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.
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.
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