Today’s competitive environment is one of constant digital reinvention, characterized by new client experiences, and entirely new digital business models. In fact, 68% of executives in the 2018 IBM C-suite study expect to focus on customer experiences as a top priority. To transform their unique enterprise requires an understanding of the latest technologies, from AI and Machine learning, to IoT and blockchain. This session will unpack the latest disruptive technologies innovations on cloud, showcasing real enterprise transformations stories across industries.

Mikael Haglund
CTO
IBM

Mikael Haglund has worked with different aspects of IT solutions and innovation for more than 30 years. As technical spokesperson for IBM in Sweden he is spotting and evangelizing about coming trends. He has experiences from chasing nano seconds in system designs, to business model discussions in business platforms, and works to accelerate and drive innovation and transformation for clients in Sweden. In his spare time he makes music in the synth duo Thinkingmachine.

Smarter businesses apply AI to learn and continuously evolve the way they work. To extract full value from AI, companies need a data strategy that gives them access to all their data—no matter where it lives— in a trusted environment to produce insights that easily scale across their organizations. Learn how IBM provides the tools you need to accelerate your journey with an end-to-end AI development life-cycle, while enabling professionals to gain the most from their data using the entire spectrum of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. .

Lisa Neddam
Watson Data & AI Leader, Europe
IBM

Lisa has been with IBM for 11 years. She started her career in Human Resources. After moving into Sales in 2010, she held several positions in Infrastructure, Cloud and Data Management, before taking on her current role as Watson Data & AI Sales Leader for Europe.
Lisa holds a Master's in Business Administration from Warwick Business School. When she is not working for IBM, she likes to travel, paint, cook, and get involved in creativity & innovation projects.

Patrick Couch
Business Developer, AI & Cognitive Technologies
IBM

Patrick Couch works as a business developer at IBM focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Technologies and IBM Watson. Patrick wrote his master thesis on human/machine boundary blurring and pursued a PhD until the went on a sabbatical in the late 90s which landed him in the hey day of the internet start-up scene in Stockholm when the economy was new and .com was booming. He's been with IBM since 2010 and is still on his sabbatical...

Meeting the changing needs of your business with a cloud that adapts to your unique needs.

Johan Westman
Lead Architect, IBM Cloud
IBM

Johan Westman has worked in IT for over 25years, working with a wide range of industries and technologies in strategic, leading and advisory roles. Johan spent 14years at IBM before joining a global med-tech company in 2008 where he was CTO and head of Global IT Operations for six years, driving restructuring and modernization of IT within the constraints of FDA regulatory requirements.
Johan re-joined IBM in 2016 after two years at Oracle where he was lead for the Nordic Enterprise Architects. Recruited back toIBM again Johan joined the global Cloud Advisory team and in 2017 moved on tothe new Cloud & Cognitive team, focused on driving change with IBM clients, leveraging IBMs capabilities as a cognitive and cloud platform company.

Join us in this session to get insight into how to speed app development and modernization in your multi-cloud journey.

Three key take aways from the session:

• The power of IBM’s integrated architecture for multi-cloud
• Entry points for Cloud Native to the Enterprise
• Recognize use cases for Cloud Private


Johan Rodin

Technical Sales, IBM Cloud
IBM

Johan Rodin is Technical Sales specialist within IBM Cloud in Sweden and the Nordics. With more than twenty years of experience in the software industry, Johan is combining his deep knowledge in computer system architectures with an understanding of the challenges today's businesses face going into the cloud era. Currently, Johan is focusing on IBM Cloud Private, a modern kubernetes based platform from IBM for running cloud workloads in your data center.

Examples on how Watson has been used in Sweden; from start-ups to larger organisations.

Oskar Malmström

Cognitive Solution Specialist
IBM

In June, German astronaut Alexander Gerst will embark on his second six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), serving as station commander in the second half of his stay. On this mission, Gerst and his team will receive some unusual support: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) will be on board – a medicine ball-sized device, weighing about 11-pounds. CIMON’s digital face, voice and use of artificial intelligence make it a “colleague” to the crew members. Using IBM’s Watson technology, CIMON, will help astronaut Gerst to perform three tasks: Together they will experiment with crystals, solve the Rubik magic cube based on videos and conduct a complex medical experiment using CIMON as an ‘intelligent’ flying camera.

Sophie Richter-Mendau
Technical Sales Specialist for Analytics and AI Solutions
IBM

Sophie Richter-Mendau joined IBM in 2013 when she did her Bachelor of Arts in International Business Administration. Today, she consults companies as a Technical Sales Specialist for Analytics and AI Solutions at IBM and had the possibility to work on several customer projects, where she just recently designed the personality and voice interaction system of the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion (CIMON) to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Besides, Sophie is just about to finish her Master of Science in Business Psychology at the Nordakademie Graduate School in Hamburg, researching on future trends of human-machine-interaction and the benefits of using psychometrical tests in business applications.

Christer Fuglesang
Professor KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Space advisor at Saab, retired ESA Astronaut

Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. He was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the European Astronaut Corps in 1992. He has participated in two Space Shuttle missions and five spacewalks, and is the first person outside of the United States or Russian space programs to participate in more than three spacewalks.

Petra Goude
Vice President IBM Cloud Nordic
IBM