Making Data Simple

Data Science in Financial Services with Kristen McGarry, Principal Technical Lead with IBM

Oct 25, 2023

42:16

Kristen McGarry is a Principal Account Technical Lead for the Financial Services Market at IBM. Based in New York City, she engages daily with the largest financial institutions globally to identify business opportunities for innovation, accelerate time to value, and operationalize new solutions across software, hardware and services offerings.

02:57 An Intro to Kristen McGarry
04:36 Why IBM?
09:25 The Attraction of Data Science
11:51 A Day in the Life of an Account Technical Leader
13:30 Technical Sales versus Sales
15:05 Continuing to Innovate
19:09 Dealing with Wall Street
20:17 The Methodology
22:23 The How of Technical Sales
23:05 Continuous Learning
28:03 Management System 30:34 Wall Street Learnings
32:20 Biggest Challenge
33:08 The Data Challenge
34:22 Best Data Science Use Cases in Finance
36:14 What Do Clients Miss on AI?
38:09 Predictions

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-mcgarry/

Website: https://www.ibm.com/

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