Dr. Alexey Ershov is the Vice President at IBM responsible for Smarter Cities business in Europe. Since joining IBM in 2004, Alexey has been based in New York, Moscow, Shanghai, and Madrid. Prior to joining IBM, Alexey was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a research scientist at Harvard University.
Alexey received a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree in Elementary Particle Physics from Harvard University in 2001.
Presentation Abstract
Title: Cities in the cognitive era
Cities
have been digitizing and optimizing their operations – transportation, water
management, public safety, emergency management - for many years now.
Now the rapid developments in Cognitive Computing and the Internet of
Things technologies will accelerate this process ultimately making our cities
much more livable. Over time a city will increasingly become a system of systems
with myriad of devices talking to each other and making our everyday lives more
convenient. A lot of decisions will be taken in real time behind the
scenes with no human intervention. Traditional programmable computer systems
cannot handle this level of complexity. That is why we need cognitive systems
like IBM Watson which are designed to understand structured and
unstructured data, reason about the data, and learn from training by experts
and from its own experience.
