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Tune in. Learn how to put AI into action and bypass the theoretical rhetoric. Host Albert Lawrence, together with business leaders and IBM technologists, engage in thoughtful conversations that will help you jump start your AI initiatives.
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There’s a lot of hype about what AI can do, but how do we actually use AI to build better experiences? Tune in. Learn how to put AI into action and bypass the theoretical rhetoric. Host Albert Lawrence, together with business leaders and IBM technologists, engage in thoughtful conversations that will help you jump start your AI initiatives. Guests discuss topics like how AI can improve our day to day, and possibly help everyone hate their job a little less.

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Listen to host Albert Lawrence, Jon Lester, VP of HR, technology, data and AI at IBM, and David Levy, advisory technology engineer at IBM, talk about how you can use AI and data ethically to make HR more efficient and human.

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Imagine seamlessly integrating AI across your data – whether on-prem or in the cloud. IBM expert technologists discuss how you can overcome the complexities of disparate data environments.

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