Bas Geerdink explains why and how ING is becoming more and more data-driven, sharing use cases, architecture, and technology choices along the way.

IBM developed EGO as a powerful resource management technology, which helps to abstract all hardware into a resource pool for a variety of analytic and high performance workloads. It is similar to ope …

Dan Heidinga explains how a simple slogan revolutionized how IBM's J9 Java VM team creates the software that powers your Java applications and shares lessons learned from rearchitecting IBM's build pipeline around simplicity, in the process, becoming a key enabler for driving innovation throughout the product stack.

Not all web applications are deployed to Linux or the cloud. Building and deploying for clients with traditional IT departments is challenging, and ensuring we can deploy with confidence within unusual infrastructures and IT constraints requires flexibility. Rob Allen explores these complexities and shares some solutions.

Data has long stopped being structured and flat, but the results of our analysis are still rendered as flat bar charts and scatter plots. We live in a 3D world, and we need to be able to enable data interaction from all perspectives. Robert Thomas offers an overview of Immersive Visualizationintegrated with notebooks and powered by Sparkwhich helps bring insights to life.

David Selby shares some of the challenges he has faced coercing meaning from data and explains why he is particularly enthusiastic about the latest technological developments in the data science field.

Angel Diaz provides a retrospective on IBMs deep history and its contributions to the evolution of open source technology in order to catch a glimpse of a future that is rooted in open source technologies. Angel tells the story of open source projects that exemplify the new hardcore concepts we'll all need to accelerate innovation and success.

Open technologies are leading the way to a simplified development experience, end to end, from mobile to the cloud. Patrick Bohrer explores the role of these open technologies in driving down the time it takes to build, integrate, and deliver powerful apps that blur the lines between mobile and cloud.

The world of the IoT is exploding with respect to sensors, and speech and analytics are providing a powerful new user experience. David Boloker and Mark VanderWiele explain how to put everything together in a clear and simple way using the power of the cloud, microservices, and real-time analytics.

The face of applications is changing, evolving into a continuous information experience where the interaction model is immersive, experiential, and multimodal. Stewart Nickolas discusses the set of architectural challenges this new interaction paradigm brings, from microservice-based conversations to service integration to deep learning systems that support conversational commerce.

So many of the data projects making headlinesfrom a new app for finding public services to a new probabilistic model for predicting weather patterns for subsistence farmersare great accomplishments but dont seem to have end users in mind. Discover how organizations are designing with, not for, people, accounting for what drives them in order to make long-lasting impact.

What if we have reached the point where open source can handle massively difficult streaming problems with enterprise-grade durability? Ilya Ganelin presents Capital Ones novel solution for real-time decisioning on Apache Apex. Ilya shows how Apex provides unique capabilities that ensure less than 2 ms latency in an enterprise-grade solution on Hadoop.

Developers want to rapidly build cloud applications and make them available to as many users as possible, as fast as possible. However, translating applications has not changed very much. Steve Atkin explores IBM's new Bluemix service, Globalization Pipeline, which seamlessly integrates real-time machine translation and persistent human postediting capabilities.

In 2013, IBM, one of the worlds largest technology companies, set the mission to create a sustainable culture of design. The goal: bring a human-centered focus to thousands of product and service experiences. Doug Powell offers a look at how this 350,000-employee company implemented Design Thinking and is addressing the needs of their users to deliver outcomes with speed and at scale.

Personas created for individual users fail to capture complex interactions between users of enterprise systems. Julia Zorzanello Byron and Omkar Chandgadkar show how they created team-based personas and aligned various silos of their product team by involving team members during synthesis. Attendees will learn how they can adopt this model to make better decisions with their product teams.