Digital Developer Conference
AIOps & Integration
April 20, 2021. Free and on demand.
About the conference
Conference experience
Register for free and get ready to extend your smart and secure solutions on hybrid cloud—with the latest AI-powered automation for IT operations and integration. Whether you're a developer, architect, SRE, or IT Ops engineer, you'll discover ways to invest in AIOps and integration to address challenges with decentralized, microservices-based applications. Our selection of subject matter experts guide you through the essentials, experiences, and exercises to make these worthwhile skills for you and your company.
As we get closer to the conference launch, you'll find updates to the agenda, speakers, and the rest of the conference experience. In addition, we'll provide you with steps you can take in advance if you plan to participate in the labs or other hands-on sessions.
Reasons to attendPrepare for the conference
Focused on the integration development and AIOps communities, this conference provides a free opportunity to design, develop, operate, and experience secure, AI-powered automation for IT operations and integration in your hybrid cloud environments.
Your path to AI-powered automation for IT operations and integration skills
Decentralized applications bring several benefits over traditional application architectures, but also increased need for AIOps and integration capabilities—especially for the enterprise. Open source technologies, like Kubernetes and Docker, allow for consistent and explicit deployment of portable workloads across hybrid cloud environments, but you'll need new skills to optimize deployments, monitor apps, and remedy problems quickly with confidence using advanced AIOps techniques. Plus, securing your decentralized architecture is critical to successful application development, requiring automated policy enforcement and governance for consistent application security across an organization.
Join us for the essentials, experiences, and labs by the experts to make your AIOps and integration investment successful.
Watch party livestream on April 20
Our spin on the conference hallway track. Join the watch party livestream during the conference and hang out with conference speakers and IBM Developer Advocates while they talk tech, do some live coding, and answer your questions.
Have questions about the conference or need help with a course? Get help from the conference team at ibm.biz/ddc-aiops-slack
Dedicated tracks + live watch party
Design Your AIOps & Integration Architecture
Recommended for architects, this track provides expert advice on how to plan for the AIOps and integration technologies you'll need to develop and manage your hybrid cloud solutions. Learn how AI can be leveraged to automate processes and improve security. Hear from leading clients and their developers to see how you can mirror their success.
Develop Modern, Decentralized Applications
Recommended for application and integration developers, this track provides a technical look into how to implement and deploy hybrid cloud applications that leverage multiple integration technologies including APIs, event streams and messaging. Address operational and development lifecycle aspects of your applications such as CI/CD, security and governance and how to utilize AI and operational data to automate test and development.
Operate Your Secure Applications
Recommended for SREs, ITOps, and security SMEs, this track provides a view on how AI can help automate IT operations management to deliver a more secure, reliable hybrid cloud environment. Topics include incident detection and resolution, DevSecOps, and application observability.
AIOps & Integration Essentials Course
Work directly with the essential integration technologies and best practices discussed throughout the conference experience to design, develop, and operate applications that leverage AI-powered automation to deliver more secure hybrid cloud solutions.
Watch Party Livestream
IBM Developer Advocates host a live watch party during the conference. Sessions speakers and other developer experts stop by to hang out, do some live coding, and answer your questions.
About the conference
Extend your smart and secure solutions on hybrid cloud with the latest AI-powered automation for IT operations and integration.
7 Dedicated tracks
AIOps & Integration
Let’s set the stage on your AIOps & Integration conference experience. Get a glimpse of the AI behind the IBM CloudPak for Watson AIOps and how using AI and operational data together can help automate the work of integration practitioners, provide analytical insights, and more to bring predictive problem solving to the forefront.
Day 1: April 20, 2021
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Speakers: Rama Akkiruja
The vision of self-aware, self-healing, and self-managing Information Technology (IT) systems has remained elusive till recently. Recent advancements in cloud computing, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, are making it possible to realize this vision now. AI can optimize IT operations management processes by increasing application availability, predicting and detecting problems early, reducing the time it takes to resolve problems, proactively avoiding problems, and optimizing the resources and cost of running business applications on hybrid clouds. In this talk, I will give a glimpse of the AI behind the IBM CloudPak for Watson AIOps. I'll describe how semi-structured application and infrastructure logs are analyzed to predict anomalies early, how entities are extracted and linked from logs, alerts and events to reduce alert noise for IT operations admins, how NLP is put to use on unstructured content in prior incident tickets to extract next-best-action recommendations to resolve problems, and how deployment change request descriptions are analyzed in combination with past incident root cause information to predict risks of deployment changes to prevent issues from happening in the first place.
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Speakers: Rob Nicholson
In order for enterprises to become more efficient and innovate faster they need to embrace automation, freeing up humans to focus on higher value, more creative tasks. Not only is integration critical in bringing about this transformation, it's also a key target of automation allowing for "closed loop" integration. In this session we will explore how using AI and operational data together can help automate the work of integration practitioners, allowing them to deliver integrations faster and better.
Meet the speakers
Experts and leaders in AIOps, automation, and integration come together to share their expertise to elevate your skills.
Abeer Haroon
IBM Cloud Data and AI Specialist
Ajay Gupta
Senior Research Engineer with IBM India Research Lab
Akira Onishi
Federated Developer Advocacy Japan Lead & Manager of Customer Success, Japan Technology Sales, IBM
Allison Haire
Anbang Xu
Data Science Manager and Master Inventor
Anthony Amanse
Software Developer
Anton McConville
STSM, Engineering Manager, IBM Digital
Arthur De Magalhaes
Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM
Aya Tokura
Customer Success Manager
Ben Peterson
Hybrid Cloud Build Team Leader, Ecosystems A/NZ
Callum Jackson
Integration Solution Architect
Carlos Santana
Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM
Dale Lane
Architect, IBM Event Streams
David Carew
Software Developer
Dibyendu B
Head, Application and Middleware Modernization, Wipro
Edmund Shee
Leader - Developer Advocacy - UKI
Emma Humber
Software Engineer, IBM Event Streams
Eric Carter
Director, Product Marketing at Sysdig
Eric Wright
Director Technical Marketing, Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic
Felipe Freire
AIOps & Management Sales Latin America
Finbarr Hennessy
Account Delivery Manager at DeployPartners
Frank Bagehorn
Senior IT Architect, Hybrid Cloud Data Research IBM Research
Gene Brown
Distinguished Engineer, IBM Hybrid Multicloud Delivery Guild - GTS, Delivery & Integrated Operation
Gilda Doria
Ecosystem Partner Manager, Call for Code
Greg Southam
Customer Success Manager at DeployPartners
Guillermo Tramos
Director of Services - Varegos
Hania Abrahim
Developer Advocate
Hania Ibrahim
Digital Client Developer Advocate
Harald Biedermann
OEBB-BCC GmbH Service Operations, AI Team Leader, Monitoring & Event Management
Isabell Sippli
Senior Technical Staff Member for AIOps at IBM
Jayashree Ramanathan
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Jeremy Hogan
Cloud Partner Solutions Architect at Confluent
Jess McCreery
Software Engineer for IBM Automation
Jesus Rios
IBM Research Staff Member, Cognitive Computing IBM Research
Josefina Casanova
Developer Advocate & Hybrid Cloud Build Team
Kate Stanley
Software Engineer - IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Khalid Ahmed
Distinguished Engineer, IBM CloudPak for Multicloud Management & IBM Spectrum Computing
Krithika Prakash
Senior Technical Staff Member, API Gateways
Laura Shwartz
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Research, AI Ops for IT IBM Research
Liam McNulty
Software Engineer for IBM MQ
Lukasz Gornicki
AsyncAPI Maintainer and Community Guardian
Mamatha Venkatesh
AI Architect, Supply Chain Control Tower Solutions, Client Success- Centre of Excellence, AI Applications
Marion Nehring
HCBT DACH | Client & Ecosystem Lead, Program Manager
Mateo Burillo
Product Manager (EMEA) at Sysdig
Max Kahan
Software Engineer, IBM MQ Developer Experience
Md Intisam Alam
Senior Integration Architect, IBM
Michael Nidd
Systems Management IBM Research
Michael Urwin
Key Account Manager at DeployPartners
MohanRaj T
Integration Solution Architect
Natasha Kirkup
Cloud Service Consultant - Integration
Neil Boyette
Senior Technical Staff Member for AIOps at IBM
Neil Sugden
Hybrid Cloud Trusted Advisor
Oliver Rodriguez
IBM Developer Advocate
Padma Malladi
Architect for Watson AIOPS
Peter Gollmar
Program Dir., Developer Offerings & Development
Pooja Aggarwal
Advisory Research Scientist at IBM Research, Bangalore, India
Pooja Mistry
Developer Advocate
Pritam S Gundecha
Senior Data Scientist at Cloud and Cognitive Software group at IBM
Raghav Batta
Senior Developer, Hybrid Cloud Services IBM Research
Rajesh Jeyapaul
Rama Akkiruja
IBM Fellow, CTO - AI for IT Operations. Master Inventor, IBM Academy Member.
Richard Coppen
IBM MQ Developer Experience
Rob Nicholson
Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Integration
Robert Barron
AIOps Lead, Garage for Technical Solution Acceleration
Robert G Thelen
Offering Management, API Management and Gateways
Robert Nicholson
Software Engineer
Ross Cruickshank
Developer Advocate - Developer Ecosystems and Startups
Sameer Kamani
Solutions Architect at GitLab serving U.S. Public Sector agencies
Santhosh Ramanathan
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration solution designer at TCS
Sean Sundberg
Senior Architect
Sebastian Vergara
CTO Uruguay/Paraguay
Seema Nagar
Advisory research engineer at IBM Research India
Sergio Gama
Latin America Build Ecosystem & Developer Advocate Lead - IBM Academy of Technology Member
Shivananda Shenoi
IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software
Soheel Chughtai
MQ Developer Experience
Soumitra Limaye
Director, Digital Technology Lab & API Economy, IBM Software Labs
Sreedhar Kodali
Software Architect for IBM Watson AIOps performance
Steve Waterworth
Technical Marketing Manager at Instana
Subhajit Patra
Advisory Software Engineer
Tamar Eilam
IBM Fellow, Cloud, Climate IBM Research
Tamir Arnesty
Backend Software Developer (Intern), Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Tanmoy Nandu
AI Architect, Supply Chain Control Tower Solutions, Client Success- Centre of Excellence, AI Applications - Wipro
Tim Brooks
IBM Offering Manager in the IBM AIOps and Service Management
Ulas Cubuk
Offering Manager, IBM Application Integration
Walter Dozetas
CEO, Fusion
Zachary Silverstein
Americas RPA Program Lead & IBM Master Inventor
Featured speaker spotlight
Here are just some of the experts we've gathered from IBM, Red Hat, and our Partner ecosystem to bring you critical insights and skills for automation and integration capabilities.
Rama Akkiruja
IBM Fellow, CTO - AI for IT Operations. Master Inventor, IBM Academy Member
Rob Nicholson
Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Integration
Eric Wright
Director Technical Marketing, Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic
Jayashree Ramanathan
Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat
Sameer Kamani
Solutions Architect at Gitlab serving U.S. Public Sector agencies
Jeremy Hogan
Cloud Partner Solutions Architect at Confluent
Featured conference partners
Partners from across IBM's developer ecosystem have collaborated to share their knowledge and success in the AI-powered automation and integration space.
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