[2] IBM delivered several speeches related to Watson's capabilities and its possible integration to health and business sectors, which were criticized 2 years later by IEEE Spectrum to be exaggerated.

[8] IBM unveiled a 1x1mm chip reportedly compatible with Blockchain and as powerful as microprocessors of 1990s that they dubbed "world's smallest computer".

[13] Topics included cloud, AI, data, analytics, infrastructure and more, a lot similar to previous year.

[19] This year also included a 4-day training program titled Think Academy that provided certification and hand-on lab experience to participants.

[21] This time topics were heavily centered around AI, data, cloud, 5G and various open technologies that were developed under IBM and its subsidiaries.

[34][35] IBM reported 120x increase in quantum processing speed of Qiskit, an open source quantum computing SDK maintained by the company, and revealed Qiskit runtime to enable traditional computer processing when its desired within the SDK.

This time the conference was centered around quantum computing, a field IBM started to be prevalent about along with other usual topics like AI and cloud.

[47] The program of the conference included similar topics to previous years such as hybrid cloud, AI and automation and futuristic quantum computing talks.