IBM – Partner’s feature presentation

Hours

IBM Research Europe

AI for Climate Impact Team, 
Department of Accelerated Discovery and Artificial Intelligence, IBM Research – Europe

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IBM Research – Zurich is one of IBM’s 12 research centres around the globe. This network of some 3000 scientists is one of the largest industrial IT research organizations in the world. The Zurich laboratory was established in 1956 and is home to world-class scientists representing more than 45 nationalities. Cutting-edge research and outstanding scientific achievements— most notably two Nobel Prizes—are associated with this lab. The lab is an integral part of the European research community and takes part in multiple Horizon, Swiss National Science Foundation and other direct university collaborations, including Private Public Partnerships with ETH Zurich.

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Within IBM Research, the Geospatial Discovery Network is being developed under the Climate & Sustainability strategy. It is in-line with Embed2Scale and includes research on geospatial and climate big data discovery, cloud native AI climate impact workflows, AI for climate applications, and a seamless developer experience. Research results can be introduced to the market through the IBM Business Units with the following products: IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite, a store of more than 6 Petabytes of earth observation and weather / climate data, to inform about disruptive environmental conditions and The Weather Company which runs 7 weather models with world-wide coverage, powering the majority of Android apps.