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Arvind Krishna

CEO, President & Chairman, IBM

Search every verified Arvind Krishna interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Arvind Krishna, chairman, president, and CEO of IBM, has recently discussed the company's shift from AI experimentation to targeted scaling, advising leaders to concentrate investment on a few high-impact, low-risk areas such as customer service rather than spreading resources across many pilots. He has also addressed IBM's second-quarter 2026 earnings miss, attributing the shortfall to deferred capital expenditure deals at large clients rather than destroyed demand, and noted that about a third of those deals had already closed within three weeks. Krishna lowered the company's full-year sales growth forecast to 4–5% and described the move as a conservative measure. Krishna has also spoken about AI's potential to offset productivity losses from population decline, estimating a 5–10% job displacement that could be offset by reskilling and new industries. He has highlighted quantum computing as a near-term opportunity, predicting a "ChatGPT moment" for the technology by 2029 and citing third-party estimates of a $1 trillion market impact by the end of the 2030s. Additionally, he announced IBM's acquisition of RL from GM and Boeing to bolster quantum and sensor capabilities, and he predicted that technology spending will grow to 10% of enterprise budgets by 2035.

Recent appearances

  • The era of experimentation is over, with Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM

    September 15, 2026 · 📺 Bain & Company

    In 2011, IBM’s Watson won Jeopardy, changing the conversation about AI forever. The 15 years since have brought meaningful advances, though the path to broad impact has proved more complex than many expected. CEO Arvind Krishna joins Sarah and Andrew to discuss what the company has learned along the way—and how those lessons are shaping the IBM playbook. Arvind explains why the era of AI experimentation is over and why leaders should focus investment on a small number of high-impact areas rather than spread resources across dozens of experiments. He shares how IBM has put that approach to wo…

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  • Will AI Create More Jobs Or Replace It? | Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM - World Governments Summit

    September 13, 2026 · 📺 World Governments Summit

    Can AI solve one of the biggest economic challenges facing the world: population declines? Arvind Krishna, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, explains how artificial intelligence could transform productivity, economic growth, jobs, and the future of work as countries face declining populations. Krishna argues that productivity is a key driver of GDP growth and reinvestment, but population decline could make it harder for economies to grow. He sees AI as a powerful tool that could help close this gap by supercharging productivity and enabling businesses to achieve more with existing resource…

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  • IBM CEO: Prices for a lot of infrastructure components have gone way up

    July 23, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” team is joined by IBM CEO Arvind Krishna to discuss the company's recent earnings results, the impact of AI and more.

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  • 'DEFERRED, NOT DESTROYED': IBM CEO breaks down Q2 earnings miss

    July 23, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business

    IBM CEO Arvind Krishna addresses the Q2 earnings miss, clarifying delays in capital expenditure deals, and outlines IBM's strategy to incentivize consumption-based offerings on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxbusiness #theclamancountdown #ibm #arvindkrishna #arvind #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #quantumcomputing #cloudcomputing #earnings #business #economy #stocks #investing #innovation #nationalsecurity #enterprise Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch…

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  • IBM CEO on AI Spending, Mainframes and Quantum

    July 23, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    IBM shares came under pressure after weaker-than-expected mainframe sales weighed on the company's outlook. CEO Arvind Krishna joins Bloomberg to explain why he sees the slowdown as temporary, how AI is reshaping enterprise technology spending, and why he's betting on quantum computing as IBM's next major growth engine. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna joins Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow and Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg Tech." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:    / @bloombergtech     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Lu…

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  • IBM Q2 FY26 Earnings Call | $IBM | 🔴 WATCH LIVE

    July 22, 2026 · 📺 Benzinga

    📢 IBM Q2 FY26 Earnings Call | $IBM 🔗https://www.benzinga.com/quote/IBM/ea... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📜 Need a transcript of the call? Access the Benzinga Earnings Call Transcripts API: 🔗 https://bit.ly/493BUhA 🌐 Find more market-moving insights at https://www.benzinga.com — your one-stop destination for the latest financial news, data, and expert analysis to stay ahead of the markets. 🖥️ Want the same tools the pros use—without the $10K Bloomberg terminal? Benzinga Edge gives you real-time portfolio alerts, weekly stock picks, an…

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  • IBM CEO Arvind Krishna's Big Quantum Bet On India: 'Where Else Will You Get The Talent?'

    July 01, 2026 · 📺 Mint

    IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is positioning India at the heart of the global quantum computing revolution. Krishna emphasizes that ...

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  • IBM's $10 billion bet on what comes after AI (with CEO Arvind Krishna) | Masters of Scale

    June 23, 2026 · 📺 Masters of Scale

    While many tech companies race to build ever-larger AI models, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna sees the future differently. On Masters of ...

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  • IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Talks Quantum Advantage, Profit Strategy | Bloomberg Talks

    June 09, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he's excited about the potential uses for quantum computing. Speaking with Romaine Bostick at the Mizuho Technology Conference in New York, Krishna also comments on the Trump administration's investment in the company, the utilization of AI and IBM's profit strategy. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information. Bloomberg Talks curates top interviews from around Bloomberg News. Hear conversations with the biggest names in finance, politics and entertainment. On Bloomberg Talks, we round up interviews with Fortune 500 CEOs,…

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  • IBM's Krishna on Quantum Advantage, Profit Strategy

    June 09, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he's excited about the potential uses for quantum computing. Speaking with Romaine Bostick at the Mizuho Technology Conference in New York, Krishna also comments on the Trump administration's investment in the company, the utilization of AI and IBM's profit strategy. -------- Watch Bloomberg Radio LIVE on YouTube Weekdays 7am-6pm ET Saturday & Sunday 7am-10am ET WATCH HERE: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF Follow us on X:   / bloombergradio   Subscribe to our Podcasts: Bloomberg Daybreak: http://bit.ly/3DWYoAN Bloomberg Surveillance: http://bit.ly/3OPtReI Bloo…

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  • IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says Trump’s AI order hits the “Goldilocks spot”

    June 04, 2026 · 📺 Axios Live and Axios

    IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna joins Axios' Maria Curi to discuss President Trump’s new AI executive order, cybersecurity, open source software, quantum computing and the future of U.S. tech policy. Krishna explains why IBM supports a lighter regulatory approach to AI, how open source patching could improve cybersecurity and why companies need to prepare now for post-quantum encryption risks. He also discusses government equity stakes in critical technology companies, IBM’s planned quantum foundry in Albany and the energy debate around AI data centers. #ibm #arvindkrishna #ai #artificia…

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  • Arvind Krishna’s Leadership Secrets Behind IBM’s Success | Rational Thinker

    June 02, 2026 · 📺 Rational Thinker

    Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @rational-thinkersz   In this insightful discussion, Arvind Krishna explains how he manages IBM as CEO and leads one of the world’s biggest technology companies through rapid transformation. The conversation explores leadership, decision-making, innovation, AI, hybrid cloud, company culture, and how IBM adapts to changing global technology trends. A powerful look into corporate leadership, business strategy, and the mindset required to manage a global tech giant in the AI era. 👉 Watch the full interview for valuable insights on leadership and…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I'm going to tell you that in 2029, so that's only now two and a half years, maybe three years away, quantum will do something that will surprise us. The analogy I would take is in the AI analogy, it'll be similar to the chat GPT moment of 2022 November I think is when they first put the free version out to download onto a smartphone. So that's not very far away. So that's from a perspective of a business being able ”

“Let's say a reasonable enterprise is willing to spend a couple of hundred million dollars a year, which is not a trivial amount of money. But if you now spread it across a 100 experiments, you probably have three to five people in each experiment. You got a couple of million dollars of total spend. And then you don't have the ability on how to scale it because you've not thought through all of it. If you instead put ”

“I'll make a prediction for you. I believe technology spend is going to become a larger and larger part of every enterprises budget. Used to be 3%. Uh, since uh romaine raised the 30 years ago, it's probably up at five 6% on average. I would not be surprised if by 2035, it's 10% of everyone's budget.”

“We think quantum is incredibly important technology for national security but also economic advantage. It's one that's both. The Trump administration in the last year was clear, we need to be ahead, and also protect the country.”

“I think the problem was in one very narrow area, the narrow area was large up next deals at large clients. As we see them come back, it becomes more of a deferral and destruction... I think the tide for the positive upside from our investors because we want to be conservative have conviction in what we can do so we took down the revenue guide presuming some of the issues will carry on for a few more months, not a few”

“I think foundation models are going to become commodities by the way not that far out is it a year, is it 2 years? Is it 3 years? Commodities doesn't mean that they don't have value. Gold is a commodity. So commoditismeans that there is very little switching cost to go from one to the other.”

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