Stephane Mery is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM and Chief Architect for IBM Operational Decision Manager, the Decision Management offering of the Digital Business Automation portfolio. He has spent most of his career innovating, developing, and promoting rule-based systems, complex-event-processing platforms, and distributed systems. Recognized as a technical expert with a track record of innovations in providing programming models and languages accessible to business people, his latest innovations are in the domain of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.