Using AI to Rethink the Way Work Gets Done
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
With hybrid cloud and AI, businesses today can challenge the limits of how they put their data to work across the organization. In this episode of Smart Talks, Malcolm talks to Rob Thomas, SVP Cloud and Data Platform at IBM about what’s possible, and the steps businesses can take to access more of their data to help them make more informed decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. This is Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries, |
| 0:10.4 | I-Heart Media, and IBM about what it means to look at today's most challenging |
| 0:15.3 | problems in a new way. I'm Malcolm Gladwell. |
| 0:20.4 | Today I'm chatting with Rob Thomas, the Senior Vice President of IBM Cloud and Data, |
| 0:29.7 | where his responsibility is bringing new ideas to life. But despite being on the cutting edge of |
| 0:38.2 | these technologies he still has an appreciation for age-old problems. |
| 0:44.0 | There's a rabbit and a beaver and they're staring at the |
| 0:50.1 | Hoover dam and the beaver says the rabbit no I didn't build it but it's based on an idea of mind and the point of that story is there's a you know ideas are a dime a dozen. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah it's a great story. |
| 1:04.0 | Everybody's got a bunch of ideas. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | By the way, we're too quick to dismiss the Beaver. |
| 1:11.0 | He's right. |
| 1:12.0 | But have you seen Beaveraver dams? I mean, I know he is right. It was his idea. |
| 1:16.8 | It was his idea. But he had nothing to do with the giant cement hoover dams. |
| 1:20.0 | That's right. In my interview with Rob, we'll touch on the importance of the cloud during the pandemic |
| 1:28.1 | and how IBM has been playing a part in vaccine distribution. |
| 1:32.4 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:33.0 | I for one had no idea about what it means to be the senior vice president of IBM Cloud and Data, |
| 1:44.8 | so I asked Rob to break it down for me in layman's terms. |
| 1:48.9 | We build software and software is the linguefranca of our time. |
| 1:56.3 | Anything that will get done in businesses |
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