IBM
IBM’s family of open-source enterprise AI models shares this name with a type of rock used to build mountains
What is Granite
This famous nickname is associated with Chicago
What is the Windy City
SQL is the abbreviation of this metric
What is a Sales-qualified lead
The new AI-powered software development partner and coding agent at IBM
What is IBM Bob
A major/ minor offered at CMU that studies how decisions are modeled and improved using data, experiments, and analytical methods (Alli’s second major)
What is Decision Science
The number of IBMer bridesmaids Alli had at her wedding
Holiday in the spring season that usually brings Alli back to Chicago (when she lived in NYC)
What is St. Patrick’s Day
Internal product that is most similar to Tableau
What is IBM Cognos Analytics
The US territory that Alli will be covering
Where is the Midwest
A CMU alum, who graduated 13 years before Alli, and went on to win a Tony award as best actor in Hamilton a month after Alli graduated
Who is Leslie Odom Jr.
IBM is credited with creating this relational database language first developed in the 1970s
What is SQL
Name of the baseball field, which is also what one of Alli’s former reports named his dog after
What is Wrigley Field
Name of the Marketing reporting tool when it was first created (what EPM is now)
What is Pearl
The first co-educational training course recruited 25 women for sales sales roles with equal pay in this upstate NY city
What is Endicott, NY?
The Business School at CMU is named after this man
Who is David Tepper
The same year Alli joined IBM full-time, IBM acquired this company’s digital assets to expand its AI and cloud capabilities (though IBM later sold it)
What is The Weather Company
This pioneering American architect created two iconic masterpieces: the Robie House in Chicago and Fallingwater in Pittsburgh
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright
Marketing Organization name prior to Experience Engine
What is Performance Marketing
The very first item ever scanned in a supermarket in 1974 with the Universal Product Code
What is a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum
Venue of the Pittsburgh Penguins
What is the PPG Paints Arena
Featured guest speaker (entertainment industry) at Think this year, that surprised Alli!
Who is Diplo
This Chicago innovation, invented at the 1893 World’s Fair, became a worldwide amusement ride
What is the Ferris wheel
Alli had an infamous trip to this country for the ‘Making the Marketer’ conference, of which another manager currently resides
What is the Netherlands
IBM sellers use a centralized AI tool internally, which handles repetitive research and provides automated competitive analyses in natural language
What is AskSales?
The Mellon Institute was transformed into Gotham City’s police headquarters during filming of this movie
What is The Dark Knight Rises