Matthew Candy

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ABOUT MATTHEW CANDY

Matt is Global Managing Partner for Generative AI, Strategy & Transformation for IBM Consulting and is a member of IBM Consulting’s Global Leadership Team and IBM\'s Corporate Leadership team.Matt leads one of the 6 global service lines in IBM\'s consulting business - Strategy & Transformation - and has responsibility for a large global multi-disciplinary team around the world who partner with clients to help them embrace this new era of technology - helping them reimagine & reengineer their end-to-end strategies, experiences and operations to drive efficiency and profitable growth through enterprise wide transformation with AI & Automation.The Strategy & Transformation business Matt leads, houses all of the strategy/advisory, AI transformation, domain process & technology transformation (across Finance, HR/Talent, Supply Chain & Operations, Procurement, Customer & Commerce), and digital experience & design (through IBM iX) capabilities and offerings for IBM Consulting.Matt also serves as the Global Managing Client Partner for one of the worlds largest consumer product organisations.With over 28 years of consulting experience at PwC (prior to acquisition) and IBM, Matt has played a key role of building, leading and growing core parts of IBM\'s consulting business, including our global Generative AI capabilities as well as leading the creation, growth and scaling (organically and inorganically) of the IBM iX business and a team of over creators and makers across a global network of 60 studios and 75+ delivery centres for over a decade.In the early part of his career, Matt spearheaded complex multi-channel and digital transformation engagements for clients across various industries. As a graduate in Computer Science and a technologist at heart, Matt found his passion in the connection between creativity and technology, and holds two post-graduate diplomas - in Strategy & Innovation, and Artificial Intelligence for Business - from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. An inductee of the BIMA 100 Digital Hall of Fame and a prior recipient of ‘Individual of the Year’ in The Drum’s Digerati, Matt is a frequent public speaker and blogger on the impact of AI & experience-driven business reinvention, generative AI, customer experience, and digital transformation. As a thought leader, Matt has contributed to publications such as Fortune, Bloomberg, CNBC, and The Future of Business amongst others.