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This year's Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo discussed business strategies to maximize productivity and drive meaningful ROI from AI. During the event we covered multiple topics including:

  • Preparing and delivering high-quality data for AI

  • AI-driven technology cost and operations management

  • How to simplify and scale AI application development

  • Scaling productivity with AI assistants 

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Agenda

Agenda

Leading with AI: Unlocking productivity and finding competitive advantages

The average return on investment for corporate AI initiatives has nearly tripled since 2022, prompting CIOs to go beyond experimenting with AI to helping organizations realize scale and value quickly and with trust.

Many of these changes are technological: For example, how to manage rising complexity or generative-AI infused cyber threats. But many are cultural as well.

This session explained how today's leaders are overcoming barriers like institutional change and lack of skills to turn early wins with AI into lasting competitive advantages. ​


Is your data AI-ready? Prepare and deliver high-quality, governed data for AI

Enterprises that possess high-quality data and governance, and attest to the trust-worthiness of their data among stakeholders, have doubled the ROI from their AI.

In this session, learn how leading organizations are implementing an open and trusted data foundation to secure and maximize the value of their data, accessing siloed data across hybrid cloud, cost-optimizing growing data workloads, and preparing and delivering high-quality, governed data for AI.


Deliver better outcomes with AI-driven technology cost and operations management

Technology is advancing faster than ever, driving up both IT complexity and costs. Today, the average enterprise uses multiple clouds and thousands of physical assets while generative AI is predicted to bring about over 1 billion new applications.

Increasing complexity leads to inefficiencies, risk and waste, while limited visibility across disparate systems limit our ability to optimize processes, performance and tech spend.

Watch this session to learn how IBM’s complete suite of AI-powered automation capabilities enable CIOs and their teams to build, deploy, maintain and fund critical technology investments.


Deploy AI that is open, performant and efficient across your business

Organizations tasked with implementing generative AI in their workflows face challenges when it comes to inferencing costs, AI trustworthiness, domain-specificity, and being able to leverage enterprise data effectively and securely. This is why an open, trusted and targeted approach provides the best options for organizations looking to expand their footprint in AI.

Learn how to simplify and scale the development of AI applications through a comprehensive suite of developer-focused capabilities that integrates with your data, models, tools and enterprise systems


What the intersection of quantum and AI means for you and your business

By the end of the decade, AI models will soon be composed of modules with different cognitive abilities, enabling them to exhibit behavioral norms empowering organizations with a broad variety of use cases that require effective human-machine collaboration.

Quantum computing will also have achieved an inflection point, significantly extending the complexity and size of workloads they are capable of handling. Learn about the intersection between these two emerging trends in computing and how your organization can prepare to take advantage.


Scale productivity with customizable AI assistants for any domain

By now, most of us have experienced virtual assistants of some kind. But what separates a prompt engine from an AI-assistant? Critically, it's the ability to do real work.

Learn how the latest AI assistants empower teams with needed expertise, turning piles of data into personalized insights and timely, automated actions; and using natural language understanding and machine learning techniques to automate business processes.

Scale AI that employees embrace because they can trust its outcomes, understand its rationale and use and customize easily.


Scaling AI adoption with more intentional IT choices

IT in the age of AI requires using all data, technology and compute resources across multiple clouds, on-premises and across edge-devices efficiently. But where to wisely invest for short-term and longer-term value is complex.

A “hybrid-by-design” approach to people, platforms and processes helps make IT an innovation center of the business. It enables consistency and standardization across environments while improving time to value of infrastructure investments.

In this session, learn how to meet the needs of growing AI data through improved accuracy and transparent governance—with performance levels you expect.

Speakers

Speakers

Rob Thomas

Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Manish Goyal

Senior Partner, Global AI & Analytics Leader, IBM Consulting

Michael Kwok

Vice President, IT Automation, IBM Automation

Hari Kannan

Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, IBM Infrastructure

Maryam Ashoori

Head of Product, watsonx.ai, IBM

Ismael Faro

VP, IBM Quantum Services

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