Blue Team
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face immense pressure to transform their operations, customer experiences, and strategies through technology. This talk explores the key challenges organizations encounter during digital transformation, including legacy system integration, organizational resistance, cybersecurity threats, and rapidly shifting consumer expectations. It also highlights the vast opportunities digital transformation presents, such as increased operational efficiency, enhanced customer engagement, data-driven decision-making, and innovative business models. Participants will gain insights into effective strategies for navigating digital disruption, building resilient digital cultures, and harnessing technology to drive sustainable growth and competitive advantage.
Dr. Jamshid Vayghan CTO, VP, and Distinguished Engineer Kyndryl, Inc. was the Global CTO & Vice President for Application Development and Management Innovation at IBM Global Business Services. He works directly with clients in many industries including banking, insurance, & retail. Prior to his current position, he was CTO for IBM in Latin America (LA) and led Blockchain and innovation related efforts in LA. Previously, he was CTO for IBM Sales Transformation leading data and enterprise architecture initiatives for IBM’s own internal transformation. His multi-disciplinary career, training, education, work experience in 4 continents & different cultures and locations have turned him into a global leader with hands-on, “roll up the sleeves” leadership style, capable of diving into details where required, while still retaining the capacity to look at the large picture & focus on long-term impact of decisions & strategy on business outcomes, customer experience, & cost. He has experience in organic technical talent development, leading large distributed technical teams on innovation, architecture, design & development, and delivery. Education: Ph.D & MS in Artificial Intelligence (AI) & BS in Chemical & Petrochemical Engineering Specialties: AI & Cognitive, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Analytics, Data, Cloud, Enterprise Architect, IT-enabled Business Transformation, Chemical Engineering, Technical Leadership
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