Expert Briefings: Industry Leader Perspectives on Navigating and Strengthening Your IT Strategy during Crisis
A Roadmap for Recovery: What's Next for Your Digital Transformation?
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | 12:00 PM ET / 9:00am PT
IT teams are helping shepherd their organizations through the COVID-19 crisis. Decisions today will impact the security, speed and adaptability their organizations have in the future. Industry leaders in this sessions share how decisions made during the crisis is providing a hybrid cloud platform to optimize costs and emerge stronger.
Speakers
Emi OlssonVP & IBM Fellow CTO, GTS NA Financial Markets
Emi joined the very selective class of IBM Fellows this year. In her 23 years with IBM, Emi Olsson has reinvented herself numerous times—working as a system administrator, as a software coder, with research, as a consultant and as an IT architect. In her current role with Global Technology Services, she serves as the chief technology officer overseeing IBM’s work with financial services clients in North America.
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From "Survive" to "Thrive": Navigating IT Strategy through the Next Phase of COVID-19
Available On Demand
The COVID-19 crisis has required organizations to face new IT challenges with unprecedented speed and urgency. Some organizations have been able to adapt, while others struggle. What lessons can organizations use to navigate today's security, cost, and continuity challenges while increasing flexibility for the future? In these briefings, you'll hear from change makers and IT leaders about emerging best practices and real examples that can keep you moving towards smart digital transformation.
Speaker:
Sergio Borger
Business modeling & Architecture - IBM - Business Innovation Officer
borger@ibm.com
Sergio is a recognized Thought Leader with experience in Business modeling and enterprise architecture. Over the past decade, he led exponential initiatives in the areas of Smart and Sentient Cities, Systems of Engagement and Insight, and Social-Inclusion and Accessibility. He led several complex innovation projects with generation of intellectual propriety and societal impact. He led business modeling BlueHacks worldwide and enabled an ecosystem of more than 20K developers and entrepreneurs in IBM Cloud Emerging Technologies. His work on Cognitive Smart Cities and Crowdsourcing featured in IBM’s 5-in-5, he has 18 patents filed, 35 published articles with hundreds of citations. He is an Engineer (Eng) with Master degrees in Computer Science (MSc) and Business Administration (MBA). He is a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology.
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Expert Discussion: Keeping Mission-Critical Systems Resilient and Flexible
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made business continuity a boardroom concern. It has exposed gaps in continuity plans, forcing organizations to find creative ways to manage IT, provide access to applications and data, and ensure availability. These challenges present an opportunity to reimagine how to organizations maintain secure access to mission critical systems while enabling flexibility. In this lively and insightful discussion, you'll hear the latest observations from experts on what companies are doing to sustain and strengthen the resilience of their organizations.
Speakers:
Sergio Borger
Business modeling & Architecture - IBM - Business Innovation Officer
borger@ibm.com
Sergio is a recognized Thought Leader with experience in Business modeling and enterprise architecture. Over the past decade, he led exponential initiatives in the areas of Smart and Sentient Cities, Systems of Engagement and Insight, and Social-Inclusion and Accessibility. He led several complex innovation projects with generation of intellectual propriety and societal impact. He led business modeling BlueHacks worldwide and enabled an ecosystem of more than 20K developers and entrepreneurs in IBM Cloud Emerging Technologies. His work on Cognitive Smart Cities and Crowdsourcing featured in IBM’s 5-in-5, he has 18 patents filed, 35 published articles with hundreds of citations. He is an Engineer (Eng) with Master degrees in Computer Science (MSc) and Business Administration (MBA). He is a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology.
Patrick Corcoran
Global Strategy Executive, IBM Business Resiliency Services
IBM Corporation
Pat Corcoran leads the global strategy and direction for IBM Business Resiliency Services. He developed the original practice and has 42 years of professional IT, services and management experience in diverse technology projects and international market segments, working with a variety of organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to startup companies.
Pat is also a member of IBM’s crisis response efforts for numerous regional crisis events, including the aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, Haiti Earthquake, March 11, 2011 Japan Earthquake/Tsunami, Hurricane Sandy, and COVID-19.
A regular conference speaker on the topics of risk, crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery, Pat is a Special Advisor to the Disaster Recovery Journal Editorial Advisory Board and past member on the Advisory Board of Continuity Insights.
Kevin Wahlmeier
Emerging Technologies and Innovation Leader, IBM Technology Support Services
Since joining IBM, Kevin has held various global operational, financial, consulting, support and management positions, including spending two years on an international assignment in Dublin Ireland establishing and managing a European and US Technical Support Center. Kevin created and currently leads the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Strategy globally for TSS focused on big data, automation, analytics and cognitive capabilities. He also collaborates with the IBM Research organization to drive design, develop and implement key initiatives to assist the organization with delivering world class technical support to our Clients. Kevin's extensive background in Support, experience and knowledge of IBM's global service delivery process has led to many operational efficiency enhancements included Watson for Support and Augmented Reality.
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The Rise of the Cyber Criminal: The Threat That Feasts on Our New Ways of Working
Available On Demand
Enabling employees for remote work has created vulnerabilities that cyber criminals are eager to exploit. Organizations need to be aware of and prepared to protect, defend, and respond to these new cybersecurity risks. Learn how IBM has helped clients address these concerns and discover actions you can take to protect your critical systems and data.
Speaker:
Rhonda Childress
IBM Fellow Vice President - GTS Data Security and Privacy Officer
childres@us.ibm.com
Rhonda Childress is an IBM Fellow Vice President - GTS Data Security and Privacy Officer. As one of only 35 female IBM Fellows in IBM's history, Ms. Childress has created many firsts in her 28-year IBM Career, including: first IBM Service’s female Master Inventor, first IBM Security Fellow, and first IBM Fellow from a Historically Black College or University. As an IBM Master Inventor, Ms. Childress has over 190 US issued patents. Her patent ideas range from security, system management, IoT, mobile, aircraft, and various other topics. In 2014, she was honored by the State Bar of Texas IP Law as Co-Inventor of the Year.
Ms. Childress is a dedicated global champion for the advancement of women and other underrepresented minorities across the industry; coaching and mentoring many at multiple stages in their careers from children at school, to adults joining the workforce, to those pushing their careers to heights not thought possible previously. As a STEM (STEAM) advocate, Ms. Childress is passionate about engaging young women in this movement by demonstrating through technology outcomes. The annual IBM Academy of Technology STEM program is but one outreach program Ms. Childress spearheads. She was recognized by The Society of Women Engineers in 2016 with the Spark Award which honors an individual who has contributed to the advancement of women by mentoring those around them. In 2018, Ms. Childress was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame which recognizes, the work of women and their contributions to science and technology and the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) – Women of Influence – Corporate Practitioner.
Ms. Childress graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kentucky State University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. When not tinkering with electrical components, doing home improvement, designing and sewing quilts to be auctioned for charities, she can be found trying to perfect her competition chili recipe. During this quarantine time, Ms. Childress has been experimenting growing fruits and vegetable hydroponically and tending to her outdoor garden planning to can the bounty from both forms of gardening.
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