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In today’s digital economy, vast amounts of value are trapped inside processes and organizations that don’t connect. Do not miss that unique opportunity to hear about a few of the key lessons learned in designing and deploying solutions that break down those barriers to create new business networks with more trust and transparency using blockchain technology. Whether you are getting started with your journey, looking to accelerate or innovate further, this webinar touches upon each step of the journey, the common pitfalls as well as the less obvious lessons in building and scaling blockchain-based solutions.

Throughout economic history, talented humans have been a source of innovation and advancement – their skills the impetus for economic growth. Today, multiple factors are creating a perfect storm that is affecting the value, need, and availability of workforce skills. The result is a looming global talent shortage with the power to impact individuals and economies worldwide. Over the past several years, the IBM Institute for Business Value has conducted significant research on this critical topic. Our research reveals the increasing importance of workforce skills, the challenges organizations across industries and geographies face in developing and maintaining skilled workers, and the tactics they employ to combat those challenges. On this webinar we share insights from our research findings and share three key strategies to guide executives in closing the skills-related gaps in their organizations. 

Enterprise IT is at a major inflection point in its evolution, as organizations move toward a hybrid, heterogeneous and distributed multi-cloud model. In addition, the rapid adoption of AI-based strategies, with the need to process large amounts of data in near real time, is causing us to rethink the entire value chain of how data is – responsibly– collected, curated, stored, protected, analyzed and used. In this future cloud, an open platform approach will clearly be the strongest technological game changer. Businesses need to be able to manage and integrate workloads as well as internal and external data securely and efficiently across their public and private clouds, on-premise and across edge devices. As a result, today’s CTOs/CIOs are challenged not only to steer a course in their organization’s adoption of an AI application, systems and cloud strategy, but to also keep an overview of what is happening throughout the supporting technologies and platforms. All this, even as the underlying business models of their organizations continue to evolve!

In this webinar, Dr. Alessandro Curioni, IBM Fellow, Vice President Europe and Director, IBM Research – Zurich, will share his perspective on how enterprises can harness AI and data in the multi-cloud era.

Everyone in the connected car ecosystem needs to consider privacy a key element of connected cars, from designers and suppliers of subsystems, sensory environment, and applications; to manufacturers who integrate these components. While some manufacturers and suppliers anticipate the demand for privacy, all too often, their actions are reactive. To address privacy challenges and evolving regulatory requirements, a paradigm shift has now become essential. The automotive ecosystem can’t wait to react. Instead, it needs to proactively plan and design for privacy, an approach that is embodied in the privacy by design and default principle.

In this webinar, you can have a quick overview of two business solutions available at IBM Client Center in Vienna:

• Digital Reinvention: Disrupt your Business with Emerging Technologies
  Franz Dornig, Manager of IBM Cognitive Solutions at IBM in Austria, is going to introduce Digital Reinvention from IBM's perspective. He offers exclusive insights on how a possible business transformation could look with the help of the IBM Client Center in Vienna.
• Disrupting Businesses: Digital Transformation with Linguistic Analysis Technologies
  Judit Langer, Healthcare Consultant at IBM Austria is going to introduce this asset to you and explains how companies can benefit from linguistic analysis technologies based on different use cases. She is going to give exclusive insights on how you can identify possible transformation projects for your industry in the field of natural language processing with the help of the IBM Client Center in Vienna.

When insurance stops being a mandatory requirement – how do insurers stay relevant to their customers? This is the main question this webinar explores. 

Already we are seeing non-traditional players carving out niches in the industry, such as insurtechs, adjacent businesses and digital giants. For insurers to thrive in this “big squeeze,” they need to reframe their roles to generate better business outcomes using customer segmentation and improved risk profiling. More importantly, they need to generate better customer outcomes with more individual tailoring and personalized communications, improved transparency and holistic solutions that actually meet customer needs.

How can insurers do this? The short answer is “by becoming a Cognitive Insurer.” That means shifting from “react and pay” to “predict and prevent.” The foundation for this is data – owned, bought or shared –the smart use of that data and the associated technologies.

The Earth’s population will cross the eight billion mark for the first time in the coming years. Our complex food supply chain—already stressed by climate change and a finite water supply—will only be tested further. To meet the demands of this crowded future, IBM researchers are working to transform the food supply chain as we know it. They are exploring new technologies and devices, scientific breakthroughs, and entirely new ways of thinking about food safety and security. For example, IBM Researchers are helping farmers maximize crop yields and developing ways to curb the epidemic of waste that destroys 45 percent of our food supply. Our scientists are working to create a safety net to catch pathogens and contaminants before they make people sick. And they’re inventing ways to keep plastic out of our landfills and oceans.

In the webinar, you will hear about the 2019 edition of the Next 5 in5 – five predictions made by IBM Research about innovations that will change our lives within the next five years.

In the first webinar “A Journey with John”, we follow an avatar named John & put ourselves in the shoes of a patient who discovers how digital solutions can support an end-to-end health journey from detection to cure & prevention.

In that follow-up webinar, we now focus on the important elements that enable to deliver that journey: technologies, change management and missing components to close existing gaps.

This scenario is supported by architectural diagrams and real-life examples.

Discover through entertaining examples how electronic shelf labels (ESL) can improve customer satisfaction and revenues in the retail industry.

This webinar includes a live demonstration of Bison’s weather infused ESL to drive more impulse purchases of wine and garden supplies.

Bison Schweiz AG is an IBM Business Partner specializing in retail solutions. Their ESL Manager solution makes shelf labels weather-aware, enabling retailers to create dynamic promotions that enrich the in-store experience and help customers choose the right products at the right time.

By 2050 the world's population will be close to 10 billion. Those people must be fed from the same space of arable land we have today, using more sustainable growing methods to meet the climate challenges. This will require smart irrigation and energy management, selective crop protection and soil fertilization methods, higher transparency to verify the use of sustainable practices; all driven by consumer requirements and government regulations. The 5 trillion USD Agriculture industry is in the beginning of an extremely challenging transformation process, primarily driven by digitization.

There is no single company with solutions to all these challenges. IBM will play an essential role in this transformation through the industry's best global hyper local weather data solutions, a new geo-spatial and -temporal analytics engine and our Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture, applying cognitive and machine learning technologies on top of our weather data and analytics services. IBM will be a key enabler of key technologies needed to address several of the key recurring use cases to meet the challenges for the next thirty years in this industry.

It’s been 10 years since the 2008 global financial crisis, and the world’s largest economies are at a tipping point. With global uncertainty threatening economic growth, how can the world’s largest economies stay competitive? In this webinar we discuss the three areas where nations must focus to foster economic vitality.

e-Health is a more than digital transformation, it is a real digital disruption. Due to medical deserts and lack of professionals & specialists, the Healthcare industry had to totally rethink its business model moving from a full “face to face/paper” model to a new way of managing patients by using digital solutions.

The aim of this webinar is to present where digital is now introduced, and what are associated benefits. We also dive into the e-Health evolution from a system of care to a system of prevention.

Following our avatar John, you can put yourselves in the shoes of a patient and discover how digital solutions can support an end-to-end health journey from detection to cure & prevention, including real life examples.

In Africa and parts of Asia, agriculture tech startup Hello Tractor and scientists from IBM Research in Kenya are piloting an advanced agricultural analytics and decision-making tool that cuts across the mechanization ecosystem. Utilizing artificial intelligence, the IBM blockchain and IBM Cloud, farmers on the Hello Tractor platform gain access to timely and relevant information to increase their yields, tractor fleet owners receive insights to save time and earn more, and banks are empowered with information for better underwriting and portfolio management. The idea is to create a digital wallet that enables data to be captured, tracked, and shared instantly across parties involved in the agribusiness value chain including financial institutions to help farmers gain access to credit.

In the webinar, you hear about the innovative partnership from CEO and founder of Hello Tractor, Jehiel Oliver, IBM scientists Solomon Assefa, Juliet Mutahi and Andrew Kinai, who presented the work at TechCrunch Battlefield in Lagos on 11 December 2018.

Newest digital technologies keep changing how people, businesses and governments interact. Companies need to bring together transformational technologies, that can drive optimized outcomes by adapting and learning from user selections and responses.

For some time now, IBM has invested in the development of an asset for the healthcare and life sciences industry based on IBM Watson. International experts in medical linguistic, machine learning and data modelling got together to design a solution, that can summarize medical records of patients on one structured dashboard.  By doing so, physicians can focus more on treatment options by quickly identifying relevant key information.

In this webinar, Judit Langer -Healthcare Consultant at IBM Austria- introduces this asset and explains how companies can benefit from linguistic analysis technologies based on different use cases. She gives exclusive insights on how you can identify possible transformation projects for your industry in the field of natural language processing with the help of the IBM Client Center in Vienna.

Join this webinar and find out why organizations participate in Global C-suite Study interviews, its latest insights and upcoming conversation topics.

Are you interested in the remarkable progress of cognitive computing? Do you want to get a glimpse of what the future may look like? Then, do not miss that webinar.
Cognitive Computing is the new frontier of the information age. Computers have evolved into indispensable tools of our modern societies. They have revolutionized many aspects of our everyday lives.
Cognitive systems mimic the way we humans reason, allowing us to express in unstructured ways, such as speech and vision. They can debate with us, test our ideas against incredible volumes of data. They give us insights that ultimately free us, enabling us to focus on our deepest of human capabilities: intuition and intelligence.
Pharmaceuticals and materials discovery, attacking cancer, understanding complex natural ecosystems, economy and technology: all this is now possible in a small fraction of the previously required time.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies advance, and humans and AI systems increasingly work together, it is essential that we trust these systems and the outputs they generate. IBM is leading the way in developing trusted AI systems for business. Alongside policy considerations and business efforts, our researchers have a central role to play: They are creating AI innovations that address transparency, detect and remove bias - and ensure security and reliability of the systems. In this webinar, you gain more insights into how IBM Research is building trust and transparency in AI.

AI : The end of Code !

We are moving from a programmatic world to a learning world. In this webinar, our subject matter experts explain how this is happening. They introduce IBM’s cognitive landscape covering 6 main domains and explain how, through AI, we are reshaping the customer experience, enhancing the knowledge of workers and building a new era of smart processes.

Have you already heard about the IBM Machine Learning solution on Mainframe? If not, then this webinar is your chance to understand what it is all about. It introduces the key trends in Analytics and Data Management where machine learning represents one of the key elements. It explains Machine Learning concepts, the typical challenges encountered by Data Scientists and how many of those challenges can be addressed using the IBM machine Learning for z/OS. We also highlight the offering capabilities designed to make data scientists’ life easier and take you into relevant Machine Learning use cases on IBM Z.

In this webinar, you will have a quick overview on 2 of many IBM Client Center solutions available: Watson Assistant for Automotive at IBM Client Center Paris, Simulcation at IBM Client Center Zurich.

As one of the most buzz-worthy topics today, there is still a lot of uncertainty and scepticism about what blockchain is and how it will impact our day-to-day lives. This webinar explains that blockchain is far more than just hype, breaking down how it works and how the capabilities of blockchain are disrupting so many industries.

Every second of every day, businesses exchange value with suppliers, partners, customers and others. By value, we mean goods, services, money, data and more. Each exchange of value is a transaction. Successful transactions need to be fast, precise and easily agreed on by all parties participating in the transaction. Blockchain for business provides a way to execute these transactions with trust, integrity and transparency.

Digital transformation is reinventing business practices. In today’s world, technological capabilities are growing exponentially. Companies must be agile and innovative as they integrate those digital technologies into their business strategy. To stay competitive in any market, having a digital transformation strategy is a must.

Digital technologies – including artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) – change the way people, businesses and governments interact. IBM, being one of the world’s leading companies in digital transformation processes, enables companies to leverage unprecedented AI solutions, so that they can keep up with this paradigm shift from customer-centricity towards an everyone-to-everyone (E2E) economy.

In this webinar, Franz Dornig -Manager of IBM Industry Solutions at IBM in Austria- introduces Digital Reinvention from IBM's perspective and how companies can benefit from AI solutions during their transformation process based existing use cases. He gives exclusive insights on how a possible business transformation could look like with the help of the IBM Client Center in Vienna.

In this Webinar, Rob Peeren details why he sees IBM Cloud Private (ICP) as the Next Generation Application Server. By comparing and contrasting ICP with java-based application servers like IBM WebSphere, Rob shows how ICP is similar in approach, but capable of handling the future of application server workloads that customers are expecting to achieve.

In this Webinar, Rob Peeren walks the viewer through a history of IBM's approach to middle-ware, how it has evolved into hybrid-cloud software, and how IBM Cloud Private is positioned to be the hybrid-cloud platform of the future.

The recent global cyber-attacks are a clear reminder of the critical importance to have a proactive integrated plan for “Cyber Resiliency”, which is an enterprise imperative underpinned by an alignment between information security, business continuity and organizational resilience, and networking.

For Cyber Resiliency to work, and to mitigate the costs and impact of data breaches, business continuity, security and networking must work in a partnership. Organizational preparedness across security, systems and network is critical to achieving a plan for incident response, remediation and restoral services.  Integrated Cyber Resiliency capability is the new norm that needs new organizational thinking.

In this webinar, our subject matter experts explain IBM’s approach to IBM Cyber Resiliency Services and highlight how the solution could help your business.

Blockchain is one of the fastest-growing emerging technologies, and has the potential to completely disrupt all industries. Businesses all over the world massively invest in Blockchain and it’s important for them to understand what they can expect.

In this Webinar, you learn why Blockchain is so popular and what challenges it can address.

• We explain why Hyperledger Fabric is the best Blockchain platform for business, with its key concepts of shared ledger, consensus, permissions and smart contracts.
• We outline the business benefits:
  • reduced transaction time
  • cost and risks
  • increased trust
  • enabling new business models
  • We give you useful insights on what is a good (or bad) candidate use-case for Blockchain & on how to start your Blockchain journey.
• We present the top Blockchain use-cases for the industries, with some common patterns of supply chain, traceability, information sharing & visibility, digital identity and smart contracts.
• Finally, we describe how you can benefit from the IBM GISC Nice-Paris.
  • Watch live demonstrations of solution prototypes running in our center.
  • How we can help you accelerate your Blockchain adoption.

Advanced cognitive IoT technologies offer transformative opportunities to reimagine the way organizations learn, decide, and act—improving virtually all aspects of every process. Financing can be a powerful way to acquire, build, and scale advanced IoT solutions. In this session you learn how IBM Global Financing can help companies worldwide fund transformational IoT initiatives through a wide range of flexible financing options that include low rate loans, fair market value leases, customized payment plans, payment deferrals and asset buy-backs. The session is expected to appeal to CFOs, CMOs, LOB leaders and anyone responsible for making or recommending IoT purchase decisions.

In this webinar, you will have a quick overview on 3 of many IBM Client Center solutions available: Cognitive Mirror at IBM Client Center Madrid, IBM Terminuter at IBM Client Center Zurich and Blockchain at IBM Client Center Copenhagen.

Index 2018 – A conference for developers, by developers
It is a first-of-its-kind conference an one of the most important developer initiatives in 2018. Index is a “giant meet-up” — created for developers by developers — to build their skills.
Developers congregating to share code, insights and skills. It is code-forward and brand agnostic and has speakers from partners and competitors.

• Index gives useable code as the takeaway from most how-to sessions
• Index contains curated content by panels of IBM and non-IBM experts
• Index is the critical open developer community

Cognitive Discovery gives pioneering engineers, inventors and scientists an expert assistant for research and development. It can unearth trends and patterns in diverse sets of structured and unstructured data and match them to specific Key Performance Indicators, in order to accelerate the creation of new knowledge and discovery.

IBM® Watson® Content Hub is a cloud-based content management system that powers digital experiences. It allows you to create content-enabled applications, such as mobile applications or modern single-page web applications. An intuitive authoring user interface lets marketers work with their content easily. Content includes structured information as well as rich media like images or videos. It can also include the definition of web pages along with the hierarchy of the entire web site. IBM Watson Content Hub provides powerful features like automatic tagging of information by Watson AI services. A powerful workflow guides the users through the process of publishing the resulting content across all delivery channels. Our zero-configuration, embedded CDN distributes the results across the world to achieve high performance and global scale. Last but not least, rich APIs let developers build versatile content-driven applications which take advantage of modern microservices architectures.

Every year, we all spend a lot of our precious time on a tedious but necessary task: writing meeting minutes. TERMINUTER has been developed in order to address this issue. Watch this webinar in order to find out more about this game-changing solution and how it can help take your company into the cognitive era.

The fourth industrial revolution is driven by data and its ability to deliver new levels of efficiency and effectiveness in manufacturing and industrial products. IBM Watson IoT for Manufacturing is articulated around three value drivers: Availability (Improve asset and production performance with historical and IoT data ), Efficiency (Increase process efficiency while delivering better quality and yield) and Cost (Deliver higher resource efficiency while reducing cost).
In this webinar the speaker introduces the underlying solutions with real-life examples based on industry challenges:

• in a situation of synchronous manufacturing, a severe quality problem is detected. How to react fast with automatic problem detection, findings on the cause of the problem, recommendations for problem resolution, recommendations on whether or not I should replan my production?
• I am a plant manager in charge of to final assembly sites. How an assistant can help me prevent a major disruption due to a combination of unrelated not so important events?

Join this webinar to get an inspiration on how to leverage the unique power of cognitive IoT technology also for your organization and learn what all is happening in the IBM Watson IoT Center (US) in Munich, Germany, the first IBM's global headquarters outside of the US, opened in February 2017. You are going to learn about the concept of "cognitive collaboratories (US)" that are located in the IoT Center, which bring companies such as Avnet, BMW, or BNP Paribas together with IBM experts to explore use of IoT to drive business and industry transformation. You are going to hear stories of start-ups as well as established companies and learn how they started their own IoT journey with the IBM IoT Center in Munich. You are also going to explore the IBM Industry Lab and see real examples how IoT and cognitive computing transform industries such as manufacturing, automotive, or government services.

The recent global cyber-attacks are a clear reminder of the critical importance to have a proactive integrated plan for “Cyber Resiliency”, which is an enterprise imperative underpinned by an alignment between information security, business continuity and organizational resilience, and networking. For Cyber Resiliency to work, and to mitigate the costs and impact of data breaches, business continuity, security and networking must work in a partnership. Organizational preparedness across security, systems and network is critical to achieving a plan for incident response, remediation and restoral services. Integrated Cyber Resiliency capability is the new norm that needs new organizational thinking. During this webinar we introduce you to the IBM Cyber Resiliency Life Cycle Program.

A brief introduction to quantum computing and its applications.