John Teltsch joined IBM in 1982 as a marketing representative. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has held a number of leadership positions with the company, including vice president of European software sales and general manager of global enterprise and commercial sales. For over a year, John Teltsch has served IBM in Armonk, New York, as general manager of global business partners.
For more than 25 years, IBM has functioned as a technology partner for the US Open tennis tournament in Flushing. Recent editions of the tournament, one of the sport’s four major championships, have benefitted from a variety of predictive analytics technology, including the Watson-powered IBM SlamTracker, which provides fans with real-time insights into matches. The 2017 US Open saw the introduction of Watson Media, a machine learning tool that utilizes a Cognitive Highlights feature to analyze match footage and edit the most attractive highlights reel possible.
IBM’s technological influence at the US Open can be seen away from the court as well. Speech to Text API, for example, creates automatic subtitle support for all of the tournament’s video segments and player interviews, while Visual Recognition API helps identify players in pictures taken by tournament photographers.
For more information about how the US Open takes advantage of the real-time, cloud-computing power of Watson, please visit the sports section at www.ibm.com.
