The Way Forward: Preparing for an Uncertain Future through Digitization and Leadership
In the third and last session in our webinar series, jointly organized by Swiss Re Institute, IBM Research, and Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, IBM scientists and experts provide insights into current research that is accelerating the search for COVID-19 vaccines and discuss resiliency as a key aspect of digital transformation strategies as well as leadership in uncertain times.
In the past few months we have collectively learned how super fragile our world is. Our communities and organizations have rarely been more challenged navigating through this crisis, the real impacts of which no one can predict right now. How do we face this pandemic? How do we make decisions for the future and act with assurance in this uncertainty?
Peter Staar, Manager Scalable Knowledge Ingestion at IBM Research - Zurich, will explain how leveraging AI enables to extract critical knowledge about COVID-19 from all available scientific publications. He will we show how innovation can be accelerated tremendously.
Ulrich Schimpel, Federal CTO at IBM Switzerland, discusses strategies how organizations can make the most of digital technologies to increase operational resilience and flexibility. The current crisis is a critical turning point for digital transformation, as many companies need to drive adoption not because they can but because they must to survive.
Karin Vey, Psychologist and Executive Innovation Consultant, Think Lab IBM Research, focuses on resilience as a key leadership competency in uncertain times. Resilience is the ability to handle challenges, recover from setbacks, bounce back smarter and stronger, thrive in the face of stressors and maintain performance.
Speakers

Ulrich Schimpel
Switzerland
Federal CTO, IBM Switzerland. Dr. Ulrich Schimpel has over 15 years of industry expertise in government, supply chain, and smart grid. He held several technical and management positions at IBM Research, IBM Switzerland and IBM Europe. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the IBM CTO Europe Team. His background is in Business and Computer Science where he holds an MSc and PhD degree as well as an Executive MBA (HSG).

Karin Vey
Switzerland
Executive Innovation Consultant and trend expert at the ThinkLab at IBM Research Zurich. Dr. Vey is a well-versed speaker on topics ranging from Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work & Leadership to innovation trends, organizational culture and transformation. She is also an active researcher in the area of the implications of AI for business and society.

Peter Staar
Switzerland
Manager Scalable Knowledge Ingestion at the IBM Research – Zurich. His group focuses on the development of technologies to ingest large corpora of technical documents and extract the knowledge contained in them. Prior to joining IBM Research, Dr. Staar was a post-doctoral researcher in Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Information
Date
30 June 2020
Time
10:00-11:00 (CEST / Zurich time)
Venue
Online
Language
English
Price
Free of charge
Informationen
Datum
21. Januar 2018
Preise
190 CHF
Anmeldungen später als zwei Wochen vor dem Anlass können nur mit Kreditkarte bezahlt werden.
Sprache
Englisch
Programmänderungen
Änderungen bleiben vorbehalten. Sollte ein Anlass nicht stattfinden, wird die Teilnahmegebühr zurückerstattet. Weitere Ansprüche können nicht geltend gemacht werden.
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Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (PDF)
Veranstaltungsort
Documentation
Slides: Dr. Karin Vey, Executive Innovation Consultant, Think Lab, IBM Research (PDF)
Slides: Dr. Ulrich Schimpel, Federal CTO, IBM Switzerland (PDF)
Slides: Dr. Peter Staar, Manager Scalable Knowledge Ingestion, IBM Research (PDF)