We are pleased to confirm that the next meeting of the WebSphere User Group (UK) will take place on 23rd March 2015, to be held in the IBM Client Centre at IBM South Bank, London. There will be no charge for this meeting and as usual we aim to have an excellent agenda lined up, covering a range of current and emerging WebSphere technologies.
Provisional Agenda
Registration and Coffee begins from 8:30am, with the Chairman's Intro at 9:00am. The first session begins at 9:30am.
A buffet Lunch is served at 12:30pm, with coffee breaks included in the morning and afternoon.
WebSphere Application Server
09:30 - 10:15
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10:45 - 11:30
Title:
What do you need in your dev environment for building on prem and hybrid applications?
Abstract:
Do you want to spend more of your time building innovative and engaging applications for customers instead of standing up development environments? This session will talk about how to utilize the right tools and development environment for building your java and node.js applications. We'll cover new enhancements in the WebSphere Application Server developer tools (WDT), integrations with devOps and how to leverage the Bluemix runtime (Liberty(java) and Node.js) development environments.
Speakers:
Anita Rass Wan
Anita Rass Wan is a Senior Worldwide Product Manager on the WebSphere Application Server Infrastructure team. She is responsible for helping improve the customer and developer experience with building and managing applications for the WebSphere Application Infrastructure family both on premise and in the cloud. Anita has held various senior positions in development, release management and product management. She has published various papers, and has disclosures and a patent in application development and performance tools.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
Building highly available architectures with WAS and MQ
Abstract:
This talk will look at architectures in which IBM MQ can be configured with the IBM WebSphere Application Server (and Liberty profiles) to give a highly-available scenario. The basis be some of the scenarios that are documented in the developerWorks series "A flexible and scalable WebSphere MQ topology pattern".
(http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1308_broadhurst/1308_broadhurst.html)
Speakers:
Matthew White
Matthew White joined IBM in 1998 working initially with IBM's implementation of the JVM. Currently Matthew is the Architect: IBM MQ JMS, Connectivity & Integration Team. This team works to ensure that the WebSphere MQ product is fully integrated into the IBM WebSphere Platform. Looking at the the MQ messaging product as part of a stack solution ensures our customers truly get an integrated platform. And this platform need not be JavaEE based, but within other frameworks such as Spring or OSGi.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
Developing with the latest Java EE 7 technologies on WAS Liberty profile
Abstract:
WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile has been expanding its Java EE 7 capabilities over the last few quarters. In this session we will go into detail on some of these technologies, discussing when and where you will want to use them and the advantages they offer. This session will also take a look at the expanded developer functionality that has been added to the WebSphere Developer Tools for Eclipse and Bluemix tools and how developers can take advantage of the new functionality to improve productivity.
Speakers:
Thomas Banks
Thomas Banks is Technical Evangelist for WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile and has a background of 5 years' software development at IBM. Tom has recently been working on creating new demos and sample applications for WebSphere Liberty profile to showcase the capabilities now available in the runtime.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
Come shape the future...
Abstract:
This interactive session is looking for input and feedback from you, our users on what you would like to see in the WebSphere App server, Bluemix development environment and runtimes, etc.
Speakers:
Anita Rass Wan
Anita Rass Wan is a Senior Worldwide Product Manager on the WebSphere Application Server Infrastructure team. She is responsible for helping improve the customer and developer experience with building and managing applications for the WebSphere Application Infrastructure family both on premise and in the cloud. Anita has held various senior positions in development, release management and product management. She has published various papers, and has disclosures and a patent in application development and performance tools.
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
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DevOps
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
DevOps Transformations: Structuring approaches to change
Abstract:
In this session we’ll consider what DevOps culture looks like and how organisational change can be enacted through DevOps teams anti-patterns and patterns. We’ll walk through a standard set of DevOps metrics and how to baseline a current state in order to track and report on progress and success - and write ROI cases. We’ll also investigate setting DevOps goals and how to align rewards and incentives programmes to these goals - and how to create an environment where autonomy, mastery and purpose are king. Finally, we’ll take a close look at DevOps toolchains and how to create one using what you already have.
Speakers:
Helen Beal
Helen has 20 years’ experience working in the technology industry with the Software Development Lifecycle for a number of clients including: dunnhumby, DWP, FIS, GE, Hiscox, Honeywell, Nokia, United Healthcare and RBS. Helen is passionate about DevOps, is the creator of the DevOps LiftOff workshop, the DevOps Maturity Assessment (winner of the 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding DevOps Solution) and the soon to be launched DevOps Transformation Framework and is on the Board of Regents at the DevOps Institute. Helen is also a novelist and wildlife conservationist.
10:45 - 11:30
Title:
DevOps, and IBM SWG's transformation activities
Abstract:
This session will discuss something of the transformational journey that IBM has been making over the last decade with its approach to software development. The journey reflects the experiences and understanding of many, from lean startup to large enterprise: from the transition from waterfall to agile, and then through into embracing DevOps as an organization. We will discuss how tools have helped, but how culture is key, and discuss the latest phases of transformation into the world of SaaS delivered as microservices in highly containerized architectures, using open source tools and a collaborative culture.
Speakers:
Chris Sharp
Chris Sharp is the Chief Architect for DevOps in SWG Europe. His focus is on the transformation of the way SWG develops software and services, and its ability to maximize efficiency and agility through cloud technologies. Additionally, he is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, IBM Master Inventor, Senior Technical Staff Member and Fellow of the British Computer Society.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
Building a better product with data analytics and the cloud
Abstract:
As we move from traditional waterfall development through agile and onto continuous delivery the approach we adopt to build and test our products needs to evolve.
No longer can we rely on a long stabilisation phase at the end of a release. Quality now needs to be assured at every stage of the release with every code change.
This talk has two aims. Firstly to take you through a number of the innovations being made in the delivery of Liberty to give you an insight into how we
drive quality throughout the release. Secondly, to inspire ideas on how you can apply data analytics and the cloud to drive your own build and test environments.
Key innovations covered will include our delivery lifecycle as well as our dynamic scalable build environment (based upon Smart Cloud Orchestrator and uDeploy).
Finally we will cover our use of big data analytics to automatically identify potential regressions any optimise our build and test environment.
Speakers:
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is the test architect for the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile responsible for ensuring product quality and driving the overall test strategy.
With over 20 years in IBM, Kevin has had a variety of roles ranging from research through to development and during the last 5 years focusing on driving innovative test strategies across a number of WebSphere products. In the last 3 years Kevin has been focused on transforming the test strategy for the WAS Liberty profile, adopting the cloud and big data to provide a continuous view of quality and rapid feedback to the development teams.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
Automation that scales: how IBM is scaling build and test infrastructure
Abstract:
This session will provide an insight in to how the IBM WebSphere Liberty team is stream lining and automating their build process. By creating processes to automate the provisioning and de-provisioning of resources using IBM UrbanCode Deploy we are able to support the rapid deployment of hundreds of machines per build.
The talk will cover best practices and the principles behind using IBM UrbanCode Deploy in a large scale environment including both how it's used in production and additionally in configuring and deploying the DevOps environment.
Speakers:
Michael Shaffer
Michael Shaffer is an automation specialist at the IBM Hursley lab. After working as an integration specialist in technical pre sales he moved in to his current role within the WebSphere Application Server Liberty team where he has been implementing a new automated build system.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
WebSphere Application Server and Docker: Delivering on the Promise of Containers
Abstract:
Containers promise to provide the ability to take a lightweight image from development and deploy it at high density in production. In this session, you'll see how the combination of WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile and Docker can deliver on that promise. After an overview of containerization and Docker, the session will demonstrate how quickly you can get an application up-and-running with a WebSphere Application Server image, and how a continuous delivery pipeline could be used to take that image through to production—whether on-premise or in the cloud—without the pain of pushing around multi-gigabyte virtual images and without the danger of any more "it works for me" moments. We'll also demonstrate the usage of WebSphere Application Server in the IBM Containers service on Bluemix.
Speakers:
David Currie
David is a senior software engineer at IBM in the WebSphere Application Server development team based out of the Hursley Lab in the UK. His responsibilities are diverse, from microservices and Platform-as-a-Service with the lightweight Liberty profile, to Context and Dependency Injection in the full profile. He started work on V3.5 of the product some 15+ years ago and is now working on V8.5, having done a whole host of other interesting things in-between. David also has a keen interest in software craftmanship and all things agile
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
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Mobile and Cloud
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
Business Processes on the move with IBM BPM + MobileFirst Platform
Abstract:
Explore how to leverage the benefits of mobile apps in your business processes using IBM Business Process Manager & IBM MobileFirst Platform. The presentation will explore the business process scenario, how the mobile application was constructed and what benefits a mobile app can bring to your business processes.
Speakers:
Daniel Fitzgerald
Daniel Fitzgerald is a technical sales specialist for IBM’s MobileFirst software portfolio. Having obtained a degree in Mobile Computing from Oxford Brooke’s University he became interested in mobile application development and web technologies that lead him to pursue a career in I.T.
10:45 - 11:30
Abstract:
IBM Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud based platform for building, managing and running apps and services of all types (web, mobile, big data, new smart devices). Capabilities include Java, mobile back end development, application monitoring, as well as capabilities from ecosystem partners and open source — all through an as-a-service model in the cloud.
This session will explore the value proposition of Platform as a Service and introduce the fundamentals of building and deploying an application in the cloud using Bluemix. The session will include a live demonstration of the Bluemix web user interface, sample applications, and associated tools.
Speakers:
Adam de Leeuw
Adam works at the IBM Hursley Innovation Centre providing consultancy to business partners, helping them activate their solutions on IBM software, hardware and cloud offerings.
Recently he has presented on IBM Bluemix at various UK universities and cloud focused industry events. Previously, Adam has been a consultant working with WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Commerce.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
WebSphere in a hybrid cloud environment demonstration – “The Art of the Possibleâ€
Abstract:
As a developer, you now have a hand in creating the future. Whatever your task, we’ve got you covered with all of the instant services, runtimes, and infrastructure you need to unleash your ideas into the present.
Welcome to the Cloud Trader – Unleashed demonstration, where we will walk through a series of slightly off the cuff scenarios to help you experience a world of possibilities of using IBM Cloud technology to quickly and easily bring to market fresh ideas.
We will be demonstrating “Art of the Possible†scenarios through integration of exciting new cloud services to a stodgy old web application, providing a more engaging customer experience. You will see easy integration of Java EE applications to new “born on the cloud†node.js applications leveraging instant services and runtimes such as real-time communication (WebRTC), social media like Twitter, messaging, data cache, Node-RED, Internet of Things, SQL database, Liberty Profile, and node.js.
We will also demonstrate integration to existing on-premise or 3rd party Web services through IBM API Management, which provides you and your customers with new opportunities of engagement.
Speakers:
Kevin Postreich
Kevin Postreich is a Sr. IT specialist / consultant with IBM. He joined the World Wide Application Infrastructure technical sales team in 2012 supporting customer deployments of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, PureApplication System, and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). Kevin also has a strong background in in middleware / application performance engineering and troubleshooting methodologies.
Kevin is certified with the following IBM technologies: PureApplication System, WebSphere Application Server, and SOA technologies. He is also a Master Certified I/T Specialist through the Open Group.
In his WW technical sales role, Kevin’s focus has been in the on premise cloud space which includes PureApplication System configurations, deployments, and enablement for IBM technical sales teams and customers alike.
Kevin leads IBM PureApplication System enablement and proof of technologies in the United States and abroad. Kevin contributed to the development and delivery the PureApplication System advanced enablement to IBM technical sellers and IBM business partners.
Kevin also focuses on the development and delivery of WebSphere eXtreme Scale POCs and technical enablement. Kevin developed and leads WXS deep dive workshops, for IBM technical sellers, IBM business partners and customers interested in developing deep technical skills with eXtreme Scale caching implementations.
Kevin recently strengthened his technical abilities with API management, broadening his existing experience with SOA and SOA governance from his tenure in IBM lab services (ISSW) working with clients to architect, design, and implement SOA Governance solutions using WSRR, WMB, and Datapower.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
Enterprise Ready Hybrid Cloud
Abstract:
What do you need from an enterprise hybrid cloud?
PureApplication System is unique in delivering complex applications and middleware solutions into a hybrid cloud environment, delivering those solutions more quickly and reducing costs and risks for many customers.
If you need a cloud strategy for your core business applications; WebSphere, BPM, ODM, Commerce, Cognos, then PureApplication Hybrid PaaS can deliver real benefits for real production workloads.
Sara will cover what the platform can do for your business today.
Speakers:
Sara Mitchell
Sara Mitchell works for IBM as the UKI PureApplication Technical Lead working with businesses to build cloud adoption strategies and design cloud solutions. She has worked for IBM for 14 years as a developer and architect, based in their Hampshire based R&D Lab.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and IBM PureSystems - compare and contrast
Abstract:
IBM's SmartCloud Orchestrator is PureSystem's little known cousin. It uses exactly the same cloud modelling and deployment engine as PureApplication Systems and therefore can run exactly the same patterns of expertise as PureApplication Systems. However, the installation, configuration and management of CloudOrchestrator is far more complex than PureApplication Systems due to the very different nature of the underlying installation and infrastructure.
Icon Solutions is a company that specialises in building PureApplication patterns for non-IBM products. Icon runs a SmartCloud Orchestrator system in-house for testing its patterns and has also helped customers install and configure their own SmartCloud Orchestrator systems on-premise. This talk will give an overview of SmartCloud orchestrator in comparison to PureSystems, from the ground up - Hardware, through to firmware and running patterns. It will give an insight into the complexities of installing and managing both PureApplication and SmartCloud Orchestrator in the context of a large scale banking deployment. At the end of this talk the audience will understand more about how PureApplication uses Openstack and then how this technology has been re-used in the SmartCloud Orchestrator product. They will be able to articulate the differences between the products and have a high-level understanding of the architectural components of each virtualisation architecture which the same pattern-engine utilises.
Speakers:
John Hawkins
John is Icon Solutions’ Principal Consultant for PureApplication and is joint Chairman of the European Pure User Group. John has extensive experience in PureApplication as well as the software development lifecycle including DevOps and tools like urbancode. John worked at IBM for 17 years where he led IBM's Cloud strategy and architecture for next generation Cloud Messaging. He also has expertise in Messaging, Mobile, IBM brokers and has a large patent portfolio.
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
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Digital Experience
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
Digital Experience on Cloud
Abstract:
IBM Digital Experience offers easy-to-use tools for business users and developers to work together to build rich, personalized websites for marketing, customer/citizen service and intranets. Business demands ever shorter turnaround time on these systems of engagement, as well as constant access to the latest capabilities. Attend this session to learn about the options for using the cloud to accelerate time to value for this type of solution, reduce wait times and increase agility. We'll cover our new Digital Experience on Cloud product as well as other options open to companies; we'll also look at how you can integrate with services delivered on Bluemix and use Cast Iron to integrate your packaged applications. Finally, we'll review considerations for companies who have an existing solution that they would like to migrate to cloud.
Speakers:
David Strachan
David Strachan is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Digital Experience. He has worked in this field since 2002 and has held a number of roles in that time at both IBM and at business partners. As a consultant and worldwide leader, he was responsible for numerous digital experience architectures, bringing together content management, social and portal to deliver exceptional web experiences, and has led large Portal, WCM and Connections deployments at a range of customers.
He is now responsible for bringing IBM Digital Experience capabilities to the cloud, shaping IBM strategy and offerings for the era of cloud computing. The first products were released in December 2014.
10:45 - 11:30
Title:
Architecting an Exceptional Student Experience
Abstract:
We talk about how IBM designed and built a brand new, personalised student portal for a London University. You will learn how the portal fits in to the wider solution to deliver security, collaboration and analytics capabilities as we dive deeper into the different technologies and components used.
Speakers:
Andy Tomlinson
Andrew Tomlinson is a certified IT specialist within IBM Software Services in the UK. He has worked with WebSphere Portal and IBM Collaboration software since 2005, having previously spent 9 years as a developer in IBM Global Business Services. Currently, Andrew focuses his efforts on WebSphere Portal application design and delivery.
Paul Band
Paul Band is a certified IT specialist with IBM Software Services in the UK. He has been working with Portal and IBM Collaboration software for over 10 years having started as a Domino developer. More recently Paul has focussed on the design and delivery of IBM Portal, Sametime, Domino and Connections infrastructure for enterprise collaboration environments.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
Beyond the Portlet API: More Advanced Topics in WebSphere Portal Development
Abstract:
Portal application development is just about creating portlets and themes, right? Some of you who attended the first "Beyond the Portlet API" session at the WUG in 2012 will hopefully have been persuaded that there is much more you can do than that. But whether you saw the previous talk or not, come along to this session as we explore yet more of the product's lesser-known features that may allow you to create a better solution for some business problem you have now or may encounter soon. For example, what if you need your personalization rules to depend on data not available out of the box? Or maybe you need to access portlets sitting on a different page (perhaps from within the theme)? Does the CSS you need to load depend on a user's attributes, yet you still want it be aggregated by the theme framework for performance? These may be some of the questions covered in this session!
Speakers:
Graham Harper
Graham is an Application Architect and Consulting IT Specialist with IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He has been designing and developing solutions for customers using Lotus and IBM software for 23 years and with WebSphere Portal specifically for over 10 years.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
Integrating CRM into WebSphere Portal with Digital Data Connector
Abstract:
A common question our customers ask us is how can we integrate CRM-based information into their Portal. Attend this session to understand how IBM Cast Iron, DDC (Digital Data Connector) and Web Content Manager are used to integrate and present Salesforce.com CRM information.
Speakers:
Daniel Kilpatrick
Daniel Kilpatrick joined IBM in 2011 as a member of the IBM Social Business and Collaboration Solutions (ICS) technical team, covering the Exceptional Digital Experiences portfolio.
Daniel specialises in social portals and collaborative tools with a focus on digital forms and is now the IBM Forms specialist for UK and Ireland. Daniel brings with him over 10 years of web and mobile software development experience.
Stuart Crump
Stuart is a L2 Certified member of the UK technical specialist team working with IBM Portal, IBM Web Content Manager and many of the other solution technologies utilising a core WebSphere foundation.
Stuart has spent over 10 years years working with collaborative web technologies and content systems both inside and outside IBM.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
Create Self-Service Apps in Minutes with the IBM Forms
Abstract:
Learn how you can build self-service web applications with the latest IBM Forms Experience Builder software. You will see how the software works and gain an understanding of how customers are using it to improve efficiency, customer service and time to value. IBM Forms Experience Builder enables you to dramatically improve processes such as project tracking, claim requests, customer surveys, proposal generation, program registrations, applications for new offerings, customer service, business transactions and more. The focus of this session will be how customers are using and gaining value from the software and how your organization can get started.
Speakers:
David Butler
David Butler is a technical sales specialist working within the IBM Collaboration Solutions Brand, based in the UK. David specialises in a number of Collaboration tools, including the WebSphere Portal family (with a particular focus on IBM Forms Experience Builder) and IBM Connections. His expertise lies in providing client demonstrations which articulate the value of these offerings. He is also actively involved with driving the implementation and adoption of these products.
Sam Crisp
Sam Crisp started at IBM in 2011. He became a technical seller in Collaboration Solutions in 2013 focusing initially on Connections and Connections Cloud. Though he has only recently been working on Forms opportunities but has already found the product to be intuitive and easy to use.
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
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Integration
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
IBM DataPower Gateway and Firmware 7.1
Abstract:
IBM DataPower Gateway and V7.1 Firmware - The New Kid On The Rack, or, Where Have All The Boxes Gone?
Speakers:
Dave Page
Dave Page has worked in IT since 1978, with roles in operations, development and technical sales. He joined IBM in 1999 and is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist, in the UKI Technical Sales team, covering IBM Systems Middleware Integration solutions, including the IBM MQ Family, IBM Integration Bus and the IBM DataPower Gateway Appliances.
10:45 - 11:30
11:40 - 12:25
Abstract:
35% to 70% of IT Budgets are spent on building, administering and maintaining integration. IBM Integration Bus aims to reduce integration costs and increase flexibility and responsiveness, through componentization and reuse of core operational IT assets. Join this session to understand the business value and new features of the upcoming latest release of IBM integration Bus, IBM's powerful solution for all enterprise connectivity use cases, and how it is essential in enabling business growth areas such as cloud, mobile and big data.
Speakers:
Andrew Humphreys
Andrew Humphreys is the Product Manager for IIBM Integration Bus He is responsible for ensuring the success of the product by defining and executing the vision, strategy and product roadmap to maximise the product's position the in the marketplace. Andrew has worked for IBM for over 20 years and prior to joining the Product Management team he held a variety of roles in GBS, Software Services, Product Strategy and Technical Sales which has helped him build a combination of broad architectural skills, deep specialist knowledge in the areas of messaging, SOA, integration and BPM, and extensive customer-facing experience which allows him to engage effectively at all levels within IBM and customer organisations.
13:30 - 14:15
Abstract:
This session covers some of the options for caching user data in IBM Integration Bus. It will introduce the embedded "global cache" capability, and connectivity to external WebSphere eXtreme Scale grids.
Speakers:
James Hart
James Hart is a Software Engineer in the IBM Integration Bus Level 3 Service team at the IBM Software Lab in Hursley. He has worked there since 1999 in a variety of technical and customer-facing roles, and was the Technical Lead for caching technology in WMBv8 / IIBv9.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
IIB and Cloud Deployment
Abstract:
This session discusses the myriad options available for IBM Integration Bus in cloud, including provisioning, hosting and configuring, and ensuring that your deployed integration environment is robust and scalable yet responsive to changes in business requirements. It will discuss all aspects of cloud enablement, from provisioning new IIB infrastructure using technologies such as Chef and hosting on either private or public clouds, to platforms that handle integration workloads appropriately, and software to facilitate the consumption and provisioning of cloud services.
Speakers:
John Hosie
John Hosie has been an architect in the IBM Integration Bus development team since 2010. Â After studying physics and then software development at university, John joined IBM in 2000 and spent 10 years developing features for MQSeries Integrator and other predecessors to IBM Integration Bus. Over this time, he was a key engineer in many areas of integration and, in particular, connectivity. In his spare time, John spends his spare time being terrible at as many sports as his hectic family live allows.
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
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Messaging
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
IBM MQ update including MQ and security
Abstract:
Come to this session to hear all about the latest capabilities and enhancements in the IBM Messaging portfolio across application, mobile and enterprise messaging. This session gives a summary of all the new product announcements and features in latest releases of MQ for Distributed and z/OS platforms, MQ Light and the MQ Appliance.
Speakers:
Morag Hughson
Morag has worked in IBM for over 18 years designing, developing and servicing the IBM MQ product (formerly WebSphere MQ and MQSeries). Her main areas of expertise include security, channels, the MQ API, MQSC and PCF, Publish/Subscribe and the z/OS platform. She regularly presents on these topics at a variety of technical conferences around the world. She is the architect for the base MQ product with responsibility across both z/OS and distributed platforms.
10:45 - 11:30
Title:
IBM MQ and High Availability
Abstract:
IBM MQ provides many capabilities that can be used to keep your business running in the event of failures on distributed and z/OS platforms. This session will introduce and compare these features to show how they can be effectively used together for extremely reliable environments
Speakers:
Andrew Schofield
Andrew Schofield is chief architect for IBM Internet of Things Foundation. He has more than 20 years of experience in messaging middleware, with particular expertise in the areas of data integrity, transactions, high availability and performance. He works at the Hursley Park laboratory in England. In his spare time, Andrew writes applications for mobile phones and connects things to the internet.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
Introduction to the new IBM MQ Appliance
Abstract:
This session will cover a new IBM MQ offering designed to provide a simpler approach to deployment and management of IBM MQ Queue Managers. Details of the new IBM MQ offering and its capabilities will be the focus of this session, including the likely use cases it can be put to, and how it is can simplify IBM MQ deployment and usage.
Speakers:
Andrew Schofield
Andrew Schofield is chief architect for IBM Internet of Things Foundation. He has more than 20 years of experience in messaging middleware, with particular expertise in the areas of data integrity, transactions, high availability and performance. He works at the Hursley Park laboratory in England. In his spare time, Andrew writes applications for mobile phones and connects things to the internet.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
IBM MQ, Cloud and MQ Light
Abstract:
In this session I will give a broad overview of MQ Light, covering its use for on-premise application development, off-premise cloud deployment to IBM Bluemix, and on-premise deployment to MQ using the MQ Beta for MQ Light.
Speakers:
Matthew Whitehead
Matthew is currently lead the development of the MQ Beta for MQ Light, working to support MQ Light applications connecting into your on-premise enterprise MQ environment. Previously he worked on the MQ Managed File Transfer product.
14:25 - 15:10
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15:30 - 16:15
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Smarter Process
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
What's New in IBM Business Process Manager
Abstract:
Find out about the new capabilities that we are adding to IBM Business Process Manager 8.5.6. We have improved enterprise quality of service by introducing new migration facilities, platform management and a variety of architectural and usability improvements. New case management enhancements include better support for BPM/ECM integrations and the ability to link cases and process instances. Federated Portal infrastructure supports migration and isolation scenarios and allows our customers to massively scale their BPM environments. Additional capabilities have been added to allow customers to integrate Mobile UI with their business processes.
Speakers:
Claudio Tagliabue
Claudio Tag is a certified WebSphere technical specialist, focusing on Business Transformation. He is excited by business change in the 21st Century and the consequent demands on technology. Making the "complicated" "business as usual" is going to change the IT landscape radically. Through his work with clients as a domain expert for IBM's ground breaking PureSystems and Business Process Management capabilities, Tag has gained significant insight into today's senior IT stakeholder motivations. Tag’s experience goes outside the WebSphere brand, having worked innovative projects involving Commerce and Collaboration technology.
Follow Tag on Twitter @ClaudioTag and on the IBM Expert Integrated Systems blog (http://expertintegratedsystemsblog.com/).
10:45 - 11:30
Title:
Business Rules in a changing world
Abstract:
Integrating Java and COBOL and PL1 clients that make the same Business Decisions. We look at what ODM (which includes the ILOG technology) is and how it can make your Business more agile. We will also look at the runtime possibilities on z/OS and other platforms
Speakers:
Mike Johnson
Mike is a Senior developer and presenter on Operation Decision Manager on z/OS. and works out of the Hursley IBM lab in the UK. He has spent his career in the messaging and brokering environments across the platforms. He has a Combined honors degree in Computing and Statistics and spends his free time racing yachts
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
BPM opps and housekeeping
Abstract:
In this session, you will discover how to maintain an efficient IBM BPM environment, with a specific focus upon some of the key considerations required to deliver an effective and available service to the business, including end-users, developers and operations teams.
This session assumes some prior knowledge of the IBM BPM solution, with specific focus upon the BPMN aspects of the solution ( Process Center, Process Server, Process Applications, Toolkits, Snapshots etc. )
Speakers:
Dave Hay
David is an Infrastructure Architect within the IBM Software Services for WebSphere team, focusing upon IBM's Smarter Process portfolio, including business process management, business rules, complex event processing and business activity monitoring. With IBM since 1992, David brings a wide range of experience with IBM's portfolio as he delivers sophisticated IT solutions to his clients, including a number of the UK's leading financial services organisations.
13:30 - 14:15
Abstract:
In this session, David will describe how an IBM BPM infrastructure can be designed and built to meet some of the more common non-functional requirements for performance, scalability and resilience.
This session assumes some prior knowledge of the IBM BPM solution, as well as some of the key infrastructure building blocks, including HTTP load balancing, WebSphere Application Server and relational database systems
Speakers:
Dave Hay
David is an Infrastructure Architect within the IBM Software Services for WebSphere team, focusing upon IBM's Smarter Process portfolio, including business process management, business rules, complex event processing and business activity monitoring. With IBM since 1992, David brings a wide range of experience with IBM's portfolio as he delivers sophisticated IT solutions to his clients, including a number of the UK's leading financial services organisations.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
Get Insight Into Your Customer to Act at the Time of Interaction—with IBM ODM Advanced
Abstract:
Learn how the IBM Operational Decision Manager team is addressing the challenges of making the right decision, at the right time and place, based on complex, correlated sequences of events, business entities, analytics and predictive models. Decision Server Insights, part of ODM Advanced, allows business logic to move far beyond traditional stateless decision-making, to unlock new use cases while retaining the ease of use and declarative nature of business rules. This session provides a technical overview of Decision Server Insights, describes targeted use cases and presents some initial best practices.
Speakers:
Alex Kelly
Alex Kelly is a Performance Analyst on the Decision Server Insights team, based at the IBM Hursley Software Lab in the UK. Alex has worked on the Insights product from the beginning, focusing mainly on the performance in the clustered, high-availability configuration.
Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts is a Smarter Process architect who loves building prototypes and solutions with his clients. In particular, Matt has worked with many of the early adopters of Decision Server Insights across Europe applying this real-time situation detection technology to identify new opportunities for process improvement. Matt has a background in business rules and is a certified ODM developer.
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
(empty slot)
Java and other languages
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
Java and other languages
Abstract:
Abstract: A high level introduction to the track, introducing the business needs and technology that lead to programs written in Javascript, Python and Ruby running on a virtual machine similar to the Java VM.
Speakers:
Chris Bailey
Chris works for IBM as their Runtime Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect, responsible for developing debugging capabilities for Java and Node.js. Chris has worked on runtime development for almost 15 years, and is a recognised speaker and author on runtime troubleshooting, performance and memory management.
10:45 - 11:30
Title:
Introduction to the IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java and JavaScript
Abstract:
IBM now provides both an SDK and runtime for Java, and a SDK and runtime for JavaScript. Whilst the languages themselves share little more than the first four characters, IBMs approach is to provide a common set of free monitoring and diagnostics tools that apply to both runtimes, reducing the need to cross-skill, whilst continuing to support existing open source and 3rd party tools
This session introduces those tools, shows how they have been extended with IBM middleware product knowledge and integrated into IBM’s development tools, and how to use them either on-premise or in-cloud to investigate and resolve real-world problem scenarios.
Speakers:
Ian Partridge
Ian joined IBM in 2003 as a member of the JVM development team. He initially worked in the garbage collection development team, before taking roles in the shared classes and RAS components. In 2009 he moved to the Java service organisation to pass on his knowledge of JVM debugging and troubleshooting to customers. Away from IBM he helps run Southampton's symphony orchestra and philharmonic choir.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
Virtualization Aware JVM
Abstract:
With Java 7R1, the JVM is virtualization aware. The JVM exposes Virtualization and OS related information through a set of MXBeans. This session talks about the newly added APIs and the use cases to better optimize the JVM in the cloud.
This presents a number of opportunities to tune the JVM (virtualization info in javacore, JIT idle tuning etc) and also for a way to tune the middleware virtualized environments.
Learn about the Virtualization aware JVM and explore the ways to exploit this information to optimize your application for the cloud.
Speakers:
Chris Bailey
Chris works for IBM as their Runtime Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect, responsible for developing debugging capabilities for Java and Node.js. Chris has worked on runtime development for almost 15 years, and is a recognised speaker and author on runtime troubleshooting, performance and memory management.
Tim Ellison
Tim Ellison is a senior technical staff member in the Java Technology Centre at IBM Hursley Park. He has contributed to the implementation of Smalltalk, IBM VisualAge Micro Edition, Eclipse and the Java SDK over a period of over twenty years. Tim's current focus is on Java SE and open source engineering in the Java platform. He speaks at conferences worldwide and is particularly interested in new ways of applying technology to difficult problems.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
Java vs JavaScript for Enterprise Web Applications
Abstract:
The last few years have see a huge growth in the usage of JavaScript, to the extent that it is often reported to be the #1 programming language in use today. Additionally the arrival of server-side JavaScript through frameworks such as Node.js and Ringo.js, and JavaScript on the JVM through Nashorn and Avatar.js, mean that enterprise web applications written in JavaScript are not just a possibility, but a reality for companies such as LinkedIn, eBay, Yahoo, ADP and Dow Jones.
This session will compare and contrast the two platforms and describe the advantages of each for deploying, managing and monitoring highly scalable applications, and introduce IBMs strategy for building a common ecosystem around the two languages.
Speakers:
Chris Bailey
Chris works for IBM as their Runtime Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect, responsible for developing debugging capabilities for Java and Node.js. Chris has worked on runtime development for almost 15 years, and is a recognised speaker and author on runtime troubleshooting, performance and memory management.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
What's new in IBM Java 8 SE?
Abstract:
Abstract: Java SE 8 is the latest eagerly anticipated release of the Java platform that powers much of IBM's software and provides functionality for you to get your work done. In this session, the technical lead for IBM Java SE describes the new features currently under development in the virtual machine and associated libraries and tooling. Come and learn how to be more productive as a developer, use new techniques for exploiting modern hardware to process large volumes of data in parallel, move data efficiently across the network, and exploit the virtualization potential of your data center. The talk outlines a road map for IBM's technology and gives you an opportunity to take away valuable tips from one of IBM's lead engineers.
Speakers:
Tim Ellison
Tim Ellison is a senior technical staff member in the Java Technology Centre at IBM Hursley Park. He has contributed to the implementation of Smalltalk, IBM VisualAge Micro Edition, Eclipse and the Java SDK over a period of over twenty years. Tim's current focus is on Java SE and open source engineering in the Java platform. He speaks at conferences worldwide and is particularly interested in new ways of applying technology to difficult problems.
15:30 - 16:15
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16:25 - 17:10
(empty slot)
Labs
09:30 - 10:15
Title:
Bluemix and DevOps Labs
Abstract:
Bluemix:
IBM Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud based platform for building, managing and running apps and services of all types (e.g. web, mobile, big data and IOT devices). Capabilities include various runtimes (e.g. Java, Node.js and PHP), mobile back end development, application monitoring, as well as capabilities from ecosystem partners and open source - all through an as-a-service model in the cloud.
In this lab you will use Bluemix to deploy a web app which consumes a Cloudant database service, live on the internet in just a matter of minutes. Bluemix tools will be used to edit the code on a local workstation and update the running app. You'll also experience Bluemix DevOps Services, using it to host the code in a Git repository, make updates via a browser and trigger a build and deploy process which automatically publishes to IBM Bluemix.
Please ensure you have a Bluemix account (with 30 day trial) by signing up here: https://ibm.biz/UKIBluemix, prior to the event.
DevOps with WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Jenkins and Chef:
Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring long maintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function in small, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required to maintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven and Chef can be used with the Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.
10:45 - 11:30
Title:
Bluemix and DevOps Labs
Abstract:
Bluemix:
IBM Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud based platform for building, managing and running apps and services of all types (e.g. web, mobile, big data and IOT devices). Capabilities include various runtimes (e.g. Java, Node.js and PHP), mobile back end development, application monitoring, as well as capabilities from ecosystem partners and open source - all through an as-a-service model in the cloud.
In this lab you will use Bluemix to deploy a web app which consumes a Cloudant database service, live on the internet in just a matter of minutes. Bluemix tools will be used to edit the code on a local workstation and update the running app. You'll also experience Bluemix DevOps Services, using it to host the code in a Git repository, make updates via a browser and trigger a build and deploy process which automatically publishes to IBM Bluemix.
Please ensure you have a Bluemix account (with 30 day trial) by signing up here: https://ibm.biz/UKIBluemix, prior to the event.
DevOps with WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Jenkins and Chef:
Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring long maintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function in small, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required to maintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven and Chef can be used with the Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.
11:40 - 12:25
Title:
Bluemix and DevOps Labs
Abstract:
Bluemix:
IBM Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud based platform for building, managing and running apps and services of all types (e.g. web, mobile, big data and IOT devices). Capabilities include various runtimes (e.g. Java, Node.js and PHP), mobile back end development, application monitoring, as well as capabilities from ecosystem partners and open source - all through an as-a-service model in the cloud.
In this lab you will use Bluemix to deploy a web app which consumes a Cloudant database service, live on the internet in just a matter of minutes. Bluemix tools will be used to edit the code on a local workstation and update the running app. You'll also experience Bluemix DevOps Services, using it to host the code in a Git repository, make updates via a browser and trigger a build and deploy process which automatically publishes to IBM Bluemix.
Please ensure you have a Bluemix account (with 30 day trial) by signing up here: https://ibm.biz/UKIBluemix, prior to the event.
DevOps with WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Jenkins and Chef:
Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring long maintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function in small, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required to maintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven and Chef can be used with the Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.
13:30 - 14:15
Title:
Bluemix and DevOps Labs
Abstract:
Bluemix:
Bluemix:
IBM Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud based platform for building, managing and running apps and services of all types (e.g. web, mobile, big data and IOT devices). Capabilities include various runtimes (e.g. Java, Node.js and PHP), mobile back end development, application monitoring, as well as capabilities from ecosystem partners and open source - all through an as-a-service model in the cloud.
In this lab you will use Bluemix to deploy a web app which consumes a Cloudant database service, live on the internet in just a matter of minutes. Bluemix tools will be used to edit the code on a local workstation and update the running app. You'll also experience Bluemix DevOps Services, using it to host the code in a Git repository, make updates via a browser and trigger a build and deploy process which automatically publishes to IBM Bluemix.
Please ensure you have a Bluemix account (with 30 day trial) by signing up here: https://ibm.biz/UKIBluemix, prior to the event.
DevOps with WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Jenkins and Chef:
Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring long maintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function in small, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required to maintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven and Chef can be used with the Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.
DevOps with WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Jenkins and Chef:
Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring long maintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function in small, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required to maintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven and Chef can be used with the Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.
14:25 - 15:10
Title:
Bluemix and DevOps Labs
Abstract:
Bluemix:
IBM Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud based platform for building, managing and running apps and services of all types (e.g. web, mobile, big data and IOT devices). Capabilities include various runtimes (e.g. Java, Node.js and PHP), mobile back end development, application monitoring, as well as capabilities from ecosystem partners and open source - all through an as-a-service model in the cloud.
In this lab you will use Bluemix to deploy a web app which consumes a Cloudant database service, live on the internet in just a matter of minutes. Bluemix tools will be used to edit the code on a local workstation and update the running app. You'll also experience Bluemix DevOps Services, using it to host the code in a Git repository, make updates via a browser and trigger a build and deploy process which automatically publishes to IBM Bluemix.
Please ensure you have a Bluemix account (with 30 day trial) by signing up here: https://ibm.biz/UKIBluemix, prior to the event.
DevOps with WebSphere Liberty Profile, Maven, Jenkins and Chef:
Organizations that deliver value quickly gain the competitive edge. Long release cycles with waterfall processes requiring long maintenance windows are yesterday's way. Today, development teams have adopted Agile processes to deliver valuable function in small, short increments. DevOps makes that real by enabling the automated testing and configuration management required to maintain an enterprise application in production. In this lab, you will learn how tools such as Apache Maven and Chef can be used with the Liberty Profile as part of a continuous delivery solution.
15:30 - 16:15
(empty slot)
16:25 - 17:10
(empty slot)
Vendor Stands
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Location: IBM South Bank - London
Address
76/78 Upper Ground
South Bank
London SE1 9PZ
Telephone: 020 7202 3000
Fax 020 7928 4464
By Train
Waterloo (BR), Waterloo East (BR) and Blackfriars (Thameslink) stations are all within walking distance. London's other mainline stations are within fifteen minutes by London Underground to Waterloo station. Travel information can be obtained from BR on 0845 300 7000 or Thameslink on 0845 330 6333.
By Underground
Tube maps are available from most underground stations. Waterloo is on the following underground lines: Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Waterloo and City. The Northern line has two branches, so make sure the train you board is going to Waterloo. The Waterloo and City line links Waterloo to Bank station on the Central line. Travel information for London Underground is available on 020 7222 1234.
On Foot
Walking from the stations is straightforward, though you may prefer to take a taxi. IBM's South Bank building is located between the Royal National Theatre and the London Weekend Television Studios. From Waterloo, follow the signs from the station for the South Bank. Get to road level, York Road, and head north towards the rail bridge, bear left under the bridge, into Concert Hall Approach, heading for the Royal Festival Hall. Turn right onto Belvedere Road (which becomes Upper Ground as you walk under the bridge) past the Royal National Theatre, and IBM is on your left.
From Waterloo East walk up Cornwall Road and IBM is opposite you. From Blackfriars, walk over Blackfriars Bridge, turn first right into Upper Ground and IBM is just past LWT Studios.
By Taxi
London cabs are abundant; when their yellow taxi sign is lit they are available for hire. You can also hire taxis by phone on 020 7286 0286 or 020 7272 0272.
By Air
From Heathrow airport: travel to Waterloo station by London Underground. From Gatwick airport travel to Waterloo by train via Victoria or Clapham Junction stations.
By Road
South Bank is less than half a mile from Waterloo station. From the main roundabout to the north of the station, take the Stamford Street exit and then first left into Cornwall Road. The IBM building faces you at the end of Cornwall Road.
Parking
There are public car parks close to South Bank, but they can be expensive. Meter parking is also available in the streets nearby. Parking for disabled drivers can be arranged by calling 020 7261 0618
