Clayton ’ s work in IBM ’ s cloud portfolio . “ The forecast is only as good as the inputs you put into it ,” he says . “ We ’ re using AI and IoT sensor networks , hybrid cloud analytics and all these things to get a better answer . The more data we can collect , the better , whether it ’ s from smartphones , from vehicles , from tractors , from planes , etcetera . We ’ re pulling all of that together at this tremendous scale , and distributing it out as an IBM hybrid cloud .”
Clayton sees the organisation ’ s work across both his portfolios as only being more necessary in the face of global threats such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic . “ Climate change is creating this volatility in the atmosphere . We go from snow and flooding to hurricanes and heat waves in places we ’ ve never seen them before . Whilst we ’ re living right now with this pandemic , climate change remains this larger challenge . How we can help address that lies with health care , with agriculture , with food security , water , and so on and reliable weather prediction is at the heart of that .”
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