Attending Think 2024 this week?
We compiled a list below of 10 can't-miss sessions featuring speakers from the financial services industry including:
BNP Paribas, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of New York Melon, Citi, Bank of Montreal, Tyfone, Crushbank, and of course, IBM.
Capacity Notice: Addition of a session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
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Generative AI is the fastest growing technology adoption in the past 30 years, and financial institutions around the world are embracing this technology to remain competitive and innovate for the future. In this session, learn how Fiserv is using watsonx to help power the Fiserv Small Business Index, a high-quality and balanced measurement of how small businesses are performing in the U.S. at a national, state and industry level.
Session Topic: Scale AI across business domains
Tuesday, May 212:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
Tech Byte Stage 2, Think Forum Hall B, Lvl 0, BCEC
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FinOps has been widely adopted as the operating model for cloud. This quickly evolving discipline unifies engineering, finance, and business teams to manage cloud costs, optimize across the cloud ecosystem, and measure the value driven by cloud investments. Join this session to learn about the new and most comprehensive FinOps solution designed to meet practitioners along their journey and advance their practice with leading-edge capabilities.
Session Topic: Scale AI across business domains
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Tuesday, May 211:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
Tech Byte Stage 3, Think Forum Hall B, Lvl 0, BCEC
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The digital transformation journey requires a hybrid-by-design strategy to achieve accelerated value. IBM's innovative, secure, open hybrid approach, combined with the right architectural designs, generative AI capabilities and asset-driven automation tools, is helping organizations unlock the value of their data, scale resilience and performance and make better-informed decisions. In this session, learn how the application of intentional architecture decisions based on the needs of the business is the key ingredient that amplifies the value of hybrid cloud and AI to drive business outcomes. Don't leave such critical choices to chance; shape your solution by design.
Session Type: Solution Spotlight
Session Topic: Accelerate AI with hybrid cloud infrastructure
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Tuesday, May 212:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Theater 2, Think Forum Hall B, Level 0, BCEC
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Generative AI assistants promise to make code development 50%+ faster, and app and mainframe management easier, creating an opportunity to accelerate application modernization projects, which have historically been considered too costly relative to the anticipated benefits. IBM watsonx Assistants help businesses modernize their applications, reduce their technical debt, and support applications while keeping costs low. Deep dive into how watsonx Assistants increase developer productivity by automating application runtime analysis and providing AI-generated code transformation, explanation and test generation that makes it easy to re-platform applications and maximize the return on investment.
Session Type: Solution Spotlight
Session Topic: Scale AI across business domains
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Wednesday, May 2210:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Theater 2, Think Forum Hall B, Level 0, BCEC
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In the dynamic world where technology spans the hybrid cloud, work is distributed to teams around the globe, and emergent technology like AI is rapidly evolving, decisions can't be made in a vacuum. Learn how bringing together performance management insights and disciplines like FinOps and TBM gives technology leaders the best ability to make data-driven decisions that improve cost efficiencies and deliver better business outcomes.
Session Type: Solution Spotlight
Session Topic: Scale AI across business domains
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Tuesday, May 2110:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
Theater 2, Think Forum Hall B, Level 0, BCEC
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The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) partnered with IBM to launch a completely digitized new experience for large corporate clients using AI and automation, while collaborating with ecosystem parnters Microsoft Azure and Salesfore, to bring the solution to life in less than 12 months. This includes re-imagined business workflows, cloud-native development of a new digital channel, core banking platform, payments engine and a real-time data streaming / microservices integration architecture. In this tech byte, learn how RBC worked with IBM using watsonx, hybrid cloud and tapped our ecosystem partnerships to re-imagine its banking workflows and launch new offerings.
Session Topic: Scale AI across business domains
Wednesday, May 222:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
Tech Byte Stage 2, Think Forum Hall B, Lvl 0, BCEC
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Generative AI is moving from experimentation to production. In this session, learn how to create business value with responsible AI - using watsonx, an AI and data platform for generative AI and machine learning. With watsonx, you can train foundation models with your own trusted data and apply governance and guardrails-empowering you to use AI responsibly across business processes, streamlining key workflows and managing compliance with a multitude of emerging AI regulations. Learn from examples of how IBM enables a variety of businesses to multiply the impact of responsible AI and seize new opportunities for growth.
Session Topic: Fortify trust in AI with data and governance
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Wednesday, May 228:30 AM - 9:00 AM EDT
Grand Ballroom, Level 3, BCEC
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Ethical and trustworthy AI requires more than technology. It needs a holistic governance approach that aligns AI to your strategy and values. Join this roundtable to discuss how organizations are approaching AI governance.
Session Topic: Fortify trust in AI with data and governance
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Tuesday, May 212:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
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By adopting AI that's fine-tuned to your organization's specific needs, you can achieve productivity gains, enhance outcomes and fast-track innovation at scale. But it's only possible if the models are trained in your industry, your organization and its specific use cases. Through new IBM Research initiatives, open source collaboration, and third-party partnerships, IBM is expanding its multi-modal, multi-media, and multi-lingual model capabilities on watsonx.ai to serve multiple use cases and domains – such as finance. Learn how you can select the right model for the right use case in watsonx.ai to accelerate your generative AI projects.
Session Type: Solution Spotlight
Session Topic: Fortify trust in AI with data and governance
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Wednesday, May 229:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
Theater 1, Think Forum Hall B, Level 0, BCEC
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We're at an inflection point in how best to leverage Generative AI, responsibly and with trust. At the same time, enterprises are under increasing pressure to redesign their IT estates – to lower costs, lower risk, reduce complexity and accelerate deployment. To drive fast paced innovation, clients are demanding business models that focus on outcomes versus having to tackle costly, complex and time-consuming challenges, particularly when it comes to complex architectures. In this session, learn how we're helping enterprises confidently manage their workloads in the cloud, on-prem and at the edge through new consumption models –ultimately allowing them to expedite productivity and business outcomes.
Session Type: Solution Spotlight
Session Topic: Accelerate AI with hybrid cloud infrastructure
Capacity Notice: Addition of this session on your agenda is not a guaranteed admission. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served.
Thursday, May 239:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT
Theater 1, Think Forum Hall B, Level 0, BCEC
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Krista Summitt
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