Think Summit Canada is the premier event where changemakers connect, explore and make the future. Innovate with next generation demos, activations, think tanks, workshops, IBM Garages, lightning talks and design thinking sessions. Main Tent: Welcome to the Cognitive Era Ayman Antoun, President, IBM Canada Fireside Chat: Learn how enterprises at different stages of their cloud journey are using Open Source to make their businesses more digital and interconnected. Claude Reeves, Country Manager, Canada, Red Hat Canada Claude will be joined by a large retailer and communications company. Panel Discussion: Scaling Trusted AI across the Enterprise Pavel Rahman, Partner and Head of Data Science, IBM Canada joined by Richard Hines, Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence, Air Canada, Sami Ahmed, Vice President & Head of Data & AI Transformation at BMO Financial Group and Stephen Kerrigan, Vice President, Information Technology, Kinross Gold Corporation How Emerging Technologies are Revolutionizing Business Donna Dillenberger, Master Inventor and IBM Fellow, Enterprise Solutions, Thomas J. Watson Research Center Think Summit Canada's Featured Campuses Security and Resiliency Be better prepared with best-of-breed technologies and services that elevate your security.

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Winning with Machine Learning Monetizing the data behind your firewall With the exponential growth in data, 80% of which is unstructured, the business benefit of using machine learning to seek out opportunities is massive. Amongst a survey of large companies, 76% indicated they are targeting higher sales growth with machine learning. Join us to learn how organizations can take machine learning out of the laboratory and into wide-scale, commercial use so that continuous intelligence can be applied throughout the enterprise. We will share some practical tips on how to get started with machine learning as well as IBM's plans to use machine learning to infuse cognitive capabilities across our private cloud data and analytics portfolio to unlock the value of the data behind your firewall. There will be two specific tracks covered on the day, one will focus on the area of Data Management and the second will focus on Data Analytics.

Winning with Machine Learning Monetizing the data behind your firewall With the exponential growth in data, 80% of which is unstructured, the business benefit of using machine learning to seek out opportunities is massive. Amongst a survey of large companies, 76% indicated they are targeting higher sales growth with machine learning. Join us to learn how organizations can take machine learning out of the laboratory and into wide-scale, commercial use so that continuous intelligence can be applied throughout the enterprise. We will share some practical tips on how to get started with machine learning as well as IBM's plans to use machine learning to infuse cognitive capabilities across our private cloud data and analytics portfolio to unlock the value of the data behind your firewall. There will be two specific tracks covered on the day, one will focus on the area of Data Management and the second will focus on Data Analytics.