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As healthcare systems around the world consider how to sustain access, quality and efficiency in the face of relentlessly increasing demand, there is intense interest in understanding where value is delivered. Value measurement must be centered on patients, both groups and individuals. To enable this to happen the system requires capture and aggregation of local and global data, and analysis of this data to uncover value, including the use of predictive analytic models to help clinicians and care managers anticipate problems before they develop, and mitigate health issues before they worsen. Our study sets out why healthcare systems need to move quickly to measure and reward outcomes and value; provides a roadmap for clients which will deliver faster results, including automation tools and uncovers who is most ready to collaborate in this journey.

This webinar is an opportunity to hear from IBM Research what it takes to develop AI-powered prediction technologies for enterprise applications. With AI on the rise, faster and better prediction tools will soon change entire industries. They will create new opportunities but also bring new challenges. The quality, impact and acceptance of prediction technologies don’t only depend on the availability of “good and fair” input data but also on responsible design and their ability to explain themselves. IBM researchers Abdel Labbi, Anika Schumann and Dorothea Wiesmann provide insights into the state-of-the-art in AI technologies, prospects and boundaries. You will also learn about current research efforts aimed at creating AI systems, which are explainable, fair, secure, robust and scalable. The talks were recorded at the "Power of Predictions" Conference (https://www.gdi.ch/en/events/power-predictions), jointly organized by GDI, Swiss Re and IBM Research.

Hear the panel of clinical AI leads and practicing oncologists from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation trust and IBM Watson Health discuss how to tackle the challenge of unwarranted variation in cancer care, the role that advanced technologies such as AI have to play, and the benefits to patients, healthcare systems and governments across Europe.

Digital is reinventing new structures, new types of customer relationships and new ways of building financial institutions, all of which are impacting the ability of financial services organisations to perform effectively. Traditional banking services have become increasingly commoditized as a result. In response, banks are componentising their business and functional activities to seek out greater value. A platform economy is emerging, to enable much closer collaboration, radically lower costs, and a highly energetic focus on the customer, at scale, for banks and multiple industries alike.

To understand where the banking industry is heading, and how it can thrive in the new environment of converged industries and competition, we surveyed 850 banking and financial markets executives across all major geographies and a variety of C-suite roles. In this webinar we share insights from our research findings and share three key recommendations to guide executives in reorganizing the way they do business to compete successfully in an age of cross-industry platform business models.

The international economic landscape is being fundamentally altered by the twin impacts of changing trade regimes and digital disruption. This session covers the major findings from IBM's 2019 Global Location report which highlights historical trends and shifts in foreign investment which are directly impacting the global economy.

Digital technologies and consumer expectations are having a profound impact on the automotive industry. Digital experiences of the past will not suffice for the future. In order to succeed or even survive, 50% of automotive executives say their organizations need to digitally reinvent themselves. Even the brand which was once sacred, is now in question.

More than twenty years after deregulation, and despite impressive growth, the Indian insurance industry is still at less than 4% insurance penetration and a density of USD 60 per capita – much lower than for example China. Where are the road blocks to more success, and what can India’s insurance industry do about it? Join us in this webinar, as the authors discuss how customer centricity, the paradigm that is driving much of the insurance industry elsewhere in the world, can help India’s insurance sector tap its full potential. It will need to unlock the huge groups of unserved and underserved customer bases. As relative late comers to the game, Indian insurers have the chance to leapfrog many of the issues their Western counterparts have been facing, moving directly to Digital Reinvention, and learning from global best-in-class examples.

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.

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