Welcome to IBM100 United Kingdom & Ireland

IBM is always trying to ensure a sustainable future, and IBM’s UK University Relations Programme aims to do exactly that, by ensuring we have the right skills for sustainable growth. Skills are vital for the UK economy if it is to retain its competiveness and make progress in the future, which is why IBM is partnering with a number of universities across the country. The aim is to expand the resources and experiences offered to students, better preparing them for the careers of tomorrow with skills that will stimulate growth and drive innovation.

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For the past decade we are constantly told to stop. Stop consuming so much fuel, stop using so much electricity, stop eating non-sustainable produce and stop creating so much rubbish. There is so much confusion about what we can and can’t do, people don’t know how they can help and so they stop, and so nothing changes. To overcome these issues we need to think about things differently, which is why The Prince's Charities Foundation has set up a national initiative called Start. Rather than telling people to stop, Start is a new initiative which aims to help people across the UK Start being more sustainable in everyday life, encouraging them to promote and celebrate sustainable living.

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Red Funnel has been operating passenger and vehicle ferry services between Southampton, on the UK mainland, and Cowes on the Isle of Wight (IOW), for nearly 150 years. The ferries provide a vital link with the mainland for IOW residents and businesses. Any delay or cancellation can have significant impact, so Red Funnel is always looking for ways to make its passengers’ journeys more efficient. As luck may have it, one IOW resident who regularly used the Red Funnel ferries to commute to work on the mainland was IBM Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer, Andy Stanford-Clark.

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Since 100BC, the site of IBM’s Hursley development lab has been variously an Iron Age hill fort, a castle, a hunting lodge, a hospital, aircraft workshops and is now the largest software development laboratory in Europe. Today, IBM Hursley has over 2,000 employees on site, including over 1,400 software developers and 29 Master Inventors. This team has applied for over 1,210 patents since the millennium, and the labs have consistently played a vital role in IBM’s worldwide R&D organisation.
Hursley has been responsible for several of the key products in the history of computing, including bringing speech and colour to computers for the very first time.

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For two weeks every year, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), a small private members’ club, scales up its infrastructure to stage the Grand Slam Wimbledon Tennis Championships. During Wimbledon the Club accommodates around ½ million spectators and the world’s sporting media on site, and over ¾ billion television viewers on 129 TV channels in 173 countries. In 2011 over 15.6 million unique users visited the official Wimbledon website, 451 million page views were served and 881 thousand people downloaded the IBM Wimbledon iPhone app.

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In 1900, only 13 percent of the world's population lived in cities. By 2050, that number will have risen to 70 percent. We are adding the equivalent of seven New Yorks to the planet every year. If there was ever a time to focus on the smart growth of our urban areas, that time is now.

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Ryanair, one of Europe’s first low fares airlines, is familiar with blazing a trail. Its strategy of low basic ticket prices with an increasing selection of optional extras has proved extremely successful and is already transforming how other airlines operate around the world. With plans for continued double digit growth each year for the next three to four years, the company saw kiosks as the way forward and chose IBM as partner in this project.

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