University Guest Lectures

Quantum Safe Crypto

What if people from the future suddenly arrived with advanced technology that could read all your data — including the encrypted stuff? Is there anything you could do now to prepare for such a scenario? Is this just a sci-fi …

“Adversarial AI - Lying Chatbots, Deep Fakes and more …”

The presentation will focus on adversarial AI and its threats to chatbots, such as corpus poisoning and deep fakes. These attacks can manipulate data and spread misinformation, potentially harming users. The talk will also explore potential solutions to these threats …

Securing Everything - An Introduction to Zero Trust

Who can you trust? If you are following a strict zero trust philosophy, the answer is no one and nothing. Is this achievable? Is it practical? Does it even make business sense? Can any vendor or tool provide zero trust? …

What is Cloud: Introduction to Cloud Computing

This lecture introduces you to cloud computing core concepts, Cloud services models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models (Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud) and cloud computing architecture

Introduction to IBM Cloud incl. IoT applications based on IBM Cloud and Node-RED

Guest lecture about the IBM Cloud as well as the IoT and its application area, with practical examples such as the creation of a chatbot and the distribution of sensor data based on Raspbery Pi and the IBM Cloud.

Example …

Cloud Computing - Benefits and trends

The lecture will provide an overview of cloud computing, why it is a "must-have" for any organization, the benefits associated, and the trends we are seeing based on the latest happenings in the market.

Technology Salvator Mundi

This lecture is an invitation to think about the impact of technology on humanity, society and environment. The world is facing a huge number of challenges (climate, sustainability, privacy, etc). People are looking towards technology for answers and solutions. If …

The Journey of the Mayflower Autonumous Ship (MAS400): Putting the AI in "Aye-Aye, Captain" !

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower, Promare and IBM decided to build a Mayflower 2.0, a completely new way of operating and navigating vessels at sea. Together they put the AI in "Aye-Aye Captain" and launched a vessel …

Intro to Artificial Intelligence (AI literacy everyone should have)

An interactive lecture aimed at those who have heard the term AI, but have just a vague idea what it means and how AI overlaps beyond the technical fields. It's all no-code and no need to have any technical background, …

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 …

Accelerate Data Science projects with Cloud Pak for Data

This day-long lecture covers the basics of Data Science, explaining each phase of a Data Science project. A hands-on lab completes the course, in which students implement an industrial Data Science project on Cloud Pak for Data. At the end …

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 …

AI @ Scale - How to manage AI deployment and industrialization

AI innovation transformation and operational excellence request to set up an operating model to increase industrialization.
In this lecture we will talk about global trends on AI deployment, adoption challenges, platform transformation and operating model.

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

IBM Ponder This And Other Challenges

Challenges provide fun and happiness.

They provide a way to feel busy and a way to feel part of a Community when you know other people all over the world or next door are trying to find the same key …

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 …

The path to inherently safer technology: tackling domestic abuse

Imagine being terrified of technology. Knowing that if you leave the home, connect with friends or dare to break even the smallest rule, the all-seeing devices will know - and so will your abuser. As society evolves and technology becomes …

Actionable intelligence for advance investigations

From a society of the object to a society of action, the world today thinks of itself in networks, and analysis in links. This new situation leads to a review of the information processing chain.
This lecture is an answer to …

Analyse & renseignement : initiation et présentation

Passé d’une société de l’objet à une société de l’action, le monde se pense aujourd’hui en réseaux, et l’analyse en liens. Cette nouvelle situation conduit à revoir la chaîne du traitement de l’information.
Cette lecture est une réponse à toutes les …

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

Holistic automation approach with Digital Business Automation @ IBM

Lecture on the holistic automation approach @ IBM with the Digital Business Automation / Cloud Pak for Automation platform.

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 …

Enterprise Design Thinking

Teaching and facilitating IBM Enterprise Design Thinking.

The lecture is focusing on methods, tools, co-creation and how IBM use Design Thinking in every project and process.
The lecture can be between 2-6 hours. The participants will both have theory but …

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 …

The Smart Electric Power Grid - Internet of Things for the World's Largest Machine

According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the electric power grid is the largest machine. The increased reliability on electric power for digital life, as well as transportation, has been driving smart grid for the last 15 years. …

Using Python to tackle Data Science challenges

This lecture makes the link between the profession of the Data Scientist, with the practical application using Python and its visualization libraries. So, not only the data collection and manipulation aspects are discussed, but also the analysis and visualization tasks …

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, …

Cognos Analytics - Introduction

Cognos Analytics - How is it used?
Data Modules - What are data modules and How to create Data Modules?
- different type of sources
- data modules features
Dashboards - How are used and How to create dashboards?
- sources of …

La importancia de una metodologia en los proyectos con Data Science

Es un revision del proceso sugerido por la metodologia CRISP-DM, metodologia que implementa el IBM Data Science Elite Team, a la hora de encarar cualquier proyecto de Ciencia de datos; haciendo una breve introduccion a cada una con algunos ejemplos …

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 big data & artificial intelligence solutions deeply transform enterprises business to enhancing client experience & operation efficiency

The digital transformation of any business should lead to developing an enhanced client experience, an improved operation effectiveness while transforming the company internally to be more agile and quickly adapt to new customer demand. One of The key challenges to …

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.

Establish an operational enterprise transformation program to step-wise transform into a cognitive enterprise

As more and more companies struggle in managing transformational programs and continuously applying new technological capabilities to their business in order to create value, the need for a comprehensive yet acceptable implementation strategy consolidates.
A digitalization strategy with a strong …

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)

Resource-based strategy theory: Theory - Research - Consulting

- Point of departure and key concepts
- Process perspectives and dynamic approaches
- Ideas on empirical RBV-inspired studies
- Examples from one empirical study: E-business capability

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
< 16:30 End

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
< 18:00 End

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
< 18:00 End

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

< 18:00 End

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
< 18:00 End

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 …

DevOps + ITIL

Die Studierenden lernen die Ansätze ITIL und DevOps kennen. Sie kennen die Vor- und Nachteile beider Ansätze und können sie bewerten. Weiterhin kennen sie die Unterschiede und können klar analysieren und entscheiden, wann welcher Ansatz zu welchem Zweck am besten …

ITIL+DevOps

Die Studierenden lernen die Ansätze ITIL und DevOps kennen. Sie kennen die Vor- und Nachteile beider Ansätze und können sie bewerten. Weiterhin kennen sie die Unterschiede und können klar analysieren und entscheiden, wann welcher Ansatz zu welchem Zweck am besten …

ITIL + DevOps

Die Studierenden lernen die Ansätze ITIL und DevOps kennen. Sie kennen die Vor- und Nachteile beider Ansätze und können sie bewerten. Weiterhin kennen sie die Unterschiede und können klar analysieren und entscheiden, wann welcher Ansatz zu welchem Zweck am besten …

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 …