University Guest Lectures

The Random Path to Career Success

What makes some people successful? What is one of the critical ingredients of a great career? And what can we do about it?

In this lecture we will be leveraging insights about what constitutes a main driver of success in a …

Overview of the Current Cyber Threat Landscape

In this lecture we will be looking at IBM Security's own Threat Intelligence unit, X-Force, the emerging and active threats targeting industries worldwide as well as primary tactics and entry points for threat actors, as observed within the last 12 …

Introduction to IBM Cognos analytics

Learn IBM Cognos analytics product / technology.

- A quick introduction and product demo
- Descriptive analytics
- Data visualization, data analysis and reporting techniques
- Data modeling in Cognos
- Basic and advanced development courses

Depending on your area of interest or needs, we can …

Mainframe's role in Industry 4.0

Update lecture on the importance of Mainframe in current times, of industry 4.0.
The information age has meteorically leveraged the amount of data and the processing that makes it useful. The pace is so representative that many technology centers are unable …

The importance of Diversity & Inclusion in technology companies

Many companies are discovering the true benefits of Diversity and Inclusion. Ideas that go beyond “being yourself” and “thinking outside the box”, diverse teams expand their capacity for delivery and innovation. Let's understand how to intentionally include to create an …

Extreme Automation - RPA and AI

The extension of RPA with embedded AI capabilities epitomizes this statement. AI utilizes information gathered from various sources and feeds that information to tools and products to increase the value of their interactions. RPA provides value in automating processes based …

Enable & Empower Universities/Educational Institutes with IBM's Academic Iniaitive Program

Provide overview of IBM's Academic Initiative program and enable university with step by step enablement & activation with SSO/University SSO integration process. Please look at California State University example
e.g. https://www.csun.edu/it/ibm-cloud-services-csun

IBM Cloud Capability Overview

IBM Cloud Capability Overview includes IBM Cloud Portal DEMO/Catalog review and deep dive walk with IaaS, PaaS, Watson AI, Blockchain, PowerVS, SAP, DB, IoT, MFA etc..

Developing for Cloud

Since the pandemic, more applications are being designed for Cloud. Cloud-native is about how applications are created and deployed, not where.

As such Cloud-native app development typically includes DevOps, agile methodology, microservices, cloud platforms, containers like Kubernetes and Docker, and …

Data Transformation - building blocks

In this lecture we will discuss about the trends around data exponatial growth and the stakes to create the foundations to generate value from data.
We will talk about the different types of data and their usage and discuss the challenges …

Ethique de l'informatique: les fondements juridiques médévaux de l'informatique

A partir du Moyen-Age, les juristes ont voulu "suivre la méthode des mathématiciens." Il s'agissait de rendre les règles de droit plus objectives, et de les améliorer formellement pour renforcer leur déductibilité. Ce projet mène lointainement à l'informatique. Dans les …

Data and AI in Use

This session will explore real data and AI use cases. Through real customer situations and example we will cover the impact on business, whether operational excellence or growing business and customer satisfaction. We will also uncover learnings such as key …

Blockchain usages & benefits for the Industrial Sector

In this session we will explore customer pain points and how blockchain can help solves them. We will look at real case around vehicle quality and certification in the automotive industry : why is it a problem, how big of …

Cross Roads of Machine Learning and Data Science

Perhaps a better way to think of AI is that of prediction machines. To gain insights from what it is that you don't know that you don't know. Watson Studio and AutoAI is designed to take the coding off your …

Blockchain Today and Tomorrow

Leading-edge leaders have built blockchain networks to reinvent their businesses, but the potential of this technology goes far beyond what we see today in production.
In this session, Carlos Rischioto, IBM's Blockchain technical leader in Brazil, will present the concept of …

How Artificial Intelligence (AI) May Improve Healthcare

Healthcare data are growing at an exponential rate, and technologies in the workplace are advancing rapidly. This session will address how artificial intelligence is making an impact in healthcare today and how emerging technologies may be applied in the future.

Learning …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it's Role in Healthcare

Healthcare data are growing at an exponential rate, and technologies in the workplace are advancing rapidly. This session will address how artificial intelligence is making an impact in healthcare today and how emerging technologies may be applied in the future. …

The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Improving Healthcare

Healthcare data are growing at an exponential rate, and technologies in the workplace are advancing rapidly. This session will address how artificial intelligence is making an impact in healthcare today and how emerging technologies may be applied in the future. …

Clinical 3D Printing in Healthcare - A Clinician's Perspective

Abstract:

The rise of advanced 3D cross-sectional imaging such as CT scans has allowed unprecedented volumetric imaging of the internal structures of the body. At the same time the rise of extremely high-performance additive manufacturing technologies, of which 3D printers are …

Natural Language Processing in Healthcare - A Clinician's Perspective

Abstract:

Healthcare data is heavily stored in narrative form of unstructured text. Unlike non-medical text, the language used in healthcare is often extremely complex, filled with complex negation, hypotheticals, and jargon, but at the same time using this data requires high-precision …

The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Imaging

With more images to manage, sites to connect, and people sharing data, enterprise imaging is critical to patient care. Learn about the role of AI and its application in Medical Imaging. This session will focus on the role of AI …

IBM Global University Programs with a Focus on Healthcare

Healthcare is transforming and emerging technology is playing a significant role. Learn about the resources that IBM Global University Programs offers to medical, nursing, pharmacy, and public healthcare schools and really any student who is interested in healthcare.

Learning objectives:
After …

A Day in the life at a Tech Compay and why do softs skills matter

Zaki is an inspiring manager at the biggest Systems/TSS Client Innovation Center in IBM and currently part of the University Relations program in Bulgaria. As having more than 10 years in the IT industry, being an engineer, people manager and …

AI adoption Challenges across industry verticals

AI adoption is at its peak and is very much needed for every business to stay relevant, and compete in the market. However, it brings its unique challenges for each industry player. There is a need to be aware about …

responsible.computing() - shaping ways to restore trust in IT by responsibly developing and applying technology

Businesses are on the move to align with the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and in every country that signed the Paris Agreement, government incentives are being put in place to encourage businesses to act.

These projects represent opportunities for IT …

IT Service Management - future trends

What are the future trends of ITSM from three perspectives - the process, collaborative and integration perspective?
Is there a place for latest ITIL version or is it definitely outdated?
How the cloud technologies adoption changes the ITSM?
The Cognitive …

AI for Breast Cancer Screening

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women across the world. As treatment options improve, early detection has an increasing impact on mortality, as earlier diagnosis can offer more options …

Quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence

Tendencies in this so interesting crossroads between Quantum Computing and Artificial Inteligence

Design Thinking

In the world we live in today, we are faced with a myriad of complex problems that are best solved with a blended approach of traditional and non-traditional problem solving methods.

Design Thinking offers that sought after blended approach to innovative …

A tale of adversarial attacks & out-of-distribution detection stories

Most deep learning models assume ideal conditions and rely on the assumption that test/production data comes from the in-distribution samples from the training data. However, this assumption is not satisfied in most real-world applications. Test data could differ from the …

Fairness, Explainability & Robustness in Machine Learning

Recent years have seen an overwhelming body of work on fairness and bias in Machine Learning (ML) models. This is not unexpected, as fairness is a complex and multi-faceted concept that depends on context and culture. Particularly in machine learning, …

Towards clinical relevance: Predictive modeling applied to brain imaging

The application of machine learning methods to the increasingly larger observational studies of neurological and psychiatric disorders provides the opportunity of generating individualized assessments for people with a given condition, while also enabling the detection of brain correlates of disease. …

Introduction to Serverless

Developers won't to focus on writing code without having to bother about setting up and managing a server.

Serverless Architecture provide a platform for developer to host their application without having to bother about scaling, configuring and managing a server.

Designing Usable AI Application

AI is a complex technology but it is important that we design a human-friendly AI that is usable, fair and explainable.
Using Design Thinking for AI, we can design with the users and stakeholder a more usable and responsible AI

Optimization : Doing more with less

AI and data science are all around but in many use cases they’re not enough since they provide insight and forecast but not the "what should we do next?".

That is the purpose of decision optimization aka prescriptive analytics or …

Supplier Diversity Insights

Provided insights into IBM's Supplier Diversity program, definition of a diverse business, challenges and success stories

to students at University of Fribourg, Switzerland - American College Program

Cybersecurity Operations Law & Policy

This lecture introduces law students to legal aspects of US government cyberspace operations by examining international law and norms and US law and policy. Full spectrum cyberspace operations are conducted by multiple disciplines, each with their own and sometime overlapping …

Cybersecurity Law & Policy

This lecture introduces law students to legal aspects of US government cyberspace operations by examining international law and norms and US law and policy. Full spectrum cyberspace operations are conducted by multiple disciplines, each with their own and sometime overlapping …

Digital Transformation: 9 years of business astuteness

Organizations with digital mastery are the nirvana for all those involved in Digital Transformation, due to superior business execution and results. This type of astuteness deals with aligning organization's capabilities to an improved business value proposition, leveraged by the use …

IBM Agile Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture - Gaining Control of IT.

Based on material originally developed by Paul Homan and Simon Parker as part of the classic Managing IT Architecture (MITA) course.

1. Introduction to Enterprise Architecture (EA)
2. Doing the right things right
3. What is EA …

Numérique responsable, Design durable et éco-conception web

En 2019, le numérique a émis deux fois plus de gaz à effet de serre que l’ensemble du trafic aérien mondial.

Et pourtant, son impact environnemental est bien souvent sous-estimé car peu visible face aux multiples avantages et bénéfices dont on …

El potencial de Pandas

Es un paneo general de la libreria pandas con distintas funciones y propiedades que nos ayudaran a realizar la fase de preprocesamiento de nuestros datos. Vemos conceptos como las estructuras de datos principales, su construccion, sus propiedades, funciones para muestreo, …

Optimizacion y Comparacion de Modelos de Clasificacion en Python

Es un template basico de como es que encaramos la ultima fase del modelado de datos optimizando lo mas posible los modelos elegidos para obtener mejores resultados y realizar una comparacion final. Lo que mas valor aporta de este lab …

Forcasteo de Series de Tiempo en Python

Es un lab practico en donde se presenta el caso de estudio de las series de tiempo, sus componentes, la forma de representarlas, los modelos que podemos utilizar y un modelado de ejemplo con ARIMA. Trabajamos sobre datos de Ventas …

Herramientas Amigables para el analisis de datos con python

La charla consiste en un overview de librerias de python mas utilizadas para el analisis de datos. Se abordan temas de manejo de datos, operaciones basicas con Datasets, Visualizaciones, Matrices y Utilizacion de funciones y clases. Las librerias que se …

How to establish a new market positioning with service transformation in equipment management

Learn how to use equipment management as a door opener towards a new market positioning for a company's product-to-services transformation. Learn about technical challenges and business risks and how to overcome them along specific industry examples and case studies.

How to accelerate innovation with Design Thinking and Agile Development

Learn how to practically apply design thinking and agile development methods in product development and innovation management. The course gives real project examples and hands-on exercises to apply design thinking and agile development methods.

The Why, What and How of Digital Reinvention. And the 30+ shots we have made in the Journey of promoting, selling and delivering it in Nordics

Presentation originally delivered to Nordic Technical Council (TEC) 2017. Main sections including:

Why: Strategic context
Selected materials from IBM Global C-suite study 2015
Example from the Swedish retail ecosystem

What: IBM Digital Reinvention™ Framework
Seven drivers
Blended iterative strategy & technology process – …

Resource-based strategy and Component Business Modelling

09:15 Introduction
09:25 Component Business Modelling: an introduction
09:40 Component Business Modelling: an application (case)

The Strategy Club 12: Problems with Strategy

14:00 Introduction & Context
14:15 Problem with Strategy: Gross list
14:30 Design Thinking: Empathy map (emphasizing with strategy consultants)
15:15 Summary & Conclusions
15:30 End

The Strategy Club 11: Mission->Vision->Goals->Strategy->TOM->Execution->KPIs

15:00 Introduction
15:15 Mission, Vision, Goals
15:45 Strategy & Target Operating Model (TOM)
16:00 Execution & KPIs
16:15 The Big Picture: How it all fits together
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The Strategy Club 10: Strategic Management and Economic Analysis

13:00 Introduction
13:15 Strategic Management and Economic Analysis
13:30 The toolbox: Ways of working, methods and approaches
13:45 Cases from our practice
14:15 Discussion
14:30 End

The Strategy Club 9: Digital Strategy

13:00 Introduction: What is "Digital" and what is Strategy?
13:15 Digital strategy from a business model perspective
14:00 Typical digital opportunities and challenges

The Strategy Club 8: How IBM does strategy

15:00 Introduction and context
15:10 How IBM does strategy
15:50: Q&A
16:00 Club discussion and conclusions

- This session on special request only and run together with Ian Watson, GBS Global Strategy

The Strategy Club 7: Level-two Strategies

16:30 Introduction and Context
16:45 Level-two strategies, what are they?
17:05 Examples and discussion
17:45 Conclusions
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The Strategy Club 6: Strategy Processes - How to run them

16:30 Introduction and Context
16:45 Who run strategy processes and why?
17:05 How to run strategy processes
17:45 How to get traction
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The Strategy Club 5: Business Models and Value Creation

16:30 Introduction and Context
16:40 What is a Business Model?
17:00 Fundamental modes of Value Creation
17:50 So what?
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The Strategy Club 4: Customer Offering and Value Proposition

16:30 Introduction & Context
16:40 Customer Offering and Value Proposition
17:20 Tools to develop, clarify and redefine Customer Offerings and Value Propositions
17:50 So what?
18:00 End

The Strategy Club 3: Resource-based Strategy

16:45 Introduction to resource-based strategy

17:25 So what – application through CBM

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The Strategy Club 2: Industry Analysis

16:30 Intro
16:50 Premises of the Industry Point of View
17:05 Industry Analysis framework: Five Forces
- Video
- Overview of the five fores
17:30 Case discussion
- Group analysis of industry forces
- The Strategy Club's synthesis regarding industry analysis
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The Strategy Club 1: What is Strategy?

16:30 Introduction and platform sketch

16:45 What is Strategy?

17:15 Case: IBM's transformation
- 5 min introduction to the case
- 20 min discussion and comments
- 5 min what happened?

17:45 Summary and ideas

What is it like to hold a PhD and work in Industry?

Agenda:
- What we have in common
- Career
- Making use of a PhD in industry Over- and ’underlaps’: Exploitation vs Exploration
- Poem

Join Consulting - See the World

--- Lecture given multiple times to students at Master's level in Strategic Management and Information Systems ---

13:15 Intro
13:25 Digital Reinvention and e commerce Business Models - The Pierce case: How to become an Experience Leader
13:45 The Glamour of Management …

IBM´s AI portfolio - using AI for business problems

This lecture positions Artificial Intelligence in context of how we at IBM use AI to solve business problems. It focuses on the different types of technologies we make available to our clients and shows a small number of actual client …

IBM i Architecture

The basic architecture of IBM i was inspired by the design of the IBM S/38 and S/36 and was first implemented in the OS/400 operating system of the Application Systems 400 (short AS/400) in 1988. Although many innovations have been …

Technology supporting the transition to sustainable business models and practices

How technologies such as Cloud, AI, IoT, and Blockchain, are essential resources to enable a transition to a sustainable economy.
Each industry must take into account in one way or another its environmental impact and find solutions to preserve the planet …

Knowledge is Power...For real. Future professional, Soft Skills, Career growth and development, resilience, mindset, Agile methodology

Future professional, career growth and development, resilience, mindset, productive methodologies

Reality Simulation in Project Management

Managing uncertainty is a key component for a successful System Solutioning and its Delivery, this session focuses in an interesting and very useful modelling technique, which support Project Managers to take informative business decisions: The Monte Carlo Simulation.

At the …

¡ Aproximación al fascinante mundo del Quantum Computing !

Frente a la gran revolución a principios del Siglo XX con la Física cuántica, muchos académicos indican que estamos inmersos en una segunda revolución cuántica cuyo mejor exponente es el Quantum computing (QC).

Con el Quantum computing se une la …

"Aprender de todo un poco". La importancia de la multidisciplinariedad y la colaboración. Ejemplo de aplicación básica en finanzas en la gestión de riesgos financieros

Esta lecture tiene dos objetivos:
1. Ayudar a los universitarios a reflexionar sobre la importancia de conocer distintas materias (Conocimientos sectoriales, IT, estadística etc.) y promover la colaboración entre estudiantes de distintas áreas de conocimiento.
2. Concretar con el caso práctico de …

Going virtual

El mundo virtual requiere de una nueva aproximación al modo en que nos comunicamos con nuestros colegas, clientes y asociados. Exploremos algunas ideas y mejores practicas para sesiones virtuales efectivas que van mas alla de simplemente replicar una presentación ya …

Protección de datos y respuesta a incidentes

Los datos son el activo más importante para las organizaciones modernas. Cómo protegerlos y responder de forma ágil a los incidentes de seguridad es clave para mantenerse operativo.

Ciberseguridad corporativa

Cómo enfrentar las amenazas de ciberseguridad en el mundo corporativo. Cuáles son las tendencias tecnológicas y cómo IBM puede apoyar en la modernización y protección.

Economia de las APIs

Reinvencion digital de la mano de las APIs, como las organizaciones generan nuevos modelos de negocio de la mano de las tecnologías de APIs y Cloud.

The Two Transformations Driving Cybersecurity Forward Today

Cybersecurity has become one of the most pressing topics for every business today, and it is crucial to understand the two transformations that entities must drive to support core security requirements. This lecture details these two transformations - first, the …

The Role of Data and AI in an Enterprise Context V2

While the preferred deployment model for most companies is a (hybrid) cloud solution, one needs to realise that about 80% of the applications or still on -premise. Especially in the larger organisations were traditional IT has been developed over decades …

The Role of Data and AI in an Enterprise Context

While the preferred deployment model for most companies is a (hybrid) cloud solution, one needs to realise that about 80% of the applications or still on -premise. Especially in the larger organisations were traditional IT has been developed over decades …

Blockchain Network Design

The presentation intends to give an overview of the full lifecycle of a blockchain project, starting from applying the right criteria to select a use case over the different types of networks that can be found as well as a …

Inteligencia Artificial: Asistentes Virtuales

Visión General de los Asistentes Virtuales.
Los chatbots llegaron para quedarse y hoy en dia son un gran factor de re-invención, dentro y fuera de empresa.
Sus usos son ilimitados, pues evolucionan desde ser Asistentes, primero Informativos, luego Resolutivos y finalmente se …

Inteligencia Artificial: Watson para la Empresa

Visión General de la Inteligencia Artificial, sus capacidades y limitaciones aplicadas a diferentes Industrias y Casos de Uso.
Aplicaciones prácticas en Banca, Retail y Seguros.
Conocer el Catálogo de Servicios IBM Watson en IBM Cloud.
Soluciones: Watson Assistant, Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, …

Inteligencia Artificial: Mitos y Realidades

Visión General de la Inteligencia Artificial, sus capacidades y limitaciones. Conversaremos de los aspectos prácticos respecto cómo la empresa aplica estas tecnologías en resolver problemas reales.

Cybercrime Inc

The evolution of technology has allowed syndicate criminals to become organized criminal “corporations”. In this webinar, Misty interviews cybersecurity expert Mark Wilson as he explains how the evolution of hacking and the cyber world is putting our society at risk.

Link …

IoT & BYOD – The New Security Risks

In a world ever more connected to the internet, Security should be paramount. However, to keep pace with the new trends and technologies, companies and individuals, overlook the importance of security and the risks this poses.

In this recorded webinar, …

Best (free) Badges for Students

Open Badges are official credentials proving you have a certain skill or knowledge, but not quite to the level of a full certification. Employers are increasingly looking for documented skills through Open Badging. But how do you earn Open Badges …

Use AI and data for better product delivery and customer loyalty

The end-to-end shopping journey for large-scale appliances is more informed than ever. Yet, more innovation can be made to delivery. More than 28% of large-scale appliance deliveries run into challenges that negatively impact customer satisfaction and retailer costs.

This solution provides …

Cloud en tiempos de pandemia

Una de las principales características de Cloud es la capacidad del pago por uso y la flexibilidad.
En tiempos donde una inversión de largo plazo puede parecer difícil de concretar y donde la creatividad nos insta a buscar nuevas formas de …

Intelligent Simulation - Making HPC Work Smarter not Harder

For a long time, computational scientists have relied on Moore's law (bigger, faster, cheaper) to realize their complex computational workflows on ever more powerful machines. Recently, however, this bastion of the digital world has started to show some cracks - …

Employability in AI: reality vs hype

We will review the impact of technologies on the world of work and how the boom in Artificial Intelligence has influenced the most wanted skills in the labor market. We will share how to polish your experience and talent to …

Project Management

Project management lectures based on the PMBOK will be given to high school students and above.

PMBOKに準拠したプロジェクトマネジメントの講義を高校生以上を対象に実施します。

Text Mining

This lecture introduces overview of text mining technology that enables to utilize huge amounts of textual data for identifying valuable knowledge and taking appropriate actions with some live demonstrations.

AIの分野で人の言葉を扱う処理を自然言語処理と呼び、その応用技術がテキストデータの内容を分析するためのテキストアナリティクスやテキストマイニングである。この技術により、人手ではとても読むことのできない膨大な量のテキストデータの情報を活用できるようになってきた。近年では、書かれている内容だけではなく、筆者の性格までも推定できるようになってきており、データの活用可能性が広がっている。
データの時代を勝ち抜くために、大量のテキスト情報をAIでどう活かせるかをデモを交えて紹介する。

Trustworthy AI put into action

There’s no question about the great potential that AI systems bring to our society. We’ve heard about AI systems identifying cancer tumors, helping to reduce crime as well as predicting traffic accidents. Howeve