Russ Beardall, Principal Account Technical Leader at IBM, joins for an engaging conversation about his career journey from his time as a consultant to his job today, how he has balanced work travel with his family of 8, and also dives into the future of artificial intelligence that might be coming to a store near you.

This episode of CTRL ALT STORY touches on the following topics:

• Will your credit card work without IBM?
• Soul Machines - Super cool, super creepy, or maybe both?
• How AI will become more prevalent in advertising and customer engagement
• Utilizing the right large language models
• What’s it like to travel first class with 6 kids
• What happens in Vegas…probably shouldn’t make it to Facebook.

Your host is Josh Spurgin and I’m a watsonx Technical Specialist at IBM. I can also be found under the name Data Nerd Josh on various social media platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn. My website is www.DataNerdJosh.com

Please enjoy and reach out with any questions, comments, or feedback you may have for this brand new podcast!

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