How IBM Plans to Help Users Out-Learn the Competition

LAS VEGAS – IBM's Think 2018 conference, the first-of-its-kind rollup of five older conferences--IBM World of Watson, InterConnect, Edge, Amplify and Connect--has attracted more than 35,000 people representing most of the countries in the world to the Mandalay Bay Conference Center this week. "This is officially the largest event in IBM's history!" Ginny Rometty (pictured, with Dave McKay of Royal Canadian Bank), who holds the gold trifecta titles of CEO, chairman and president of the most venerable IT company on the globe, said March 20 in her opening remarks. While it's true that all the other topics that bring people together at a major show like this include security, networking, servers, processors, cloud services, automation, software development and many more, at the core of it all remains one simple entity: Watson, the IBM stake in the ground of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. Make no mistake about it: IBM is into a lot of business use cases, but it's now made Watson its beating heart, impacting virtually all parts of its business. 'Be the Disruptor, Rather than the Disrupted' Rometty captured well the theme of the conference in her first few sentences on stage.