Feb 22, 2015 6:53am PST

Leadership in the Era of Cloud & Mobile

Welcome to the brand new IBM InterConnect 2015: The Premier Cloud & Mobile Conference. In today's digital economy, the impact of Cloud, Mobile, DevOps and Security on business is pervasive. Cloud, the great equalizer. Mobile, the activation point. DevOps, the culmination of innovation. All underpinned by Security.

By incorporating three dynamic IBM conferences — Impact, Innovate and Pulse — into one, InterConnect has become the most comprehensive and collaborative event ever, providing an even richer experience to you and your colleagues. Join the largest community embodying the full life-cycle of IT, assets and infrastructure — from Development to Architecture to Operations.

Cloud, Mobile, DevOps, Security, Asset Management, Internet of Things, Application Integration, and Smarter Process, all in one place. The best in education, networking and exhibits, all at one event.

Learn. Explore. Expand.

1,500+ technical sessions, 42 tracks, 8 streams, 3 general sessions, hundreds of hands-on labs and certification opportunities, unlimited peer networking.

Application Infrastructure & Integration

Asset Management & Internet of Things

Business Process & Decision Management

Cloud Business Applications

Cloud Infrastructure & IT Optimization

DevOps & Continuous Engeneering

Mobile Enterprise

Security Intelligence

Live with Shark Tank

Tuesday | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Daymond John

Daymond John

Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

Robert Herjavec

Robert Herjavec

General Sessions

Monday
A New Way to Think

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Satellite screening in Mandalay Bay

Reinvent processes and customer engagement: A new way to think, invent, and transform. See how the convergence of cloud, data, mobile, social, and the Internet of Things enables organizations of all sizes to recompose their business and innovate at the speed of a startup.

Tuesday
A New Way to Work

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Satellite screening in Mandalay Bay

Empower roles across the organization: Act with speed, use context as an advantage, and continuously deliver innovation. Come see how data-rich mobile experiences and new cloud services allow business leaders, developers, and IT leaders to work in new, faster, and more impactful ways.

Wednesday
A New Way Forward

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Mandalay Bay

Design the future with cloud and mobile: Find inspiration with new technology and insights. Learn how to seamlessly assemble and reassemble processes, apps, services, and data from internal sources, third parties, and the Internet of Things in a hybrid cloud environment to deliver integrated services and rich contextual engagement.
in a new way.

Keynotes

The Future of Cloud

Topic: Cloud


Monday | 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
MGM Grand & Satellite in Mandalay Bay EXPO

We are in an era of dramatic industry innovation and transformation. Forces such as data, mobile and social are enabling this change—with cloud at the nexus. To take advantage of these changes, many companies are embracing the notion of "composable business," assembling processes, apps, services and data in the cloud to rapidly innovate and engage with customers. This keynote session will explore how cloud makes the idea of composable business a reality through "as-a-service" tools and capabilities capable of transforming roles, relationships and opportunities.

Reinventing Value with the Internet of Things

Topic: Asset Management & Internet of Things


Monday | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Mandalay Bay

Organizations across all industries recognize the value opportunity embedded within the Internet of Things. However many remain unclear about its potential within their own business or about how best to evolve existing physical and information infrastructures and take advantage of the immense opportunity offered by connected devices. It's time to seize the opportunity to disrupt the status quo to your advantage with the Internet of Things.

A New Way to Make Mobile Work for your Business

Topic: Mobile Enterprise


Monday | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
MGM Grand

How quickly can you deploy mobile initiatives and use them to innovate, grow and increase your employees’ effectiveness? In this session you'll get an inside look at how leaders across industries are implementing mobile best practices and uncovering new ways to empower customers, employees and other stakeholders. You’ll hear their creative approaches to securely blend mobile, cloud, big data and analytics, and social technologies to overcome business challenges, respond more nimbly to marketplace changes and rethink business models. Live client technology and IBM MobileFirst for iOS demos will be featured.

Reinventing How IBM Systems Can Revolutionize Your Hybrid Cloud Environment

Topic: Infrastructure Matters


Monday | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mandalay Bay

It's time to change how you think about hardware and storage when considering your Hybrid Cloud environment. Break the cycle of thinking that good enough is good enough. Even though 70 percent of organizations realize that making the right IT infrastructure choices are critical to business outcomes and competitive advantage, less than 10 percent believe their existing infrastructure is prepared to address big data and analytics challenges. Those who are prepared know that it is smart business to choose the right infrastructure for their cloud to deliver an engaging customer experience and offer 24x7 access and availability. In fact, new systems and storage technologies can offer up to 82X faster time to insight via the cloud and up to 50 percent in storage cost reduction. Join this keynote to learn how IBM and its community-led, open innovation can help you achieve greater competitive advantage.

Accelerating Hybrid with Cloud Infrastructure and IT Optimization

Topic: Cloud Infrastructure & IT Optimization


Monday | 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MGM Grand

Service Management has been used for decades to gain visibility, control, and automation into your environment. However with new delivery models including public clouds, virtual private cloud, and SaaS, organizations want choice and flexibility to exploit those models and manage across all environments. Come and learn about how next generation service management is enabling IT to gain insights into their data, control endpoints for compliance in new ways, and automate business and IT processes for efficiency. See how hybrid and collaboration tools are empowering dev and IT to think and work collaboratively in new ways to solve customer problems faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Smarter Process: Reinventing Business Operations for Greater Customer-Centricity & Topline Growth in the Digital Era

Topic: Business Process & Decision Management


Monday | 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Mandalay Bay

The world is changing more quickly than ever, with the forces of data, cloud and engagement transforming business models and entire industries. The trends are unmistakable:

Efficiency, while important as ever, is no longer just enough. Businesses must create customer-centric operations to drive top-line growth.

Join us to learn how you can lead, adapt, and thrive in this age of rapid technological and cultural change by leveraging advances in IBM's Smarter Process portfolio. Hear how Smarter Process solutions and methodologies are playing a critical role in driving customer-centricity and top-line growth around the globe.

Building the Next Generation of Apps with IBM Watson

Topic: Watson & Cognitive Computing


Tuesday | 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
MGM Grand

Technology is advancing at an ever increasing pace, and these advances are matched by consumers’ growing expectations for the organizations they do business with. Users expect applications to run across platforms, on the go, at all times, and to allow them to solve challenges that impact their lives and businesses. The world they expect is built with transformative technology, enabled through mobile, and powered by the cloud.

Welcome to the world of Watson.

IBM Watson is giving organizations, developers, and entrepreneurs control over the overwhelming amount of unstructured data needed to run their businesses. Watson has been hard at work, taking its cognitive capabilities across industries and professions to help organizations better engage, discover, and decide in a rapidly evolving competitive landscape.

Join the IBM Watson Group at IBM Interconnect in a fast paced showcase of Watson at work. See how developers and organizations are putting Watson to work, and learn how Watson can be put to work for you.

Security for a New Era of Computing

Topic: Security Intelligence


Tuesday | 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Mandalay Bay

Sophisticated attackers break through conventional safeguards every day. At the same time, new technologies such as cloud and mobile are driving unprecedented change in organizations. In this session, learn how IBM views the new era of computing as an opportunity to transform IT security, and how advanced threats can be prevented, critical data can be protected, and cloud can be more secure than the traditional data center.

Ignite Business Innovation with Cloud

Topic: Cloud Business Applications


Tuesday | 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Mandalay Bay

Hungry for innovation? Rapidly bring business ideas to life using cloud to quickly analyze your target market, staff up high performance teams, engage and excite clients in new ways to build your business.

Join us as we bring a pop-up restaurant to market and illustrate how easily you can leverage the cloud for your business. Come for a taste of demos and client stories about analytics, social, mobile, workforce and marketing solutions. We will share IBM’s recipe on how to whip up 5-star innovative solutions and rapidly gain a competitive edge for your business.

Ignite Business Innovation with Cloud

Topic: Cloud Business Applications


Tuesday | 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Mandalay Bay

Hungry for innovation? Rapidly bring business ideas to life using cloud to quickly analyze your target market, staff up high performance teams, engage and excite clients in new ways to build your business.

Join us as we bring a pop-up restaurant to market and illustrate how easily you can leverage the cloud for your business. Come for a taste of demos and client stories about analytics, social, mobile, workforce and marketing solutions. We will share IBM’s recipe on how to whip up 5-star innovative solutions and rapidly gain a competitive edge for your business.

A New Way to Innovate with DevOps and Continuous Engineering

Topic: DevOps & Continuous Engineering


Tuesday | 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
MGM Grand

What if you could deliver applications and products faster without compromising quality or accepting higher risk? Fast-moving adopters of technology are transforming software and product delivery to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital innovations that leverage cloud, mobile, big data and social. How do you deliver 10X faster business innovation instead of 10 percent incremental improvement? Join us in this keynote to learn how new and established companies are using DevOps and Continuous Engineering approaches to transform their software and product delivery process and are achieving dramatic improvements in overall speed, quality and business satisfaction.

Redefining Digital Business through Integration of Cloud, Mobile, and Analytics

Topic: System z


Tuesday | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Mandalay Bay

Learn how IBM System z is architected to meet the needs of your digital business. While operational excellence is still a focus, IT investment is shifting to value creation, service excellence and better client experience required in this digital era. Digital business fuels enterprise growth, and is vital for engaging clients and new prospects in new and better ways–empowering them through data and information, personalization and 24x7 access. New technology, innovations and solutions will be introduced that build on the strengths and core values of the IBM Mainframe platform and provide new opportunities and possibilities for growth and progress.

Digital Transformation in the Era of Hybrid Cloud

Topic: Application Infrastructure & Integration


Tuesday | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mandalay Bay

Companies today are undertaking digital transformations, re-imagining how applications are being built and supported for growth, and integrated in this time of mobile and cloud computing. Their clients, partners and employees are demanding omni-channel access to applications with a common experience across all platforms.

How can IT best respond and provide the technology and systems to take advantage of the opportunity to innovate, differentiate and grow? Learn how hybrid cloud can provide the application infrastructure to seamlessly deploy and integrate applications across cloud and on premises environments. We’ll demonstrate best practices and provide a road map to capitalize on the Internet of Things, microservices and the API economy.