SRIRAM RAGHAVAN
Vice President, IBM Research – India & Singapore, CTO IBM India
IBM Research
Transforming Industries and Professions through AI, IoT and Blockchain
The emergence of a triumvirate of disruptive technologies – AI, IoT, and Blockchain – is poised to transform every industry and profession. As the fundamental innovations underpinning these technologies progress at a rapid pace and we see early exemplars of their use, it is clear that we are headed to a world of deeper insights, re-imagined engagement, extreme personalization, and new cross-industry business ecosystems. Blockchain applied to supply chain networks redefines engagement between business partners enabling a more transparent and open business environment with reduced friction, reduced fraud, and entirely new business models. AI applied to a combination of terabytes of remote sensed data coupled with intelligent smart on-field IoT sensors is transforming the world of of agribusiness, enabling very fine grained crop monitoring, targeted intervention, reduced farming costs, and highly actionable insights at a resolution and cost point that was unimaginable less than a decade ago. Using these and numerous real examples drawn from IBM’s work with clients in financial services, healthcare, logistics, and retail, this talk will illustrate the transformative power of these three technologies and showcase how this is driving new business models and disrupting entire cross-industry value chains.
The emergence of a triumvirate of disruptive technologies – AI, IoT, and Blockchain – is poised to transform every industry and profession. As the fundamental innovations underpinning these technologies progress at a rapid pace and we see early exemplars of their use, it is clear that we are headed to a world of deeper insights, re-imagined engagement, extreme personalization, and new cross-industry business ecosystems. Blockchain applied to supply chain networks redefines engagement between business partners enabling a more transparent and open business environment with reduced friction, reduced fraud, and entirely new business models. AI applied to a combination of terabytes of remote sensed data coupled with intelligent smart on-field IoT sensors is transforming the world of of agribusiness, enabling very fine grained crop monitoring, targeted intervention, reduced farming costs, and highly actionable insights at a resolution and cost point that was unimaginable less than a decade ago. Using these and numerous real examples drawn from IBM’s work with clients in financial services, healthcare, logistics, and retail, this talk will illustrate the transformative power of these three technologies and showcase how this is driving new business models and disrupting entire cross-industry value chains.