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I’ve spent my career building what others put on keynote slides.

Keynotes, board briefings and executive sessions on artificial intelligence, human ingenuity and what comes next.

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Women Leaders in Data and AI awards

Speaking topics

Artificial intelligence and human ingenuity

On artificial intelligence, human ingenuity, and what happens to expertise when anyone can query a sophisticated model.

Conferences, universities, all-hands

From experimentation to production

Four AI practices built from the ground up at IBM, Genpact, Deloitte and PwC, two of them past $200 million.

Executive forums, boards, leadership teams

What comes next: physical AI, embodied AI and quantum

The future is the autonomous enterprise: intelligent agents, physical AI, quantum, and advanced automation operating with increasing levels of human-like autonomy.

Boards, risk committees, technology summits

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GenpactGenpact Intelligent Platform

Selected speaking appearances

Executive, technology and academic audiences, on four continents.

4Continents
2Invited keynotes abroad
25+Years inside the work
  • 2015CIO Summit of AmericaAt the Harvard Club, alongside 300 technology leaders. Speaking as Watson Partner, CTO and Distinguished Engineer, IBM.New York City
  • Grace Hopper CelebrationAnita Borg Institute. Women Transforming Technology.
  • IBM Innovation ConferenceSantiago, ChileInvited keynote
  • Bosch Women in TechnologyMexico CityInvited keynote
  • 2014IBM Smarter Cities ChallengeLed for the City of Cape Town in 2014, the year it was World Design Capital, as IBM CTO and Distinguished Engineer.Cape Town, South Africa
  • CFO Executive SummitThe Future of Finance: leveraging robotic process automation and artificial intelligence.
  • Internet Retailer ConferenceInternet commerce, digital business and entrepreneurship.Boston
  • Women's Bond ClubTechnology Symposium.
  • VOICE & AIConversational artificial intelligence.

Formats

KeynoteThirty to sixty minutes, for conference, university and all-hands audiences, opening a theme for the room.
Board or executive briefingClosed door, for boards, executive forums and leadership teams, working through a decision rather than presenting to it.
Workshop or offsiteHalf or full day, for a leadership team or risk committee, ending with a framework the team keeps.
Sherry Comes

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Sherry Comes is an AI operator, venture builder and board director, and the former Chief Technology Officer for IBM Watson Engagement Advisor. She built and scaled AI capabilities at IBM, Genpact and Deloitte, including a consulting business taken from zero to a $200 million-plus revenue engine, and holds eight patents with one pending. Named an IBM Distinguished Engineer, fewer than one percent of the company, and Chair of the IBM Academy of Technology. She was the first to commercially operationalize Watson in Africa, and she runs Majordomo's, Inc., her own firm, founded in 1995.
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