Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Vice President, Technology and Strategy
IBM Corporation

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is responsible for key IBM initiatives critical to the future of the IT industry. In that capacity, he leads IBM's companywide e-business on demand initiative. In conjunction with this, he guides IBM's participation in the movement toward open standards and open source software and the company's Next Generation Internet efforts. He's also closely involved with IBM's Grid and Autonomic Computing efforts, which are crucial to on demand. He began his IBM career in 1970 at the Company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He led IBM's supercomputing and parallel computing initiatives, including the transformation of IBM's large commercial systems to parallel architectures. He has also managed a number of IBM's key businesses. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger sits on the boards of a number of academic, research and business institutions, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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