Nancy Greco is a Distinguished Engineer, Technical Executive, in IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. She leads global teams to create AI and edge computing to address clients’ pressing problems in data collection, data movement, security while getting insight and ROI from the data. She is co-leading the Consulting robotics services solution development in partnership with Boston Dynamics working across IBM’s Research, Consulting, Maximo and Cloud teams to enable roaming edge devices to do inspections in potentially dangerous environments, so humans don’t have to. She worked in IBM’s semiconductor manufacturing as an engineer and executive, for 20 years before coming to Research. A Cornell graduate, she holds a bachelors degree in chemistry.