The women pioneering mainframes and AI

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This is a podcast episode titled, The women pioneering mainframes and AI. The summary for this episode is: There’s a reason over 70% of Fortune 500 enterprises rely on mainframes to support their core operations. Despite being around since the 1950s, mainframes are not relics of the past, but rather a vital component of AI strategy and implementation. In this episode, Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow and CTO of Hybrid Cloud Systems Research, and Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM fellow and CTO for IBM CIO Platform Transformation, discuss how mainframes can be the nerve center that powers AI. They also talk about what it’s like to be a woman working in infrastructure and AI, and provide advice for women looking to break into the industry. The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

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There’s a reason over 70% of Fortune 500 enterprises rely on mainframes to support their core operations. Despite being around since the 1950s, mainframes are not relics of the past, but rather a vital component of AI strategy and implementation. In this episode, Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow and CTO of Hybrid Cloud Systems Research, and Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM fellow and CTO for IBM CIO Platform Transformation, discuss how mainframes can be the nerve center that powers AI. They also talk about what it’s like to be a woman working in infrastructure and AI, and provide advice for women looking to break into the industry.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Today's Host

Albert Lawrence

|Host

Today's Guests

Rosalind Radcliffe

|IBM Fellow and CTO for IBM CIO Platform Transformation

Rosalind Radcliffe is currently working in the IBM Z Ecosystem team to take her expertise working in the IBM CIO organization for data center transformation and hybrid cloud modernization to the broader community. She is responsible for driving technical direction in support of our ISVs and GSI for their support of IBM Z and LinuxONE as well helping drive the growth of skills in the industry. In her prior role she was the CTO for the IBM CIO Platform. Prior to that she brought DevOps to the mainframe environment, worked in the systems management area, user interface design, and various other roles. She is an IBM Master Inventor, frequent conference speaker, and author including her latest book Enterprise Bug Busting.

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Donna Dillenberger

|IBM Fellow and CTO of Hybrid Cloud Systems Research

Donna Dillenberger is an IBM Fellow. She has worked on machine learning models for financial, insurance, retail, and healthcare industries. She has designed systems and cloud capabilities, providing scalability, security and availability for services for governments, industries and start ups. She was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, a Master Inventor and is currently the CTO of Hybrid Cloud Systems Research. She is currently working on AI, Security and Digital Assets.

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