Peter Williams
CTO Big Green Innovations Unit
IBM
Dr Peter Williams‘ role is to create environmentally focused businesses for IBM. He is responsible for assembling, maintaining and developing the portfolio of businesses included, and technologies used. His particular focus areas have been PV technologies; developing green house gas reduction solutions and services; and most intensively, water management solutions, covering entire water resources (for example entire rivers or aquifers), utility infrastructures, and enterprise water management. As such, Williams has had a major role in developing IBM's water management solution framework and a number of specific areas of intellectual property within that. He has also been heavily involved in creating the intellectual foundation for IBM's "Smarter Planet" initiative. Dr. Williams holds the title of IBM Distinguished Engineer