IBM and HHS announce partnership
Today at David Braley Research Institute at Hamilton General Campus, IBM and HHS announced a partnership!
Ted McMeekin (@TedMcMeekin) kicked off the event, acknowledging the importance of the different parties coming together for the future economic development of the region.
Next up was Rob MacIsaac (@RobMacIsaac), talking about leveraging the unique strengths of Hamilton Health Sciences in partnership with IBM to create products which can be made in Hamilton and sold globally.
Rob announced that HHS will be taking over 3 floors and moving over 300 admin staffers into the Stelco tower. A 4th floor will host a collaboration and innovation centre with IBM. The collaboration and innovation centre will be looking to work with startup businesses and Mohawk and McMaster researchers, in addition to projects between IBM and HHS.
Next up was IBM Canada President Dino Trevisan (@DinoTrevisani) to describe the partnership:
I’ll upload a better version when I get home…
Followed by Mayor Fred Eisenberger (@FredEisenberger):
Again, I’ll upload a better version when I get home…
Oh, and on of all that, there was a robot (“Pepper”) there too:
