PREVAIL2020

Day 1: September 15, 2020

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  WELCOME: Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  KEYNOTE: Architecting for Reliability Presentation - 031
  

  Speakers: Ingo Averdunk

  This presentation describes key architectural patterns available to implement reliability into a software component or service. With the skill and experience in these techniques, the engineering professional can have a meaningful conversation with product owners on implementing reliability targets for a given service.

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  Addressing the elephant in the cluster: Highlights of the AoT OpenShift Design - Resiliency Squad findings - B - 039
  

  Speakers: Haytham ElnahasHaytham Elkhoja

  In this session, we'll discuss the output of the AoT OpenShift Design - Resiliency Squad and its recommendations We'll go through the following points: - Is DR still a valid option for OpenShift, in the traditional sense? - What to do and not to do regarding Openshift high availability - Discuss workloads, including the Active/Active and Active/Passive discussion from a workload perspective - How to backup the Openshift elements - How to backup workloads and data

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  Digital Twin Operations (DTOps) by edge and cloud computing - 126
  

  Speakers: Benjamin Walterscheid

  Driven by recent advancements in the emergence of data processing, acquisition (IoT) and analysis technologies, the era of data-driven products has arrived and traditional enterprise IT landscapes have been reshaped. Data is generated throughout the product development process in a virtual environment (computer-aided engineering, PLM) and continues whenever a product is used in the physical world. Despite this continuous generation of data, there is no exchange of information between virtual and physical systems. Both are considered in isolation from each other and as a result of this, there is no stateful representation of a product. Therefore, this work introduces Digital Twin Operations (DTOps), a perpetually evolving concept which places an emphasis on the interlocking of virtual and physical systems to achieve a complete virtual mapping of a physical object using continuous and pervasive real-time data exchange combined with the capability of cloud and edge computing.

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  KEYNOTE: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion - 144
  

  Speakers: Allen DownsAndrea SaylesBj Klingenberg

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  **Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion**
  
  Andrea to give a perspective on Business and Operational Resiliency – especially in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and she will host a panel to discuss the market/client view of Business and Operational Resiliency, as well as the current state of accelerated cyber security attacks given the vulnerabilities caused by COVID-19. She will also give a view of what the IBM company is doing for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and how we are keeping our employees and clients safe in this highly volatile environment. Her guests on the panel will be:
  
  Allen Downs, VP, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services
  
  BJ Klingenberg, CTO, Business Resiliency Services
  

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  Achieving Application Resilience using MCM Capabilities - B - 006
  

  Speakers: Eduardo PatrocinioJohn Webb

  In this session, I will describe how IBM Multicloud Manager can be used to achieve resilience for an application. I will start with a simple application, deploying manually in multiple clusters. Then, I will present the challenge to have application consistency and a solution on how to achieve it using MCM capabilities. The audience will learn how to use MCM concepts to have a consistent and resilient application.

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  PANEL: Consumer and Travel & Transportation - P02
  

  Speakers: Chad Andrews (moderator)J Gregory Land (greg)Jane CheungLauren IsbellNikiforos ChatzopoulosSashank Rao Yaragudipati

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Consumer and Travel & Transportation industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

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  Protecting Operator managed stateful apps with Velero - 022
  

  Speakers: Jyoti ChawlaSandeep Mangalath

  Open Source Project Velero has picked up pace with its integration into VMware's Tanzu Mission Critical portfolio. This session provides an optioned view of Velero, covering the state of the project, its applicability to protecting Stateful applications, its limitations and strengths as being a Kubernetes aware backup and restore service. This will be followed by a hands-on walkthrough of protecting an Operator managed stateful application running on Kubernetes cluster using Velero. This will give an experiential demonstration of Velero in the context of a real world enterprise application. The participants will walk away with an understanding of Velero; what it is, when to use it and how to use it.

Day 2: September 16, 2020

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  KEYNOTE: SRE in IBM Cloud - 128
  

  Speakers: Ralph Bateman

  SRE is a term now used widely across our industry. But what does it mean and how can you do it? Ever wanted to know how to achieve high availability, but fast and frequent deployment to production. How can you enable Development squads to deploy to production as often as they want without risking outages? Learn how AIOps and Chatbots can help save you time and effort in a highly availably production system. This session will cover all these topics and more.

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  Rethinking Enterprise Backup and DR for the Cloud - 121
  

  Speakers: Karpagam Venkatraman

  Rethinking Enterprise Backup and DR for the Cloud

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  Does Red Hat OpenShift enable a new paradigm in Performance and Availability Engineering? - B - 010
  

  Speakers: Andrew P Roden

  Andrew P Roden will discuss Red Hat Openshift and the potential paradigm changes that it offers regarding availability, disaster recovery, and performance engineering.

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  WELCOME: Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  KEYNOTE: Performance Engineering: The IBM Garage Perspective - 145
  

  Speakers: Stacy Joines

  Hybrid Cloud brings not only new technology, but also a new culture to traditional IT. This culture change is most famous for its embrace of techniques like Design Thinking, Agile development, and pair programming. This presentation discusses how Hybrid Cloud technology and culture reaches into the space of performance and scalability. We’ll discuss considerations and lessons from real-world experiences to engage the scalability and power of the Hybrid Cloud. The presentation will also cover how one team, the IBM Garage, is working to incorporate operational success factors like Scalability and Security into the very fabric of the new development culture.

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  KEYNOTE: Resilience through security on the cloud - 143
  

  Speakers: Chris Dotson

  How does security affect resilience? For example, are your cloud security measures implemented in a way that can respond to changing demand quickly, and do your security measures make your environment more resistant to disruption from different types of attacks? In this session, we'll discuss the essentials of cloud security -- such as threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and preventive and detective controls, and how different security measures can both positively and negatively impact resilience.

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  PANEL: Banking & Financial Markets and Healthcare & Life Science - P01
  

  Speakers: Anil JainDhiraj KunwarHeather Fraser (moderator)Jianying HuPaolo Sironi

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Banking & Financial Markets and Health & Life Sciences industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

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  Breaking OpenShift: Best practices for managing users and projects in an OpenShift cluster - 038
  

  Speakers: Amine AnoujaEduardo PatrocinioHaytham Elnahas

  Redhat Openshift is a platform that is rich with features and capabilities, most of these are not activated by default when the platform is first installed, it’s the role of the admins/operators of the platform to have a strongly enforced boundaries and rules in place to prevent inappropriate use of the platform. Here we highlight a number of these features like, quotas, network policies, naming conventions and pod priority.

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  Multi-Cloud: Architecture & Design - 048
  

  Speakers: Michael Mitchell

  Michael will present a brief summary of hybrid & multi cloud approaches and explain the rationale of a multi cloud architecture. Then Michael, will discuss a few multi cloud architectures and follow up with a use case. Michael will continue with application resiliency in a multi cloud environment and finally, conclude with the containers hosted on multi cloud environments.

Day 3: September 17, 2020

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  Cloud Availability - B - 108
  

  Speakers: David Coleman

  Is cloud availability something new? Don't the usual rules for availability design apply? Well, yes and no. The usual rules do apply, but the content is different. And interestingly, that means what is likely to fail changes quite a bit.

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  WELCOME: Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  KEYNOTE: Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats - 141
  

  Speakers: Chet KarwatowskiRahul NaharThomas Ward

  Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats for IBMers and Non-profit Disaster Relief Agencies

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  Principles of data integrity and transaction consistency in a multi-active cloud architecture - 034
  

  Speakers: Haytham Elkhoja

  We will discuss and show how we can guarantee strong data integrity and consistency by relying on Event-driven Architectures and new Cloud-native patterns. I present architectural methods and principles that were recently delivered in a large financial institution in Europe during their journey to an Always On / Multi-Active architecture. In a microservices and Cloud-native world, where applications must be de-coupled from the underneath platform and hardware, architects and developers have to re-think how to achieve transactional consistency by modernizing applications to new patterns such as Saga, Outbox, Event Sourcing and relying on an Always On/Always Consistent Kafka Event Stream platform.

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  Availability in a Cloud-native world. Guidelines for mere mortals - 047
  

  Speakers: Haytham Elkhoja

  I present architectural methods, patterns and practices that are to be followed by developers, SREs and software architects when building and maintaining cloud-native applications and services that need to provide the highest levels of availability. The methods describe how to provide *true* five nines (99.999%) for end to end business services by incorporating Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Microservices, Chaos Engineering, Cloud-native Architectures, Application Modernization, Multi-Availability Regions, Geo-dispersity, Data Consistency, Performance and Scalability, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and Software-defined Environments (SDE).

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  KEYNOTE: AI for Performance Engineering - 017
  

  Speakers: Sam Lightstone

  AI is disrupting system performance. In this session CTO and IBM Fellow Sam Lightstone will highlight some of the emerging AI technologies that are creating knew opportunities for performance engineering. From Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Neuromorphic computing, learn how performance engineering is entering a new era beyond the fundamentals of throughput and latency of compute, storage and network. Profound changes are occurring as every layer of the stack is increasingly infused with AI.

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  KEYNOTE: AI for IT Operations Management - 127
  

  Speakers: Rama Akkiraju

  Recent advancements in Cloud computing, which makes compute available for rent, Natural Language Processing via pre-trained language models such as Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for language understanding, and Machine Learning via interpretable machine learning models are all making it possible to infuse AI into traditional business processes by tapping into semi-structured and unstructured data that was not effectively tapped into before. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunity to infuse AI into IT operations management. I will demonstrate how AI enables us to mine application and infrastructure logs, tickets, and IT Operations managers’ collaboration chat conversations in addition to metrics that are traditionally analyzed to better diagnose, repair and resolve problems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can proactively avoid issues from happening by improving the quality of the software development lifecycle artifacts via feed-forward and feedback loops.

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  DB2's new integrated cluster manager providing High Availability - 136
  

  Speakers: Alan Lee

  The Db2 High Availability Feature which enables integration between Db2 server and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (a.k.a. TSA) has been the best practice for automated failover to HADR standby in the past 10+ years. It is popular, well-adopted and continues to attract many mission critical deployments world-wide. To align with the overall IBM cloud strategy while at the same time, address recent surge of requests to deploy this solution in non-containerized cloud environment and to resolve existing limitation in TSA, Pacemaker has been anointed the new 'cluster manager of choice' going forward, with goals to enhance existing integration, further lower total cost of ownership and provide superior service than its predecessor...

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  Db2 Resiliency Models—What Real Customers Are Doing - 142
  

  Speakers: Dale Mcinnis

  In this presentation we will detail several DB2 resiliency patterns that customers have deployed. We will review the customer’s requirements, discuss alternatives and detail the final architectural chosen outlining both the pros and cons. Monitoring is key to success in building a resilient environment this we will detail what needs to be monitored.

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  Kubernetes resilience is not enough: the journey to make a simple application resilient - 007
  

  Speakers: Eduardo Patrocinio

  So you think that if you containerize your application and run in a Kubernetes environment, it will provide the resilience is expect. You are wrong... This session will present the steps required to take a simple Kubernetes application and redesign it to be more resilient to disruptions.

Day 1: September 15, 2020

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  WELCOME: Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  KEYNOTE: Architecting for Reliability Presentation - 031
  

  Speakers: Ingo Averdunk

  This presentation describes key architectural patterns available to implement reliability into a software component or service. With the skill and experience in these techniques, the engineering professional can have a meaningful conversation with product owners on implementing reliability targets for a given service.

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  Conducting a resilience and scalability assessment I - method, tools and outcomes! - 008
  

  Speakers: Andrew P RodenLydia Duijvestijn

  In this session we will introduce an intuitive, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use method to conduct a resilience and scalability assessment. The method is based upon IBM's Resilience and Performance Engineering and Management Method. The interactive nature of the workshop-based method enables fast information collection and can be extended as desired with deep dives (application profiling; resilience or performance testing; source code analysis). The method is supported by two RADAR tools that visualize the gaps that need to be closed. The NFR RADAR provides an overview of the current and desired capabilities of the solution as a whole to meet the NFRs; the Solution Scalability RADAR highlights the current and desired scalability at each layer of the solution stack. Templates to document observations and recommendations both in presentation and in document form are available. Case studies in which this method have been successfully used will be briefly discussed.

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  Changing architecture: changing aircraft wings in flight! - 019
  

  Speakers: Matanya Moses

  Our architecture was aging, didn't stand the load and performance needed and costed a fortune This story captures our journey of changing the architecture of one of our products, named IBM Trusteer Pinpoint. The architectural change had to be done live on production for reasons I will cover in the talk and was needed as we got to the capacity limits of AWS RDS as well as the performance of our APIs was degrading over time. Operating the service was also very costly due to those constraints. The talk will tell our story from the performance point of view and how you can change a mission critical system while in service without impacting your clients. I will demonstrate our thinking, prototyping, trailing and erroring, testing and validating our approach and finally our road to changing our aircraft's wings while in flight serving live users - i.e changing a database live in production.

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  KEYNOTE: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion - 144
  

  Speakers: Allen DownsAndrea SaylesBj Klingenberg

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  **Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion**
  
  Andrea to give a perspective on Business and Operational Resiliency – especially in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and she will host a panel to discuss the market/client view of Business and Operational Resiliency, as well as the current state of accelerated cyber security attacks given the vulnerabilities caused by COVID-19. She will also give a view of what the IBM company is doing for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and how we are keeping our employees and clients safe in this highly volatile environment. Her guests on the panel will be:
  
  Allen Downs, VP, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services
  
  BJ Klingenberg, CTO, Business Resiliency Services
  

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  Deploy, Optimize, Scale, Perform with Continuous Deliveries - How IBM Sterling Order Management makes it happen - 003
  

  Speakers: Lokesh MurthyVijaya Bashyam

  IBM Sterling Order Management runs an enterprise order management application in a scalable, performant manner, reducing TCO, tailored to the application for various cloud providers to address business needs. In this session we will learn on how a product team handled these challenges and provided a one-stop solution to significantly reduce cost and improve DevOps strategies for enterprise-scale docker container environments with the use of Red Hat OpenShift container Platform.

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  PANEL: Consumer and Travel & Transportation - P02
  

  Speakers: Chad Andrews (moderator)J Gregory Land (greg)Jane CheungLauren IsbellNikiforos ChatzopoulosSashank Rao Yaragudipati

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Consumer and Travel & Transportation industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

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  Performance Evaluation of Server Consolidation on IBM Z! - 023
  

  Speakers: Dr. Paul LekkasFimy HuSeewah ChanVeng Ly

  Performance should always be a key consideration when designing, configuring, and consolidating your system. In this session we present the results of a comprehensive performance study on the consolidation of application servers onto the mainframe. We were able to significantly reduce the total batch elapsed time of our banking workload through a series of tuning and configuration changes.

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  Architecture and Performance of Z platform for Cloud Workloads - B - 042
  

  Speakers: Stefan LiescheSurya Duggirala

  In this session, we will explore the mainframe Hyper Protect 1.0 design, give an outlook on the new Hyper Protect 2.0 design and various features offered by the platform to support cloud workloads exploiting the unique capabilities like confidential computing and data privacy, built-in security, resiliency I/O performance and more. We will discuss Hyper Protect Crypto Services that are providing the KYOK capability design and performance

Day 2: September 16, 2020

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  KEYNOTE: SRE in IBM Cloud - 128
  

  Speakers: Ralph Bateman

  SRE is a term now used widely across our industry. But what does it mean and how can you do it? Ever wanted to know how to achieve high availability, but fast and frequent deployment to production. How can you enable Development squads to deploy to production as often as they want without risking outages? Learn how AIOps and Chatbots can help save you time and effort in a highly availably production system. This session will cover all these topics and more.

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  Self-Adaptive Systems and Its Performance Management - B - 082
  

  Speakers: Pruthvi Bharadwaj

  The goal of this learning module is to introduce the audience to the foundational concepts like meaning of adaptation and self-adaptation and its properties etc., and reference models involved in architecting self adaptability like feedback control loops in software systems. Furthermore, in this lecture we will see how these reference models can not only be used to derive approaches and strategies to optimize overall application performance but also to achieve self-healing by detecting any failure associated with a service and recovering successfully.

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  WELCOME: Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  KEYNOTE: Performance Engineering: The IBM Garage Perspective - 145
  

  Speakers: Stacy Joines

  Hybrid Cloud brings not only new technology, but also a new culture to traditional IT. This culture change is most famous for its embrace of techniques like Design Thinking, Agile development, and pair programming. This presentation discusses how Hybrid Cloud technology and culture reaches into the space of performance and scalability. We’ll discuss considerations and lessons from real-world experiences to engage the scalability and power of the Hybrid Cloud. The presentation will also cover how one team, the IBM Garage, is working to incorporate operational success factors like Scalability and Security into the very fabric of the new development culture.

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  Usage Data Modelling: A Robust Capacity Planning Framework - B - 137
  

  Speakers: Jonathan DunneLisa CassidySonya Leech

  In this study, we propose a framework to predict system resource usage (CPU, Disk and Memory) with a high degree of precision (between 0.68 and 0.86). Our framework can help DevOps, Offering management and Sales teams along to plan for existing and new customers with a higher degree of precision.

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  Enhancing Performance Predictions using Machine Learning - B - 072
  

  Speakers: Anik Manik

  The performance of an application is measured using load tests, performance modelling and Regression Analysis to predicts response time percentiles. This is time consuming, To reduce required time Regression Analysis using Machine Learning is proposed to make accurate predictions with minimal manual effort.

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  KEYNOTE: Resilience through security on the cloud - 143
  

  Speakers: Chris Dotson

  How does security affect resilience? For example, are your cloud security measures implemented in a way that can respond to changing demand quickly, and do your security measures make your environment more resistant to disruption from different types of attacks? In this session, we'll discuss the essentials of cloud security -- such as threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and preventive and detective controls, and how different security measures can both positively and negatively impact resilience.

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  Exploratory Performance Testing and Quality by Design! - 013
  

  Speakers: Alex Zverev

  Recent progress in the IT technologies requires adequate changes in Quality Engineering. QE must fit into the concept of Quality by Design, enable efficiency of SRE, support quality and agility in DevOps implementations to maximise value output while minimising the resources and turnaround times. Currently accepted methodologies of performance testing and capacity analysis have limited benefit/cost ratio and need to be enhanced to fit the requirements of the day. Exploratory performance testing (XPT) provides flexible methodologies to maximise the value while controlling resource investment and maintaining shortened development cycles. The approach utilises dynamic reproduction of wide-range load conditions based on key business flows and production data.

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  PANEL: Banking & Financial Markets and Healthcare & Life Science - P01
  

  Speakers: Anil JainDhiraj KunwarHeather Fraser (moderator)Jianying HuPaolo Sironi

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Banking & Financial Markets and Health & Life Sciences industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

Day 3: September 17, 2020

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  Harnessing the AgileTechniques in the Performance Engineering_Whitepaper - 093
  

  Speakers: Sukumar Reddy Machireddy

  The Agile approach when used appropriately, is effective in solving the downside of the Waterfall model. Performance engineering when executed using the agile model becomes an iterative and collaborated process with the development of the application. The most important benefit is that it saves costs of fixing the performance issues later in the development cycle

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  WELCOME: Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  KEYNOTE: Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats - 141
  

  Speakers: Chet KarwatowskiRahul NaharThomas Ward

  Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats for IBMers and Non-profit Disaster Relief Agencies

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  KEYNOTE: AI for Performance Engineering - 017
  

  Speakers: Sam Lightstone

  AI is disrupting system performance. In this session CTO and IBM Fellow Sam Lightstone will highlight some of the emerging AI technologies that are creating knew opportunities for performance engineering. From Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Neuromorphic computing, learn how performance engineering is entering a new era beyond the fundamentals of throughput and latency of compute, storage and network. Profound changes are occurring as every layer of the stack is increasingly infused with AI.

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  KEYNOTE: AI for IT Operations Management - 127
  

  Speakers: Rama Akkiraju

  Recent advancements in Cloud computing, which makes compute available for rent, Natural Language Processing via pre-trained language models such as Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for language understanding, and Machine Learning via interpretable machine learning models are all making it possible to infuse AI into traditional business processes by tapping into semi-structured and unstructured data that was not effectively tapped into before. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunity to infuse AI into IT operations management. I will demonstrate how AI enables us to mine application and infrastructure logs, tickets, and IT Operations managers’ collaboration chat conversations in addition to metrics that are traditionally analyzed to better diagnose, repair and resolve problems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can proactively avoid issues from happening by improving the quality of the software development lifecycle artifacts via feed-forward and feedback loops.

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  Application Performance & Resiliency Tuning Approaches! - 018
  

  Speakers: Samir Nasser

  Samir will present a brief summary of performance & resiliency engineering approaches and a few statistics on the cost of software failures. Then, Samir will present a product-agnostic performance & resiliency tuning approach. Samir used this approach in all performance & resiliency tuning engagements he has led. The approach does not focus on any particular product. Samir will showcase a real-world use case where this tuning approach has been successfully employed.

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  Designing and Deploying High Performing Enterprise Applications with IBM Cloud Paks - B - 040
  

  Speakers: Moss UchidaSurya Duggirala

  IBM Cloud Paks are enterprise-ready, containerized software solutions that will help move business applications seamlessly using open technologies and with focus on enterprise security. This session discusses how IBM Cloud Paks are designed with performance and scale in mind. This session also reviews best practices and performance characteristics of various enterprise applications deployed on both public, private and hybrid clouds through IBM Cloud Paks

Day 4: September 18, 2020

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  Enhancement of Application Performance using DevOps Oriented Synthetic Monitoring - B - 074
  

  Speakers: Goutham Krishnan E SSwathi S

  Application performance Management with DevOps concept, synthetic monitoring and tools to be used for synthetic Monitoring, importance of performance Monitoring are explained.

Day 1: September 15, 2020

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  WELCOME: Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Architecting for Reliability Presentation - 031
  

  Speakers: Ingo Averdunk

  This presentation describes key architectural patterns available to implement reliability into a software component or service. With the skill and experience in these techniques, the engineering professional can have a meaningful conversation with product owners on implementing reliability targets for a given service.

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  Multicloud Encryption built for a Resilience - B - 051
  

  Speakers: Mark Buckwell

  Encryption and key management is one of the most challenging areas to get right without interfering with the resilience and operation of systems. This session discusses the design considerations for building a resilient solution for hybrid cloud.

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  KEYNOTE: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion - 144
  

  Speakers: Allen DownsAndrea SaylesBj Klingenberg

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  **Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion**
  
  Andrea to give a perspective on Business and Operational Resiliency – especially in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and she will host a panel to discuss the market/client view of Business and Operational Resiliency, as well as the current state of accelerated cyber security attacks given the vulnerabilities caused by COVID-19. She will also give a view of what the IBM company is doing for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and how we are keeping our employees and clients safe in this highly volatile environment. Her guests on the panel will be:
  
  Allen Downs, VP, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services
  
  BJ Klingenberg, CTO, Business Resiliency Services
  

• Replay

  PANEL: Consumer and Travel & Transportation - P02
  

  Speakers: Chad Andrews (moderator)J Gregory Land (greg)Jane CheungLauren IsbellNikiforos ChatzopoulosSashank Rao Yaragudipati

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Consumer and Travel & Transportation industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

Day 2: September 16, 2020

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: SRE in IBM Cloud - 128
  

  Speakers: Ralph Bateman

  SRE is a term now used widely across our industry. But what does it mean and how can you do it? Ever wanted to know how to achieve high availability, but fast and frequent deployment to production. How can you enable Development squads to deploy to production as often as they want without risking outages? Learn how AIOps and Chatbots can help save you time and effort in a highly availably production system. This session will cover all these topics and more.

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  Threat modelling Process in Software Development - 024
  

  Speakers: Samvedna Jha

  Threat modelling is not a new process to industry. But as other processes this also needs reminder and revisit by many of us. With Agile becoming an integral part process of software development the focus has shifted to continuous delivery. Threat modelling process helps to pause and look into corner cases of the product. Asset identification, trust level of users and overall communication in and out of product is the need of the hour. Threat model comes as a rescue to identify the vulnerabilities of product. It helps to seed security thoughts during the design of product. Doing product vulnerability analysis in such early stage of development helps us achieve security in design. The proposed session will share sample threat models from legacy software and cloud application. How in different product type we need to think about how to create threat model and keep it up-to-date for future releases.

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  Security of the Internet of Things - 036
  

  Speakers: Rima Bose

  Mobile devices, wearables and industrial internet of things will grow tremendously in next five years. This growth will be fueled by 5G, which will revolutionize the way we live and work. Despite these advantages of 5G, security experts are wary that 5G together with internet of things (IoT) will increase the attack surface, bringing new types of cyber vulnerabilities into our lives.

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  Security planning to transform business operations on Cloud - Postpandemic - B - 056
  

  Speakers: Sabitri Chakraborty

  TThis session will provide pointers on the strategic planning vectors for managing the cybersecurity threat landscape as businesses migrate to Cloud to drive operational efficiency in the post pandemic world.

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  WELCOME: Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

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  Applying zero trust in an hybrid cloud environment: one principle at dual speed - B - 020
  

  Speakers: Stefaan Van Daele

  Most organizations have their workloads (data and applications) distributed between an on premise infrastructure and different variants of cloud computing (IaaS, Paas, SaaS). Now when an organization would like to apply the zero trust principles in an holistic way they are confronted with different capabilities and different constraints in both environments. In this session I would like to highlight both the opportunities as well the challenges that organizations are faced with when they start to apply the zero trust principles as part of their overall security governance. Cloud providers have in general the zero trust principles already built in but where to start in the data center and how to cope with security at dual speed?

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  Security best practices for a container platform - B - 021
  

  Speakers: Jerome Tarte

  Security is a key requirement in IT. If Cloud container platform changes the way to develop, deploy and operate applications, the need of security is still valid. The architecture that are deployed should be compliant with security rules and compliance requirements. During the session, we will visit what are the best practices to secure a cloud container platform, based on IBM Cloud Paks and Openshift. The advices and best practices are based on lessons learned from real client projects. By following these best practices, your container platform will become more secure.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Performance Engineering: The IBM Garage Perspective - 145
  

  Speakers: Stacy Joines

  Hybrid Cloud brings not only new technology, but also a new culture to traditional IT. This culture change is most famous for its embrace of techniques like Design Thinking, Agile development, and pair programming. This presentation discusses how Hybrid Cloud technology and culture reaches into the space of performance and scalability. We’ll discuss considerations and lessons from real-world experiences to engage the scalability and power of the Hybrid Cloud. The presentation will also cover how one team, the IBM Garage, is working to incorporate operational success factors like Scalability and Security into the very fabric of the new development culture.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Resilience through security on the cloud - 143
  

  Speakers: Chris Dotson

  How does security affect resilience? For example, are your cloud security measures implemented in a way that can respond to changing demand quickly, and do your security measures make your environment more resistant to disruption from different types of attacks? In this session, we'll discuss the essentials of cloud security -- such as threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and preventive and detective controls, and how different security measures can both positively and negatively impact resilience.

• Replay

  Methods and Techniques for Securing Enterprise Applications deployed on IBM Cloud Paks - B - 041 -
  

  Speakers: Surya DuggiralaYanni Zhang

  This session will discuss security mechanisms supported by IBM Cloud Paks to harden cloud platforms and applications like network security, Identity and access management, application security, end point security. This session also discusses how to characterize security performance and how to reduce the overhead balancing both security and performance needs of applications

• Replay

  PANEL: Banking & Financial Markets and Healthcare & Life Science - P01
  

  Speakers: Anil JainDhiraj KunwarHeather Fraser (moderator)Jianying HuPaolo Sironi

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Banking & Financial Markets and Health & Life Sciences industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

• Replay

  DevSecOps - Approaching devops through the lens of security - B - 114
  

  Speakers: Ahmed AbdelazizAndrea CrawfordHemankita PerabathiniHollis Chui

  Discussion on DevSecOps, what it means and some of the best practices in the modern Cloud Native world.

Day 3: September 17, 2020

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  Making a secure transition to IBM public cloud - 080
  

  Speakers: Gillian Yu

  This talk will share experience and practices about how we protect the whole DSWC portfolio on IBM public cloud from different aspects: Architecture Design, Application, Container, Data(SQL and noSQL databases), Operation(DevSecOps), Cloud platform, Network etc. After this presentation the audience will learn how to build a cybersecurity model on public cloud and get some real, on-the-ground experiences/practices. These experiences will defintely benefit other IBM portfolios as well as our clients.

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats - 141
  

  Speakers: Chet KarwatowskiRahul NaharThomas Ward

  Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats for IBMers and Non-profit Disaster Relief Agencies

• Replay

  Our Journey to Continuous Compliance - B - 058
  

  Speakers: Andreas WespiChris GiblinDave RyanGrant MillerMonica ManniPascal Vetsch

  In this talk we present methods, tools, and processes that we have developed for the continuous compliance of the IBM GCDO Cognitive Enterprise Data Platform (CEDP). The presentation covers not only the newly developed tooling but also its management and the related compliance processes.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: AI for Performance Engineering - 017
  

  Speakers: Sam Lightstone

  AI is disrupting system performance. In this session CTO and IBM Fellow Sam Lightstone will highlight some of the emerging AI technologies that are creating knew opportunities for performance engineering. From Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Neuromorphic computing, learn how performance engineering is entering a new era beyond the fundamentals of throughput and latency of compute, storage and network. Profound changes are occurring as every layer of the stack is increasingly infused with AI.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: AI for IT Operations Management - 127
  

  Speakers: Rama Akkiraju

  Recent advancements in Cloud computing, which makes compute available for rent, Natural Language Processing via pre-trained language models such as Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for language understanding, and Machine Learning via interpretable machine learning models are all making it possible to infuse AI into traditional business processes by tapping into semi-structured and unstructured data that was not effectively tapped into before. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunity to infuse AI into IT operations management. I will demonstrate how AI enables us to mine application and infrastructure logs, tickets, and IT Operations managers’ collaboration chat conversations in addition to metrics that are traditionally analyzed to better diagnose, repair and resolve problems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can proactively avoid issues from happening by improving the quality of the software development lifecycle artifacts via feed-forward and feedback loops.

• Replay

  Implementing Policy-Based Access Control in a hybrid cloud datalake - B - 122
  

  Speakers: Andreas WespiChris GiblinGrant MillerIlya Hardzeenka

  This presentation will cover the evolution of access management for a complex and distributed set of cloud resources while building IBM’s internal data platform. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages we encountered along the way, the best practice patterns we have found, and a recommendation on how to follow.

Day 4: September 18, 2020

• Replay

  Trust, No Trust or Zero Trust – Myths Demystifying - 025
  

  Speakers: Vandana Verma

  This talk will explore the concept of zero trust and will try to demystify zero trust models. The talk will focus on implementation and deployment scenarios of zero trust for organizations. How should the business prepare for the transition, what are the architectural requirements and what policies are required to be implemented?

• Replay

  Cloud Security - 037
  

  Speakers: Rima Bose

  Cloud Security

• Replay

  Essence of IOT Security testing - Firmware & Embedded Web Applications - 111
  

  Speakers: Geethu AravindSaha Mukesh

  • Network Security Assessment • Application Security assessment • IoT Devices security assessment • Secure code review • Configuration Review • Security Assessment of Mobile Applications • Malware Analysis

Day 1: September 15, 2020

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Architecting for Reliability Presentation - 031
  

  Speakers: Ingo Averdunk

  This presentation describes key architectural patterns available to implement reliability into a software component or service. With the skill and experience in these techniques, the engineering professional can have a meaningful conversation with product owners on implementing reliability targets for a given service.

• Replay

  Day 2 Operations for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes - B - 054
  

  Speakers: Ken Ueno

  We will discuss definitions of Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 tasks from both platform perspective and application perspective and introduce Day2 Reference Architecture for OpenShift. Then, explain how Operator can help Day2 operations and finally discuss IBM Day2 operation solutions for OpenShift.

• Replay

  Build to Manage - 026
  

  Speakers: Rafal Szypulka

  Continuous Deployment is a key theme in the cloud world, which means that Operations have significantly less time to build the required knowledge, and the opportunity to apply this knowledge is much shorter. Therefore, we need a different approach to management. Instead of Operations figuring out their tasks in isolation, Operations works with Development in order to determine how to manage the application. Build to Manage is a new approach to development and operations that specifies the practice of activities developers can do in order to instrument the application and provide manageability aspects as part of an application release.

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  KEYNOTE: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion - 144
  

  Speakers: Allen DownsAndrea SaylesBj Klingenberg

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  **Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion**
  
  Andrea to give a perspective on Business and Operational Resiliency – especially in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and she will host a panel to discuss the market/client view of Business and Operational Resiliency, as well as the current state of accelerated cyber security attacks given the vulnerabilities caused by COVID-19. She will also give a view of what the IBM company is doing for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and how we are keeping our employees and clients safe in this highly volatile environment. Her guests on the panel will be:
  
  Allen Downs, VP, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services
  
  BJ Klingenberg, CTO, Business Resiliency Services
  

• Replay

  CSMO - a modern approach to IT Service Management - 027
  

  Speakers: Kevin Green

  As clients take bold progressive modernization steps in technology platforms such as cloud or Development processes such as DevOps they expect to success but are often faced with challenges in realizing that success. Often at issue in realizing success from these progressive modernization steps or “moon shots” is that all facet of the enterprise are not equally advancing. Cloud Service Management and Operations(CSMO) seeks to help enterprises realize success by assuring that Operations is impeding that success. CSMO does this by focusing on Operations to modernize service management.

• Replay

  PANEL: Consumer and Travel & Transportation - P02
  

  Speakers: Chad Andrews (moderator)J Gregory Land (greg)Jane CheungLauren IsbellNikiforos ChatzopoulosSashank Rao Yaragudipati

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Consumer and Travel & Transportation industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

• Replay

  SRE Transformation - Real Life experience and results (CEMEX) - B - 028
  

  Speakers: Angel Policarpo Soteldo MalaveMarcelino Alvarez

  The presentation will be about how SRE was implemented within the Digital Operations Center at CEMEX account.

Day 2: September 16, 2020

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: SRE in IBM Cloud - 128
  

  Speakers: Ralph Bateman

  SRE is a term now used widely across our industry. But what does it mean and how can you do it? Ever wanted to know how to achieve high availability, but fast and frequent deployment to production. How can you enable Development squads to deploy to production as often as they want without risking outages? Learn how AIOps and Chatbots can help save you time and effort in a highly availably production system. This session will cover all these topics and more.

• Replay

  A demo on building a topology and see the topology changes over time using Agile Service Manager - 033
  

  Speakers: Julius Wahidin

  The session will present the building block of a topology through presentation and a live demo on using an IBM product Agile Service Manager. The audience will then learn that topology can be data-driven and build automatically, to support topology changes over time.

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  Failure is not an option - 001
  

  Speakers: Robert Barron

  2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission - an explosion nearly destroyed the spacecraft when it was halfway to the Moon. In this session you will learn about the way NASA prepared for this mission, the way it performed during the emergency and the way it learned and improved for future missions. All these lessons are relevant for the way we approach resiliency, SRE concepts and keeping services available in 2020.

• Replay

  Always On and Resilient workloads with Chaos Engineering - 002
  

  Speakers: Haytham Elkhoja

  We discuss and show how by using Chaos Engineering we can sustain five nines (99.999%) Service Level Objectives across multi-regions and multi-clouds.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Performance Engineering: The IBM Garage Perspective - 145
  

  Speakers: Stacy Joines

  Hybrid Cloud brings not only new technology, but also a new culture to traditional IT. This culture change is most famous for its embrace of techniques like Design Thinking, Agile development, and pair programming. This presentation discusses how Hybrid Cloud technology and culture reaches into the space of performance and scalability. We’ll discuss considerations and lessons from real-world experiences to engage the scalability and power of the Hybrid Cloud. The presentation will also cover how one team, the IBM Garage, is working to incorporate operational success factors like Scalability and Security into the very fabric of the new development culture.

• Replay

  Transactions in the cloud - achieving consistency with unreliable infrastructure - 012
  

  Speakers: André Fachat

  Modern programming paradigms aim to reduce dependencies between components as much as possible. This goes as far as only allowing lightweight protocols like HTTP(S) between (Micro-) Services in a cloud infrastructure. The assumption is that any kind of service can be unavailble or be replaced at any time, e.g. through network issues or even just the deployment of a new version. So, the shared state between services should be minimized. In more complex business applications, consistency between components is of high value. You don't want to just loose your money in a bank transfer between accounts, because there was a network glitch. However, as distributed transactions cannot be easily done with HTTP, the consistency between Services must be managed in the application layer. In the presentation I will give an overview on current approaches to handle such consistency requirements, as well as present a lightweight, cloud-native design and protocol called txms, as developed by the IBM Academy of Technology's workground on transactions with Microservices.

• Replay

  Crawl-walk-run – Our approach to reliable systems with SRE and Automation - 139
  

  Speakers: Raghu SrinivasanSam Swaminathan

  Crawl-walk-run – Our approach to reliable systems with SRE and Automation

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Resilience through security on the cloud - 143
  

  Speakers: Chris Dotson

  How does security affect resilience? For example, are your cloud security measures implemented in a way that can respond to changing demand quickly, and do your security measures make your environment more resistant to disruption from different types of attacks? In this session, we'll discuss the essentials of cloud security -- such as threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and preventive and detective controls, and how different security measures can both positively and negatively impact resilience.

• Replay

  IBM Services ChatOps: Automation, Process, & Collaboration - 032
  

  Speakers: Robert BarronRod AnamiWesley Stevens

  ChatOps is a collaboration model that connects people, processes, tools, and automation together in a seamless and transparent workplace through a chat platform and extensive use of integration bots and chatbots. In late 2019, IBM Services set out to revolutionize the way we work! We leverage Slack and automation to improve how we solve our client’s problems

• Replay

  PANEL: Banking & Financial Markets and Healthcare & Life Science - P01
  

  Speakers: Anil JainDhiraj KunwarHeather Fraser (moderator)Jianying HuPaolo Sironi

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Banking & Financial Markets and Health & Life Sciences industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

• Replay

  Post Incident Learning for SREs - Best Practice Principles Including Ecosystem Assessments and Prescriptive Actions - B - 045
  

  Speakers: Alan PiciacchioChris TobeyDavid LeighIngo AverdunkLarisa (laura) Shwartz

  As part of the presentation, an assessment methodology that determines where a team is on the spectrum of post-incident learning, along with prescribed actions to improve their standing. Along with this - the team will include testimonials and stories from IBM and client SMEs who have lived through case studies in the field of post-incident analytics.

Day 3: September 17, 2020

• Replay

  A Framework for Approaching Organisational Resilience - 053
  

  Speakers: James BradleyMario Gaon

  Organisational resilience is moving beyond simply keeping the technology operational to how to apply technology to make the whole of business more resilient. The challenge is to look at the whole organisation and engineer resilience into all aspects of its planning and operations. When using the Resilience Framework to determine the organization’s Approach to Resilience, the key question to ask is 'What does Post-Challenge look like?'.

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats - 141
  

  Speakers: Chet KarwatowskiRahul NaharThomas Ward

  Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats for IBMers and Non-profit Disaster Relief Agencies

• Replay

  SAFe, SRE and Resilience - 015
  

  Speakers: Rik Lammers

  Objective of the lecture. Discussing resilience and SRE in the context of SAFe. Is it covered or not? How would SRE fit? How well can one deal with resilience matters in a SAFe context?

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: AI for Performance Engineering - 017
  

  Speakers: Sam Lightstone

  AI is disrupting system performance. In this session CTO and IBM Fellow Sam Lightstone will highlight some of the emerging AI technologies that are creating knew opportunities for performance engineering. From Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Neuromorphic computing, learn how performance engineering is entering a new era beyond the fundamentals of throughput and latency of compute, storage and network. Profound changes are occurring as every layer of the stack is increasingly infused with AI.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: AI for IT Operations Management - 127
  

  Speakers: Rama Akkiraju

  Recent advancements in Cloud computing, which makes compute available for rent, Natural Language Processing via pre-trained language models such as Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for language understanding, and Machine Learning via interpretable machine learning models are all making it possible to infuse AI into traditional business processes by tapping into semi-structured and unstructured data that was not effectively tapped into before. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunity to infuse AI into IT operations management. I will demonstrate how AI enables us to mine application and infrastructure logs, tickets, and IT Operations managers’ collaboration chat conversations in addition to metrics that are traditionally analyzed to better diagnose, repair and resolve problems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can proactively avoid issues from happening by improving the quality of the software development lifecycle artifacts via feed-forward and feedback loops.

• Replay

  5G and Edge - B - 050
  

  Speakers: Juel RajuMathews ThomasSharath PrasadUtpal Mangla

  Deeper understanding of edge computing using 5G from a performance, security and availability perspective.

Day 4: September 18, 2020

• Replay

  SRE Feature Delivery to Tackle Technical Debt - B - 132
  

  Speakers: Kevin YuRoxsana VahdatySession Facilitated By Ingo Averdunk

  This session describe the journey AI Application took to tackle the challenge of SRE technical debt by elevating SRE requirements alongside feature delivery.

Day 1: September 15, 2020

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Architecting for Reliability Presentation - 031
  

  Speakers: Ingo Averdunk

  This presentation describes key architectural patterns available to implement reliability into a software component or service. With the skill and experience in these techniques, the engineering professional can have a meaningful conversation with product owners on implementing reliability targets for a given service.

• Replay

  Capacity and Performance Testing on RedHat Openshift Container Platform - B - 125
  

  Speakers: Himika GuptaNeshoo KachrooSuman Athuluri

  RedHat OpenShift Container is highly on demand in the market as it accelerates development, easy to migrate container process to new operating system with low cost. But as everything has its own advantage and disadvantage, there is limit on objects based on the cluster size that impacts the performance of application. This session addresses ways of sizing a RedHat OpenShift Container cluster

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion - 144
  

  Speakers: Allen DownsAndrea SaylesBj Klingenberg

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  **Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion**
  
  Andrea to give a perspective on Business and Operational Resiliency – especially in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and she will host a panel to discuss the market/client view of Business and Operational Resiliency, as well as the current state of accelerated cyber security attacks given the vulnerabilities caused by COVID-19. She will also give a view of what the IBM company is doing for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and how we are keeping our employees and clients safe in this highly volatile environment. Her guests on the panel will be:
  
  Allen Downs, VP, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services
  
  BJ Klingenberg, CTO, Business Resiliency Services
  

• Replay

  Performance Testing Strategies for BIG DATA Applications - B - 101
  

  Speakers: Himika GuptaSimran Solanki

  Testing excerpt

• Replay

  Blockchain - Hyperledger - Performance Evaluation - B - 089
  

  Speakers: Satheeshbabu KVijayanand Kuppurao

  Blockchain is distributed database predominantly implemented without a central authority and central repository. As it is distributed it requires redundant checking in each distributed piece of Blockchain. This redundant check may increase the need for performance of the nodes running in parallel. This abstract details about the Performance assurance best practices , metrics and unique performance metrics of Blockchain Performance Testing.

• Replay

  PANEL: Consumer and Travel & Transportation - P02
  

  Speakers: Chad Andrews (moderator)J Gregory Land (greg)Jane CheungLauren IsbellNikiforos ChatzopoulosSashank Rao Yaragudipati

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Consumer and Travel & Transportation industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

Day 2: September 16, 2020

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: SRE in IBM Cloud - 128
  

  Speakers: Ralph Bateman

  SRE is a term now used widely across our industry. But what does it mean and how can you do it? Ever wanted to know how to achieve high availability, but fast and frequent deployment to production. How can you enable Development squads to deploy to production as often as they want without risking outages? Learn how AIOps and Chatbots can help save you time and effort in a highly availably production system. This session will cover all these topics and more.

• Replay

  Benefits of Using AI-ML in Performance testing - B - 069
  

  Speakers: Nithin S N

  The Performance Testing starts with analysing the application UI and creating the test scripts. Use of AI in performance testing will make tasks like scripting, monitoring highly impactful and help to get real time results very quickly.

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Performance Engineering: The IBM Garage Perspective - 145
  

  Speakers: Stacy Joines

  Hybrid Cloud brings not only new technology, but also a new culture to traditional IT. This culture change is most famous for its embrace of techniques like Design Thinking, Agile development, and pair programming. This presentation discusses how Hybrid Cloud technology and culture reaches into the space of performance and scalability. We’ll discuss considerations and lessons from real-world experiences to engage the scalability and power of the Hybrid Cloud. The presentation will also cover how one team, the IBM Garage, is working to incorporate operational success factors like Scalability and Security into the very fabric of the new development culture.

• Replay

  Creating a scalable and reusable JMeter and ELK setup on OpenShift cloud - B - 120
  

  Speakers: Vinay Nama

  Creating a scalable and reusable JMeter and ELK setup on OpenShift cloud and automating the end to end process with CI/CD

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Resilience through security on the cloud - 143
  

  Speakers: Chris Dotson

  How does security affect resilience? For example, are your cloud security measures implemented in a way that can respond to changing demand quickly, and do your security measures make your environment more resistant to disruption from different types of attacks? In this session, we'll discuss the essentials of cloud security -- such as threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and preventive and detective controls, and how different security measures can both positively and negatively impact resilience.

• Replay

  PANEL: Banking & Financial Markets and Healthcare & Life Science - P01
  

  Speakers: Anil JainDhiraj KunwarHeather Fraser (moderator)Jianying HuPaolo Sironi

  AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
  PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Banking & Financial Markets and Health & Life Sciences industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts.
  

Day 3: September 17, 2020

• Replay

  Performance Testing of Home Automated IoT Devices - 071
  

  Speakers: Jyothi PeddalingamSwetha P J

  Key testing challenges, testing approaches, and testing solutions for achieving better performance of home automated systems are explained.

• Replay

  Performance Testing Using Automation Framework! - B - 065
  

  Speakers: Vijay Vardhan

  Highlighting the Performance Testing using DevOps setup in Automation Framework

• Replay

  Test Data challenges in Performance Testing - B - 066
  

  Speakers: Sukumar Ganapathy

  Test data plays a vital role to perform effective and accurate/realistic performance testing. However, in many situations getting right set up of test data or setup the test data by the performance testing team itself involves many challenges. This abstract describes various challenges involved the test data requirement for effective performance testing.

• Replay

  Workload Modeling for Performance testing using RPA - B - 067
  

  Speakers: Nithin S N

  The impact of the cloud on testing practices has grown with the cloud’s growing presence in the IT industry. Testing practices are now dealing with several aspects of the cloud simultaneously.

• Replay

  Network Virtualization Concept for Performance Testing - B - 091
  Speakers: Jyothi Peddalingam

  In this paper, we share the idea of how this perfect storm could impact IT practices and has successfully embraced today’s new, virtualized environment for applications and we determine how the combination of HP LoadRunner for performance testing with NV tools for WAN/LAN emulation can dramatically increase test efficiency.

• Replay

  WELCOME: Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
  

  Speakers: Richard Hopkins

  Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats - 141
  

  Speakers: Chet KarwatowskiRahul NaharThomas Ward

  Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats for IBMers and Non-profit Disaster Relief Agencies

• Replay

  A Journey from IGNITE Performance Testing/Engineering Frameworks To Monitoring Console at Control Tower - B - 064
  

  Speakers: Aslam Shaik

  In this paper, lets discuss how the performance testing frameworks has been used to Pro-actively monitor Virtual servers from an end user perspective, Determining the slowness, Tracking end user behavior and raising alerts.

• Replay

  IBM IGNITE Cloud Performance Testing/Engineering case study on Private Data Center Migration at Etihad Airways - B - 109
  

  Speakers: Aslam Shaik

  In this session, we would like to share our experience how we have performed Testing by optimizing the performance in Private Data Center for 202 applications by simulating the realistic user load from 23 geographical locations across the globe.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: AI for Performance Engineering - 017
  

  Speakers: Sam Lightstone

  AI is disrupting system performance. In this session CTO and IBM Fellow Sam Lightstone will highlight some of the emerging AI technologies that are creating knew opportunities for performance engineering. From Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Neuromorphic computing, learn how performance engineering is entering a new era beyond the fundamentals of throughput and latency of compute, storage and network. Profound changes are occurring as every layer of the stack is increasingly infused with AI.

• Replay

  KEYNOTE: AI for IT Operations Management - 127
  

  Speakers: Rama Akkiraju

  Recent advancements in Cloud computing, which makes compute available for rent, Natural Language Processing via pre-trained language models such as Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for language understanding, and Machine Learning via interpretable machine learning models are all making it possible to infuse AI into traditional business processes by tapping into semi-structured and unstructured data that was not effectively tapped into before. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunity to infuse AI into IT operations management. I will demonstrate how AI enables us to mine application and infrastructure logs, tickets, and IT Operations managers’ collaboration chat conversations in addition to metrics that are traditionally analyzed to better diagnose, repair and resolve problems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can proactively avoid issues from happening by improving the quality of the software development lifecycle artifacts via feed-forward and feedback loops.

Day 4: September 18, 2020

• Replay

  Performance Testing In Cloud - B - 068
  

  Speakers: Mukesh Kumar

  Testing excerpt

Day 1: September 18, 2020

• Replay

  1C - 011 - Resilience personas workshop
  

  Speakers: Lydia DuijvestijnNarcisse Kamdem

  In this workshop we will introduce a case study as well as 10 personas who represent typical jobroles on large development projects. Participants to the workshop will be asked to step into the shoes of one or more resilience personas, draw up empathy maps and scenarios and plot the persons's activities on a story board. There are limited seats avaiable. Please register for the session by mail to m_nieuwmans@nl.ibm.com.

• Replay

  2C - 044 - Building Modern Enterprise Applications with Cloud Pak for Application
  

  Speakers: Jeya GandhiSurya DuggiralaVishal Charegaonkar

  In this lab, we would demonstrate how to modernize existing enterprise applications, using capabilities provided by IBM's Cloud Pak for Applications and RedHat OpenShift Container Platform. We would then explore the observability features like Logging, Monitoring and problem determination techniques to diagnose performance problems in the new container environment. There are limited seats avaiable. Please register for the session by mail to m_nieuwmans@nl.ibm.com

• Replay

  3C - 113 - Hands-on workshop exploring Cloud Native pipelines using Tekton!
  

  Speakers: Hollis Chui

  In this workshop, you will learn about the Tekton custom resource definitions (CRDs), a Kubernetes native approach to declare CICD pipelines, as well as create and configure Tekton pipelines to deploy a Storefront Cloud Native application using a GitOps approach. There are limited seats avaiable. Please register for the session by mail to m_nieuwmans@nl.ibm.com

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  4C - 124 - DevOps for Service Quality
  

  Speakers: Lydia DuijvestijnMark Nieuwmans

  Workshop around DevOps for Service Quality, building up a base pipeline using OpenShift Pipelines, and gradually adding in security and performance related stages. There are limited seats avaiable. Please register for the session by mail to m_nieuwmans@nl.ibm.com