About Katia: Katia is the head of communications for IBM Research Europe and a master of personal reinvention. In this episode hear her impressive story of emigration from the former Soviet Union to Canada. In Canada she obtained a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University but then moved into science journalism where she worked …

Collaboration – love it or hate it – that is the question. For psychologist, author, and former Harvey Mudd professor, Deb Mashek studying collaboration seems like it has always been her calling. From growing up in a trailer park in Nebraska and having to make her own rules to engage with her young peers, to figuring things out, first in the contex…

Talia is the Director of Hybrid Cloud infrastructure Research at IBM. In this episode, Talia takes us on a journey through her formative education as a material scientist at MIT and the University of Cambridge, and how the education systems in the United States and the UK instilled two dual but important traits: personal rigor and independence of t…

About Ulisses: Ulisses was born in Brazil, in the culturally vital and historical city of Ouro Preto. Ever since his youth, he has shown the determination and intelligence to deal with adversity and achieve his goals. Ulisses is currently the director of the global technology outlook (GTO), which examines in great depth the trajectories of new tech…

About Raimo: Raimo was born in Estonia before the Second World War. He lived through Nazi occupation and Stalin, eventually fleeing to the United States with his family in his teenage years, and settling down in Sterling, Kansas. Listen to Raimo's fascinating journey from Estonia through Poland and eastern Germany to a UN refugee camp, and ultimate…

About Anu: Anu grew up and was educated in India. She started her career at the India Research Lab in Delhi, but then moved to Bangalore and was one of the first employees of that lab. Anu became a manager in 2009 and was soon thereafter given the opportunity to be a Global Technology Outlook (GTO) co-lead, which meant a move to the US. This experi…

Segev was born in Israel, in the capital city of Jerusalem, but then moved around a lot, spending three of his early years on a kibbutz in northern Israel and then six years in South Africa. He became hooked on computer science after watching the 1983 film WarGames, in which an AI system almost starts a nuclear war. Matthew Broderick, the computer …

About Victor: Victor grew up amidst the hustle and bustle of Lagos, Nigeria. After contemplating a career in medicine he became interested in computer science, which led him to pursue a Masters degree at the CMU campus in Kigali, Rwanda and then to the IBM Kenya lab where he was first an intern and then a highly influential research engineer. He is…

About Rosie: Rosie grew up in London where she cultivated an early interest in mathematics and sports. She learned to scuba dive at a young age and, through diving, developed an interest in the world's oceans. By profession, Rosie is equal parts oceanographer and software engineer. Rosie is leading the marine mammal experimentation on the Mayflower…

About Mahmoud: Mahmoud is the Chief Technology Officer for IBM Global Industries responsible for addressing industry needs and innovation opportunities based on IBM technology and platforms across IBM global markets. He has led major IBM businesses as a general manager in strategic partnerships, business consulting and industry solutions. Mahmoud w…

About Claudio: Claudio is equal parts mathematician, artist and engineer, with a certain amount of businessman thrown in for good measure. Claudio is a thinker and an innovator with a fascinating career journey to share. In this chat, Claudio tells us about how he grew up in Brazil, into a family cinematographers, but with a love of mathematics. Hi…

About John: John is a four-time Emmy Award winning journalist and moderator of the highly acclaimed Intelligence Squared USdebate series. John was also the moderator for the first live debate featuring IBM's Debater system at the IBM Think conference in San Francisco in 2019. In that debate, the Debater system argued in favor of the motion "We shou…

About Lori: Lori was the recipient of the prestigious 2019 British Computing Society UK IT Apprentice of the Year Award, as well as two other apprenticeship awards in 2020. Lori is well-known for having developed the Virtual Assistant, a chatbot application that handles over 60,000 messages per week. Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty called it "one of t…

About John: John is an IBM Fellow at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Laboratory. Before that John was the Chief Scientist of IBM's Internet of Things division. He received an undergraduate electrical engineering degree from MIT, and a Ph.D. from CMU. John is known for his thorough-going playful approach to work and his penetrating curiosity. He was the engin…