Venue
Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA

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Event Date Mon Mar 19 EDT - Thu Mar 22 EDT (over 6 years ago)
Location Mandalay Bay
3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA
Region Americas
Details

Think about it: AI, Cloud, Data, IoT and Security. They've merged in your world, and they have in ours too.

That’s why we’re excited to announce a first-ever conference that reflects the way you do business: Think 2018—bringing together World of Watson and InterConnect to form the technology industry’s most important event

Learn about the latest advances in technology, hear keynotes previewing the newest solutions, and network with industry leaders and peers.

Speakers

Ginni Rometty
Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM

Maya Leibman
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, American Airlines

Dr. Michio Kaku
Renowned Physicist, Futurist, and Popularizer of Science

Jensen Huang
Founder, President and CEO, NVIDIA

Aaron Levie
Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder & Chairman, Box

Dr. John E. Kelly III
Senior Vice President, Cognitive Solutions and IBM Research

Dr. Mae Jemison
Astronaut, Engineer, Physician, Lead, 100 Year Starship, Founder and President, The Jemison Group

Gary Reedy
Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society, Inc.

Arvind Krishna
Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud, and Director of IBM Research

David Kenny
Senior Vice President, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform

Dave McKay
President & Chief Executive Officer, RBC

Michael White
CEO-designate, IBM-Maersk Joint Venture

Barbry McGann
Senior Vice President, Product Management, Workday

Walkiria Schirrmeister Marchetti
CIO, Bradesco

André Coisne
Chief Executive Officer, Orange Bank

Alice Keung
Senior Vice-President and Chief Transformation Officer, Economical Insurance

Lisa Ling
Executive Producer & Host of CNN's This is Life with Lisa Ling

Bob Picciano
Senior Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems

Tom Rosamilia
Senior Vice President, IBM Systems

Sal Khan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Khan Academy

Rob Thomas
General Manager, IBM Analytics

Kareem Yusuf
General Manager, Watson IoT, IBM

Martin Jetter
Senior Vice President, IBM Global Technology Services

Bettina Warburg
Co-Founder of Animal Ventures

Dr. D.J. Patil
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist (2015-2017) at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Inhi Cho Suh, General Manager, Watson Customer Engagement

Mark Foster
Senior Vice President, Global Business Services, IBM

Marc Altshuller
General Manager, Business Analytics, IBM

Marc van Zadelhoff
General Manager, IBM Security

David Katz
Founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank

Jessica Pointing
Quantum Computing Researcher at MIT and Harvard, Founder of Optimize Guide

Tanmay Bakshi
Algorithmist, Neural Network Architect, and Author

Beth Smith
General Manager, Watson Data and AI, IBM

Geoffrey Moore
Chairman, Founder and Managing Partner of TCG Advisors

Dr. John Graham-Cumming
Chief Technical Officer, CloudFlare

Cindy Compert
CTO for Data Privacy and Security, IBM Security, IBM

Jeff Jonas
Founder and Chief Scientist, Senzing, Inc.

Ted Julian
VP of Product Management, and Co-Founder, IBM Resilient, IBM

Marie Wieck
General Manager, IBM Blockchain

Steve Robinson
General Manager, Client Technical Engagement, IBM Hybrid Cloud

Bruce Schneier
Chief Technology Officer, IBM Resilient and Special Advisor, IBM Security

Jason McGee
General Manager, IBM Cloud Integration

Sridhar Muppidi
IBM Fellow, CTO for Information Risk & Protection

Wendi Whitmore
Global Partner, IBM Security Services, IBM

Fletcher Previn
Chief Information Officer, IBM

Jennifer Ryan Crozier, President, IBM International Foundation & Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship

Koos Lodewijkx
Vice President, CTO at IBM Security

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and Host of COSMOS: A Space Time Odyssey

Steve Smith
Veteran Astronaut and Spacewalker, MBA, Diplomat, Director, Venture Capital Adviser, and former IBM Product Manager

Bob Schultz
General Manager, Watson Talent and Collaboration Solutions

Hillery Hunter
IBM Fellow, Director Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure

Bryson Koehler
GM and CTO, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Mike Errity
Vice President IBM Resiliency Services, North America, IBM

Faiyaz Shahpurwala
General Manager, IBM Cloud Platform

Diane Gherson
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Kohei Itoh
Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University

Roe J. McFarlane, Chief Digital Product Development & Marketing Officer, Follett Higher Education Group

Wade Davis
Former NFL Player, Equality Advocate & Educator

Bridget van Kralingen
Senior Vice President, IBM Global Industry Platforms

Derek Schoettle
General Manager of Watson Data Platform for the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform

Frank Yiannas
Vice President, Food Safety, Walmart

Jen Zick
Vice President, Direct Marketing, Ticketmaster

Ajay Patel
SVP/GM, Cloud Provider Software Business Unit, VMware, Inc.

Craig B. Thompson
MD, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sponsors & Partners

PREMIER SPONSORS:
• SalesForce
• WMware

LEVEL ONE:
• Accenture
• Auromation Anywhere
• CA Technologies
• Capgemini
• Cisco
• Intel
• KPMG
• Nutanix
• Perficient
• Veeam
• Wipro

LEVEL TWO:
• Apttus
• Aricent
• Arrow
• AT&T Business
• Box
• CDW
• Cisco
• Cloudflare
• Cognizant
• Dun & Bradstreet
• e-capital
• enChoice
• esri
• Fortinet
• HCL
• Identity Guard
• Infosys
• Interloc
• Juniper
• Lenovo
• Looker
• Miracle
• NetApp
• OpenPower
• Pitney Bowes
• Prolifics
• Samsung
• Sapient Razorfish
• ServiceNow
• Skytap
• TATA Consultancy Services
• Tech Mahira
• The Whether Company
• Zerto

Level three

• ABB
• Actiance
• CheckPoint
• Code42