice Ashley, who made history as the first African-American chess Grandmaster, notes its surprising, wonderful, electrifying effect, that now has so many sharing his love for the game. Ashley will share the passion that brought him to the top of his craft, while drawing compelling parallels between chess strategy, business practices and life skills.