Breakout session 4
13.30 - 14.00
TOPIC
NAME AND COMPANY
ROOM
FOCUS AREAS
(Re)Thinking the Future
Victoria Bunyard Ford,
IBM
A1

(Re)Thinking the Future
5 years out and we are all working everyday with our AI Buddy, who helps us find the information that we need, automates anything that does not require real thought, frees us up to do the high value activity, and brings us the insight and decision support that allows us all to work smarter not harder!

But how do we get from here to there? The promise of AI, and more recently Generative AI, has us all excited, but we seem to struggle to get to Enterprise grade AI implementations. Our experiments and MVPs show huge promise, but how do we harden those into high-value production systems?

Join me to hear some of the secrets that can help us all get smarter with AI

Victoria Bunyard Ford
Technical Director and Thought Leader, IBM 
A versatile and accomplished technical leader, passionate about developing strategies, transformation initiatives, and innovative solutions that create efficiencies, enable growth, and drive operational excellence. It is not about how great tech is, but about how great we can be when we are backed by great tech, and technology can be the answer, but only if we truly understand the question

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