IBM’s Advantage Platform: Killing Technical Debt and Scaling AI on AWS

February 4, 2026

How do you take projects that used to take 10 months and deliver them in 8 weeks? In this AWS re:Invent conversation, IBM’s Javier Olaizola Casin explains how IBM and AWS are helping enterprises accelerate with data, AI, and hybrid cloud.

We discuss:

  • How IBM's Advantage agentic framework reduces cycle times from months to weeks
  • Tackling technical debt and large-scale application modernization (including VMware exits)
  • Why data curation, governance, and compliance are the real enablers of AI at scale
  • The role of hybrid cloud and AI in transforming workflows and business processes
  • How to move from incremental efficiency gains to step-change business impact
  • Rethinking organizational design for an “always-on,” agentic enterprise
  • Scaling backend systems for a world where every human has multiple AI agents

If you’re working on enterprise AI, modernization, or hybrid cloud strategy, this interview offers a practical view on what it really takes to move faster than your market.

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