Gabi Zodik

Gabi Zodik is the director of product development for IBM’s Digital Asset offering at IBM Research and the Department Group Manager of the Digital Assets and AI Technologies department at IBM Research – Israel. He oversees the lab's research and development efforts in digital assets, blockchain, and agentic AI technologies and platforms. As the product manager of IBM’s Digital Asset offering, Gabi overseas worldwide research and development activities that are focused on digital assets (e.g., central bank digital currencies, tokenized deposits, and stable coins), technologies. Gabi has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the University of Haifa. He is a frequent speaker on the challenges and opportunities in digital assets, Web3, and blockchain, and the future of AI platforms. Gabi has over 30 years of experience as a senior executive in enterprise organizations, serving in such roles as managing director, CTO, and chief research officer for innovation management, with a focus on business growth and applied research with customers. Working at IBM Research means looking at the entire spectrum of the problem domain, from market analysis, through product definition, to solving the toughest technical challenges, and finally getting technologies into the field and into the hands of customers. As the Director for Decentralized Trust and Agentic AI, Gabi is also working on shaping IBM Research strategy in these areas, and he works with IBM corporate leadership on future directions for products in those domains. Specialties: Moving innovations from ideas to practice, Digital Assets, Blockchain, CBDC, IoT, Mobile, Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing, Software Architecture, R&D management, Chief Research Officer.