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Anna Paula, thank you for being
here.

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Really excited to have this
conversation with you.

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Thank you, Vikas for the
invitation.

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Great to be here.

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As we're wrapping up WEF 2025,
what have been some of the key

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themes that you've heard in the
course of the discussions you've

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had this week?

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You know, it's very interesting
because this is my fourth Davos.

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The first one that I came, it
was all about crypto, crypto,

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crypto.

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The second one that I came was
all about the metaverse and the

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third one was all about AI.

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And the fourth one is all about
AI.

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So I think that it's, it's very
clear that now leaders

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understand the impact that
technology is going to have in

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their businesses.

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But looking at it from a much
more thoughtful perspective, how

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can I really get ROI from AI?

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How can I make sure that I
minimize impacts around

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compliance, security. The aspect
of sustainability of AI, lots of

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discussions around the impact of
energy consumption on AI and the

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developments that we'll have to
do around that and a lot of

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conversations around the quantum
as well.

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So I think that those are themes
that are becoming really part of

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how companies are thinking about
their future going forward.

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And speaking about quantum, Ana
Paula, IBM is a leader in

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automation, in AI, and quantum
technologies.

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What can leaders expect to see
from IBM from a technology

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perspective in the course of the
coming year?

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We continue to be very committed
to our road map.

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Our target right now is by the
end of this decade you have

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quantum with capacities of 100
million gates for example.

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And that is really what is going
to allow quantum utility to

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become a reality.

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And Vikas, the reality is that
in the past few years we have

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been delivering every milestone
of our quantum road map.

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So that, you know, that
continues to be our commitment.

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We have recently announced the
expansion of our quantum

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infrastructure around the world.

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We opened the quantum data
center in Ehningen this year in

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the great partnership with the
government of Germany.

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And so I think that we are going
to continue to see a lot of

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evolution in terms of quantum
hardware, quantum tools to

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develop application.

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And finally, one area that is
becoming more and more a source

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of concern is how you prepare
your data for a quantum, a

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quantum moment when
cryptographies can be broken by

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quantum computers.

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So there is a lot of investment
as well in us helping clients to

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assess their data, the exposure
that they might have for that

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scenario, and how we can prepare
for that.

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Ana Paula, you spend your time
with business leaders in Europe

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in particular, helping them get
value from technology.

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What are some of the themes that
you've been hearing from them?

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What would be some of the advice
that you would have for a

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business leader that's looking
to get the maximum that they can

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from their technology
deployments in the coming year?

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Well, the reality is that the IT
environments have become

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extremely complex and while a
few years ago people were still

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a little bit doubtful if hybrid
cloud was going to be the

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architecture of the future, I
think that today we can

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absolutely state that this is
the reality.

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We have applications running in
multiple clouds, in on-premises

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environments. And what companies
are looking for right now is

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ways to make it more effective,
cost effective, and simpler to

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manage.

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So I think that we have been
advising a lot clients in that

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sense and providing technologies
that help them have better

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visibility of their IT
environment and make it more

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cost effective.

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So that that's point number one.
Point number two, clients have

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already realized that for them
to get true benefit of AI, they

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have to have, they have to use
their own data.

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So having the data ready, you
know, governance of how they

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are, you know, using their data
to tune the models to make them

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more specific to their
applications is another area

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that you're seeing significant
progress.

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And finally, I think that the
great evolution of AI going

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forward is going to be on the
topic of agentic AI, where AI is

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going to be used really to
automate workflows inside

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companies, eliminating a lot of
inefficiency and giving people

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more time to focus on, you know,
value adding activities,

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creating new products,
innovating for their clients.

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Terrific.

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One last thing, switching gears
a little bit. What would give

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you the most hope and optimism
for the coming year?

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I think we're living in a moment
where there is a very clear

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understanding of what technology
can do to progress society.

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So we need to continue to be
making those investments, but at

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the same time, we have to
balance innovation with

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responsibility and
sustainability.

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We cannot, you know, take those
elements out of the equation.

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And I think that this is what
we're going to be continuing to

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focus on at IBM. Making sure
that we have innovation, but at

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the same time that it's
responsible. Responsible

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innovation.

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Yes.

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Ana Paula, thank you so much for
your time.

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Really appreciate it.

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Thank you, Vikas.