Wimbledon x IBM (Championships 2026)

For Wimbledon 2026 (29 June-12 July) IBM rebuilt the tournament's entire digital platform on watsonx. Two fan-facing features: Key Moments, built on top of Likelihood to Win, explains which points shift a match's momentum and why, across every singles match and all 18 courts; Match Chat, on watsonx Orchestrate, answers natural-language questions through agents trained on Wimbledon's editorial style and the language of tennis, with responses that now include photos and video. The platform rebuild used IBM Bob, a development accelerator: 15,000 archive assets mapped into a knowledge graph and extracted in 47 minutes, a job for four to five specialists over months compressed into four weeks. Above the features sits a declared governance layer: explainability, confidence scoring and human-led processes to reduce inaccurate outputs during live use.