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Kyndryl at Microsoft Ignite 2024

November 19-22, 2024
McCormick Place – West Building
Chicago, IL

Building the digital foundation to grow your business with AI

Discover how Kyndryl helps customers build strong digital foundations to unlock new insights with Microsoft AI.

At Microsoft Ignite 2024, Kyndryl showcased how we can help customers build strong digital foundations to unlock new insights with Microsoft AI.

Kyndryl collaborates with Microsoft to help enterprises optimize their workplaces, handle data readiness, modernize infrastructure and enhance security with responsible AI services. From Copilot, Copilot Studio and Power BI for Microsoft 365  for workplace collaboration and virtualization, Kyndryl and Microsoft help elevate your digital employee experience, productivity, retention, and optimize your AI tools. 

How Kyndryl and Microsoft plan to unleash new levels of business and IT innovation

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Kyndryl featured session: Executive track

Empowering Innovation: The Human-Centric Approach in the Age of AI​

Catherine Malkova, SVP, Kyndryl Consult and Todd Scott, SVP, US Alliances and Solutioning Teams, Kyndryl discussed about the transformative potential for organizations to innovate by centering around the ‘human’ in the age of AI.

They explored strategies to win in this evolving environment by prioritizing human-centric modernization. They also focused on the creation of robust foundations, supportive environments and strong governance structures that unlock employees’ productivity and innovation, driving ever more secure, engaging, and proactive customer solutions.

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Kyndryl featured session

Building the right data foundations to grow your business with AI

Speaker: Wiem Sabbagh, Global Data & AI Leader, Consult Partner, Kyndryl
 

Before enterprises can effectively capitalize on new AI technologies, they must first establish the right foundations that supports their business goals. This includes creating a strategy to modernize their existing applications and data landscape and incorporating security and compliance measures into their ecosystem from the ground-up. 

This session delved into how Kyndryl’s modernization framework and end-to-end services help enterprises prioritize and create a strategy to modernize and integrate new AI capabilities, including generative AI.

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Kyndryl featured session

AI for Personalized, Proactive & Productive Experiences

Speaker: Ron Xavier, Microsoft Chief Architect, Digital Workplace Services, Kyndryl

 

In today’s digital-first world, exceptional user experiences are essential. This session explored how AI-driven solutions create personalized, proactive, and productive connected experiences for employees and customers. Key topics included personalized XLAs, proactive digital experience management through AI-powered observability, and productive AI assistants like M365 Copilot. AI can unify EX and CX, driving innovation and growth across your enterprise in the age of AI.

Kyndryl Customer roundtables

Kyndryl Executive Meeting Center, Marriott Marquis, “Journalism Room”

Build the hybrid future faster with pragmatic modernization

Speakers: Nicolas Sekkaki, SVP, Kyndryl Cloud Practice and Barry Becker, SVP, Kyndryl Hybrid IT Modernization


Key topics:

  • Industry use cases in modernizing with the Microsoft Cloud.
  • Imperatives for success, key pitfalls to avoid, and how to achieve ROI while modernizing

Kyndryl improves employee experience with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery on Azure

Speaker:
 Marilyn Nelson, VP, Kyndryl U.S. ServiceNow Alliance

 

Key topics:

  • Why ServiceNow and Azure were selected to provide a differentiated experience
  • Success metrics, including reduced MTTR and improved agent productivity  

Empower every employee with Kyndryl's Enterprise Executive Assistant to drive business efficiency and personalized workplace experiences, powered by Copilot
 

Speakers: Ron Xavier, Microsoft Chief Architect, Kyndryl Digital Workplace Services and Jim Koniecki, Global Director, Kyndryl Consult, Kyndryl Digital Workplace Services

 

Key topics:

  • Understand how to enhance efficiency and personalization
  • Demo of proactive AI engagement
  • Learn how to assess strategic value and ROI

AI-driven Sustainability Insights powered by Kyndryl Bridge

Speakers:
 Liz Porter, Global ESG Consult Leader, Kyndryl
Mauro Reymundo Castro, ESG Business Development Leader, Kyndryl


Key topics: 

Discover how Kyndryl Sustainability Advisor’s AI-driven insights provide real-time visibility into power usage, forecast emissions and reduce carbon footprint to achieve your sustainability goals.

Learn how Kyndryl drives enterprise digital transformation through Generative AI with Azure and NVIDIA

Speakers
: Venkata Jagana, VP & Distinguished Engineer, Global CTO  Modern Platforms​ and Joseph Fu, Sr. Director, Cloud and ISV GTM, NVIDIA

 

Key topics: 

  • How Kyndryl’s AI end-to-end solution framework helps enterprises integrate AI services, hardware, data, LLMs, business processes and applications
  • Leveraging Azure OpenAI services and NVIDIA’s solution stack in a cloud-consistent fashion to build generative AI solutions

Achieving digital resilience for financial institutions

Speaker:
Niloy Sengupta, CTO and GTM Strategy Leader, Financial Services

Key topics: 

  • How to get ahead of new cyber regulations and guidelines
  • How financial institutions can prioritize resilience and security in their payments modernization journeys 

Build Security Resilience with Security Operations as a platform (SOaap)

Speakers:
Leon Crisp, Director, Kyndryl Security & Resiliency Practice

Brian Wishnousky, North America Security Operations, Kyndryl

Key topics:

Through interactive discussions and a demo, gain valuable insights into how SOaap provides comprehensive advisory, implementation, and managed services to fortify security postures.

Data and AI are the cornerstone of the experiential economy 

Speaker
: Kayla Broussard, Distinguished Engineer, U.S. CTO – Consumer & Travel
 

Key topics:

Learn how AI can differentiate your business and provide unique, personalized experiences that drive stronger customer loyalty.

Learn how Kyndryl and Microsoft are taking Mainframe Modernization to the Next Level

Speakers:
Marc Reed, Enterprise Architect, Kyndryl
Sarah Maston, Principal Solution Architect & Director, Global Partner Development, Microsoft


Key topics: 

Learn the tangible benefits your business can achieve by moving applications off the mainframe, including instant access to mainframe data using Microsoft AI technologies. 

Explore how Kyndryl can help your organization build strong digital foundations 
 

Speaker: Wiem Sabbagh, Global Data & AI Leader, Kyndryl Consult Partner


Key topics:
How Kyndryl’s end-to-end services help develop a strategy to modernize and integrate new AI capabilities, including generative AI and software from OEMs.  

GenAI In Automotive & Manufacturing-Unlocking Next level Of Efficiencies (M&E)

Speaker
: Manbir Singh, Digital Transformation Leader US - Manufacturing & Energy Sector, Kyndryl

 

Key topics: 

  • How GenAI empowers users to predict single facilities outcomes leveraging insights from multiple locations.
  • Understand how these new AI-driven efficiencies lead to better resource allocation and cost savings

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