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IBM Think 2026 will focus on building AI-ready data foundations, navigating trust and governance, and aligning deployments with ROI in an increasingly complex global environment. And how hybrid cloud and automation strategies are enabling more resilient, flexible IT environments. Analysts Patrick Moorhead, Daniel Newman, Tiffani Bova, and Jason Andersen bring executive-level insights into how enterprise AI is moving from experimentation to scaled deployment. 2026 marks a pivotal shift for the industry: turning AI investment into measurable business outcomes. Follow along for forward-looking views from our analysts and leaders across IBM and its ecosystem, to understand what it actually takes to operationalize agentic AI at scale, where interconnected systems move beyond static models to orchestrate workflows, automate decisions, and resolve issues in real time.
IBM Concert Platform: Redefining IT Operations for the Agentic Enterprise
IBM Concert Platform consolidates observability, optimization, protection, resilience, and operations into a single agentic-first architecture, replacing the siloed tooling and fragmented team structures that slow enterprise IT response. Jennifer Fitzgerald, Director of Product Management for IBM Observability, outlines how domain agents working together compress incident resolution from hours to minutes, how Concert Protect addresses the accelerating pace of vulnerability discovery, and why business continuity now requires treating health, performance, resilience, cost, and risk as a unified operational challenge.
Escape the AI Divide: Why Some Companies Are Surging Ahead
Rob Thomas, SVP and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM, joins Patrick Moorhead at IBM Think 2026 to examine the AI divide: what separates the companies driving measurable margin growth from those stalling in pilot mode. The conversation covers AI operating models, the on-premises gap and Sovereign Core, real-time data architecture via Confluent, and how IBM's WatsonX and Bob address the model orchestration economics most enterprises have not solved.
IBM's Channel Chief on AI Maturity, Ecosystem Strategy, and Building Kareem.ai
Kareem Yusuf Ph.D, SVP, Ecosystem, Strategic Partners & Initiatives at IBM, joins Tiffani Bova at IBM Think in Boston to discuss how AI maturity is reshaping partner ecosystems, how IBM is deploying AI inside its own channel operations, and what it actually took to build Kareem.ai, an internal channel health analytics tool now in active pilot.
IBM Concert Platform: Redefining IT Operations for the Agentic Enterprise
IBM Concert Platform consolidates observability, optimization, protection, resilience, and operations into a single agentic-first architecture, replacing the siloed tooling and fragmented team structures that slow enterprise IT response. Jennifer Fitzgerald, Director of Product Management for IBM Observability, outlines how domain agents working together compress incident resolution from hours to minutes, how Concert Protect addresses the accelerating pace of vulnerability discovery, and why business continuity now requires treating health, performance, resilience, cost, and risk as a unified operational challenge.
Escape the AI Divide: Why Some Companies Are Surging Ahead
Rob Thomas, SVP and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM, joins Patrick Moorhead at IBM Think 2026 to examine the AI divide: what separates the companies driving measurable margin growth from those stalling in pilot mode. The conversation covers AI operating models, the on-premises gap and Sovereign Core, real-time data architecture via Confluent, and how IBM's WatsonX and Bob address the model orchestration economics most enterprises have not solved.
IBM's Channel Chief on AI Maturity, Ecosystem Strategy, and Building Kareem.ai
Kareem Yusuf Ph.D, SVP, Ecosystem, Strategic Partners & Initiatives at IBM, joins Tiffani Bova at IBM Think in Boston to discuss how AI maturity is reshaping partner ecosystems, how IBM is deploying AI inside its own channel operations, and what it actually took to build Kareem.ai, an internal channel health analytics tool now in active pilot.