We’ve all had the experience: Every so often, you meet someone whose passion shines through in everything he says and does — which reignites your commitment to your own direction and goals. Anyone who’s met Ahsan Rehman will know what I mean. As you’ll see in the course of our conversation, his energy is profound and infectious, growing from a commitment to IBM, its opportunities, its vision, and its culture of respect and inclusion.
Read MoreEvery spring, IBM hosts our enormous Think Conference with days of lightning sessions, labs, workshops, presentations, and predictions from some of the smartest people in the world. Every year I come away amazed by what our customers are conceiving and achieving and by the role that we at IBM are able to play.
Watch my latest keynote from IBM Think 2019: Modernizing Your Data Estates for an AI and Multicloud World, where I talk about the path to data estate modernization, with David Bernert, VP Enterprise Architecture, Boeing.
A few months ago, I was talking with the CTO of a major bank about machine learning. At one point he shook his head ruefully and said, “Dinesh, it only took me 3 weeks to develop a model. It’s been 11 months, and we still haven’t deployed it.”
Read MoreDb2 for z/OS is one the most business-critical products in the IBM portfolio and remains core to many transaction processing, advanced analytics, and machine learning initiatives.
Looking back…
Read MoreIn a previous blog I talked about the value of machine learning and how it could help organizations by making smarter predictions by continually learning and adapting models as it consumed new interactions, transaction and data. I compared that to how my son embraced learning about the world around him to become gradually smarter, more knowledgeable. But that doesn’t always mean he is going to make the best decision because he may not have all the information or foresee or correlate past events.
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