#630 TECH TITANS: How to Be an Effective Leader with Hillery Hunter, CTO of IBM Cloud

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About Hillery Hunter:

Hillery Hunter, GM, Cloud Industry Platforms & Solutions; CTO IBM Cloud is

responsible for technical strategy for IBM's cloud-native and infrastructure

offerings. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Accelerated Cognitive

Infrastructure in IBM Research, leading a team doing cross-stack (hardware through

software) optimization of AI workloads, producing productivity breakthroughs of 40x and

greater which were transferred into IBM product offerings. Her technical interests have

always been interdisciplinary, spanning from silicon technology through system

software, and she has served in technical and leadership roles in memory technology,

Systems for AI, and other areas. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology

and was appointed as an IBM Fellow in 2017. Hillery is a BS, MS, and PhD graduate of

the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About IBM:

At IBM, we do more than work. We create. We create as technologists, developers, and engineers. We create with our partners. We create with our competitors. If you're searching for ways to make the world work better through technology and infrastructure, software, and consulting, then we want to work with you.

We're here to help every creator turn their "what if" into what is. Let's create something that will change everything.