Conference Tracks Overview

Conference Tracks Overview

Track 1: Application runtimesFocus on products and technologies such as WebSphere Application Server (WAS), Node.js, Java, etc.

Track 2: Cloud platformsFocus on IBM Bluemix as the runtime platform, in Cloud and/or onpremises, as well as SoftLayer, PureApplication Systems,etc.

Track 3: DevOpsFocus on automation underpinning continuous development, testing, deployment and release featuring IBM productsincluding IBM Rational products for development and test, UrbanCode, etc.

Track 4: Hybrid IntegrationFocus on software such as the IBM Integration Bus (IIB, formerly known as the WebSphere Message Broker), MQ, APIConnect, DataPower, etc.

Track 5: IT Service ManagementFocus on solutions that cover analytics, operations, performance and automation that enable you to collect, monitor,understand data patterns and trends across your IT ecosystem.

Track 6: Mainframe vitalityFocus on the IBM z System software, and in particular cutting edge z/OS software for developing modern applications forleveraging the mainframe. MQ z/OS, WAS z/OS, CICS, z/OS Connect, etc.

Track 7: MobileThis track will focus on bestpractice methodologies, architectures, tools, and lessons learned to help you build, manage andprotect mobile apps across the endtoend app lifecycle. It shows you how to unlock the potential of your existing corporatedata and how to gain insight into the performance of your mobile applications

Track 8: Process TransformationFocus on software such as IBM Business Process Manager (BPM), Operational Decision Manager (ODM), etc.

Conference Tracks

Track 1: Application runtimes

A65 Liberty Java Batch An Introduction

Speaker: David Follis IBM

The support of Java EE7 in Liberty includes support for JSR352, the open standard for Java Batch. But IBM did more than justcomply with the specification. We added a whole list of operational features to help you integrate Liberty Batch into your productionbatch environment. In this session we'll review the specification itself (more interesting than it sounds, really!) and take a look at theoperational features we've added.

A83 Utilising Liberty in Docker Containers for scalability Lab

Speaker: David Currie IBM

In this lab, a single Liberty Docker image will be created and started multiple times to showcase the ease of starting up newcontainers. The Docker image will be pushed to Bluemix and accessed via the internet. The lab will progress into creating LibertyDocker clusters with the help of a Liberty Collective Controller and some command line tools. Finally, the lab will move to usingelasticity to scale the Docker containers.

A85 “The Art of the Possible” WebSphere in Bluemix demonstrations

Speakers:Kevin Postreich IBMAnita Rass Wan IBM

As a developer, you now have a hand in creating the future. Whatever your task, we’ve got you covered with all of the instantservices, runtimes, and infrastructure you need to unleash your ideas into the present. Welcome to the Cloud Trader – Unleashed demonstration, where we will walk through a series of slightly off the cuff scenarios to helpyou experience a world of possibilities of using IBM Cloud technology to quickly and easily bring to market fresh ideas. We will be demonstrating “Art of the Possible” scenarios through integration of exciting new cloud services to a stodgy old webapplication, providing a more engaging customer experience. You will see easy integration of Java EE applications to new “born onthe cloud” node.js applications leveraging instant services and runtimes such as realtime communication (WebRTC), social medialike Twitter, messaging, data cache, NodeRED, Internet of Things, SQL database, Liberty Profile, and node.js.

A86 WebSphere eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment (XSLD 8.6.1) withdemonstrations

Speakers:Kevin Postreich IBMLars Besselmann IBM

Learn how to Deploy, Configure, and Manage a Liberty based WebSphere eXtreme Scale Enterprise grid (XSLD) in under 10 steps.

XSLD is an easytodeploy, easytoconfigure distribute caching solution based on WebSphere eXtreme Scale software technology.

In this session, we will explore and demonstrate the latest IBM Liberty Profile technology tightly integrated with eXtreme Scale whichprovides simple and easy of use administrative console to manage and monitor enterprise data grids.

The solution provides out of the box administrative REST API and caching operational REST API for managing your grids. You canquickly and easily scaling up/down the caching capacity via the administrative console or REST APIs.

A112 Technical Deep Dive into IBM WebSphere Liberty

Speakers:Alasdair Nottingham IBMAlex Mulholland IBM

This session will provide a detailed look into the philosophy, architecture and design of the most flexible, simple and scalable JavaEE application server on the market today WebSphere Liberty. Alasdair Nottingham, the WebSphere Runtime Architect, willdescribe the motivation behind this project, and the key characteristics that are encouraging so many Java EE users to move theirapplications to Liberty. Alasdair will also cover the benefits of WebSphere Liberty for both development and deployment of Java EEapplications, in your data center and in the cloud.

A117 Understanding IBM API Connect in the context of API's, theinteraction tier and micro services

Speakers:Charlotte Hutchinson IBMGary Kean IBM

Node.js has emerged as a platform that is known for its successful implementation of back ends and is becoming more and morepopular within the enterprise market. As a runtime in API Connect we will explore how to decompose a monolith into microservicesusing APIConnect and loopback. Along side looking at the changes within LoopBack V3.

A127 How to Choose Your Next WebSphere Infrastructure

Speakers:Alex Mulholland IBMAlasdair Nottingham IBM

Join us for a deepdive into the differences between WebSphere Classic and WebSphere Liberty. This session will share advice onhow to choose the best WebSphere profile for your deployment. It will also discuss how to examine applications using WebSpheremigration tools to determine where they will run.

A128 DevOps Tools and WebSphere Application Server

Speakers:Jeremy Hughes IBMAnita Rass Wan IBM

Continuous delivery is a characteristic of innovative businesses that are responsive to customer requirements. DevOps tools likeChef, Puppet and IBM UrbanCode Deploy fulfill this goal. Chef and Puppet simplify the configuration of operating systems andmiddleware. You write code to represent your infrastructure and manage it in source control, just like application code. Used togetherwith IBM UrbanCode Deploy, application updates and changes to database schema and other aspects of an IT infrastructure can becoordinated and monitored. Come learn some of the basics and see a change move through the continuous delivery pipeline intoproduction.

A129 What new in WebSphere Application Server Security and CloudReadiness

Speakers:Michael Cheng IBMIan Robinson IBM

This session will focus on new security capabilities delivered in the IBM WebSphere Application Server Full profile and Libertyprofile, which are now available for both traditional and cloudready applications. In addition, the WebSphere developmentorganization will be looking to gain feedback from attendees on security features that IBM should consider for future WebSphereversions.

A130 How to make your IBM WebSphere Liberty, Node.js servicesaccessible with Swagger

Speakers:Tim Deboer IBMAnita Rass Wan IBM

Most enterprises already have a wealth of services in production, but there's no list or documentation to help clients understand usewhat's available. Find out how IBM WebSphere Liberty and/or Node.js can help applications self document their APIs using Swagger.

A131 Best Practices for Configuring and Managing Large WebSphereTopologies

Speakers:Tom Alcott IBMMichael Cheng IBM

This session covers the latest recommendations for creating and managing a large WebSphere topology. We will discuss howWebSphere components scale with the size of your environment, demonstrate how to configure these components for a largeenvironment, and present the recommended tuning parameters and programming model. Our recommendations will cover bothWebSphere full profile with intelligent management, and the Liberty profile.

A132 WebSphere Application Server Migration: Benefits, Planning andBest Practices

Speakers:Tim Deboer IBMAnita Rass Wan IBM

Planning a WebSphere Application Server migration? Come learn aspects of migration planning, best practices and new clonetechniques, and review source and binary application migration tools from the IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit.Both configuration and application migration considerations will be covered. Learn how to migrate to later versions of WebSphereApplication Server, whether it be WebSphere Classic or WebSphere Liberty. This session will pertain to WebSphere ApplicationServer versions 6.1 through 8.5.5.

A133 IBM WebSphere Liberty and Docker Deep Dive

Speaker: David Currie IBM

WebSphere Liberty and Docker is a powerful combination for rapid and efficient deployment of Java applications, whether monolithor microservices, onpremise, in the cloud, or both. After a short recap of the fundamentals of Docker, this session will dive in to theimpact of using containers with Liberty from development, through the build and delivery pipeline, and it to a resilient and scalableproduction environment. We'll cover the options for scaling with the Bluemix container service, Liberty collectives, and DockerDatacenter.

A135 Running in Production: IBM WebSphere Liberty ProblemDetermination, Monitoring and Analytics

Speakers:Tim Deboer IBMKevin Grigorenko IBM

IBM WebSphere Liberty is being used increasingly in production. Learn how you can monitor your Liberty servers and how to takeadvantage of Liberty analytics to enable you to efficiently understand issues arising in your deployments. See demos of problemdetermination, monitoring and analytics capabilities.

A136 Microservices with IBM WebSphere Liberty: A Practical Guide

Speakers:Jeremy Hughes IBMDavid Currie IBM

The 12factor app is a methodology for building applications that are portable, can be maintained easily in a continuous deliverypipeline. This type of application also lends itself nicely to deployment in a microservice architecture. This session provides a factorbyfactor guide to building 12factor applications on WAS Liberty and IBM Bluemix, giving attendees the chance to see them in reallife context rather than as abstract concepts.

A137 WebSphere Liberty, Egalité, Fraternité In All Clouds

Speakers:Ian Robinson IBMDavid Currie IBM

We designed WebSphere Application Server to be the best enterprise Java container regardless of the choice of cloud model. Thissession looks at the different cloud scenarios for WAS depending on operational need. SaaS is available through IBM ApplicationServer on Cloud and is a good option for many existing applications, and also for preserving existing administration scripts.ContainerasaService (CaaS), with Dockerized WAS Liberty is a good option for new microservicesbased applications, running inIBM Container Services (ICS). For a wholly appcentric model, the CloudFoundry PaaS environment of Bluemix Instant Runtimescreates a Liberty container around each deployed application. This session will help you make the best choice.

A138 WebSphere Application Server V9 Update On Prem and In Cloud

Speakers:Ian Robinson IBMAlex Mulholland IBM

Over the last year WebSphere became the first productionready Java EE 7 certified runtime, in the cloud and onpremise, running inDocker containers as well as VMs on a variety of clouds. WAS V9 sets the direction for new hybrid cloud scenarios that we'll look at indetail, and discuss how WebSphere Application Server is the ideal runtime for Java microservices running in any cloud. This sessionwill also look ahead at the future direction of WebSphere Application Server.

A144 Agile Development Using Java EE 7 with IBM WebSphere LibertyProfile

Speaker: Alasdair Nottingham IBM

Java EE 7 enhances and extends the existing Java EE capabilities, adding support for WebSockets and managed thread access,and further extending existing programming models like Servlets and the Java Persistence API (JPA). In this lab, you will learn how touse a wide range of these technologies by creating a dynamic web application that uses WebSockets, JPA and the ConcurrencyUtilities for Java and runs on the WebSphere Liberty profile.

A145 WebSphere Liberty Profile: From Inspiration to Production in anHour

Speakers:Alasdair Nottingham IBMTim Deboer IBM

The WebSphere Liberty profile was built with every aspect of the development lifecycle in mind: rapid prototyping, agile teamdevelopment, and fullscale production onpremise or in the cloud. Come see an application built from scratch all the way toproduction and hear tips and tricks that put the Liberty profile in a class of its own.

A146 DevOps with IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Docker andChef

Speakers:Jeremy Hughes IBMTim Deboer IBM

Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring longmaintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function insmall, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required tomaintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven, Chef and Docker can beused with the IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.

A152 Preparing to Fail: Practical WebSphere Application Server HighAvailability

Speaker: Tom Alcott IBM

Whether deployed onpremises or in a remote cloud if you need to achieve a High Availability (HA) service level or a ContinuousAvailability (CA) service level there are a number of practical aspects to consider in deploying and configuring WebSphereApplication Server both the traditional WAS (tWAS) profile and the Liberty profile; among these factors are component placement,component redundancy and isolation, as well as and data storage and application design. Just as important, but often overlooked,are request queue depth, infrastructure timeout and retry values. This session will discuss all of these factors with a focus onapplication request flow and how to optimally to tune your infrastructure for fail over, recovery and performance.

A154 Planning for Catastrophe: WebSphere Application Server and IBMBPM Disaster Recovery

Speaker: Tom Alcott IBM

This session will discuss the architectural and operational issues that need to be considered when planning and implementing aDisaster Recovery plan with WebSphere Application Server, both traditional WAS (tWAS) profile and Liberty profile and IBM BPM.Aspects discussed will include the use of multiple data centers, both onpremises and cloud ,geographic separation considerations,supporting software and other related deployment issues. In addition the specific operational steps associated with some commonDR scenarios will be outlined. Though focused primarily on WebSphere Application Server and IBM BPM the material is alsoapplicable to other IBM Software products that leverage WebSphere Application Server.

A259 Build and Manage an Onpremise Cloud from One Interface withNode.js, Docker and WebSphere Liberty

Speakers:Steve Clay IBMMichael Cheng IBM

Node.js is an exciting new and lightweight runtime for building microservices applications and mobile backends. Docker containersprovide an inexpensive and lightweight means of virtualization using many common Linux distributions.With IBM WebSphere Libertycollectives, you can easily manage your use of Node.js servers and Docker containers hosting Liberty (Liberty Docker containers).Come and experience the ease of creating a Node.js server package or Liberty Docker container, deploying these as a repeatableand even autonomic process, and managing these servers from the Liberty Admin Center. Learn how to put the power of Node.js,Docker and Liberty collectives to work for your organization. The following technologies will be used: Node.js, Docker, Libertycollective controller and members, Admin Center, autoscaling and dynamic routing.

A260 Intelligent Management for Node.js

Speakers:Steve Clay IBMMichael Cheng IBM

Node.js is an important emerging application environment for cloud and mobile. But your Node.js applications need enterpriseclasscapabilities to run production workloads. See how you can use IBM WebSphere Liberty collectives to intelligently manage clusters ofNode.js applications with advanced features like autoscaling, health management, dynamic routing, analytics, and optional Dockerpackaging.

A294 FIPS support in Node.js

Speaker: Michael Dawson Canada

FIPS 1402 is a cryptographic functionality standard that is often required when handling sensitive information, particularly ingovernment and regulated industries. A FIPS capable runtime may be prerequisite when building solutions for thesecustomers/industries. Support for FIPS was a community request that has been addressed thanks to numerous contributors. Comehear about FIPS support in Node.js. The talk will cover FIPS requirements, and the specific enablement, test updates, and changes todependencies that were required in the communty. We’ll include code samples and walkthroughs, and end with an overview of howto use FIPS capable Node.js through sample deployments in the cloud.

A295 Node.js Knowledge accelerator for this rapidly growingruntime/eco system

Speaker: Michael Dawson IBM

Node.js is one of the most popular runtimes for cloud and cognitive applications. Come learn about this runtime, the community andhow IBM is actively working in the community to support IBM platforms and to address the areas/requirements important to enterprisecustomers. We'll provide:1) an introduction to the Node.js runtime, where it fits versus other runtimes like Java, 2) key features/benefits of Node.js, 3) an introduction to the community, its Working Groups and other aspects of how it works to get things done.

Some come and learn about this rapidly growing runtime so that you can understand if its a good fit for your applications and thekinds of benefits you may achieve by using it.

A301 From Startup to Enterprise, learn how performance monitoring canhelp you scale your application

Speaker: Michael Dawson IBM

Scaling your application efficiently is is key to achieving a good rate of return and performance monitoring is an important tool toensure you scale as expected.Performance monitoring of single Node.js applications is relatively straight forward with a variety of technigues and tooling optionsavailable to a developer. In this presentation, we will follow the journey of how to apply these techniques when scaling up to aclustered Node.js deployment in the cloud. We will show how to use freely available monitoring tooling and open source solutionslike appmetrics, Elasticsearch and Kibana to provide realtime monitoring and performance tracking for Enterprise solutions. Comeand learn how to keep on top on how your application is performing and find out about problems before they occur.

A319 Swift on the Server: an introduction

Speaker: Ian Partridge IBM

Swift is a new programming language, designed by Apple to be the future of iOS development. Swift is now also available on Linux,and that means it can be used on servers, in data centers, and in the cloud. This opens up a world of possibilities for creating anddeploying new types of applications. This session will introduce you to Swift on the server, and show you how to build your firstserverside application in Swift. We'll also explore the rapidlygrowing ecosystem of opensource Swift and see what's making Swiftthe fastest growing programming language in history.

A335 Avoid top 10 common problems with the WebSphere ApplicationServer

Speaker: Ashishkumar Ghodasara IBM

Best way to handle any problems is not to have one on first place. 2530% of total PMRs received at WAS support were associatedwith performance, out of memory, HTTP error codes, SSL Handsake, SSO, Security configuration, connection timeouts, staleconnection, webservice timeout and server start issues. Join me to understand these top 10 common problems and learn bestpractices to avoid them.

A365 Diagnostic and Performance Tools for WebSphere on Premise andon Bluemix

Speakers:Kevin Grigorenko IBMAndrea Pichler IBM

In this session we'll discover many available tools and techniques to diagnose performance problems on WebSphere ApplicationServer Traditional and Liberty. We'll explore the statistics which allow the user to monitor the WebSphere environment to ensurethere are no bottlenecks in the system. Also we'll look at some Java diagnostic information, such as garbage collection usage, heapdumps, thread dumps, and more. We will use tools packaged in IBM Support Assistant and elsewhere to view these diagnostics andlook into changes required to resolve the problems. As more and more workloads are being deployed in the Cloud, we will look intodiagnosing WebSphere performance issues on the IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform as well.

A366 WebSphere Application Server Traditional and Liberty Scalabilityand Performance

Speakers:Kevin Grigorenko IBMAndrea Pichler IBM

Learn the top 10 performance issues for WebSphere Application Server Traditional and Liberty. Also learn how to harness theadvanced scalability features in both WAS Traditional and Liberty such as the new OnDemand Router, Intelligent Management,AutoScaling, and more. Join a member of the WebSphere Foundation SWAT team and WebSphere Support to learn about theirexperiences and how their customers gained value from the scalability and high availability capabilities of WAS.

A372 Competitive Comparison: WebSphere and Liberty Profile VersusTomcat, JBoss and WebLogic

Speaker: Bartosz Chrabski IBM

This session will provide a view on the differences between WebSphere Application Server and Liberty Profile versus competitiveofferings, such as Apache Tomcat, Red Hat JBoss EAP and Oracle WebLogic. We will discuss the technical (feature/function)considerations as well as cost considerations (total cost of acquisition, total cost of ownership).

A425 Taking Java performance to new heights!

Speaker: Joran Siu IBM

IBM Java 8 and z13 take Java performance to new heights and demonstrate an outstanding releasetorelease Java performanceimprovements on z Systems. With Java9 in the horizon, we will discuss modularity, a key feature to Java9, and tools to validatemigration issues. This session will also provide a summary of the new features and enhancements in latest IBM Java 8 includingperformance improvements in throughput and rampup. We will highlight main performance triggers, such as SIMD, SMT,cryptographic and demonstrate performance improvements in various CAMS workloads, such as Liberty, CICS and Apache Spark.

A473 Java Garbage Collector Overview and Tuning


The Garbage Collector (GC) plays a major role in the Java Runtime Environment and its performance. IBM provides several differentGC technologies under the cover to suit different applications needs. This session will provide an overview of the GC technologiesavailable under IBM Java Runtime Environment with emphasis on their performance and tradeoffs. In addition we will discuss tools tomonitor memory usage and garbage collection activity within the Java application. We will explain how to analyze and interpret thedata. And finally, we will elaborate on available options within IBM Java to tune the GC and related features like large pages forbetter performance.

A484 A use case; Migrating your tWAS applications to Liberty incompetition with Tomcat

Speakers:Wiender Sarup Nationale NederlandenBjorn Hilgen IBM

When migrating applications to WebSphere Liberty there are quite a number of steps you need to think of in order to make sure youuse the right tools and approaches. This presentation will help you to get a better understanding where to start when migratingapplications, which tools are available and why to choose Liberty above Tomcat. Together with a Dutch insurance company we'll giveyou an overview of the use cases used to migrate some of their applications to Liberty and share best practices on why, what andhow descicions were made to move tWAS applications to WebSphere Liberty with a technical focus.

A485 WebSphere Application Server migration lab

Speaker: Kevin Postreich IBM

Come try out the WebSphere Application Server application migration and configuration migration tools. Learn how to migrateapplications from A Traditional WAS v7/8 to Traditional WAS/ Liberty.

Track 2: Cloud platforms

C40 IBM’s Enterprise Ready Docker Container Capabilities

Speaker: Chris Rosen IBM

This session will provide an introduction to IBM Containers, an IBM Bluemix offering leveraging opensource Docker technology. Wewill also discuss use cases, reference architectures, and lessons learned from enterprises deploying production apps on IBMContainers.

C42 How to use the MobileFirst services in Bluemix to create a cognitivemobile app

Speaker: Lars Besselmann IBM

After a brief description of IBM Bluemix and IBM Mobile First Platform Foundation the presentation and demo will show how to use the ibmmobilefirststarter container in Bluemix to create a cognitive mobile app that leverages cognitive Watson Services in Bluemix.You will get some insight and ideas what to use the Bluemix services for.

C56 Introduction to Blockchain

Speaker: Matt Lucas IBM

Blockchain is a shared, replicated ledger that underpins technology such as Bitcoin. Blockchain's reach is wider than cryptocurrencyhowever, as it sets out to provide the foundation for a new generation of transactional applications that establish trust andtransparency, while streamlining business processes. Are you curious about blockchain and what it can do for your business? Thissession gives an overview of blockchain, the Linux Foundation Hyperledger fabric and IBM Blockchain on Bluemix. We will discusswhy the technology is so important and how IBM can help on your path to adoption.

C57 Exploring Blockchain Applications


Ready to understand the next level of technical detail on blockchain? This session is a technical dive into the architecture of ablockchain application. We will introduce the key technical concepts behind blockchain and the emerging blockchain for business:the Linux Foundation Hyperledger.In this insightful presentation we’ll cover what blockchain developers and administrators need to be aware of when implementing ablockchain application, and how important blockchain concepts such as consensus and privacy are achieved.

C58 Blockchain: Handson Industry Applications


Businesses never operate in isolation; they are always part of a network. Ownership of assets passes across the network in return forpayments, governed by contracts. This lab will lead you stepbystep through a simple (but easily extensible) car leasing examplethat demonstrates how to use the Linux Foundation Hyperledger fabric in a realworld scenario. The lab will be managed by thoughtleaders in the blockchain world, so come along and get started with this exciting new technology.

C59 Administering Blockchain Applications on Bluemix


IBM Bluemix is a powerful environment for administering blockchain applications. This handson lab shows you how IBM Bluemixadds value to the Linux Foundation Hyperledger blockchain by allowing you to create, configure and understand blockchains using asimple web interface. Whether you’re new to blockchain or are implementing your own usecase, attend this session to find out howIBM Bluemix can help you adopt blockchain technology.This lab builds on the "Blockchain: Handson Industry Applications” lab, although it is not necessary to complete the industryapplications lab before attempting the Bluemix one.

C60 Blockchain: Ask the Experts


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 andtransparency, while streamlining business processes. Are you curious about Blockchain and what it can do for your business? Comealong to this informal session to talk about Blockchain with a group of thought leaders and practitioners in this exciting and innovativearea.

C113 What did happen to the hexagons?

Speakers:Rossella De Gaetano IBMBrian Martin IBM

The new Bluemix UI look and feel is not only a cosmetic change, but it is a way to introduce and make easier to exploit new platformcapabilities like the possibility to monitor your expenses, receive spending notifications, invite friends/collegues to your Bluemixorganization and more. This session walks through these new features and some of the interesting scenarios that gets enabled bythem.

C252 An Overview of Watson Internet of Things Platform

Speaker: Jon Levell IBM

Watson Internet of Things Platform empowers businesses working with Internet of Things devices. It allows secure, scalablecommunication between devices in the field and applications in BlueMix or on premise. The platform allows the devices to be easilymanaged and data coming from the devices to be analysed, filtered and passed on to other BlueMix services.

This session will provide an overview of the features available in Watson Internet of Things and look at use cases where it hashelped businesses succeed.

C297 Best Practices for Microservices Integration

Speaker: Bobby Woolf IBM

Microservices is the newest, best application architecture. While a lot of guidance is being published on how to develop individualmicroservice components, there's much less guidance on how to connect them together. This session will teach you how to integratemultiple microservices to make them operate as an application. Topics include microservices integration patterns, Netflix OSS,Bluemix services, and Amalgam8. Note: if you're not at all familiar with microservices, you might want to try to go to my session C299for an introduction.

C298 Enterprise Bluemix: Developing enterprise applications for cloud


Enterprise IT departments know they need to adopt cloud, but enterprise applications often are not simple, selfcontained programsdesigned specifically for cloud. Enterprises have existing applications that must be leveraged as part of their transition to cloud. Thissession will teach you how to develop cloud applications that meet the needs of an existing enterprise, focusing on two areas: (1)Migrating existing applications from traditional IT to the cloud, and (2) Integrating cloud applications with existing systems of recordhosted onpremises. The session will use capabilities in Bluemix to illustrate general cloud migration and integration techniques.

C299 Developing cloudnative applications for Bluemix


Cloud offers the opportunity to architect and develop applications better than has been practical with traditional IT. This session willshow you how to develop applications that take maximum advantage of cloud. Topics include adopting cloud, best practices fordeveloping cloud applications, microservices, and No SQL databases. Examples will draw from the capabilities in Bluemix.

C315 Bringing Swift to Cloud to Simplify EndtoEnd Development ofApps

Speaker: Vidyasagar S Machupalli IBM

Swift continues to grow in popularity and is now one of the most used programming languages for mobile. Since the introduction ofopen source Swift for Linux, IBM has been enabling the language on the Cloud. This session shows how the new models of clientand server interaction for application development enable us to rapidly build an app with client and simplify backend integration ofservices all written in Swift. Come, join this session to hear more about what is next for Swift at IBM.

C316 Node in the large scale: Challenges and Best practices

Speaker: Gireesh Punathil IBM

With the language, virtual machine and the rutime platform highly tuned to support requestresponse based transactional workloads,and one of the largest software repository in the world to support exponential productivity improvement, Node.js platform is clearlypoised to produce large and complex software solutions. At the same time, by virtue of the distinctive characteristics of the language,runtime and the application composition models, there would require considerable care at the application architecture phase to makesure development of productionsustainable code. The session demonstrates existing and perceived challenges in NPM basedNode applications with respect to Resilience, Quality, Security, Serviceability, Licensing, and Dependancy. We will also provide bestpractises to follow while mapping use cases to designs and laying out application topology.

Few examples of what will be covered with respect to challenges are:1. Quality:a. Modules untested in specific workload scenariosb. Broken code, (memory) leaking code.2. Resilience:a. Network dependancy at code level.b. Dynamic change / upgrade in the dependant module.3. Security:a. No sandbox for untrusted code at platform level.b. Overall app security primarily a function of security in the third party code.4. Serviceabiity:a. Problems and Problem isolation steps often outreach unowned modules.b. Overall serviceability capability primarily a function of third party code.5. Licensing:a. Existene of various license terms (apache, MIT, none..)b. Unknown / undesired terms being abided by, through recursive module inheritence.6. Dependancy:a. Version dependancies.b. Secondary and tertiary module dependancies.

The audience will learn the challenges with respect to large scale node development, and will learn the best practices to use tomitigate those challenges.

C317 Node.js in Bluemix: developing, deploying, managing, monitoringand debugging

Speaker: Gireesh Punathil IBM

This handson lab session will provide introduction to Node and Bluemix, and assist the attendees to develop their first Nodeapplication onto Bleumix, deploying and running, binding to one or more software services, as well as live monitoring and debuggingtypical issues such as memory leaks server hangs and crashes.

The discrete items in the handson lab will be:1. Overview of Node.js2. Writing a simple Node.js application3. Basics of express module4. Overview of IBM Bluemix5. Developing and deploying a simple Node.js application onto Bluemix6. Binding a Node.js application to one or more services in Bluemix7. Monitoring a Node.js application in Bluemix8. Specific case studies: memory leak, crash, hang.

C323 Cognitive solution on Bluemix WatsonCare

Speakers:Emilia Smolko IBMGrazyna Dadej IBM

This session will present CognitiveBuild Project WatsonCare, which was selected as one of three finalists in CEE CognitiveBuildChallenge (https://w3connections.ibm.com/blogs/0500919e39ad46b688c4868f13c755b4/entry/Ann_2?lang=en_us). Project is implemented on Bluemix services it uses Liberty Node, Retrive&Rank, DocumentConversion, APIConnect. Projectdescription is avaliable on:https://cognitivebuild.bluefundit.com/project/56edb89a5f084a51131dd467. After our conception has been selected as worth to develop we have started our journey with Bluemix services and developedsolution on what is available. We want to share our experience with audience on architecting in agile world: how to start project and collaborate with project team; microservices how to design solution with multiple and growing number of microservices; security we cope with medical data, design starts with security consideration; we are like a startup we have to minimize costs, why we use APIConnect;

Our session will help to get into startup client shoes and see IBM Bluemix as a platform for innovative solution.

C351 Deep dive into IBM Containers for Bluemix

Speakers:Michael Hough IBMMarisa Lopez de Silanes IBM

IBM Containers is one of the compute options that you can use on IBM Cloud to host and run your applications. As a developer, youcan build your application in any language, with any programming tools, deploy it into a Docker container, and run it onpremise or incloud without having to rewrite and redeploy the application for different environments. This session will explain how to leverage IBMCloud to build and run hybrid applications such as logging and monitoring, Delivery Pipeline, and Active Deploy. In this session, youwill learn about the advantages of using IBM Containers as your compute choice in cloud and experience a demonstration of thelatest features and services.

C418 Build, Deploy and Manage Your First OpenStack Heat Pattern withPureApplication and the Bluemix Local Syste

Speakers:Hendrik van Run IBMEugen Postea IBM

OpenStack Heatbased patterns were introduced earlier this year as a strategic initiative to leverage open technologies for cloudenabling complex middleware deployments, and to easily bring community Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) content onto IBMCloud. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to get handson experience with the OpenStack Pattern Engine in PureApplicationthat runs on the Bluemix Local System. You will build, deploy and manage an OpenStack Heat pattern using the integrated BlueprintDesigner, Git repository and the PureApplication web console. You will also use the OpenStack Horizon console to examine whathappens under the covers in the OpenStack runtime. This lab will help you compare OpenStack Heatbased patterns with the morefamiliar Virtual System Patterns on PureApplication.

C422 Template based automated creation of DevOps Pipeline for QuickMobileFirst Server deployment

Speakers:Krishna C Kumar IBMMohan Saboji

An IBM Technical sales professional in a short duration customer meeting trying to evaluate the MobileFirst Platform on IBMContainers.Customer's interest is to setup a quick productionkinda MobileFirst deployment with certain topology integrated with a setof Bluemix services from the IBM Bluemix catalog.

This session will cover how to use set of IBM Bluemix DevOps and Bluemix LiveSync utility to automate devOps pipeline creationusing set of templates. These templates are generic pipeline yaml and other configuration files generated dynamically based on theuser inputs. The main objective of this session is to completely abstract the user from the complexities of the product customization,IBM Containers and the DevOps concepts.

Enduser is prompted with a minimal possible list of MobileFirst Platform on Containers setup. Based on the selected setup, anautomated IBM Bluemix DevOps project is created. This is followed by the automated deployment of the MobileFirst Platform. Oncompletion a report is displayed from where the MobileFirst Platform setup deployed can be reached.

C458 An Architecture for Cognitive Smarter Processes

Speakers:Ryan Claussen IBMEric Herness IBM

The next wave of business processes has arrived: cognitive processes.These processes can be created today using the Watson andSpark services in IBM Bluemix. This session will show attendees how business processes can leverage the cognitive technologiesfrom IBM to attain new efficiencies and discover new insights from their existing process data. We will walk through architecturalconsiderations when interacting with cognitive services and how to utilize process data as a source of training material for machinelearning.

C459 IBM Connect to Cloud Offering Technical Overview

Speakers:Eric Herness IBMJustin Youngblood IBM

IBM Connect to Cloud offerings help clients get unlock more value from their existing IBM software and systems includingWebsphere, MQ, DB2 and zOS by making it fast and easy to connect to the cloud. Clients can expose apps and data as APIs andconnect to and from the cloud: • Unlock new value from existing apps and data by exposing and publishing them as APIs • Accelerate innovation and partner ecosystems by providing easy Developer access to APIs • Instantly enhance backend systems with cloud services, including monitoring, storage, analytics and cognitive api's

This session will enumerate key capabilities and offerings under the Connect to Cloud Umbrella, explaining the capabilities availableand the use cases which they enable.

C460 Creating Globally Available Services in Bluemix

Speakers:Ryan Claussen IBMEric Herness IBM

Users and API consumers expect that the applications and services they use are available at all times and in all places. If there is asmall gap in availability endusers take their complaints to social media and voice their concerns. This session will offer technicalguidance and approaches when creating globally available applications and services in IBM Bluemix and IBM Containers.Considerations in application design, runtime selection, and supporting services will also be discussed. Examples and emergingbest practices will be shared.

C504 IBM Cloud Video Streaming Manager (also known as Ustream) alive demo

Speaker: Scott Grizzle IBM

This session prepares you to leverage IBM Cloud Video capabilities to achieve your business goals. IBM Cloud Video includes acomprehensive streaming solution for enterprises to deliver highly effective communication to internal and external audiences. In thissession we'll discuss the most common video use cases with real client examples, review streaming offering architecture, and show alive demonstration. Please join us to see how easy it is to use Ustream for live or ondemand video.

C505 IBM Cloud Video Ustream Hands on Lab

Speaker: Scott Grizzle IBM

This lab provides an opportunity to get hands on with Ustream, the IBM Cloud Video live streaming solution. Learn how to rapidlyexpand your audience and improve communication effectiveness by live streaming town halls, new product launches, trainingsessions, meetings, and other live events. You'll leave this one hour lab with the basic knowledge required to use IBM Cloud Videostreaming at your company.

C506 Introduction to Aspera

Speaker: Laurent Martin IBM France

Introduction to Aspera, a highspeed file transfer technology

C507 Aspera cloud file transfer a deep dive

Speaker: Laurent Martin IBM France

This session will go into details about Aspera highspeed file transfers

Track 3: DevOps

D126 Unicorns on an Aircraft Carrier

Speaker: Sanjeev Sharma IBM

Large organizations have been struggling to achieve the results promised by DevOps and achieved by the poster children ofDevOps. For every Netflix and Etsy out there, there is a large, complex, organization that has been struggling with simply where tostart. Others may be able to achieve success in some parts of their IT organization?but only with small, innovative 'two pizza' teamsworking on isolated projects?and not at enterprise scale. This session will present 'patterns of success' harvested from tens of largeorganizations that have worked with IBM to achieve this balance between 'Innovation' and 'Optimization', and to achieve the results ofDevOps, at Scale.

D198 Hybrid Cloud and DevOps Transformation Framework and Adoption

Speakers:Paul Bahrs IBMArend Berg IBM

This session will discuss a transformation framework and agile adoption model that clients can use when adopting hybrid cloud andDevOps solutions. We will explore key considerations, first steps and measured outcomes.

D306 DevOps for Hybrid Cloud: IBM's point of view and client patterns

Speakers:Paul Bahrs IBMJohn Liu IBM

This session will review IBM's point of view on DevOps for hybrid cloud, Garage Method, and best practices. We will also explorerecent patterns use by our clients for getting started, operational objectives, improvement measures, incremental deployment ofDevOps practices and tool chains and cultural change.

D308 DevOps for: API and Application Connect

Speakers:Arend Berg IBMJohn Liu IBM

This session will explore the capabilities for supporting DevOps for IBM's API connect offering. The session will include: Clientproblem to be solved; Architecture and configuration; Practical demonstration walkthrough; Client examples; Extended discussion

D309 DevOps for Cloud management

Speakers:Arend Berg IBMShmuel Bashan IBM

This session will explore the client implementation patterns for DevOps with a private/public cloud management system. We willdiscuss functional architecture patterns and walk through client examples using heterogeneous solutions with IBM Cloud Matrix, ICO,UCD and hybrid cloud platforms. We will also explore best practices for defining objective Dev & Ops outcomes. How to achieve firstwins and avoid technical debt when evolving to an integrated Ops and Dev solution.

D310 Accelerating Java applicaiton migration to the cloud with DevOps

Speakers:Shmuel Bashan IBMJohn Liu IBM

This session will explore the DevOps capabilities for WebSphere Application Server application deployment, cell configurationmanagement and migrations to cloud (Bluemix, Softlayer, others). The session will include: Client problem to be solved; Architectureand configuration; practice demonstration walkthrough; Case study(s); Extended discussion.

D313 DevOps for Smarter Process

Speakers:Paul Bahrs IBMShmuel Bashan IBM

This session will explore the capabilities for supporting DevOps for Smarter Process including BPM and ODM. We will focus onproviding a continuous testing capability to support agile development of BPM/ODM applications using test driven development,virtual services and a continuous testing. The session will discuss the roles of RTVS, UCB, UCD and UCR with Smarter Process. Ouragenda will include cultural and technology; architecture and configuration; practical demonstration walk through; Examples;Extended discussion

D481 Application runtimes DevOps for multi Speed IT (zOS)

Speakers:Shmuel Bashan IBMArend Berg IBM

This session will discuss the requirements, architecture and cultural considerations for automating the mainframe applications toaccelerate multi speed IT. We will discuss the challenges associated with changing current practices, the solution architecture and anexample implementation.

D482 Bluemix Microservices Open Tool Chain Lab HandsonLab

Speakers:John Liu IBMShmuel Bashan IBM

This is a two part lab that will include hands on activities to create and reuse a Bluemix open tool chain to support development anddeployment of microservices running in Bluemix. Participants should have an existing temporary Bluemix account.

Track 4: Hybrid Integration

I164 What's new in the world of IBM Messaging?

Speaker: Charlie Martin IBM

Integrating cloud applications with your existing systems of record is essential to create truly engaging applications, and messagingis the secret ingredient when linking these worlds together. This session will cover what's new in IBM MQ, such as the new version 9,which can be used to create an efficient and reliable messaging infrastructure whether onpremise or in the cloud. We'll also see howto extend your onpremise MQ infrastructure into the cloud taking advantage of cloud deployment technologies such as Docker, andIBM's managed messaging service in Bluemix, Message Hub.

I165 Introducing IBM Message Hub: CloudScale Messaging


IBM Message Hub is a new IBM Bluemix service for messaging in the cloud. It's ideal for linking together microservices to build ascalable, flexible application in the cloud. It's great for feeding data at speed into other services, such as analytics. You can also use itto bridge securely from your enterprise MQ systems into the cloud. Come and hear about this exciting new offering from IBM'smessaging team.

I166 Expanding Your Options with the IBM MQ Appliance

Speaker: Adrian Dick IBM

The IBM MQ Appliance provides a simple approach to deployment and management of your MQ infrastructure, enabling the use ofMQ in locations not possible before. This session introduces you to the convenience, fast timetovalue and low total cost ofownership that an appliance brings.

I167 Highly Available Messaging Using the IBM MQ Appliance


The availability and safety of your messaging data is critical. With the IBM MQ Appliance this can be as simple as plugging twoappliances together. This session will demo this capability and look in detail at how to use IBM MQ Appliances to build a highlyavailable messaging hub. We will cover suitable application architectures, capacity and performance planning and securityimplications. We’ll see how these appliances can be relied upon across both unplanned failures and planned maintenance.

I168 MQ in the Cloud

Speaker: Rob Parker IBM

Businesses are transforming their enterprise IT infrastructure to run in the Cloud. This doesn't have to be a simple lift and shift, itpromotes selfservice practices and new automated deployment and management techniques. This session will explain the manypossibilities and techniques that are available to run MQ in such environments, whether you're looking to move to a public or privatecloud, such as Bluemix, Azure, AWS, OpenStack or Docker environments.

I169 High Availability and Disaster Recovery for IBM MQ

Speaker: Mark Taylor IBM

IBM MQ provides many capabilities that will keep your data safe and your business running in the event of failures, whether you’rerunning on your own systems in your data centers, onpremise IaaS, IaaS in a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud across several of these.This session introduces you to the solutions available to you and how they can be effectively used together to build extremely reliableenvironments, providing high availability and disaster recovery for messaging onpremise and in the hybrid cloud.

I171 Provide Scalability and Availability with IBM MQ Clustering


Whether you’re looking to build activeactive solutions for continuous availability or to scale out a system horizontally, IBM MQclusters bring you these capabilities. This session will show you how to use IBM MQ clusters to get the most out of messaging. It willpresent real problems and highlight the techniques available to solve them either onpremise or in a hybrid cloud.

I173 How to Transform Your Messaging Environment to a SecureMessaging Environment

Speaker: Rob Parker IBM

With today's focus on security, ensuring you utilize all of the options available to maximize your systems security is a high priority formany businesses. In this session, we will work through a stepbystep case study that details how you can enhance the security ofyour Queue Managers using the different features available in IBM MQ.

I178 API Connect Introduction and Overview

Speaker: Matt Roberts IBM

APIs are being used everywhere to innovate and also to collaborate faster with internal and external developers. But with an APIstrategy, one should address API security and control while also encouraging API usage. IBM's API Connect solution enables you tocreate APIs, and also manage and enforce the consumption of APIs. This includes API definition, assembly, security, rate limiting,subscription management, versioning, lifecycle management, analytics and much more. In this session, learn the fundamentals ofIBM's API Connect solution and also view a brief live demo.

I179 Exploiting new capabilities provided within API Connect

Speaker: Johan Thole IBM

IBM's API Connect solution has evolved quite dramatically in the past year, from introducing public and dedicated SaaS options to anew DevOps toolkit for API lifecycle automation and API developer empowerment. This session will cover new product updates thatspan from API creation to API management and runtime enforcement. These include a new DevOps toolkit, the enhanced developerportal, enhancements to Swagger, API gateway enforcement options, API design lifecycle, policy, support, API analytics and muchmore

I180 Hands on experience with API Connect

Speakers:Phil Coxhead IBMChris Phillips

In this lab, participants will gain handson experience with the IBM API Connect product. You will work through the basic steps ofcreating and managing RESTful APIs. This scenario will then be expanded to illustrate how this is secured using OAuth 2.

I181 Understanding the deployment and topology considerations for APIConnect


IBM API Connect solutions can be tailored to organizations needs. Arriving at the right IBM API Connect topology for your API cloudrequires proper planning. Apart from getting IBM API Connect optimally configured, one must pay close attention to otherparticipating resources on the API Connect network, such as SMTP, LDAP, NTP and load balancers. Security of the data and servicesassets exposed by APIs must be carefully designed both from network and data viewpoints. Configuration of IBM API Connecttopologies are specific to your type of API cloud (onpremise, private, public/SaaS or hybrid). All of the above demands best practicesand proven methodologies, which this talk will offer along with reallife implementation scenarios.

I182 API Connect Real life experiences with customers best practicesand avoiding common errors


Come hear reallife practitioners who are on the front lines of helping their company's digital transformation with API Connect. In thispanel discussion, you will hear from experts who have been deploying and making the API Economy real. Major discussion themeswill focus on the developer experience and technologies like Swagger, staging rollouts to business units and constituents,integrating API management with industry and corporate security requirements and standards, experiences with IBM's APIManagement offering, and lessons from experiences learned so far.

I183 API Connect Migration from API Management


API Connect provides a number of powerful functional improvements on API Management that existing client will want to exploit.Existing API Management customers will need to migrate their existing API Management environment to API Connect which needscareful planning to assure a successful transition. This session will review the recommendations and experience from the field.

I185 Understand how to design a secure API Connect solution

Speaker: Callum Jackson IBM

This session will explore the security considerations for an API Connect solution. It will cover the considers for:* Administrative & API Developer access to the API Manager* App Developer access to Advanced Portal* API Gateway Security options

I186 Extending API Connect to support MQ messaging

Speakers:Johan Thole IBMCallum Jackson IBM

IBM API Connect provides many out of the box capabilities, however in certain situations these need to be extended to meet theclients requirements. This session will review how this can be accomplish by using DataPower extensions and Custom Policies tointegrate with IBM MQ.

I187 Introduction to Nodejs within API Connect

Speaker: Dennis Ashby IBM

Nodejs is a JavaScript runtime that uses an eventdriven, nonblocking IO model that makes it lightweight and efficient. This sessionwill demonstrate the power of Nodejs and the StrongLoop framework (included within API Connect) to quickly develop APIs.

I189 Enabling the business user to build an integration using IBMAppConnect (Lab)

Speakers:Callum Jackson IBMJohn Hosie

his lab will focus on the new capabilities provided within IBM App Connect and how a business user will be able to build simpleintegration solutions. As part 2 of the lab you will extend the builtin supported applications by using IBM Integration Bus.

I191 Introduction to IBM DataPower Gateway


It's been a very exciting year for the IBM DataPower Gateway line of products. This presentation covers recent updates, as well as thenewly announced major release. Come hear about the new features and functions available in DataPower Gateways, and how theyenable you to secure, control, connect and optimize the delivery of mobile, API, web, SOA and B2B workloads while allowingdeployment form factor flexibility.

I194 What's New In IBM Integration Bus

Speaker: Ben Thompson IBM

As IBM's strategic integration technology for all enterprise integration use cases, IBM Integration Bus (IIB) continues to deliver newcapabilities that address diverse integration needs. This session will describe all the latest developments in IIB. It will also give anoverview of the IIB sessions you can expect to see at the conference. Come along to this session to come up to speed on this key IBMproduct.

I195 Real life experiences with customers for IBM Integration Bus bestpractices and avoiding common errors

Speaker: Phil Coxhead IBM

This session will look at the best practices when creating a IBM Integration Bus solution. It will also review common pitfalls that allclients should be aware of.

I196 IBM Integration Bus in the cloud: private, public & managed

Speaker: John Hosie IBM

IBM Integration Bus provides a number of options for cloud deployments to allow clients the ability to pick the most effective optionsfor their organization. Depending on the project requirements a client can decide to deployed integration solutions into differentenvironments. IBM Integration Bus also provides extensions to integrate with cloud related technologies to simplify the end to endexperience.

I197 IBM Integration Topologies and High Availability

Speaker: John Hosie IBM

IBM Integration Bus aims to provide a universal integration solution, thanks to its ability to route and transform messages "fromanywhere to anywhere," and is sometimes referred to as an "advanced enterprise service bus." This session will provide anopportunity for a deep dive into the Topology and High Availability considerations and options.

I201 Recent updates for WSRR and strategies for using WSRR and APIConnect as one.

Speaker: Callum Jackson IBM IBM

Learn about recent updates to WSRR and how WSRR and APIC can be combined together to provide comprehensive API andService Governance.

I385 Getting Started with IBM MobileFirst Foundation and API Connect

Speakers:Ken Nelson IBMJason Kerner IBM

What you will learn: In the this hands on session you will learn how to create a mobile application that leverages the synergiesbetween IBM MobileFirst Foundation and API Connect. You will learn how to create and deploy an API using API Connect, Create anMobileFirst adapter to consume the API, Display the results in a mobile application, user authentication and authorization concerns,view analytics, and deployment options.What you will build: A fully functional mobile application that can be deployed on iOS, Android, or Windows phone.

I397 Deploying and running MQ in a Cloud

Speakers:Rob Parker IBMMaria Luisa Lopez de Silanes IBM

Come to this lab to learn how to provision an MQ queue manager in the Cloud. You'll see how to build repeatable patterns to quicklyand easily deploy queue managers into an OpenStack infrastructure, including the use of Heat orchestration to set up everything youneed for MQ.

I406 IBM MQ V9: Introduction to the new capabilities


2016 saw the release of IBM MQ V9. This session will look into the features that this release brings and how MQ's new continuousdelivery model will shape the features of the future.

I443 Operational Insight into DataPower Gateways using IBM DataPowerOperations Dashboard

Speaker: Michael Hamann IBM

DataPower Gateways are used in missioncritical applications based on their robust nature and are in the critical path of importanttransactions. When business applications have issues, the turnaround time to resolve critical issues must be quick and without anydelay to avoid significant revenue loss and reputation damage. Operational insight into DataPower Gateways can help resolveimportant issues and help ensure stability within the IT infrastructure.This session shows how IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard helps to identify issues and troubleshoot DataPower services.

I445 Introduction to IBM Application Integration Suite


Application Integration Suite V1.0 provides the tools enterprises need for connecting cloud and onpremise applications, buildingMicroservices and exposing and managing APIs. It enables you to reach new markets, rapidly take advantage of new businessopportunities, and improve communications within your partner ecosystem. With this offering, you can influence existing investmentsby continuing to provide reliable, secure, and scalable enterprise integration while modernizing IT infrastructure to support digitaltransformation. The following are included in this offering:* IBM Integration Bus Advanced* IBM API Connect Professional* IBM WebSphere® Cast Iron® Hypervisor Enterprise EditionThis session gives a highlevel, technical overview of the offering and an exploration of the key use cases.

I450 Unleash Your Enterprise Systems with IBM Integration Bus and APIConnect

Speakers:Callum Jackson IBMLee Gavin IBM

This lab allows the attendees to create an API on IBM Integration using the new 10.0.0.4 capabilities to construct a API from scratch.Once created this will be deployed to IIB and then published into API Connect for testing, management and exposure.

I451 Operational and Business Monitoring with IBM Integration Bus

Speaker: Sanjay Nagchowdhury IBM

A real time understanding of the status of your infrastructure and the business transactions that infrastructure supports is crucial inorder to identify and diagnose issues. This session explains how to use the capabilities in IBM Integration bus to achieve this insight.We will focus on IIB functions for Record & Replay, Business Transaction Monitoring, Accouting & Statistics, Resource Statistics,sending monitoring publications over MQ and MQTT and some exciting new developments related to the use of the Grafana stack.

I452 IBM Integration Bus and REST APIs


The API Economy is a digital transformation that is occurring across industry, that is disrupting traditional business models. Central tothis API Economy is the creation of REST APIs to provide access to business capabilities in a controlled and secured manner. IBMintegration Bus V10 has added many capabilities to accelerate the development of REST APIs. This has transformed IBM IntegrationBus into an advantage API Creation platform for exposing Systems of Record.

I455 Integrating IBM Integration Bus with Loopback connectors includingSalesforce


IBM Integration Bus aims to provide a universal integration solution, that prides itself on allowing users to built their integrationsolutions using their preferred implementation technology. The Loopback framework is built on the Nodejs programming languageand is gather significant momentum within the market. Come and learn about how Loopback can be used in combination with IBMIntegration Bus to create solutions such as the newly release Salesforce integration.

I456 IBM Integration Bus and Messaging


The range and spectrum of messaging provider in the industry continues to expand from traditional MQ to include new options suchas Kafka. This session will explorer the range of support provided by IBM Integration Bus for different messaging provides.

I457 Hands on experience of offloading work from onpremise IBMIntegration Bus to the cloud

Speakers:John Hosie IBMLee Gavin

IIB V10.0.0.4 introduced Callable Flows. This enables a message flow (or integration service, or REST API) to invoke a separatemessage flow in a call/return (blocked wait) programming model.The calling and called message flows could operate on remote Integration Nodes, including one on IIB on Cloud (IIBoC) and one OnPremise. In this lab, you will run a REST API on IIBoC invoking a flow in an application, which is running on an Integration Node On Premise.The callable application will access a database, located on the same host as its Integration Node, and retrieve employee details.

I478 The evolving hybrid integration reference architecture

Speaker: Kim Clark IBM

In recent years, application integration requirements have changed dramatically, becoming hybrid across multiple dimensions.Enterprise landscapes contain an increasingly complex mixture of integration architectures from older point to point, hub and spoke,and service oriented architecture through to modern APIs. On top of that we introduce new ways to build applications using containertechnology, lightweight runtimes, microservices architecture, platformasaservice and serverless architecture. We see an increasinguse of cloud based softwareasaservice, and the need for deployment across a multitude of local and public managedinfrastructures. Furthermore, the people who are involved in integrating systems are no longer centralized in a single technical team,but are spread throughout and beyond the enterprise. This session will discuss how to ensure your integration architecture keepspace with the needs of your digital transformation. We will look at the core elements of a modern integration reference architecture,and discuss the common requirements and usecases for a hybrid integration portfolio, finally relating that back to IBMs hybridintegration portfolio and roadmap.

I487 Handson with the IBM MQ Light API: Cloud, Developer andEnterprise


IBM MQ Light API is a messaging API targeted at developers who are developing scalable and responsive applications in a range ofpopular languages and frameworks including Node.JS, Ruby, Python and Java. The MQ Light API is available in 3 ways: As adeveloper tools download for developers to run on their laptops, as an API for IBM MQ, and as an API for the Message Hub service inIBM Bluemix. In this lab, you will learn how to use the IBM MQ Light API on a developer laptop and in the cloud.

I488 Hands on with the IBM MQ Appliance


In this lab you'll get hands on with the MQ Appliance including the new 'MQ Console' web interface, and see how simple it is to getgoing with the MQ appliance, create and work with your queue managers, and perform some simple every day MQ administrativetasks.

I489 Embrace SaaS Using Extensive Prebuilt Connectivity in IBM AppConnect Professional

Speakers:Phil Coxhead IBMLee Gavin IBM

IBM App Connect Professional is a configurationbased integration platform for rapid integrations across onpremise and SaaSapplications. It provides extensive connectivity to popular SaaS endpoints like Salesforce.com and Cloud applications which are amusthave for any modern enterprise. The single most important factor responsible for success of cloud applications is how rapidlythey can be integrated with each other and to onpremise systems. “Hybrid integration” is the key to making the best of your SaaSinvestments. IBM App Connect Professional is designed from the ground up with hybrid integration in mind. Learn how to use thisproduct for rapidly building these integrations and what's new in the latest release.

Track 5: IT Service Management

S50 Utilizing IBM Application Performance Management in Dockercontainers

Speakers:Ben Stern IBMCross Ganaway IBM

This session focuses on a number of different areas. It will provide a deep dive into Docker itself and how to navigate in a Dockerenvironment. Then, the class will walk students through the process of installing and configuring IBM Application PerformanceManagement (APM) Agents to monitor a typical business application that utilizes the IBM stack (DataPower, IBM HTTP ServerWebSphere, MQ, IIB, and DB2).. Agents will be configured for resource monitoring, transaction tracking, deep dive diagnostics, andlog file monitoring. In addition, students will have an opportunity to record a synthetic script via the Selenium IDE and play it back viaAPM.

After successfully deploying and configuring the monitoring agents, students will execise the APM software and walk throughscenarios to debug problems using the APM tool.

S53 APM: Web Site Monitoring with Selenium

Speakers:Ben Stern IBMErico Vannini IBM

This session will provide attendees with detailed information on how to record synthetic scripts using Selenium and play them backacross multiple Point of Presence (PoP) servers around the world. The session will focus on best practices when recording scripts,common problems encountered, and how to setup thresholds against synthetic playbacks.

Use of the Selenium IDE can be fairly tricky when recording scripts. This session will help users understand how to workaround thecommon problems that are encountered while recording scripts.

S99 IBM Performance Management and Performance Hub Integrations

Speakers:Abdul Choudhury IBMBen Stern IBM

This session will focus on how to integrate IBM Performance Management and IBM Performance Hub with other IT ServiceManagement solutions. It will give detailed instructions on how to setup the integrations as well as the differences between SaaS andonpremise deployments. Integration scenarios covered in this session will include:* Netcool OMNIbus/NOI* IBM Alert Notification as a Service* IBM Operations Analytics Log Analysis* IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights* JazzSM/DASH* Bluemix monitoring and IBM Performance Management v8* IBM Tivoli Monitoring v6 environments* OMEGAMON

S237 Hybrid IT Service Management

Speaker: Jochen Schneider IBM Germany

This session is a live demo covering different IT infrastructure Service Management solutions. It shows the ITSM requirements of aGerman insurance customer, and how IBM responded to them. Attendees will see the new IBM Application PerformanceManagement Browser Intefrace on an ipad, and IBM Netcool Operations Insight automatically grouping, deduplicating and reportingon an event storm. It also covers IBM Analytics products, which can automatically create reports on what happens and might happenin the future. Additionally it will show the Cloud Features Runbook Automation and Alert Notfication as also the Hybrid Gateway to theIBM Advanced Insights for Bluemix and IBM Cloud Resource Logging Solutions

S302 IOA Predictive Insights Best Practise for Deploying andOperationalising

Speaker: Abdul Choudhury IBM

Learn about the latest innovations in IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights. Understand how you can quickly get started withPredictive Insights to realise the value of analytics in IT Operations. Gain valuable insights on how to operationalise and adoptPredictive Insights in your organisation.

S304 Harness the Value of IOA Predictive Insights in APM Deployments

Speakers:Abdul Choudhury IBMRafal Szypulka IBM

APM is a rich data source for IOA Predictive Insights. In this session attendees will learn about the value Predictive Insights adds inAPM deployments. Learn about the integration between Predictive Insights and APM in mixed hybrid and onprem deployments.

S474 Rapid Development of an IT Service Management/MonitoringSolution for the Startup/IoT World

Speakers:Robert Barron IBMDaniel Padron IBM

In an everchanging world, you need a monitoring solution that is flexible and fast enough to suit your organization's unique needs. Inthis session, you will see how IBM approached a startup customer and leveraged the monitoring framework to create a solutionwhich was tailormade for the customer. The session will include the design decisions, the methodology of the implementation andbest practices. We will also show examples of how to implement the design and overcome issues that arise in the most flexible waypossible. The session will cover the implementation of a successful project for a European startup, and show how IBM completed theproject quickly and to the customer's extreme satisfaction.

S475 Advanced dashboarding concepts to drive business needs

Speaker: Robert Barron IBM

IBM's central dashboarding solution for service management is called DASH.Despite its simple name it has advanced capabilities which can be leveraged to present complex concepts in simple ways.The complete solution is a triangle of IBM's design language, customer requirements and implementing the dashboard in imaginativeways.This session will show examples of advanced dashboards and show you how to go from initial requirements to completeddashboards simply and easily.

S480 Cloud Service Management and Operations

Speakers:Ingo Averdunk IBMRobert Barron IBM

Service Management is constantly changing, especially when it comes to cloud. New roles, processes and techniques for operationsare being used to improve the way companies manage applications and keep their customers happy. In this session you will learn how the Cloud Architecture and Solution Engineering organisation integrated Netcool OperationsInsight with some of today's DevOps and ChatOps hottest products such as Slack and Pager Duty. You will learn how NOI's uniquecapabilities complement and improve upon the new ways of working. We will also present modern practices for operations,leveraging agile methodologies and DevOps concepts.

Track 6: Mainframe vitality

Z67 WAS Java JSR352 Batch on z/OS: From JCL to JSL


Thinking about moving your Cobol batch workload into Java? Or thinking about new z/OS applications in Java? In this session we'llgive a brief overview of JSR352 and IBM's implementation in WebSphere Liberty before we dive into details of how you'd actuallymake this work on z/OS. We'll look at a sample JCL proc you can use to integrate a Liberty Batch job into an existing JCL job. We'llsee how you invoke traditional batch utilities like DFSORT and IDCAMS from within a Liberty Batch job. Where do the job logs go andwhat should you do with them?

Z68 Using SMF data to improve your WAS on z/OS applications


You can use profiling tools to look at what your application is doing and find ways to make it perform better. But once it is running inproduction volumes on z/OS how can you find out if it is still behaving itself? Your system programmer is probably sitting on amountain of monitoring data from a z/OS component called SMF. Come find out what's in there and how you can use it to betterunderstand why everybody was upset about that last minor update that shouldn't have affected anything...

Z104 Discover recent CICS or MQ z/OS features

Speakers:Carl Farkas IBM FranceMarcel Amrein IBM

This lab slot gives you an opportunity to get down ‘n dirty and try out some great features of MQ z/OS or CICS. Detailed lab scriptsand an instructor will have you testing quickly. Take your choice between several MQ or CICS labs. For MQ z/OS, you can testConnection Authentication, SSL enhancements, Buffer Pool extensions and others. For CICS, one exercise lets you use the CICSExplorer to set up your own CICSPlex (with CMAS and CWUI). Another CICS lab allows you to set up CPSM Workload Management.And finally, there is a CICS lab for using the CICS Explorer to set up alerts to detect particular application behaviour with nomodifications whatsoever to the actual CICS code. So whichever you choose, MQ z/OS or CICS, with these labs you’ll have a greatchance to master the concepts by putting them into action.

Z139 MQ for z/OS New Features from V8, V8+ and V9

Speaker: Gwydion Tudor IBM UK Labs Ltd

Many new features have been added to MQ in recent releases, including the often requested 64bit bufferpools. This sessiondescribes this and many other new features unique to MQ for z/OS including MQ's use of new hardware and software features like CFFlash memory (SCM) and the Compression Accelerator. The session also describes enhancements new to MQ for z/OS V9especially around Continue Delivery.

Z140 MQ for z/OS Enhancing Application and Messaging Connectivity ina Hybrid World

Speaker: Gwydion Tudor IBM UK Labs Ltd

Today's business environment is driving reengineering of business systems using new techniques and architectures. This sessionwill elaborate on the new environments MQ for z/OS is enabling for Java JMS applications, and enhanced interconnectivitycapabilities that put MQ for z/OS at the heart of a hybrid messaging world.

Z159 The Mobileready Mainframe: Creating APIs with z/OS ConnectEnterprise Edition

Speakers:Carl Farkas IBMHendrik Woerner IBM Germany

APIs have become the de facto standard for application integration. This session shows you how to create APIs based on z Systemsassets using z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition. z/OS Connect EE is IBM’s strategic solution for API enablement of z/OS basedapplications. In this session we show you how to create a REST API from a CICS application, and then discover and invoke the API.We also discuss some of the deployment considerations for z/OS Connect like security, availability and performance.

Z162 Using z/OS Connect EE to API enable a CICS application

Speakers:Hendrik Woerner IBM GermanyCarl Farkas IBM France

z/OS Connect is IBM’s strategic solution for API enablement of z/OS based applications. In this lab you will create an API based onthe CICS Catalog Manager application. The different steps of the lab are: 1. Create an API using the z/OS Connect API Editor 2. Deploy the API to a z/OS Connect EE server instance3. Discover and invoke the API from a REST Client

Z177 MQ for z/OS Performance Tuning for your infrastructure work horse

Speaker: Gwydion Tudor IBM USA

MQ for z/OS is the backbone for many hybrid cloud implementations. It provides the secure assured delivery of messages thatprovide application integration across platforms, service providers, and enterprises. It is the foundation for data replication betweendata centers, paving the way for extremely high availability across the miles. Because of it's key role, performance tuning MQ on z/OSis critical for a well run environment.

Z223 CICS Opening and Update embracing continuous delivery

Speaker: Chris Hodgins IBM

CICS TS V5.3 became available at the end of 2015 and continues the tradition of excellent transaction processing. So what does thatmean for you? IBM(R) CICS(R) Transaction Server (CICS TS) V5.3 builds on the capabilities that are delivered in earlier CICS TS V5releases, and adds substantial new DevOps functionality. New and enhanced capabilities are delivered in three main areas: • Service agility. Focuses on enhanced support for JavaTM and WebSphere(R) Liberty profile • Operational efficiency. Includes performance optimizations, enhanced metrics, and additional security • Cloud with DevOps. Introduces new cloud and DevOps support to automate CICS deployments Perhaps you can reduce operational complexity by hosting modern application interface logic inside the Liberty profile server withinCICS? Perhaps you can use the new CICS Cloud capabilities to improve application reliability and accelerate deployments? Maybeyou can improve your integration with Mobile devices? Or better control your costs though policies and consolidation? Come to thisCICS opening session to find out how CICS is reinventing mainframe application serving once again. And discover which CICSsessions you should attend during this conference to get the most value from your ticket.

Z228 WYNTK about CICS Liberty

Speaker: Ben Cox IBM UK

The What You Need To Know (WYNTK) series of lectures are the definitive technical overviews of specific capability areas in CICSTS V5. This session will introduce Liberty running under CICS TS: what is Liberty; core technologies you need to understand; how toget up and running from both a system administrator and application developer perspective. We will cover 3 key usage scenarios A)creating a presentation logic application B) creating an integration logic application, C) creating a business logic application, allrunning within CICS TS.

Z229 CICS Java Real Life Projects


This session will introduce some projects IBM completed with customers recently. These patterns are generalized and show howother customers can take advantage of the ever growing functionality provided by CICS.

Z231 WYNTK about CICS and DevOps


The What You Need To Know (WYNTK) series of lectures are the definitive technical overviews of specific capability areas in CICSTS V5.

This session will introduce DevOps from the perspective of a CICS user. We will cover: DevOps approaches and practices developing, building and deploying applications. 3 Key DevOps technologies that we will cover are the CICS Build Toolkit,DFHDPLOY & UrbanCode Deploy.

We will explore 3 Key scenarios including traditional COBOL, as well as more contemporary Java and Cloud applications all runningunder CICS TS.

Z236 WYNTK About CICS and MicroServices

Speaker: Chris Hodgins IBM UK

The What You Need To Know (WYNTK) series of lectures are the definitive technical overviews of specific capability areas in CICSTS V5. This session highlights the value of extending your existing investments to leverage the mobile phenomenon & theexponential growth it generates. The proven qualities of service of CICS on z Systems, makes it an ideal candidate to host mobileservices & mitigate the risk of this rapidly changing landscape. CICS' ability to handle RESTful services including JSON & XML,opens the door for mobile developers to access the existing power of your core business services by exposing them as microservicesthat provide selfcontained pieces of functionality. To further illustrate this value in CICS you will hear 3 examples built around mobileenablement, other RESTful services and the API economy.

Z242 WYNTK about CICS Performance

Speaker: Chris Hodgins IBM UK

The What You Need To Know (WYNTK) series of lectures are the definitive technical overviews of specific capability areas in CICSTS V5. Improvements in CICS in recent releases enable you to scale both horizontally and vertically whilst reducing CPU usage.Although performance is a huge topic, this session will introduce you to some core technologies such as threadsafety, MAXTASKconfiguration, 64bit exploitation and CPU optimization. Giving you implementable actions to help you save money and improvethroughput.

Z350 WAS zOS Problem determination

Speaker: Kevin Senior IBM

This session will present various topics related to problem determination in a traditional WAS z/OS environment. Some real worldexamples will be used to demonstrate how to properly prepare for effective problem determination and how to go about diagnosingsome common problems. You will also learn how to avoid many typical issues that either cause problems or make it harder todiagnose them.

Z354 Introduction to Security with Liberty on z/OS

Speaker: Kevin Senior IBM

This session assumes you already know some basics about WAS Liberty and want to understand more about security. Security is toobig a subject for 1 hour so this session will concentrate on the aspects that you are likely to need to understand when first starting towork with Liberty and in particular all the aspects that are unique to running Liberty on z/OS.

Z393 Using CICS Bundles and Policies in a Traditional CICS Environment

Speaker: Marcel Amrein IBM

A couple of years ago, BUNDLEs have been introduced as a new type of CICS resource, initially just used for very specific purposes.Nearly all the new features provided by the recent releases of CICS are in some way based on Bundles – but the use of Bundles isnot limited to that "new stuff", but in the meantime, Bundles can be used manifoldly. This lecture which will be complemented by live demos, if technically possible tells and shows what it's all about Bundles,especially what and how they may be used and handled in a CICS environment that just runs traditional applications. Thus, we alsowill come across CICS policies, the concept and use of "entry points" and the DFHDPLOY utility introduced with CICS V5.3.

Z413 The road to WebSphere Liberty Profile on z/OS for existing ClassicWAS z/OS customers

Speaker: Hendrik Woerner IBM

In 2012 IBM announced the revolutionary WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP) and bundled it with WebSphere Application Server forz/OS right from the start. What has been launched as a developmentfocused, lightweight application server for a minor set of JEEfeatures has now evolved into a fully production ready, powerful and easy to configure AppServer environment! On z/OS, WLP hasshown better performance than Classic WAS and the inclusion into CICS JVM server has created yet another alternative for CICScentric Java applications. For existing Classic WAS z/OS customers the feature based comparison with WLP is still somewhat difficult:Classic WAS comes with a deep integration into the z/OS environment as a unique MultiServant architecture. WLP on the other handis much more attractive to developers, more flexible and the config model is super easy. This session will recap the current featureset of WLP on z/OS and provide guidance for what application types WLP would be the ideal choice and what architecture optionswe have on z/OS. You will realize that WLP is not so much about actual migration from Classic WAS (IBM has announced JEE7Classic WAS in May this year, so there is no rush to get off) – it is about adding new types of applications that in the past were nottargeted for z/OS and are now a powerful deployment option. Even and especially in times of Cloud Computing!

Z430 Leveraging the power of Node.js and JavaScript on z Systems


You may have heard about the rising popularity of Node.js as a serverside JavaScript platform, but what is this platform exactly? Whyis Node.js such a prevalent framework for developing cloud, mobile and webserving applications? Find out how we managed toscale Node.jsbased AcmeAir to 30 billion transactions / day on a z13! Join us to learn about Node.js and its programming models,get an update on our work to bringing this JavaScript platform to z/OS and Linux on z, and how you can leverage the strengths ofNode.js and API Connect on your z Systems.

Z436 Svenska Handelsbanken's experiences with Liberty on z/OS thebeginning of our journey

Speakers:Henrik Lundström Svenska HandelsbankenLars Östberg Svenska Handelsbanken

Svenska Handelsbanken (SHB) was one of the earliest adopters of WAS on z/OS and is running it in production for over 15 yearsnow. In our experiences with traditional WAS, we have adopted a set of valuable operational, availability, and production fail overprocesses. We recently completed a proof of concept with Liberty on z/OS and will share our findings in this session along with ourlong term strategy for Liberty at SHB.

Track 7: Mobile

M77 Architectural Considerations For MobileFirst on SoftLayer AndBluemix

Speaker: David Pearson IBM UK Ltd

Join this session to learn about architecting MobileFirst on both IBM SoftLayer and Bluemix cloud platforms. We will cover SoftLayerenvironment characteristics and describe how to design and deploy. We will use customer examples to illustrate how it works andhighlight IBM reference architectures that can be used for your own MobileFirst projects. We will also describe how to define Mobilearchitectures for use on Bluemix.

M78 Transition Your MobileFirst Platform Environment To V8

Speaker: David Pearson IBM UK Ltd

Join this session to learn about how to conduct a health check review of your existing MobileFirst environment, then plan andexecute an upgrade to MobileFirst Platform Foundation v8. We will cover the key differences between MobileFirst v7 and V8,highlight key new features that enable you to gain additional value from IBM Mobile, and cover typical changes to both infrastructureand mobile apps that will facilitate a smooth transition.

M251 IBM MessageSight Pub/Sub Messaging for Mobile Apps and IoT


IBM MessageSight is a scalable, secure and easy to use MQTT messaging server designed for talking to lots of devices, ideal forcreating responsive mobile applications and internet of things applications.

This session provides an introduction to IBM MessageSight and an overview of the recent release of v2.0 which introduces majornew features including enhanced horizontal scaling with clusters and more flexible deployment options including Linux and Docker.

M253 Fun with IoT Messaging


In this lab you'll learn how to add pub/sub MQTT messaging to a Javascript application with IBM MessageSight to create a simpledynamic web application.

No prior experience developing web applications is required, this lab will demonstrate how easy it is to send and receive messages with the MQTT protocol and make dynamically updating applications.

M383 Make your OpenWhisk actions mobile aware

Speakers:Srinivasan Nanduri IBMAnantha Krishnan K G IBM

IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk provides a distributed compute service to execute application logic in response to events. The applicationlogic that is executed are called actions. The session discusses how to enable these actions to send push notifications in response tobusiness events produced by OpenWhisk enabled event producers viz., Cloudant etc.

M386 Best Practices using IBM MobileFirst Foundation and API Connect

Speakers:Ken Nelson IBMJason Kerner IBM

What you will learn: In this session you will learn about synergies between IBM MobileFirst Foundation and API Connect. You willlearn how to APIs are created using API Connect, how a MobileFirst adapter can consume APIs, best practices for userauthentication and authorization concerns, options for viewing analytics, and various deployment options.

M429 Building Mobile applications with backend integration for the HybridCloud environment

Speakers:Srinivasan Nanduri IBMSrikanth K Murali IBM

With the Cloud technologies fast engulfing the software business, the Hybrid Cloud is the most soughtafter architecture for buildingenterprise grade applications. Enterprises take advantage of the flexibility and scale of the Public cloud but also prefer to use the onpremise environment for data security and privacy considerations. Building mobile application for the enterprise to work with theHybrid cloud environment can be a daunting task.

IBM Bluemix provides services that helps to integrate the Bluemix environment with your onpremises environment by creating asecure connectivity between the onpremises and the Bluemix Cloud environment. In this lab, you can learn about how to deployMobile applications quickly while integrating with the backend services running behind the enterprise firewall. You will learn moreabout the Mobile Foundation service that helps to build, update and manage mobile applications, and using it to integrate with theenterprise using the integration services like Secure Gateway and VPN service.

Track 8: Process Transformation

P26 Integrating Services with ODM Decision Server Insights

Speakers:Di Lang IBMTonya Teyssier IBM

The lab introduces the integration patterns between ODM DSI and other services, including Predictive Analytics for Bluemix andODM Decision Service.Integrating the scoring service of Predictive Analytics for Bluemix brings together the benefits of two existing programming models toprovide the simple way to introduce scoring data into your Insights solutions.OSGi (Open service Gateway initiative) service allows dynamic behavior inside application. Integrating ODM Decision Service asOSGi Services externalize the reusable service from Insights solutions. The lab has step by step instruction to create data provider and the sample code to invoke services. After the lab, the student shouldunderstand:1. When and how to create data provider2. How to invoke Bluemix services 3. How to consume OSGi services4. How to utilize Predictive Analytics service

P90 Have fun with collaborative business process modeling in the Cloudwith IBM Blueworks Live (BPM)

Speaker: Roland Peisl IBM

More and more customers are using IBM Blueworks Live for business process discovery and modeling, as well as for simplifiedanalysis and staff education reasons to discuss business process / operation potential within their organizations. Countlessengagements have shown that people LOVE to model their business processes with this tool, which is hosted in the cloud / managedby IBM and does not require any IT support from your side. Business processes are modeled quickly in a collaborative environment:It is your decision who in your organization should have read access, or write and admin access to what 'space' (category of businessprocesses'), then your staff models business processes highly interactive with comment, documentation and chatting support toquickly ask for expertise if required. IBM Blueworks Live provices unmatched visibility into your business processes, and will fosterdiscussions in your organization to improve overall business operations execution. If you want, you can then use the model data andfeed IBM Business Process Manager to continue with BPM projects. If you are not using IBM Blueworks Live yet quickly attend thissession to learn what you're unluckily missing.

P91 BPM on Cloud: Focus on your business success and have IBM hostyour BPM platform


IBM started to host its BPM offering in the cloud beginning with October 2014, simply named BPM on Cloud (BPMoC). Since then alarge number of customers enjoys to focus on their optimized Process Applications (PA) only instead of having to deal with PAdeployment, BPM operations, maintenance, administration etc. Join this session to learn the details about the BPM on Cloud offering,and to understand how we operate BPM for you, and how you can work with the hosted platform to further improve. We will as welldiscuss various aspects how you engage with us when it comes to PA development, test and execution all hosted by IBM on ourBPM on Cloud infrastructure.

P92 Enforcing successful BPM adoption with the foundation of a BPMCenter of Excellence


Countless customer engagements have shown that the adoption of BPM and the transformation of an organization to a processcentric organization is critical for today's businesses. However, BPM is much more than buying software and tools and to get startedwith process modeling and / or automation. Actually there are quite some organizational challenges that need to be properlyaddressed when introducing BPM. The goog news iw: There is lots of experience available gained from many customerengagements to deal with this. The key recommendation we have is to rather early found a socalled BPM Center of Excellence,which helps to define and manage BPM methodologies, custom guidelines and best practices of a wide range of topics tosuccessfully run BPM projects, and to finally achieve the companywide acceptence of 'process thinking' driving business operationtransformation. This session shows in detail how we're helping customers to set up and run a successful BPM Center acceleratingBPM adoption on an enterprise scale.

P98 Chips to Decisions with IBM's ODM Operation Decision Manager RuleEngine

Speaker: Mike Johnson IBM

An over view of ODM IBM's Rule engine. Running logic described in natural language.We will see it run with a demo of a COBOL program running in CICS and the use of ODM to change the business logic withoutstopping anything and running simulations against the new changes !!

This session will challenge your programming paradigm. We will show how the ODM methodology, tooling and runtime can allowyour organisation to react to changes in an agile way. Quickly react to your business needs. Allowing changes to the business to takeplace in a more open, controlled and audit able fashion. Reduce the backlog of IT requests, by allowing more people to change thebusiness model without needing specialist programming skills. We will demo live the methodology and tooling. Come and see howpowerful this way of working is and why so many businesses are adopting the product

P244 Accelerate Business Agility in BPM Process Transformation withODM Decision Services

Speaker: Paul Pacholski IBM

Today it is critical for companies to be agile enough to adjust to strategic, business, economic, regulatory and technological changein order to gain competitive advantage. Automating business processes but not decisions is doing only half the job. Every companyneeds systems smart enough to handle operations effectively. Externalizing operational decisions is a particularly powerful approachto accomplishing that. IBM Operational Decision Manager provides the best platform in the market for automating and managingdecisions separate from automated BPM processes. Come to this session to learn how to recognize five different types of decisionsin processes and find out what are best practices and patterns for externalizing and implementing process decisions in ODM.

P245 Overview of New Capabilities in IBM Business Process Managerv8.5.7


We have introduced new mobileready and federated Process Portal with new capabilities to create saved searches and launchexternal activities. We enhanced UI authoring with: new mobileready responsive stock controls, new and improved webbasededitors in process designer; improved Client Side Human Service editor, which includes nested services, and improved WYSIWYGcoach editor with new Grid Layout; new Graphical Theme Editor for simplified coach and Process Portal styling capability. We haveenhanced Case capability as standard in all IBM BPM editions, which includes a converged BPMN editor for process and case,unified playback, debugger and process inspector, and consistent use of CMIScompatible content repositories for process and case.Find out about these new IBM BPM 8.5.7 capabilities. Learn about the key use cases for these capabilities and their value for thedeveloper and the business user.

P246 Smarter Processes through Best Practices with IBM BPM


Organizations know they need to have smarter processes in order to survive and compete. Process efficiency remains the top priorityof IT executives around the world. To help attendees succeed in their own business process management journey with IBM BusinessProcess Manager, IBM has collected a number of good practices that have proven to be a key ingredient of success stories with IBMBusiness Process Manager. This session reviews these practices including the latest guidance on extending BPM to Hybrid Cloudand leveraging Watson Cognitive Bluemix Services. Have IBM Business Process Manager or considering it? See you in this session!

P248 Smarter Process Cognitive Experience


A Cognitive Smarter Process can provide unparalleled business and customer value by leveraging cognitive services to enable itsense, respond and learn, using insights from unstructured data in and around your business; use natural language analysis tointeract with your operational platform; turn dark data into an asset that changes how you operate; detect and react to businesssituations in realtime. In this session you will discover how you can exploit Watson Cognitive Services Bluemix capabilities inprocesses and decisions today! Specifically we will explore five Cognitive Smarter Process patterns. You will learn what the solutionarchitecture for each pattern is; what Watson Cognitive Services are applicable; and how they can be combined and integrated withprocesses and decisions. Want to explore future opportunities and determine how cognitive computing is already being utilized inSmarter Process? See you in this session!

P303 What's new for decision management with IBM ODM

Speaker: Di Lang IBM

This session will cover all the latest news and deliveries related to IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) and ODM on Cloud, fordecision modeling, management and execution.Come to this session to get an overview and demonstration of new capabilities, in Decision Center and Decision Server Rules.

P333 IBM ODM on Cloud: Decision Management Platform on a PublicCloud

Speaker: Di Lang IBM

Rapidly capture, manage, and automate decisions in the cloud. In this session you will,

Get an introduction to cloudbased decision automation Discover the benefits and advantages of implementing a cloudbased ODM solution Find out how you can get up and running quickly Learn how the subscriptionbased monthly pricing plan works

See Operational Decision Manager on Cloud in action Get introduced with the user management capabilities Walk through the development, test and production areas of the service Understand how to work with the dev, test and prod environments See how a business user can manage decisions endtoend from the service

P357 Operational Decisions with Real Time Analytics: A perfect match

Speaker: Mike Johnson IBM

We will explore how the rule engine and analytical engine bring real time agility to the business. We will look at what analytics means and how decisions can be made from this data.

P363 Build compelling IBM Business Process Manager user interfacesusing Spark toolkit

Speaker: Thalia Hooker IBM

In this hands on lab, you will learn how to use the SPARK layout capabilities to build compelling user interfaces. The SPARK Toolkitoffers easy to use layout sections/containers to allow content to be arranged precisely according to simple or complex layoutrequirements. Demonstrate the basic containers: Well, Panel, Collapsible Panel, Tabs, Stack, Modal Section. Present the layoutcontainers that can be used for repeating content as well as layout flow (wrap, scroll, etc.) and complex layouts. The ResponsiveSensor will also be introduced to give you control for different screen sizes.

P449 Add Spark to your IBM Business Process Manager user interfaces

Speaker: Thalia Hooker IBM

In this session, you will learn about the Spark toolkit that IBM has recently reached a reseller agreement with Salient Process and hasthe right to add code from their toolkit into the base product in the next 1218 months time frame. Learn about the extensive set ofcontrols (90+) that can help you build compelling coaches quickly and more efficiently. Also learn about the event programming,chart, table controls that allow building complex user interfaces within the coach framework.

P477 How Automated Testing Saves Your Process Application

Speaker: David Brakoniecki BP3 Global

What is done? When is a developer truly code complete on a new feature? How often does your team say, “I’m finished with thiswidget” only for you to find out that they have not tested it.

In this session you will learn about the BP3 uses behavior driven development testing suites to run fully automated regression testsfor every UI element followed by BP3’s Neches tool to create end to end automated tests of your process and decision application.

Theses tools save teams hundreds of hours in development leading to faster delivery times bringing greater ROI for everyapplication.

Alasdair Nottingham WebSphere Runtime Architect

Alasdair Nottingham is the WebSphere Runtime Architect responsible for the architecture andevolution of the WebSphere Liberty runtime. He has been involved in Liberty since its early inceptionas lead developer and then as the overall architect. Before that Alasdair worked on Liberty he workedon messaging, and security for WebSphere.

Andrea Pichler WebSphere Application Server Support Engineer

Andrea Pichler is a Support Engineer for WebSphere Application Server based in Germany. With abackground in WebSphere infrastructure and performance, she has more recently been involved withWebSphere security. Her responsibilities include troubleshooting problems with customers in realtime, coordinating education for her team, and interacting with product development.

Ashish Ghodasara Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead – WebSphere Application ServerTechnical Support

Ashish Ghodasara is the Technical Team Lead of Support for the IBM WebSphere Application Serverproduct. He has been working with WebSphere Application Server products for past 13 years. Overthis time, Ashish has worked very closely with many customers and resolved complex critical issuesand enabled them to succeed. This experience has made him a highly sought after subject matterexpert inside and outside of IBM on how WebSphere Application Server is used (and misused) in realproduction environments. Ashish is a leading member of the Support Technical Leadership Council,and is responsible for gathering insights from experiences in solving customer problems that improvethe quality of our products, documentation and best practices. He is also a Master Certified ITSpecialist.

Bartosz Chrabski IBM Hybrid Cloud, WW Competitive Team DevOps & Bluemix Leader

Bartosz Chrabski is Executive Architect with IBM and lives in Warsaw, Poland. He joined IBM in early2008 and has over 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has richexperience as a IT professional, IT architect and technology leader as a result of participation invarious challenging project and multicultural teams distributed around the world. He specializes in thedesign and implementation of DevOps processes (based on agile or waterfall) and tooling fordevelopment teams. He is enjoying facing challenging technical issues, developing applications,mentoring, writing articles, guiding less experienced engineers, recording screencasts, deliveringcourses and being a technical reviewer for IT books. Bartosz likes to be engaged in a project from day0 to the day of delivery. The less interesting parts of the development cycle are what might be the mostinteresting part of it for him. Bartosz authored numerous articles and books and customerfacingpresentations in the areas of agile, quality assurance, application development and modernization. Helectures Software Evolution and Software Engineering at the Technical University of Gdansk andWarsaw Technical University.

Ben Cox IBM CICS Transaction Server Designer

Ben Cox IBM CICS Transaction Server Designer Ben is the design lead for Java support in CICS TS.He has experience working on Java, OSGi, Cloud and DevOps technologies in CICS TS, as well asthe CICS Explorer.

Biographies

Ben Stern Executive IT Specialist / Monitoring and Analytics Best Practices and TechnicalEvangelist

Ben Stern is an execute IT specialist with IBM. He has 15+ years of experience working in the ITService Management area. His current role is to define Best Practices around IBM's ApplicationPerformance Management and IT Analytics products. In that role, Ben has worked with hundreds ofcustomers around the world on architecture, planning, and implementations of their APM solutions.

Ben Thompson IIB Chief Architect

Ben joined IBM in the year 2000, and as IBM Integration Bus Chief Architect he is currentlyresponsible for setting the technical and functional direction of this product, and driving external clientand business partner relationships. Ben has previously worked as the IIB Industry Pack LeadArchitect, and as the IIB Operational Model Architect. Before that, Ben spent 8 years in IBM SoftwareServices where he completed 100+ engagements in 25+ countries worldwide, architecting,implementing and consulting on integration middleware, focussing mainly on IIB.

Callum Jackson Integration Solution Architect

Callum Jackson is an Integration Solution Architect in IBM Systems Middleware Services, based inHursley, UK. He specialises in consulting on IBM Integration Bus, IBM API Management, WebSphereService Registry and Repository, IBM DataPower and other Connectivity and Integration products.Prior to joining Services, he was a Software Engineer in the IBM Integration Bus team, and before thathe worked in Software Services on SOA applications for the telecommunications industry.

Carl Farkas Europe PanIMT zHybrid Cloud consultant (MQ, WAS)

Carl Farkas has been working in the IT industry for over 35 years and has held many different jobs in avariety of technical areas. Carl has been concentrating on communications, messaging andapplication integration for the past 20 years and has authored several books on host integration andnetworking. More recently, Carl has been performing technical consulting for the IBM WebSphereproducts primarily on the IBM z Systems platform. Carl is now part of the IBM Europe z Hybrid Cloudtechnical sales team. He does consulting in WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, the IBMIntegration Bus and other related products, and he has developed numerous education classes inthese areas which he has taught throughout Europe.

Charlie Martin IBM Cloud Messaging

Charlie Martin is a member of the IBM Messaging leadership team. With over 20 years experience insoftware development across a wide range of middleware and realtime systems he currently leads thedevelopment of the IBM Message Hub Bluemix Service, using agile practises to deliver cloud serviceswhich are available 24/7.

Chris Hodgins IBM CICSPlex SM Technical Lead

Chris is the technical lead for the CICSPlex SM, part of IBM CICS Transaction Server. He has workedfor IBM for 10 years from IBM Hursley. His main expertise are CICSPlex SM, CICS Cloud and the CICSManagement Client Interface. He is also the coauthor of the Cloud Enabling CICS redbook.

Chris Rosen Senior Technical Offering Manager, IBM Containers

Chris Rosen is a Senior Technical Offering Manager for IBM Containers within the IBM Cloud BusinessUnit. Chris is currently responsible for delivering IBM’s Container as a Service offering across public,dedicated, and local delivery models by working closely with customers, development, design, andresearch. Previously Chris has served in a number of roles in IBM throughout his 16 year career withthe organization including Lead for the Worldwide Software Group cloud infrastructure team. He has aBachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Masters of Business Administration, both fromRochester Institute of Technology. Chris also holds certifications for MCSA, MCSE, CCNA, ITIL, andOpenGroup IT Specialist.

David Brakoniecki Managing Director, Europe

David joined BP3 in September of 2014 as part of their entrance to the European market. Prior to thathe has worked for almost 2 decades in a wide range of industries including consulting, banking inbusiness development, finance and technology functions. This wide range of experience helps him todeliver the best results for his customers. David Brakoniecki holds a B.A. in European History ffromNorthwestern University and an M.Sc. in Economic History from the London School of Economics.

David Currie Europe PanIMT zHybrid Cloud consultant (MQ, WAS)

David is the Docker Architect for WebSphere Application Server. He previously worked on the WASLiberty Cloud Foundry/Bluemix support and has an interest in cloud native applications andmicroservices.

David Follis WebSphere Java Batch Architect

David Follis has been with IBM for 27 years, coming up through MVS development to spend the bulkof his career (so far) in WebSphere Application Server development. His focus for most of that timewas integrating with and exploiting the capabilities of the z/OS platform. Most recently he has takenownership of Java Batch (Compute Grid and JSR352) in WebSphere.

David J Pearson

David J Pearson is an Enterprise Cloud & Mobile Solution Architect working in the Mobile Offerings &Enablement team within IBM's Cloud Client Technical Engagement business unit. He has over 30years’ experience as a consultant delivering projects to customers worldwide. Areas of focus includemobile strategy, project scoping, mobile solution design, solution delivery and technical managementof projects, working with IBM Bluemix, MobileFirst, SoftLayer and API Connect product sets. He is anIBM Redbooks thought leader for enterprise mobile, and blogger for the IBM Mobile Insights blog. Heis also a chartered member of both the British Computer Society and Institute of Engineering andTechnology, and as a Chartered Engineer.

Di Lang Worldwide Technical Sales, IBM Hybrid Cloud Process Transformation

Di Lang specializes in IBM ODM product line, belongs to Process Transformation Worldwide TechnicalSales team. He helped a variety of clients in different industries to successfully understand, adopt anddevelop a vision around business rules management systems (BRMS) and manage their businesspolicies at an enterprise level with IBM ODM (formerly JRules). Before current role, he spent 8 yearswith IBM North America Service team. Di has been focusing on BRMS since the late 1990s. Prior tojoining ILOG, Di was a BRMS consultant for US Federal Government and he also spent 4 years withTravelSky China as an account manager in airline IT industry. Di earned a Master of Science degreein Information Systems from The Pennsylvania State University.

Eric Herness IBM Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Cloud group

Eric Herness is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Cloud group. As the CTO for CloudIntegration, Eric leads the architecture activity for IBM Middleware as it evolves towards providingcapabilities via the cloud. Eric has deep experience in business process management, cloud, rules,events, integration, application servers, connectivity and object technology. He has had key leadarchitectural roles in WebSphere and IBM Middleware going back over 20 years.

Eugen Postea Software Engineer, IBM Cloud

Eugen Postea is an Advisory Software Developer at the IBM Toronto Lab. He works in the IBMPureApplication and Bluemix Local System development team and he is designer for the OpenStackHeat Pattern runtime and infrastructure. He holds a Master degree in Computer Science fromPolytechnic University of Bucharest.

Gireesh Punathil

Gireesh Punathil is a Software developer with IBM India Software Labs. In his 14 years of professionalcareer he has been porting, developing and debugging web servers, virtual machines and compilers.His expertise is in problem isolation and determination of large and complex software modules. Inadditon to Java virtual machines, he also works on Node.js. He has spoken at JavaOne and few Nodeconferences.

Gwydion Tudur IBM MQ for z/OS Development

Gwydion is a Software Engineer working in the IBM MQ development team, focusing mainly on z/OS.He has worked in IBM Hursley for over 12 years, and in the IBM MQ development team for over 7years. His main areas of expertise include shared queuing and security.

Hendrik van Run Executive IT Specialist, IBM Cloud

Hendrik van Run is an Executive IT Specialist within the IBM Cloud Technical Engagement consultingpractice. He helps clients with the design, implementation and analysis of their Cloud infrastructure.Hendrik is currently the technical lead for IBM PureApplication and IBM Bluemix Local System inEurope. He has coauthored a number of IBM Redbooks and developerWorks articles, and frequentlypresents at conferences. Hendrik holds a Master degree in Physics from Utrecht University.

Hendrik Wörner IBM Technical Sales Specialist

Hendrik Woerner ia an IBM Technical Sales Specialist for the HybridCloud software portfolio on theMainframe platform. He is part of a European team of IT Specialists working with IBM WebSphereApplication Server, Operational Decision Manager, Java/JEE on z/OS as well as API Enablement andMobile on z. As Technical Sales Specialist Hendrik supports customers to evaluate & implement IBMmiddleware software and is a teamleader in IBM DACH region.

Ian Partridge IBM Runtime Technologies, IBM Cloud

Ian is a senior developer at Swift@IBM, working to bring Swift to the cloud on Linux. With abackground in runtime technologies including Java garbage collection, performance and monitoringhe is now working in open source on serverside Swift. He is an experienced speaker who mostrecently presented at Swift London and SwiftConf Cologne about bringing Swift to the Cloud.

Ingo Averdunk IBM Distinguished Engineer

On a personal side, Ingo Averdunk is married to his wife Kathleen and a proud father of three sons.His main hobby is Karate, which he practices for more than 35 years. He is the holder of the 4.Dan inShotokan, and is a certified belt examiner. Ingo has the trainer license (ATrainer Leistungssport) ofthe Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB). His other hobbies are photography, traveling andhiking.

Jeremy Hughes DevOps & Ecosystem Architect

Jeremy Hughes is the WebSphere Application Server development architect for DevOps and OpenSource, based at IBM's Hursley development laboratory in the UK, recently focusing on enabling theLiberty Profile to be managed by popular DevOps frameworks, including Chef. He is an IBM LabAdvocate, helping customers make the most effective use of WebSphere products. He has ledtechnology development in OSGi Applications and Web Services delivering to many WebSphereApplication Server releases. He is a committer and PMC lead on the Apache Aries project. He ispassionate about building a wider ecosystem of technology, often Open Source, around IBM productsto help customers build their solutions.

Jim Fieseler Vice President, WW Hybrid Cloud Technical Sales

Jim Fieseler is Vice President, WW Hybrid Cloud Technical Sales. Jim and his team work closely withthe Sales and Technical Sales teams WW in positioning the right solutions to meet our customerbusiness objectives and in ensuring a successful customer experience. The team works closely withour Services and Support teams in driving that successful experience throughout the customer’slifecycle, and with the Offering Management teams in providing input from the customer experienceinto plans. Prior to that, Jim was VP, Middleware Client Success, Market Adoption and Enablement.Jim and his team are responsible for: the development of our technical enablement content for ourinternal teams, Business Partners and customers, building and maintaining our technical certificationprocess; managing our SWAT teams for assisting Tech Sales, especially with new or FOAKopportunities; being the liaison between the Offering Management teams and the field teams on Go ToMarket readiness; and building the Services offerings strategy for our Middleware solutions.

Jochen Schneider IBM Cloud Architect

My career started in 1987 as an Assembler programmer at Siemens. In 1995 I started working for Tivolias a Tech Sales Consultant for all System Management products Since 2015 I am a Cloud Architectwith Focus on IT Servicemanagement Hybrid Integration into Bluemix and Saas

Jon Levell Messaging Engine Tech Lead IBM IoT MessageSight and Watson IoT Platform.

Jon is the Tech Lead for the messaging engine inside both the "IBM IoT MessageSight" Server and"IBM Watson Internet of Things Platform". He is a member of the OASIS Technical Committee workingon the next version of the MQTT protocol for the Internet of Things.

Ken Nelson MobileFirst & API Connect Solution Architect

Ken Nelson is an Mobile & API Technology & Solutions Evangelist specializing digital transformation.Continually looking to improve organizational processes by incorporating the latest techniques andstrategies for creating world class unwired solutions. With over 15 years experience in creating weband mobile applications emphasizing user experience, the connected world or Internet of Things,social media, analytics, process improvement, and justintime information.

Kevin Grigorenko Senior software engineer on the WebSphere Application Server SWATteam

Kevin Grigorenko is a senior software engineer on the WebSphere Application Server SWAT team,which provides worldwide, onsite, and remote supplemental product defect support, particularly incritical customer support situations. He focuses on problem determination for WebSphere ApplicationServer and related stack products and operating systems, including the IBM and Oracle JVMs, AIX,Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS, HP/UX, and i5/OS.

Kevin Postreich IBM World Wide technical sales lead for WebSphere Application Server

Kevin is the IBM World Wide technical sales lead for WebSphere Application Server, supportingcustomer deployments of WebSphere Application Server and Liberty, WebSphere eXtreme Scale andWAS on Cloud solutions. His role and responsibility also includes development and delivery oftechnical accelerators for IBM technical sales organizations, customers, and business partners aroundthe world. He routinely leads customer workshops and delivers technical enablement designed toaccelerate the experience, knowledge, and adoption of IBM Hybrid Cloud and Systems Middlewaresolutions. Kevin is a regular speaker at IBM events such as WebSphere User Groups, SoftwareTechnical Academies, and InterConnect. He has experience with WebSphere in context of IBMBluemix, DevOps, Docker, micro services, APIs and WebSphere Connect, caching, and more.

Kevin Senior Consultant IBM Hybrid Cloud Integration Professional Services (z/OS)

Kevin Senior is a consultant for IBM Cloud Professional Services and has many years of handsonexperience with WebSphere on z/OS in customer situations. An author of Redbooks and Techdocs,Kevin spends most of his time working directly with European customers to help them with planning,configuration, problem determination, healthchecks, performance and capacity planning.

Krishna C Kumar Senior Developer, IBM India Software Lab

Krishna C Kumar is a Senior Developer from IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore. Currently he workswith the "IBM MobileFirst Foundation Platform on Bluemix" Development Team. He specializes indeveloping various tools for related to MobileFoundation deployments on cloud and other servicesmanagement dashboards. He supports various customer activities w.r.t MobileFirst deployments onBluemix. He has worked with various IBM Business Units including Software services for variousproducts such as IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator, IBM Connections, IBM WebSphere Portal etc. Hisinterests are in Human Computer Interfaces, User Experience, Cloud related automation activities.

Lars Besselmann

Lars Besselmann is a member of the Client Technical Professional Team in Duesseldorf, Germany formore than 15 years, working with clients from all industries. He is an IBM and The Open Group MasterCertified IT Specialist. His main focus is on application infrastructure based on WebSphere ApplicationServer and WebSphere eXtreme Scale. Since some years now he also covers mobile appdevelopment based on the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation. Currently he is responsible for hybridcloud solutions such as WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration and IBM Bluemix.

Marcel Amrein Senior IT Specialist (MQ, CICS)

Marcel Amrein is a Senior IT Specialist in the IBM Cloud Unit in Germany. He started in IBM as a IMSsystems programmer more than 30 years ago, then worked for 13 years for IBM Training as aninstructor and developer for CICS and MQ on z/OS courses. In 2005, he moved to technical salesteam, still consulting and enabling customers in the area of CICS and CICS Tools, as well as MQ forz/OS, now also as part of the IBM Europe z Hybrid Cloud team.

Maria Luisa Lopez de Silanes Ruiz Developer, IBM Cloud Foundation Services

Marisa has worked for over 16 years in connectivity and integration, primarily as a labbasedconsultant. Marisa joined the IBM Cloud Foundation Services team 18 months ago to leverage herclient experience to deliver and improve the technical product documentation. Marisa has helpedclients world wide with the architecture, solution design, and implementation of IBM Cloud solutions,IBM BPM and integration technologies, and established the wellregarded IBM Integration Community.

Mark Taylor IBM MQ

Mark has worked for IBM at the Hursley laboratory in England for over 30 years, and has worked in avariety of development and services roles. He wrote code for the early versions of MQ, porting it tonumerous Unix operating systems. He has worked on MQ strategy, defining content for new releasesof the product and is still writing code. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, giving indepth education about the product, and providing consultancy about MQ implementations.

Matt Lucas IBM’s global blockchain enablement team, part of the office of the CTO Europe

Matt Lucas is part of IBM’s global blockchain enablement team, part of the office of the CTO Europe.His role is to help clients understand and apply blockchain technologies and works closely withemerging blockchain fabrics such as Hyperledger and Ethereum. He is based in IBM’s developmentlaboratory in Hursley and has worked with IBM for over 18 years on a variety of integration middlewaretechnologies. Most recently he spent several years working on IBM Integration Bus in the productarchitecture and offering management disciplines. You can contact Matt on Twitter using @mqmatt, orvia email at [email protected].

Michael Dawson Senior Software Developer

Michael Dawson is an active contributor to Node.js as a collaborator and CTC member, the facilitatorfor the benchmarking workgroup, participant in the lts, build, api and portmortem work groups and hascontributed many of the changes to enable support for Linux on Power, LinuxOne and AIX. He leadsthe Node.js team within IBM's runtime technologies team driving IBM's Node.js runtime deliveries andthe runtime team's contribution to Node.js and v8 within the Node and google communities. He's beenworking in the industry for over 25 years with the last 11 focused on building runtimes includingNode.js and Java. Further back, he held leadership roles in teams that developed ecommerceapplications and delivered them as services, including EDI communication services, credit cardprocessing and electronic invoicing.

Michael Hamann Senior IT Specialist IBM

Michael Hamann is a Senior IT Specialist in the IBM Cloud Unit in Germany. He has more than 15years of experience in consulting, instructing, and developing enterprise solutions. Currently he worksas a Client Technical Professional to support and consult IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM APIConnect customers.

Michael Hough Developer, IBM Containers

Michael has worked for over 4 years as a devops software developer in IBM Hursley and is working inthe IBM Cloud Foundation Services team. He has worked in many roles in the software developmentlifecycle, including devops, test, and documentation, for IBM Containers, IBM Integration Bus, andWebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). Michael has worked with clients world wide tohelp them adopt and implement solutions using Docker on IBM Cloud.

Mike Johnson Operation Decision Manager on z/OS

Mike is a developer and presents on Operation Decision Manager on z/OS. He works out of theHursley IBM lab in the UK. He has spent his career in the messaging and brokering environmentsacross the platforms. He has a Combined Honors degree in Computing and Statistics. When not atwork Mike spends his free time racing yacht

Mohan S. Saboj Manager Bluemix DevExperience, IBM Mobile First Platform

Paul Bahrs Certified IBM Executive IT Architect

Mr. Paul Bahrs is a certified IBM Executive IT Architect, currently assigned as the technical leader forHybrid Cloud Adoption and DevOps within the IBM Cloud Client Technical Engagement Team. Paul isresponsible for driving the creation of best practices, reusable assets, adoption models for clientsadopting hybrid cloud and DevOps. He also works with IBM’s clients to plan, pilot and scale hybridcloud and Cloud or DevOps adoptions. Paul recently led engagements with clients who were adoptingIBM hybrid cloud and DevOps solutions within the financial, telecom, insurance and retail industries.You can read some of Paul's work in the Garage Method, on DeveloperWorks or The Invisible Threadblog. Paul is a patent author and developed IBM products. Paul participated in open and governmentstandards teams to define industry standards in the US and Europe. Paul leads holds Masters andBachelors degrees in Mathematics from the University of Florida.

Paul Pacholski Worldwide Hybrid Cloud Smarter ProcessTechnical Sales Lead

Paul Pacholski has been with IBM Canada Development Lab for 33 years initially working as a SeniorDeveloper on several IBM software offerings and for last 18 years in the role of BPM Technical SalesLeader responsible for technical enablement within IBM and influencing BPM product directions.Paul’s other responsibilities involve helping customers to select the right BPM technology; presentingat technical conferences; publishing technical papers; and filing BPM related patents. In his mostrecent role Paul is leading Cognitive Business Operations initiative for Smarter Process.

Phil Coxhead Certified Consulting IT Specialist

Phil Coxhead is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist in the IBM Hybrid Cloud Technical Sales team inEurope. Phil has over 17 years’ experience in middleware and integration originating from abackground in IBM product development in role including leading teams on several key IBMmiddleware products including IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Application Server. Phil spent 8years as a Consultant in IBM Software Services and engaged with many customers worldwide to helpthem be successful in the design and implementation of SOA and integration projects in a range ofindustry sectors. He moved to a Technical presales role in 2014 and supports new and existingcustomers to adopt IBM products and technology across the entire Hybrid Integration landscape.

Rob Parker

Rob Parker has been working for IBM MQ for 4 years. He initially started in the MQ L3 team supportingMQ on distributed platforms before moving to the MQ Security team. Whilst in the MQ Security team hegained knowledge in several key areas of MQ including: Security (Specifically TLS), Remote channelsand Data Conversion. Currently Rob works in the MQ Ecosystem team where he spends his timetesting and blogging about MQ on cloud platforms and with third party technologies.

Roland Peisl Business Process Management, proActive L3

Roland joined IBM's BPM arena in 1998 and has had different roles including SW development,product marketing & management, business / technical consulting, and customer support in SWAT andL3. Today he’s a member of the BPM on Cloud DevOps team operating custom BPM systems hostedby IBM. Roland acts as well as BPM Lab Advocate for a set of IBM BPM customers accompanyingthem from early BPM project design to production start. Roland is a periodic speaker at IBM and nonIBM events. He holds a degree in Information Technology from the UCE in Stuttgart, Germany, heholds the ‘Advanced Certificate in Marketing (CIM)’, and is a state approved bachelor of BA.

Rossella De Gaetano

Rossella De Gaetano is an STSM working in the cloud platform area. She has been involved in thecloud world since the early stages working as quality assurance leader for IBM CloudBurst, evangelistfor IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud, as one of the technical leaders in SmartCloudProvisioning, as L3 customer support leader and development leader for IBM Cloud Orchestrator.Recently she has been working in providing libraries for business analytics support and in buildingreference applications for cloud foundation services.

Ryan T. Claussen IBM Cloud Integration CTO Office

Ryan Claussen is a member of the IBM Cloud Integration CTO Office. Ryan has over ten years ofexperience with all aspects of the Smarter Process portfolio, including: BPM, WPS, WESB, BusinessMonitor, and Blueworks Live! along with their implementations and configurations. He also has indepth knowledge of creating and deploying services into IBM Bluemix.

Sanjay Nagchowdhury IIB Team Leader

Sanjay Nagchowdhury joined IBM in 1993 and is the Team Leader for the IBM Integration Busdevelopment team. He has led teams across a number of IIB releases delivering capabilities such asthe XMLNSC parser, SOAP/JMS, Web Services, integration with BPM and WAS, support for differentMQ topologies, Business Transaction Monitoring, Integration with Salesforce and support for RESTAPIs.

Sanjeev Sharma CTO, DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption

Sanjeev is CTO and Distinguished Engineer for DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption in IBM CloudUnit. He is a 20year veteran of the software industry with expertise in DevOps, Mobile Developmentand UX, Lean and Agile Transformation, Application Lifecycle Management and Software SupplyChains. He is a DevOps Thought Leader at IBM and speaks regularly at conferences. He has writtenseveral papers and is the author of the DevOps for Dummies book.

Scott Grizzle Manager of Sales Engineering at Ustream, an IBM Company

Scott leverages his extensive knowledge in broadcast and video streaming technology to managesales for Ustream, now part of the IBM Cloud Video unit. With more than 20 years of operations,engineering, and management experience in the hightech and broadcast industries, Scott drivessales strategies and analyzes customer needs with an eye towards future industry innovation. Prior tojoining Ustream, Scott was Director of Business Development and Product Management for DVEO,where he was responsible for creating hardware design for the streaming media industry. Throughouthis career, Scott has worked with high profile accounts such as Netflix and CBS, and has consulted onmajor platform and delivery designs for tier one broadcasters. In addition to helping to write standardsand workflows that are widely used in the streaming industry, Scott designed much of the earliest fieldencoding and streaming equipment, and was one of the first streaming experts to handle 100,000simultaneous viewers. He is a twotime finalist for Top Tech Executive in San Diego Magazine andholds a master’s degree in Management from National University.

Steve Clay WebSphere System Management Technical Lead

Steve Clay is a technical lead of the WebSphere System Management team, with a primary focus onWebSphere Liberty collectives. In this role he directed the implementation of polyglot runtime supportin the collectives to provide such features as REST APIdriven deployment, autoscaling, and dynamicrouting with Node.js servers and Docker containers.

Thalia Hooker

Dr. Hooker has over 20 years of experience in IT, including the last 14 years at IBM. She is currently aHybrid Cloud Process Transformation World Wide Tech Seller focusing on Process Transformation.She enjoys helping customers understand how to use business process management to solve theirbusiness problems. In a presale capacity, she has worked with customers on various engagementsincluding: customer briefings, executing complex proofofconcepts, architecting, developing anddelivering proofoftechnologies (PoTs) and demonstrations, conducting design and discoveryworkshops, etc. She is a frequent presenter at conferences such as Interconnect, IBM WebSphereTechnical University 2015 (Dublin, Ireland), and Impact. She has also led the development of the IBMBusiness Process Management (BPM) ProofofTechnology for versions 8.5.5, 8.5.6 and 8.5.7. In herspare time, she enjoys playing tennis.

Thomas Südbröcker

My current responsibilities in the IBM Cloud Unit as Senior Client Technical Professional are beingresponsible for the topics Bluemix and Mobile API Economy and acting as the Mobile DeploymentLeader for DACH. Since 1999 I am Client Technical Professional and responsible for the RationalProducts, first at Rational Software than inside IBM. I took responsibility in many customer situationscovering Topics from Requirements Management, UML Modeling and Testing in a TechnicalEngagement Management Manager Role. I was leading the Community of Practices of QualityManagement in DACH for the Client Technical Professional of IBM Rational since 2009 until 2015. Iwas the regional mentor of IBM Rational Quality Manager since Version 1 (2008) for Germany until2015. Since 2012 until 2015 I was regional mentor for Green Hat, which now known as RationalIntegration Tester and Rational Test Visualization Server. I was concentrating on mobile testingandroid and ios, with the Rational Test Workbench. My main Objective was to help customers toimprove the software development and testing. Helping them to be more effective and improve qualitycontinually, to their goals.

Tim deBoer

Tim is the developer experience lead for WebSphere Application Server and chief architect for theWebSphere Developer Tools.

Tom Alcott Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)

Tom Alcott is Senior Technical Staff Member in the United States for IBM Cloud Platform Services In hisrole he focuses on the WebSphere Application Infrastructure products. Tom's background includesover 25 years of application design and development on both mainframebased and distributedsystems. He has written and presented extensively on a number of WebSphere topics as a frequentcontributor to WebSphere Developer Technical Journal.

Vidyasagar S. Machupalli Developer Advocate & Offering Manager for Dev Productivity

Vidyasagar Machupalli (VMac) is a Polyglot and Pragmatic programmer, who loves technologieschanging lives. He is a wellknown blogger and speaker in various technical communities. Hecurrently works for IBM as a Developer Advocate promoting the use of IBM Cloud (Bluemix) throughtalks, articles, blogging, user demonstrations, recorded demonstrations, or by the creation of sampleprojects. He has been awarded as Microsoft MVP, Intel Software Innovator, and DZone MVB. He ispassionate about game development and works in his free time developing games and Mobile apps.

Wiender Sarup lead WAS engineer at NationaleNederlanden

Wiender Sarup, lead WAS engineer at NationaleNederlanden (large insurance company in TheNetherlands). Responsible for the WAS Infrastructure, deployment and delivery of applications.Currently working in a large scale project that includes the migration from onpremise datacenters tothe public cloud and application migrations of WAS to Liberty Profile.

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