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 …

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 …

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Is there a place for latest ITIL version or is it definitely outdated?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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Getting to know the Academic Initiative

The IBM Academic Initiative is a self-service program that provides students and faculty at accredited academic institutions with access to select IBM resources at no-charge for classroom and non-commercial research purposes.

Find out how to register for the Academic Initiative and …

Physical Fitness: Responses and Adaptations and its Contribution to Well-Being - An Overview

Provide an overview of Exercise Physiology and the importance of Physical Fitness for improving general health and the mechanisms which lead to responses and adaptations of the body following exercise.

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. …

Patenting 101

This is a Patenting 101 presentation that introduces the patenting process to the university students.

https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/126565748

Content is:

*) What is a patent?

*) Value of a patent

*) US PTO patent filing process

*) Tips to facilitate the patenting

*) Additional resources

Introduction to Building Your Personal Brand

This one-hour module provides an introduction to Personal Branding, with exercises for the participants to start building their own personal brand.
Personal Branding is the most effective strategy you can use to achieve professional success and fulfillment. In this session, …

Intellectual Property Considerations

This lecture discusses intellectual property considerations relevant for university students. It covers:
- What is intellectual property (IP)?
- Why is IP valuable?
- IP & open software: not at war
- Tips for pursuing patent protection

Développement personnel: Loi d'attraction

On dit que: "Nos pensées et nos émotions assemblent et réorganisent continuellement notre réalité." Et si on prenait un peu de temps pour en discuter ...

architecture client serveur

L’évolution constante des marchés, la recherche d’une compétitivité toujours plus forte et le rôle croissant des technologies de l’information nécessitent que l’entreprise fasse évoluer rapidement ses systèmes d’information. Pour cela les architectures des solutions informatiques doivent etre flexibles, evolutives et …

Cours général en Systèmes d'Information avec étude de cas ERP en groupes

Cours magistral : présentation des étudiants et de l'enseignant, de l'ensemble du cours, présentation générale des SI et de ses composants (enjeux, métiers, systèmes d'exploitation, langages de programmation, base de données, création de sites, cloud, mobilité, big data, IBM Watson, …

Coaching

Coaching

Intercultural management

The objective of this module is to understand cultural diversity and measure its influence on professional relationships, and communicate effectively in a multicultural concept

Strategic and competitive intelligence

The objectives of this module: identify methods of research, selection and analysis of information, implement a strategic and competitive monitoring methodology, make actionable strategic recommendations

BtoB Marketing

The objectives of this module : understand the concept of BtoB marketing, master the purchasing strategies, understand the specifics of B2B Marketing, and in particular identify the roles of the different market players, identify the specifics of distribution in B2B

Social selling, Social eminence and/or Employee Advocacy.

Hi, my name is Thomas and I am a strategic, agile and innovative digital communications ambassador. My position as Social strategist or Head of Social at IBM in the Nordic countries has given me significant knowledge around topics such as …

Global Location Strategy

The international economic landscape is being fundamentally altered by the twin impacts of changing trade regimes and digital disruption. As such, we are witnessing a transformation of corporate activity and economic globalization. Companies are therefore constantly changing their global operating …

Gamification AND Agile in a Nutshell

Gamification and Agile are both very important words when it comes to team motivation, but, believe me, these two concepts have way more in common than meets the eye. What if you could learn the basics of them BOTH in …

Applying Agile & Gamification in Completely Unexpected Moments

If you think Agile methodologies can only be applied in given IT projects, the time has come to think about it again. Let's understand together the meaning of "agile to the core" and how it relates to gamification somehow.

How Can Gamification Be A Game Changer?

Gamification is, each day more, a buzz word being used by companies. But what does it really mean? We're not talking about games, but about a powerful methodology that can really leverage business results in pretty much any area.

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 …

Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction- Model Implementation and Applications

The presentation provides an overview of the importance of mesosccale and local weather modeling and prediction. It provides details on IBM's Deep Thunder weather prediction model as well as the community model which is incorporates. Case study examples are provided …

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 …

Data Science Hands-On Workshop SPSS and Watson Studio

Hands-on workshops on data science and statistical data analysis.
The participants develop models and data analysis on their own, with their own laptop or computers at the academic institution and create a data science analysis model together with me.
Afterwards a model …

Data Science Hands-On Workshop Watson Studio und SPSS

Hands-On Workshops zum Thema Data Science und statistische Datenanalyse.
Hier sitzen die TN selber am Rechner oder Laptop und erstelle zusammen mit mir ein Data Science Analysemodell.
Anschließend erfolgt eine Modellbewertung und Diskussion der Ergebnisse.

>> Lectures only in DACH region.<<

Data Science - Expectations, Opportunities, Limits

Lecture which shows the possibilities of Data Science and discusses model quality and applicability.

>> Lectures only in DACH region.<<

Data Science - Erwartungen, Möglichkeiten, Grenzen

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

Der Vortrag zeigt die Möglichkeiten von Data Science auf und diskutiert die Güte und Anwendbarkeit von Modellen. Erfahren Sie, wie man Data Science Projekte methodisch aufbaut, Modelle erstellt und was bei der Bewertung und beim Einsatz …

Data Scienence with SPSS Statistics

Lecture about data analysis with statistical methods, data preparation, representation and exploration

We will discuss this in detail in a telephone call.

>> Lectures only in DACH region.<<

Data Science mit SPSS Statistics

Vortrag zum Thema Dataenanalyse mit statistischen Verfahren, Datenaufbereitung, Darstellung und Exploration.
Näheres besprechen wir am Telefon.

>> Lectures only in DACH region.<<

Data Science with SPSS Modeler

Lecture on Data Science and modelling with practice demo and usecase presentation.
We will discuss this in detail in a telephone call.

>> Lectures only in DACH region.<<

Data Science mit dem SPSS Modeler

Vortrag zum Thema Data Science und Modellbildung mit Praxis-Demo und Usecase Vorstellung.

DACH
Näheres besprechen wir dann bei einem Telefonat.

>> Lectures only in DACH region.<<

Adressing nine resilience challenges

Many enterprises are adopting Agile methods and DevOps enthusiastically, to be able to implement business change more reliably and more quickly. DevOps can support build, deployment, test and operation and the degree to which DevOps benefits an organisation depends on …

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 …

GIS for Archaeology: introduction and practice

Introduction to GIS, from essential concepts to technological aspects, using QGIS as the learning tool. While the concepts are general the use-case presented focus on how to create a geographical database from a list of archaeological sites and how to …

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. …

Branding & Strategic Communication

How to brand a company via strategic communication - without spending a dime
IBM Denmark is the case study

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 …

Innovation Management - what is innovation actually?

There is often a debate about the difference of ideas, inventions and innovation.
The presentation will explore what innovation is, some characteristics, examples and also ways to drive innovation within an enterprise. We will also cover which approaches, processes and governance …

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 …

Building your Digital Eminence

Derived from internal IBM course, this one hour interactive session gets students to focus on what they want to be known for, and how that is reflected in their digital presence. Students pair up and research each others internet presence …

Leadership Lessons from IBM

This is an interactive session that gets students to think about leadership traits that they appreciate, and behaviours to avoid. It draws on external sources including Daniel Goleman's research on Emotional Intelligence and leadership, Joel De Luca on Organisational Politics, …

Handling difficult conversations

This one-hour module looks at how we handle those business discussions that we might regard as difficult. As our career or business grows, so does the frequency and complexity of such conversations. The module draws on research including the Arbinger …

IT Strategy - Concepts

A strategy is important to an organization because it provices a sense of directions and outlines measuarable goals. An IT strategy has not only to keep the IT in line with the business, but has to enable competitive advantage to …

The Power of Human-Centred Innovation

This lecture looks at why and how we innovate, and who is 'allowed' to 'do innovation'. Innovation is not about technology, It’s about people and about how we think about innovation to address worthy problems. Where innovation comes in is …

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 …

'Standing At The Crossroads' - The Future of Shopping Centres

We are standing at a crossroads of what happens next for shopping centres and retail real estate of all kinds, with decisions to make about what we want that future to be. We will consider 4 possible directions we could …

Better Together - The principle of partnering to do more

Smart people and businesses know their own strengths and weaknesses, smarter people and businesses address their own weaknesses by utilising the strengths of their partner networks.
This lecture covers the principles that help identify, form and operationalise partnerships and alliances, using …

Becoming Agile: A mindset shift workshop

This lecture can be done in 2 formats: a 1-2 hours overview of what it means to be Agile, or a 4 to 6 hours workshop where we learn to be Agile by practicing it together. In both cases, we …

Intellectual Property for Engineers and Start-ups

Intellectual property (IP) has value, whether it be the copyright, trademark, invention or confidential information. As a person, and as a company, it is important to understand the ins and outs of IP. In this lecture we will introduce the …