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This person plays classical piano and trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music for 8 years.
Maybe if we are lucky they will play a song for us?
Who is Helen Lam?
The big retail conference taking place every Jan. in the Big Apple city has gone virtual along with all the other conferences. It’s name is a three letter acronym, and we’re wanting the full name
What is the National Retail Federation?
Location of IBM headquarters (city and state)
What is Tarrytown, NY?
This leader creates his own iceskating rink for the neighbors each year.
Who is Todd Kathan?
This department store was featured in the film Miracle on 34th Street
What is Macy's?
This person teaches an innovation class in an MBA program
Who is Steve Bretches?
Due to Covid, this direct to consumer pattern has moved outside of the client owned digital property, it’s another form of commerce
What is Social Commerce?
In this year our very own Watson competed and won on Jeopardy.
What is 2011?
The CTO office created the innovation hub initiative to provide leadership to our market. This is lead by this person
Who is Oliver Birch?
What U.S. state was the first to make Christmas an official holiday?
What is Alabama?
During 2020, this person attended the Sturgis Bike Rally and has sponsored US Veterans via the ACP program
Who is Mike Burkett?
A cousin of BOPIS is a retail pattern that has become front and center in these covid times, and it goes by these two words
What is Curbside Pickup?
In 1969 IBM technicians contributed to this groundbreaking event.
What is Apollo's moon landing?
-Deeply involved in the Apollo missions, IBM assigned over 4,000 employees to man computer systems to help NASA track the orbital flight of the Mercury astronauts
The tech leadership including Summits for the tech sales team is driven by this leader who is Gina Claxton's peer.
Who is Laura Smith?
In the movie "Frosty the Snowman", these were Frosty's last words.
What is "I will be back again some day"?
This person pursued a STEM degree in college, but their favorite course in college was art history and visual arts
Who is Jocelyn Cheng?
This retail store pattern of using the store as a shipment facility where there are no shoppers in the store has been around a long time, but it is now a core piece of the retail strategy for online shopping.
What is Dark Store?
This Apple slogan is perceived to be a direct spinoff of IBM's Think campaign
What is "Think Different?"
These 2 individuals are often appear as guest stars in our Be Brave videos and are the industry leaders for Retail/CPG and Travel/Transport respectively.
*2 Names
Who is Martin Butler and Raju Kattady?
This was given on the fourth day of Christmas in the song 'The 12 Days of Christmas'.
Through their job at the time this person earned a trip to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and at the opening ceremony, got to shake hands with many members of the USA basketball team (Barkley, Shaq, Reggie Miller, Pippen).
Who is Jason Bennett?
These type of moments are not large, and they are key to getting consumers to buy in the moment, the are?
What are Micro-Moments?
The Netflix series "Queen's Gambit" has caused Chess to gain popularity over the last few months. IBM's history with chess dates back to 1996 when our chess engine Deep Blue beat this world champion chess master.
Who is Gary Kasparov?
These two "Smiths" heavily impact our team's strategy and direction. One is the GM for global, the other is the GM for Americas.
*2 Names
Beth Smith, Steven Smith
Number of reindeer in the story Twas the Night Before Christmas
-Rudolph was not in the story.