Full Name
Matt Candy
Job Title
Global Managing Partner & Service Line Leader, Strategy & Transformation
Company
IBM
Speaker Bio
Matt is Global Managing Partner & Service Line Leader for Strategy & Transformation within IBM Consulting, and is a member of IBM Consulting’s Global Leadership Team and IBM’s Corporate Leadership Team. Matt focuses on driving strategy, transformation and enablement, powered by AI working closely with our clients, strategic partners and 160,000 consultants. Matt is also the Global Managing Client Partner for the Nestlé account.

With over 27 years of consulting experience at PwC (prior to acquisition) and IBM, Matt’s previous role was as Global Managing Partner for Generative AI - leading IBM Consulting’s global AI capabilities, and prior to that Global Managing Partner of IBM iX, the digital agency and customer experience group within IBM Consulting. Matt also spent many years of his career leading 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 design and the connection between creativity and technology, and holds a post-graduate diploma in Strategy & Innovation and also in 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 design-driven business reinvention, digital transformation and AI-led transformation. As a thought leader, Matt has contributed to publications such as Bloomberg, CNBC, and The Future of Business amongst others.
Matt Candy