Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Why IBM Think 2026 matters IBM Think is not a developer conference — it is an enterprise procurement event. The buyers in the room are CIOs, CTOs, and IT procurement leads from large organisations in banking, insurance, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. When IBM makes a major announcement at Think, it is announcing what enterprise budgets will be buying in the next 12–24 months. IBM Think 2026 (5–8 May, Boston) was built around a single concept: the AI Operating Model. The argument IBM made throughout the conference is that enterprises have moved past the question of whether to deploy AI, and are now confronting the harder question of how to govern AI at scale across their organisations. Buying individual AI tools is not the challenge — building the operating infrastructure to…
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