From the printing press to the robotic assembly line, each advancement in automation has improved our quality of life and freed up employees to do higher value work. The current generation of automation leverages AI to perform activities that can’t be performed at human scale, such as helping customer service calculate in real time the probability of customer churn or recommending a way to optimize AWS resources for performance and cost. The new generation of AI-driven automation will empower business teams to better engage customers and employees, as well as to optimize cost across the entire hybrid cloud environment. Join Madhu Kochar, VP of Product Development, to learn how breakthrough automation technologies leverage conversational AI, Kafka event streams, and AI-driven optimization to meet these challenges and empower the next generation of business and IT.

Send us a text This week, host Al Martin goes deep with Madhu Kochar and Hemanth Manda, two leaders of product development from the IBM Data and AI team. They discuss the future foundations of digital business -- in particular, the coming age of multicloud and how organizations will contend with data and workloads on cloud systems that span geographies, vendors, and diverse rules for governance. The conversation turns to the need for a data platform that can foster AI initiatives across these diverse environments.

Shownotes:

00:00 - Check us out on YouTube and SoundCloud.  00:10 - Connect with Producer Steve Moore on LinkedIn & Twitter.  00:15 - Connect with Producer Liam Seston on LinkedIn & Twitter.  00:20 - Connect with Producer Rachit Sharma on LinkedIn.  00:25 - Connect with Host Al Martin on LinkedIn & Twitter.  00:40 - Connect with Hemanth Manda on LinkedIn. 00:45 - Connect with Madhu Kochar on LinkedIn.

05:48 – What is Multicloud? 11:38 – Dig into ICP for Data. 18:30 - Learn more about Open API. 32:55 - Check out Stratechery By Ben Thompson.

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