TMBS E135: Jason Kelley, GM, IBM Blockchain Services

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COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: How Technology is Playing a Role in Getting and Keeping Vaccine “Cold Chains” Safe Technology like AI and Blockchain are Vital to Ensuring the Vaccine Cold Chain Remains Safe and Secure.

Earlier this month, we heard the news of the completion and approval for some of the first successful COVID-19 vaccines. With vaccines for Covid-19 now in approvals for global distribution, there is heightened focus on the need to distribute it safely, rapidly, and equitably – whether consumers are getting the vaccine at their local small-town pharmacies, or major chain drugstores in big cities. 

About Jason Kelley: 

Jason Kelley leads IBM Global Blockchain Services, partnering with client organizations and consortia to unleash the exponential business value of blockchain technologies and reinvented business processes. His teams provide the thought leadership and consultive capabilities needed to design, develop, and rapidly adopt digital ledgers, digital identity, trust, and transparency with IBM Blockchain offerings and solutions.  

Mr. Kelley has been a successful entrepreneur, as well as a business unit creator for IBM having led IBM Global Business Services Solutions, Design & Innovation, and helping clients transform to differentiate and lead in the market through a digital reinvention with the application of Agile, DevOps and innovative technology. His teams bring endless energy, creativity, and outcomes for IBM clients around the world, delivering unique business capability with the marriage of analytics, automation/robotics, Watson, and cloud technologies.  

A holder of 4 U.S. Patents Jason is also a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger veteran, serves on a number of boards, is Co-Chair of the Nation Security Innovation Council, and leads the community of black employees & mentors (BEAM) globally for the IBM Services organization 

For more information please visit: ibm.com/blockchain 


 

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