IBM CEO Arvind Krishna delivered a keynote presentation at IBM’s Think Gov 2020, a digital event, to more than 1,000 U.S. leaders, technologists, and developers from local, federal and state governments. Krishna’s keynote focused on the opportunity to lead change through innovation and the acceleration of transformative business opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Krishna called hybrid cloud and AI “the two dominant forces driving digital transformation,” and said the IBM public cloud has been reengineered to be the best destination for regulated workloads like the data demands of government clients.
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“We give clients the ability to retain control of their own encryption keys and the hardware security modules that protect them. This isn’t even a differentiator. It’s unique. And I know how important security is for the government.”
Krishna, who was the driving force behind last year’s $34 billion acquisition of open-source software leader Red Hat, said the combination of the two companies “is a game-changer” that allows clients to build mission-critical applications once and run them anywhere.
Krishna added, “More than 20 years ago, experts predicted that every organization would become an Internet organization. I’m predicting that EVERY organization will become an AI organization – not because they can, but because they must. AI is the only way to scale innovation, insight, and expertise.”
“Moments of crisis almost always carry lessons and if there is anything the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s the critical importance of technology solutions that enable speed, flexibility, insight, and innovation.”
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