Fredrik is part of the Product Management team for IBM Watson Discovery and NLU. In this role he is responsible for driving growth and awareness of the platforms through strategic initiatives across all routes to market. He collaborates with clients, business partners, as well as IBM engineering, marketing, and sales to create and optimize business value and drive adoption.

Prior to this role, Fredrik managed the Client Engagement team for the Watson Client Experience Centers across North America. In this role he was responsible for helping clients, partners, and media understand the technology and business value of IBM Watson and the IBM Cloud.

Before joining IBM he worked as an industry analyst at Ovum, where he researched and delivered advisory services on trends and strategies in business intelligence, analytics, data visualization, and big data.

Throughout his career Fredrik has served in several technical, consultancy, and project management roles. He has a broad technical and strategic understanding of everything from application development and data management to the more high-level human-computer interaction, and has gained expertise in industries ranging from financial services to health to retail.

Fredrik also holds an MSc in cognitive neuroscience from Columbia University.

IBM offers thousands of products and services to its customers and is always seeking new ways to improve customer service. The ability to scale AI solutions is key to the success of both IBM and its customers. Automation, self-learning and human-to/from-system knowledge sharing are key to this goal. Jim Dewan is a Cognitive Service Platform architect from the IBM Support Transformation Team.

He has over 31 years of experience from roles such as development, support, architect, test and customer liaison. He has designed, developed and deployed an AI ecosystem on the new IBM Salesforce support site which aims to provide a high value experience for IBM customers while reducing the effort to build such solutions

The Data and AI unit makes data simple and accessible. We help our clients in their cognitive and AI journey through three flexible platforms and capabilities: collect data through Hybrid Data Management, organize data with Unified Governance and Integration, and analyse data with Data Science and Business Analytics.

Victoria has held different roles and leadership positions in IBM Sweden and Nordic, and has more than 15 years’ experience in sales, sales management and business leadership in the IT industry working with a diverse range of clients and industries.

Victoria has great passion for the IT business and enjoys being part of an international and dynamic environment, with high speed and transformation. Last year she represented IBM in the prestigious Swedish Leadership Program, “Ruter Dam”.

Johan Rodin is a technical sales specialist within IBM Data and AI in Sweden and the Nordics. With more than twenty years’ experience in the software industry, Johan combines a deep knowledge in computer systems architecture with an understanding of the challenges today’s businesses face going into the cloud era. Currently, Johan is focusing on the Watson APIs and IBM Cloud Pak for Data, a modern Kubernetes-based platform from IBM for running data science cloud workloads in your data center.

Jaakko Sävilammi is chapter lead at OP.

Katarina Strömberg är IDG:s eventchef och vanligtvis moderator på Webbdagarna, Skandinaviens största event om digitala affärer. Hon har jobbat som it-journalist i över 20 år och jobbar i dag med redaktionellt material både online och i form av event och kurser. Hon är en erfaren och flitigt anlitad moderator, där hennes journalistiska erfarenhet och vinkel är grunden i moderatorskapet. Katarina är även kursledare på Webbdagarna Academy.