IBM at Oracle AI World 2025

While economic volatilities and budget cuts put pressure on ensuring return on investment from existing investments, only 52% of CEOs believe gen AI investments are delivering value beyond cost reduction. Distinguishably, the top-performing CEOs are making AI and gen AI investments that deliver a multitude of business outcomes.

The key is to consistently build and manage agents across multi-agent, multisystem business processes. Learn how IBM and Oracle partner to help enterprises streamline AI and gen AI adoption at scale, improve operational efficiency, accelerate innovation and ensure strong ROI.

Speakers:

• Manish Goyal, VP & Senior Partner, Global Enterprise Strategy & AI Transformation Leader, IBM Consulting
• Corinne Koppel, Global Oracle Lead, IBM
• Julie Meyer, Vice President, HR Service and Digital Experience/M&A/BPO, Providence

One glove does not fit all—7 in 10 digital transformation and cloud adoption programs fall short of expectations. Education First’s experience shows why. They partnered with IBM to rethink their Oracle Cloud journey within the same SaaS environment by focusing on a clean core.

In this session, you’ll learn from their journey—what worked, what didn’t and most importantly, how your organization can get it right the first time. See how establishing the right foundation unlocks AI-driven growth, operational agility and lasting competitive advantage—while preparing for agentic AI and extending impact beyond finance into HR, procurement and EPM.

Speakers:

• Anna Nilsson, CFO, Global Finance Operations & Shared Services, Education First
• Christopher Grunte, Chief Information Officer, Global Systems, Infrastructure Security, Central Finance, Education First 
• Arunava Saha, Global Oracle Offering Lead, IBM 

Every year, it costs enterprises millions of dollars in payroll penalties, mostly due to delinquency and accuracy issues. This highlights the importance of uninterrupted and compliant HR and payroll systems.

Disconnected, legacy systems and manual processes pose risks to accuracy and governance, while integrated digital platforms offer real-time reporting, automation and resilience against regulatory shifts. This session explores how uninterrupted digital transformation of HR and payroll can unlock cost savings, support strategic goals and ensure seamless integration across the enterprise.

Speakers:

• Jen Basco, HCM Offering Leader, IBM Corporation
• Gareth Turney, Head of People Function Change, Phoenix Group

Only 6% of organizations have full end-to-end supply chain visibility, making agility and resilience vital in today’s volatile landscape. This session explores how Oracle and IBM are joining forces to deliver future-ready supply chain transformation.

Learn how this partnership enables intelligent planning, optimized execution and enhanced responsiveness. Discover how this powerful alliance delivers supply chain outcomes that help enterprises build responsive, sustainable and future-ready operations.   

Speakers:

• Simon Catling, Vice President - Digital Enterprise, Abcam
• Luis E. Sanchez, Partner, Americas Oracle Supply Chain Leader, IBM

It comes as no surprise that 86% of executives say that by 2027, AI agents will make process automation and workflow reinvention more effective. To help businesses get there faster, IBM® watsonx® and IBM Granite® models are now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Join this session to learn how this integration can streamline operations, accelerate decision-making, improve productivity and scale AI across teams.

Whether focused on HR, finance or customer service, discover how this partnership helps businesses deliver real results with trusted, enterprise-ready AI.  

Speakers:

• Charles Morgan, Vice President, Head of Finance and HR Transformation, Verisk
• Charles Jenkins, Partner Development - Strategic Partnerships, IBM

In a world of constant disruption, enterprise resilience is no longer optional, it is a competitive advantage. Red Hat® OpenShift® on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a consistent foundation for deploying workloads across distributed environments.

To this, IBM adds scalable AI and intelligent automation capabilities to this ecosystem, helping enterprises innovate while building resiliency.

Learn how this integrated stack supports secure and scalable workloads and drives stronger ROI from hybrid cloud investments while enabling smarter decisions and AI-driven automation. 

Speakers:

• Mark Longwell, Director of Telco and Edge Alliances, Red Hat
• Nish Patel, Global OCI Offering Lead, IBM
• Kankayan Sengupta, Global Oracle CTO, IBM