Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

London

June 16 & 17, 2025

Suzanne is a product development executive focused on improving sustainability, transparency and culture through data and insight. As a Vice President in IBM’s Sustainability Software business unit, Suzanne leads a large, global team of software engineers building next generation sustainability, asset management & supply chain technologies using AI & IoT. Suzanne’s organization is responsible for the architecture, development, support, and DevOps of Maximo, TRIRIGA, Envizi, Order Management, and Supply Chain and Environmental Intelligence Suites. Throughout her career, Suzanne has a track record of growing research innovations into major new product portfolios including blockchain, food safety, traceability in the supply chain, fintech developer tools, social software, audio/video collaboration, email, and messaging, ranging to $1B portfolios and including the world’s largest blockchain network for transparency in the food supply chain. Suzanne has a passion for product management, user-focused solution development, and aligning design & engineering around a compelling product strategy & vision. Suzanne’s expertise includes profitability modeling, sales forecasting, enabling go to market teams, creating digital channels, market and services alignment, offering operations, and measuring product and business health. A technologist at heart, Suzanne began her career in IBM Research and has since held leadership roles in development, user experience, and product management. Suzanne has a Masters in Engineering and Management from MIT, where she continues to mentor aspiring entrepreneurs and product managers.
 

"Zero waste" engineering practices

Suzanne Livingston talks about how IBM software development practices are undergoing a major transformation, and how yours can too.