IBM CREATE (Creating Replicable and Ethical AI TogEther)
Generative AI provides an opportunity for public organizations to rethink how they serve Swedish citizens. IBM believes in the collaborative, ethical and replicable use of generative AI, and looks forward to seizing this opportunity with organizations that share the same beliefs.
Last year, IBM proudly invited public organizations to participate in a 10-week initiative. The program included developing a pilot on watsonx, planning to take the pilot to an initial release, and networking with a select group of industry peers.
Missed the project outcome presentations? Register below to see the recordings from Demo Day on 27 November 2024.
Thanks to the following organizations for your participation in Demo Day:
Lidingö Stad, Accessibility & Digital Public Service
Försäkringskassan, HR support in the recruitment process
Region Blekinge, User support for IT services
B3, Anomaly detection in primary care
Swedac, Case support for case manager
Leverage deep technical expertise and work together to develop a generative AI pilot, with measurable business outcomes, to your most pressing pain points.
Develop an implementation plan, get support in articulating business benefits and learn about organizational change management for adopting AI.
Be part of a peer network with the ambition to use generative AI. Share project outcomes, get feedback from industry experts, and learn about the latest use of AI.
Teams from Swedish public organizations (agencies, regions, or municipalities) with:
IBM CREATE is an initiative without any commercial commitments; participating teams contribute with time and resources.
We believe that open, trustworthy and replicable use of generative AI, through proven innovation methods, can contribute in a meaningful way to some of the current societal challenges we face.
Swedish public agencies, regions and municipalities.
Privately owned for-profit entities and non-Swedish public organizations are not eligible for this initiative.
If you are ineligible and still interested, please email us at InnovationStudioStockholm@ibm.com (subject IBM CREATE). New initiatives are in consideration for 2025.
No. There is no fee and there are no commercial obligations for participants. Participating teams contribute with time and resources only.
Co-creation (4 weeks):
Transition (4 weeks): A few hours per week are required for business leaders, developers/architects and possibly project sponsors.
Curiosity and ambition to explore are more important than technical skills.
The initiative is mainly virtual but includes two in-person gatherings mandatory for teams held at IBM Innovation Studio in Stockholm:
Exceptions will be considered, but the in-person gatherings are carefully designed to ensure project quality, maximize learning and enable peer exchange.
watsonx, IBM’s platform for generative AI, managing governance and developing assistants and agents will be used. The platform will also be made available to teams during the initiative by a Swedish data center managed by Arrow ECS Sverige (see details of Arrow AI lab below).
No prior experience is needed. Introductions are included as preparation for the development sprint work. Experience in machine learning or data pipelines is beneficial, but not required.
The AI Lab infrastructure is based on both x86 and IBM Power servers running Red Hat Open Shift with support for both K8s Pods and virtual machines.
Multiple clusters are available with and without GPUs. We have different sizes of GPUs that are available through Nvidia’s DGX with 8 x A100 80GB GPUs, as well as L4 and A40 cards.
Because we offer different sizes, we can support working/testing to determine the right choice of card for the right kind of LLM. The Labs’ storage needs are made up of both internal and external systems that support most protocols needed like; S3, native IBM Scale, NFS and block. We can offer secure storage for a project by encryption where the partner/customer owns the key, so at the end of the project, the data is secure.
The Lab is accessed in the most secure way necessary for the partner.
Options for environment access are through a web portal, SSH or VPN.
Technical artifacts including source code created during the initiative are the property of IBM.
Only public or synthesized data will be used unless otherwise agreed upon by participating teams.
We will assign you an agile squad best suited to your use case and organization, with skills in business technology leadership, technology engineering, solution architecture, value orchestration and data science.
We expect you to be able to have enough understanding and confidence in AI to acquire technology and professional services to develop an initial release of the pilot.
Please email us at InnovationStudioStockholm@ibm.com, and include IBM CREATE in the subject.