University Guest Lectures

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Basics of the server and network automation with Red Hat Ansible

The seminar is about the basics of automating server and network deployments with the free version of the Red Hat application Ansible. There will be a life demo about automating ubuntu and centos virtual servers on Hyper-V and Cisco network …

Basics of the Docker Container and IBM Cloud

The lecture is about containers as the new norm for server virtualization, more specifically the Docker Containers system. The lecture will show the benefits of container virtualization against the normal virtualization and there will be a life demo about deploying …

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 …

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.

Transformacion Digital

Reinvencion digital y su impacto en el mundo de los negocios. Como datos, cloud y la inteligencia artificial estan transformando el modo en que las empresas generan valor, capturan nuevos mercados y deleitan a sus clientes. El camino de adopciónn …

IoT, Cloud and AI Workshop: Build your first cognitive IoT-application

This workshop gives you a first hands-on experience on how to connect an «Internet of Things» (IoT) device to the IBM Cloud. You will use NodeRed and the Watson Services available on the IBM Cloud to build cognitive IoT-applications. The …

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 …

Discover Quantum Computing with Qiskit

This lecture allows the students to start learning the Quantum Computing principles while using Qiskit. The students are guided with their installation of Qiskit and then create a series of Jupyter Notebooks that allow to actively learn step-by-step. What are …

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, …

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 …

IBM Webinare an der FAU Erlangen Nürnberg im SS 2020

Department Informatik
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Moderator: Dr. Martin Mähler
Vorträge verfügbar unter: https://video.ibm.com/channel/gnCMwkVyB3A

Thomas Pohl: From Hardware to Serverless - Cloud Architekturen im Vergleich
Entwickler und Architekten müssen heute die vielfältigen Cloud-Angebote und Service Delivery Modelle verstehen und für ihren Anwendungsfall bewerten. Dazu gehören …

Database Research World Introduction (Material Written in Japanese)

This class provides an introduction to the top-level database research world. Three important research papers from VLDB are explained from the following three aspects.

(1) Database Performance
(2) Database Reliability
(3) Database Design

The topics include column store, data stream processing, schema matching, and …

Technische Grundlagen der Digitalisierung

Die Vorlesung behandelt die Grundlagen der Digitalierung, untergliedert in die Bereiche: Einführung und Entwicklung des Internet, Information und deren Kodierung, Technische Grundlagen und Technologien des WWW. Gesamtzeitbedarf 20-25 Stundent, aber die Inhalten können bei Bedarf auch individuell zusammen gestellt werden. …

Replays from IBM THINK 2020

Due to the health of IBM's clients, employees and partners being our primary concern. IBM had taken a new approach to its signature event. Normally an invite only event with world-class speakers in the industry it is now open to …

5 Technologies everyone needs to understand

Technology is now a part of everyone's life but do you understand what those technologies really are? In just 1 hour, Misty explains the basics of 5 key technologies in a way to anyone can understand, even with little technology …

How Virtualization is transforming the Network Industry

The Network Industry is currently in a transformation journey like never before. The adoption of IT technologies and methodologies in the deployment and management of Network is providing capabilities to the network that facilites its evolution in a much more …

Robotics Process Automation

Cris has a technical background working in the Robotics Process Automation area as a developer, team lead IT Architect and project technical owner.

Cris responsabolities include the project technical accountability, Technical solution shaping and Technical control covering the IT roles of …

Data Virtualization

Easily, confidently access any amount of data, from anywhere. Covered heterogeneous, ubiquitous data, challenges bringing it together in dynamic environments, applicability to analytics and data science, data warehousing (as insufficient), an overview of IBM Data Virtualization, querying hybrid sources with …

Cloud native applications

Presentation on how to develop an new application and deploy in on the IBM Cloud in various models: PaaS, FaaS, IaaS.

Getting Started with IBM Watson Studio : an unique Data Science Experience

IBM Watson studio is an environment that has everything a data scientist needs to be successful. The Experience is an interactive environment where data scientists can use multiple tools to activate their insights. Walk through a demo to experience these …

Getting started with H20 on IBM Power Systems

IBM and H2O.ai have a shared vision of improving the reach and adoption of AI by bringing it to more software application developers, whether they have data science skills or not. H2O's machine learning (ML) software, Driverless AI, automates several …

Getting started as a Data Scientist

Data scientists are a new breed of analytical data experts, big data wranglers, who have the technical skills to solve complex problems, and the curiosity to explore what problems need to be solved. But what if you are a data …

Getting started with PowerAI Vision

IBM PowerAI Vision is a video/image analysis platform. Join us to learn how to use the built-in deep learning models that learn to analyze images and video streams for classification and object detection. No prior knowledge in machine learning or …

Urbaniser son systeme d'information

Ce cours introductif explique aux etudiants non informatique les concepts et importance de systeme d information (et les differents composants comme ERP, CRM, BI) et le metier d'architecte au sein de l'IT. De plus il detaille les besoins d'urbanisation des …

Introduction aux conteneurs: Apprendre les bases en une heure

Êtes-vous intéressé par Kubernetes ou OpenShift ... Je veux dire par le nouveau monde où les conteneurs sont rois? Cette session est une introduction aux concepts de conteneurs et de microservices. Si ce monde vous est encore inconnu alors cette …

Cours Business Intelligence : Datawarehouse, ETL, Reporting : plusieurs faces d'une meme solution

Ce cours prend un exemple educatif de la météo pour expliquer les concepts et l'architecture d'une solution de business intelligence (aide à la decision ou business analytics), explorant egalement des cas d'utilisations

Open Your Big Data Solutions to Gain competitive Insights

BigData and Analytics solutions have transformed the meaning and the value of “Information” over the years. To provide solid IT infrastructure foundations to this transformation, open source ecosystem has developped new paradigm which access and process data faster than any …

Traitement & analyse de la donnée en intelligence économique et Big Data

Le saviez vous ? 90% des données numeriques dans tout le monde ont été créées sur les 2 dernieres années ! Connaissez vous le zettabytes ? les entreprises vont generer 35 zettabytes en 2020. Pourquoi faire ? pour mieux connaitre …

Cours introductif à la virtualisation

Ce cours donne les concepts et les technologies de la virtualisation, technologie clé pour le cloud

Demysthifier SQL, Hadoop, NoSQL

Un cours pour expliquer les technologies SQL, Hadoop et NoSQL et expliciter les differences/ positionnement de chaque technologies. Une approche pedagogique basée sur les 3V de la donnees : Volume, Variete et Velocité

Power, Edge, AI technologies used in the Mayflower Autonomous Ship

Discover how a submarine maker morphed into designing a full-size autonomous ship, leveraged Power and Edge Fabric and what it means ... AI ?, IOT ???. Understand the challenges and see where IBM building blocks fit, and why they were …

Watson Ecosystems & How to start with IA for Free in IBM Cloud

I present the Watson Ecosystems (Watson Services/API, Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, Watson Knowledge Catalog, Watson Openscale, Cloud Pak for Data).
During the presentation, I show how to start with AI thanks to Watson Services and how to start for free …

The Internet of Things in the Big Data era

After completing this unit, you should be able to:
- Describe what the Internet of Things is
- Explain what technology is used in a typical IoT Solution
- Describe some examples of challenges, use cases, and solution architecture
- Know how to get …

IBM Cloud & Watson Day

Run thousands of times with customers, students, and partners, this lecture contains all you need to get started with IBM Cloud & Watson. Formal Presentation of IBM Cloud , IBM Watson and 9 Lab Exercises. Overview here : https://ibmcloud-watson-day.mybluemix.net
Request the …

introduction à la business intelligence et data warehouse

Cours de 2 à 3h, qui introduit les concepts de base de la business intelligence (aide à la decision) et qui detaille les aspects techniques des 3 composants de la BI : l ETL, la datawarehouse et le reporting

L'Intelligence Artificielle au service de l'humain

Voilà un sujet traité abondamment par les médias, qui nous touche au quotidien, mais tellement vaste que beaucoup peinent à en comprendre vraiment les enjeux. En tant qu'acteur incontournable de l'intelligence artificielle au service des entreprises, souvent en contexte de …

A Chatbot to teach programming in Primary Education

Teaching programming in Primary Education has recently attracted a great deal of interest. One global trend is using multimedia languages such as Scratch. However, by using Pedagogic Conversational Agents that dialog with the students, they have to think how to …

Blockchain for Software Engineers: Workshop

As blockchain moves beyond the hype and into business-critical systems, skills for blockchain-proficient software engineers are in serious demand. Enterprises world-wide and cross-industry are recognising the value that blockchain brings, and are looking for people who can make the next …

Understanding IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud™ is a robust suite of advanced data and AI tools, and deep industry expertise to help you on your journey to the cloud.
IBM Cloud offers a full-stack cloud platform with over 170 products and services covering data, …

Understanding IBM Cloud Pak for Data

IBM Cloud™ Paks are enterprise-ready, containerized software solutions that give clients an open, faster and more secure way to move core business applications to any cloud. Each IBM Cloud Pak™ includes containerized IBM middleware and common software services for development …

Speeding to Cloud with IBM Cloud Paks

IBM Cloud™ Paks are enterprise-ready, containerized software solutions that give clients an open, faster and more secure way to move core business applications to any cloud. Each IBM Cloud Pak™ includes containerized IBM middleware and common software services for development …

Resiliency and Operations Lessons from the Apollo Missions to the Moon

July 2019 marked 50 years since the first humans set foot on the moon.

Moments before the historic landing of Apollo 11, the spacecraft computer started throwing errors and basically restarting every few seconds. The astronauts and mission control had to …

What is blockchain for business?

What is blockchain?
Blockchain is a shared, replicated ledger that underpins technology such as Bitcoin. Blockchain's reach is wider than cryptocurrency however, as it sets out to provide the foundation for a new generation of transactional applications that establish trust …

The Jefferson Project at Lake George

The Jefferson Project is collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM, and the FUND for Lake George focused on developing a detailed understanding of the overall ecology of Lake George, including the interactions of the physical, chemical, and biological environment in …

IBM 2020

From punchcard machines to quantum computers. What is the state of IBM 2020? Where did we come from, where are we today, and where are we headed?
I'd love to give my take on on the abovementioned questions.

Technology for every Degree

Most everyone needs some skills in technology in order to do their jobs well, from artists using digital rendering to lawyers programming contracts in a blockchain and even school teachers using analytics to understand student needs. Future job roles will …

Data Science & AI point of view

In this lecture I will give a point of view where AI & Data Science is today and what is happening in different industries. What is data and why I should care about it. How I can leverage this to …

When is innovation not innovation?

AI, machine learning, blockchain... we can do some magnificent things with modern technology, things that will make a real difference - not just in the workplace but for society. But is everything we try innovative?

From this session take away:
* …

TJBot - a tangible introduction to A.I. services

Half-day hands-on workshop where attendees will build their own TJBot robot, bring him to life and connect him to IBM Cloud services like visual recognition, speech to text, text to speech and Watson Assistant.

What is TJBot?
https://tjbotcz.github.io/en.html

Requirements:
TJBotCZ kit
(available …

Rethinking Weather: The Resilience Imperative and the Power of Data

In a time of increasing weather chaos, weather data is empowering companies, saving ecosystems, protecting communities, engaging consumers, and informing investors to build a more resilient world.

In this presentation, Paul discusses how companies / governments are leveraging AI, weather data …

Beyond Chatbots: Building Virtual Assistants with IBM Watson AI (Workshop)

This workshop will take you beyond building a simple Q&A chatbot, and show you how to use AI and other services to construct a cognitive virtual assistant.

Over the course of the workshop, using a set of fully guided tutorials, …

Chatbots 101 With Watson Assistant (Workshop)

Chatbots are becoming pervasive when it comes to improving many aspects of customer experience, whether it’s providing customer service, presenting product recommendations, streamlining the shopping experience, or providing natural language interfaces to existing applications.

With the IBM Watson Assistant service, you …

Node-RED and IBM Watson Workshop: Build Innovative AI Apps Without Coding Experience!

Getting started with developing web and mobile applications can be a minefield! Learning HTML and CSS technologies in order to build web pages, and programming languages like Javascript or Python to create application code takes a long time … so …

Weather and Climate Data: Not Just for Meteorologists

Weather is part of our everyday lives. Who doesn’t check the rain radar before heading out, or the weather forecast when planning a weekend away? But where does this data come from, and what is it made of? The answer …

Preparing for the 4th Industrial Revolution

The 4th Industrial Revolution is here. How can we prepare as students for the jobs of tomorrow? We must start to embrace emerging technologies like Blockcahin, IOT & AI underpin with Cloud Services as we enter into the 4th Industrial …

Cloud Native Development

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 continuous delivery—in short, every new and modern method of application …

Global Trade Made Easy: Enabling the Intelligent Supply Chain

The world has changed significantly in the last 20 years. The methods we use today to manage global trade are no longer meeting the needs of empowered consumer. Retail supply chains are under immense pressure from the shift of power …

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing - Moonshoot for the Enterprise

A Manufacturing Point of view AI is delivering new opportunities in the manufacturing space and opening up better and fast ways of delivering products while streamlining and driving greater efficiencies in the factory. Will deliver a potted history of the …

The future of Marketing (Copenhagen Business School - March 2019)

Technology impacts the future of marketing and can shape how the markteer will work. Taking a look into how the AI is impacting key trends. With the view of Personification, Hyperlocalisation and Personalisation showing examples on how enterprised are taking …

The Future of Marketing with Technology @Copenhagen Business School (Oct 2019)

You never know what the future will bring but regardless of what technology might come marketing will continue to lead and drive the Growth and Change in the Enterprises around the world. At the peak on the Gartner Hypecycle AI …

Is Data Oxygen? The risk of not knowing!

Starting from the responsibility Energy, Environment and Utility companies have for the environment and climate change this lecture highlights key areas where data, advanced analytics and AI/ML is applied today by scientists and organisations to become more data insights driven. …

Partnerships within Internet of Things, AI and Blockchain

Learn how Danish companies are driving business transformation using IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. The lecture includes the latest development within IoT, Industrial Internet and production optimization.

How do you get a computer excited about Tennis? Learn how IBM helps create award winning digital experiences for the Wimbledon Championships

The Wimbledon Championships are 150 years old and your first associations are probably about the traditions - Pimms and strawberries and the all white dress. However did you know that IBM applies cutting edge AI and cloud computing to help …

How to cut through in sport using data, AI and innovation

In the world of sport the competitive landscape is fierce and complex. As big brands but small organisations your product and content competes against global media organisations. Your audience can choose from a cornucopia of sports viewing as well as …

Why sport proves that disruption and tradition can co-exist.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club, better know as Wimbledon, is over 150 years old. It has lived through tumultuous world events, multi era defining technology shifts and still come out stronger. But how?

In this lecture learn about the history …

IBM - The enterprise in constant disruption

IBM has been around for more than 100 years constantly disrupting if self to adapt to the ever changing market conditions. A "history" lesson of IBM's journey and many examples of how IBM has changed the world and will continue …

Technology for people

Artificial Intelligence and the new exponential technologies are reshaping the business scenario and opening new opportunities, unthinkable just few years ago. This talk will help students to better understand how technologies are creating new possibilities to the people with disabilities …

Cloud Computing as a service

You have your code, tested and production ready (...in your mind). Where is your system?
In this simple lecture we will show how to move your code from your notebook on internet in minutes, simple like ordering an hamburger in …

The future of Marketing

Artificial Intelligence and the new exponential technologies are reshaping the business scenario and opening new opportunities, unthinkable just few years ago. This talk will help students to better understand how technologies are transforming industries, professions and creating new jobs, while …

Quantum Computing and IBM Q: An Introduction

Quantum computing is getting a significant amount of attention these days, especially since IBM put a real 5-qubit machine online in May 2016. Since then, over 100,000 people have themselves directly used the no-charge IBM Q Experience and created software …

Building the Ladder to Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation

Businesses must embrace digital transformation to remain competitive due to fundamental changes in how businesses operate and deliver value in increasingly digital world. Artificial intelligence is a key engine and data is fuel of digital transformation. There is no AI …

Digitale Ethik - Versuch eines Überblicks

Vortrag verfügbar unter: https://video.ibm.com/channel/gnCMwkVyB3A

Immer häufiger taucht der Begriff “Digitale Ethik” in den Schlagzeilen auf. Was ist eigentlich mit Digitale Ethik gemeint? Und warum sollte es mich als ITler und als Privatperson interessieren? Hier ist der Versuch, einen Überblick und …

Hello World - Best practices for your cloud-based database application

Want to build a cloud app with Db2 or another database system? Here are the best practices covering deployment options, security, performance, monitoring and more. Henrik is going to take a look at Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry and serverless Cloud Functions, …

5 in 5 - Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives Within Five Years

Every year IBM Research publishes the "5 in 5", five innovations that will most likely change our lives within the next five years. In 2021, the vision behind the "5 in 5" is to radically accelerate the process of discovery …

What exactly is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)?

This presentation will introduce the topic of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), a relatively new approach to operations. Fundamentally, it's what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function. After a general introduction to SRE, we will …

Enterprise Crowdsourcing for training Artificial Intelligence

In this lecture you will learn through practical examples about fairness, bias and ethics in artificial intelligence. The following topics are discussed:
* Different types of Artificial Intelligence
* Basics of Machine Learning
* Issues with AI and machine learning
* Expert annotation and …

Building Fan Brands: Mashing Up Sports, Retail & Entertainment

How do you turn fan engagement into consumer activity, and what is the value of that? What are the new ways you need to measure? What does the intersection between retail, sports and entertainment look like? How can we do …

Under the pavement, under the beach! Why we need a revolution in the customer experience of data.

We need a revolution in the customer experience of data.
Your customer experience of a product, service or place is dependent on the ‘data capital’ you have accumulated - or not - and how the ‘gatekeeper’ recognises you. But this goes …

The Future of Technology

Let's take a look into tomorrrow's world of technology at three separate scales - planetary, human and nano-tech. For each of them we will take a look at two or three examples of technology that has the potential to change …

Enriching Chatbots with Knowledge Discovery using Watson

Chatbots are applied today in many Industry Sectors and Business Processes. But a best practice is to prepare and train the Chatbot for 80 % of the rather routine questions, while the remaining 20 % of more difficult questions should …

Using Watson for Innovation with Articial Intelligence

In this lecture, the concepts Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning are clearly defined and illustrated. Next, different focus categories of AI are discussed: Conversational Services, Knowledge Search and Smart Extensions. Each of the categories is …

Modernizing ITSM - Cloud Service Management and Operations (CSMO)

With the evolving landscape towards DevOps and cloud, IT Service Management (ITSM) has to change as well to stay relevant.

Cloud Service Management and Operations (CSMO) refers to the entirety of activities – organized in persona, processes, and tools – …

Are you ready for the Digital Era?

Do the Right things, Do the things Right, Do it Right the first time!
Digital is the new Holy Grail. The battleground between companies has moved from the physical world to the Digital one and Transformation is the Enabler for winning …

Data Center Network Virtualization for the Cloud

This is an introduction to cloud connectivity challenges and solutions. First, the lecture describes why and how networking in cloud environments differs from the traditional networking. Next, it presents specific requirements for connectivity in the cloud and gives a generic …