Date: 14 September 2021
09:30 – 10:30
11:30 – 12:30
Achieve better business performance with AI-powered automation
By 2022, it’s expected for businesses to release USD 134 billion in labour value by combining automation with AI. A vast majority of AI and automation leaders are also expected to outperform their competitors in revenue growth.
IBM, in collaboration with ITWeb, invites you to this engaging event to discover how AI-powered automation will improve business performance by making all information-centric jobs more productive, operations more efficient, and client and employee experiences more effective.
Learn how AI tools like natural language and machine learning can supercharge automation technologies like RPA and AIOps to help you transform and grow your business, with AI-powered automation can free up employees to focus on the work that matters most and drive more value for your business.
Session 1: Intelligent Business Automation
To realise the full potential of AI-powered automation, businesses need to consistently integrate proven automation software and best practices across all workflows – from creating faster, digital customer experiences to optimising internal processes. However, over 70% of companies are still struggling to scale the automation investments that they have already made. In this presentation, learn how leveraging a unified automation platform, IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, can help companies move beyond the challenges of piecemeal automation to apply AI-powered automation effectively across the enterprise.
Who should attend?
If you are a strategic IT and business decision maker, including CIOs, COOs, CTOs, CSOs, CDOs, VPs, Engineering or Developer Leadership, DevOps Engineer, SRE, Heads of IT strategy this event is for you
Session 2: Build intelligent IT operations
In today’s world, applications are becoming more distributed and dynamic as enterprises embrace new development methodologies and microservices. Simultaneously, applications are increasingly being deployed across complex hybrid and multicloud environments. Find out how to meet the dynamic demands of today’s complex IT applications and operations with AI-powered automation, so you can make quicker, more informed decisions with Instana, dynamically optimise resources with Turbonomic, and add a digital SRE to your team with Watson AIOps. Discover how to keep your applications under complete control, assure application performance and meet compliance requirements while ensuring an exceptional cost-effective customer experience.
Who should attend?
If you specialise in IT operations or engineering, DevOps or Application Ops, this event is for you
Why attend?
See how AI-powered automation and edge technologies power the first crewless trans-Atlantic voyage
Learn how to achieve end to end business automation to accelerate growth and performance
Discover how IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation can transform your organisation
Unpack AIOps: The Future in Assuring Application Performance
Hear real-world automation and AIOps case studies
Agenda
Welcome and Introduction: Guiding the Mayflower Autonomous Ship with IBM AI-Powered Automation
Andrew Hewitt-Coleman, Automation Sales Leader - FSS, IBM Southern Africa
End to end business automation to accelerate growth and performance
Donald Seymour, Business Automation Sales Leader, IBM EMEA
Panel discussion: Explore how to automate anything, anywhere, anytime
Thami Nkadimeng, Moderator
Donald Seymour, Business Automation Sales Leader, IBM EMEA
Andrew Hewitt-Coleman, Automation Sales Leader - FSS, IBM Southern Africa
Mohammed Noorodien, Automation Sales leader - Retail, IBM
Closing
Andrew Hewitt-Coleman, Automation Sales Leader - FSS, IBM Southern Africa
Thami Nkadimeng, Moderator
How IBM’s Observability and AI Operations Solutions Fit Together to Resolve Incidents
Robert Barron, SRE & AIOps Solution Engineer, IBM Cloud Go To Market Assets & Architecture
Panel discussion: AIOps: The Future in Assuring Application Performance
Thami Nkadimeng, Moderator
Robert Barron, SRE & AIOps Solution Engineer, IBM Cloud Go To Market Assets & Architecture
Alec Kemp, Field CTO/ VP Technical Services EMEA & APAC, Turbonomic
Maela Matlapu, System and Application Performance Monitoring Administrator, Telesure holdings
About IBM
IBM is the global leader in business transformation, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today, 47 of the Fortune 50 companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 20,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 26 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
