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Speaker - Christopher Vollmar, Principal, World Wide Storage Data Resiliency Architect

Christopher is an IBM Certified IT Specialist (Level 3 Thought Leader) and Storage Architect. He is focused on helping customers design solutions to support Cyber Resiliency on primary and backup data to complement their Cyber Security practices. He is an author of several IBM Redbooks, an Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator, and a frequent speaker at events like IBM TechU.

• Can you speak to the difference between Cyber Security vs Cyber resiliency ?

• Data is very central to cyber resiliency, in that vein, is all data equal ?

• please provide some insight into where to protect the data, and where does backup/restore fit in ?

Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee !

Speaker - Daniel joined IBM in 2004 to work with Linux and then diversified to other Unix platforms, like Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX. In 2007, Daniel was responsible for configuring and secure the first Cloud Environment at IBM when we started selling a shared virtual infrastructure to smaller customers.

Daniel started consulting across whole Latin America in 2009. In 2015 he came to New York to be WW Architect for Financial Sector on Distributed Computing and started working with Kubernetes in 2016. Today he is the Worldwide SME for application modernization on OpenShift on IBM Systems.

• What is application Modernization ?

• How does underlying infrastructure effects the application modernization journey ?

• Why is Open Shift important for application modernization workloads ?

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Speaker - Dr. Ron Harichandran, Ron Harichandran was appointed Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven in August 2011. In April 2019 he was also named Vice Provost for Research. Prior to that he was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) and served as the department chair for 16 years. He received a B.E. from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1979, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Harichandran’s technical specialty is structural engineering, he has performed research on earthquake, pavement, bridge and fire engineering and engineering education, and has published over 160 journal and conference proceedings papers and technical reports. He has taught a broad range of courses in structural analysis, design, dynamics, and probabilistic methods.

• How has emerging technology impacted University education ? What are the latest impacts and trends and how does the near future look like ?

• As a successful Dean of one of the world's top forensic institutions, how would you advise an aspiring teacher, as in what are different career choices in Academia and how to be successful in the teaching profession ?

• How to do a comparison among degree programs ?

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Speaker - Thomas Harrer , Thomas is an IBM distinguished engineer and CTO for server storage in Europe, Middle East and Africa. His experience is around Hybrid Cloud & AI Platform, Infrastructure for mission critical systems, Cyber Resilience, Data, IT architecture, IT infrastructure, IBM Systems, Server & Storage,Service Management, Methods, Video, Communications.

• Why is cryptography so important for our economy and our life?

• Is the existing cryptography still secure enough for all time in the future?

• How to mitigate this severe risk from eventually broken crypto protocols?

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Speaker - Naeem is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Space Technology in the IBM Hybrid Cloud business. He’s working to expand IBMs presences in Space Technology sector. He also serves as a Chief Solutions Architect, leading innovation group to build first of a kind proof of concepts and technical prototypes for strategic application expansion into Industry Verticals on IBM Hybrid Cloud Platforms. He is currently leading technical client engagements, migration and transformation of workloads, for Public, Private and Hybrid Solutions for IBM enterprise customers as well as strategic ISVs on IBM's Cloud Platform. In prior roles, he’s has built several solutions for Smarter Planets including Smarter Buildings, Smarter Cell Towers, Sea Terminal Ports. He’s also an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Alum for Surrey, Canada. He is member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

• What is SpaceTech Initiative ?

• What are some examples of extra-terrestrial challenges and how do you solve Space related problems ?

• What is the Future of Technology in SpaceTech Program ?

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Speaker - Sonia created and runs the “IBM Canada Technical Meetup Group hosted by IBM” which delivers weekly sessions on a variety of technical topics, created and runs the IBM-internal “Data Science & Data Engineering Community and Guild”, runs User Group sessions, is the Canadian focal for the IBM Data Science Elite team, and manages the IBM Ottawa ML Hub. With a degree in Computer Science and certifications in Project Management and Data Science, her experience includes software development, user interface design, customer research, people management, project management, operations management, data science. Her IBM tenure of 16+ years includes a Corporate Service Corps assignment in Malaysia, which provides high-performing IBMers with quality leadership development.

• Your title is “Data & AI Engagement Program Manager”. What exactly does it mean?

• What has your IBM journey been like?

• What are your biggest hopes and fears for us a civilization and our use of technology?

Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee !

Speaker - Alicia Walker is leading the Call for Code Initiative as a Project Manager at IBM. Participate in Call for Code to win USD250,000+ and help solve the world’s challenges through open innovation.

Now in its 5th year, Call for Code’s always-on, tech for good platform, inspires a community of developers and change agents to build, contribute to, and deploy solutions for the worlds most pressing environmental and social issues, including its humanitarian causes. Learn how you and your organization can answer the call.

Link to Participate and Register - https://callforcode.bemyapp.com/

• What is Call for Code?

• What makes Call for Code different than other hackathons or tech competitions?

• Who all can participate in CFC?

• I recently learned about Call for Code Comes to You, what is that about?

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Speaker - Elisabeth Stahl is Director and Distinguished Engineer, leading the IBM Client Engineering for Systems organization. She focuses on infrastructure modernization, optimization and emerging technologies for her clients. Elisabeth is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and is on the Board of Directors of Computer Measurement Group and The Music Settlement. She holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from New York University.

• What do you think are the most exciting emerging technologies?

• What advice do you have for those just starting their career ?

• How to grow from mid level in technology career ?