Mon, October 22

8:15 AM 3931A Monday General Session - Think Big

Location: Events Center - Mandalay Bay Events Center

Mon, October 22

10:15 AM 3926A Big Data and Analytics Making the Shift from the Possible to the Proven Location: Jasmine - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

10:15 AM 1997A IBM's Big Data Platform: Turning Promise to Reality Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Mon, October 22

11:30 AM 3928A Information Management Keynote: The New Era of Computing Location: Mandalay Bay H - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Mon, October 22

12:45 PM 3917C BOF: What is Big Data?

Location: Bayside Dining IM BoF Tables 1&2 - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

 

Mon, October 22

2:15 PM 3818A Top Enterprise Big Data Use Cases

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Mon, October 22

3:45 PM 2017B How to Get Started with Your First Big Data Project Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center


Tue, October 23

8:15 AM 3932A Tuesday General Session - Big Opportunties Location: Events Center - Mandalay Bay Events Center

Tue, October 23

10:00 AM 3704C Analyzing Big Data in Motion With InfoSphere Streams

Location: Mariners AB - Station 7 - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Tue, October 23

11:15 AM 3816B InfoSphere Data Explorer for Big Data Discovery and Visualization Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Tue, October 23

12:45 PM 3963C BOF: The role of Federated Discovery and Navigation in Big Data Initiatives Location: Bayside Dining IM BoF Tables 1&2 - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Tue, October 23

1:45 PM 3929A Information Management Keynote: The Future of Information Management Location: Mandalay Bay H - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Tue, October 23

1:45 PM 3705C Developing Big Data Applications With IBM InfoSphere Streams Location: Mariners AB - Station 7 - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Tue, October 23

3:00 PM 2074A Big Data Analytics Meets Social Media: Understanding & Responding to Your Customer in Real-time

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Tue, October 23

4:30 PM 4107A Accelerating Big Data Deployments with Use Case Accelerators Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Wed, October 24

9:00 AM 3933A Wednesday General Session - Big Future Location: Events Center - Mandalay Bay Events Center

Wed, October 24

10:45 AM 3686A Simply Good Design: SOA & Big Data for Business Insight Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Wed, October 24

12:00 PM 2007A IBM InfoSphere Streams: The Power of Big Data in Real Time Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Wed, October 24

2:30 PM 3819A Extending the Value of Your Warehouse with Hadoop-based IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Wed, October 24

3:45 PM 3820A Log Analysis With Hadoop-based IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center


 

Wed, October 24

5:00 PM 2092A Using Big Data Technology to Revolutionize Cyber Threat Detection Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Thu, October 25

8:15 AM 4108A Accelerating Big Data Deployments with Analytic Accelerators Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Thu, October 25

10:00 AM 4209A New Approach to Smarter Computing - Tips and Techniques Location: Tradewinds B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Thu, October 25

11:30 AM 2779B IBM InfoSphere Streams Programming Overview

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Thu, October 25

12:45 PM 4210A Next? Join the Conversation

Location: Mandalay Bay H - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Thu, October 25

 2:00 PM 2164B IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Programming Overview Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Thu, October 25

3:30 PM 3817A Super-scaling Your Big Data Applications With High Performance Computing Capabilities

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center


 

3931A Monday General Session - Think Big

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: Events Center - Mandalay Bay Events Center

Start Time: 8:15 AM

End Time: 9:45 AM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Information On Demand 2012 is the right place to learn how you can think big to make a difference in your organization. Start your week by hearing first-hand from business and IT leaders who are harnessing IBM Smarter Analytics for better insight and business outcomes.

Learn how the latest innovations such as big data, analytics, decision management and expert integrated systems can help you align your organization around information, anticipate and shape business outcomes, act with confidence at the point of impact, and improve the economics of your IT investments.

 

3926A Big Data and Analytics Making the Shift from the Possible to the Proven

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: Jasmine - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Start Time: 10:15 AM

End Time: 11:15 AM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Analytics is expanding from enterprise data to big data, creating opportunities to accelerate business value as never before. During this session, organizations who are in midst of Big Data and analytics transformations share their stories and lessons learned along the way. You will also get an insiders view into the IBMs latest comprehensive study on the journey organizations are taking to achieve business value from Big Data. These findings will establish the benchmarks that define the Big Data era ahead and help shift organizations from the possible to the proven.

Join this keynote to learn how leading organizations are embracing analytics and big data technologies to transform their business and outpace the competition.

1997A IBM's Big Data Platform: Turning Promise to Reality

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 10:15 AM

End Time: 11:15 AM

Speakers: Anjul Bhambhri, IBM; Rob Thomas, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Today's winners are those who can use every bit of their data to make smarter business decisions. IBM has developed an industrial-strength big data platform to address the full spectrum of big data business opportunities. Join this session to learn about IBM's strategy, what solutions IBM offers and the innovative ways IBM is helping customers capture value in their big data.

 

3928A Information Management Keynote: The New Era of Computing

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: Mandalay Bay H - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Start Time: 11:30 AM

End Time: 12:30 PM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

In the new era of computing, companies are heightening their focus on building an agile information management foundation that can meet the needs for mission critical applications and advanced analytics. Join Arvind Krishna, General Manager, IBM Information Management, and innovative clients in this technical session that will describe IBM Information Managements strategy and game-changing innovations that can help you to reduce data management costs, increase trust in your data, accelerate analytics to exploit big data. In this keynote, learn and watch demonstrations of new capabilities that can help you optimize your information supply chain and greatly increase the effectiveness of your business and IT initiatives.

 

3917C BOF: What is Big Data?

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: Bayside Dining IM BoF Tables 1&2 - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Start Time: 12:45 PM

End Time: 1:45 PM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over

lunch.

818A Top Enterprise Big Data Use Cases

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 2:15 PM

End Time: 3:15 PM

Speakers: John Choi, IBM; Paul Zikopoulos, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Big data is about a lot more than social media. After working with countless customers to help them define their big data strategies, IBM has identified some of the top big data use cases that are emerging in the rapidly evolving landscape. Learn about the different kinds of big data business problems that enterprises are focusing on solving to achieve quick and meaningful ROI.  And don't worry; the session will cover social media as well.

2017B How to Get Started with Your First Big Data Project

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012

Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 3:45 PM

End Time: 5:00 PM

Speakers: Tom Deutsch, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

This session will cover a pragmatic approach to selecting, staffing and considering technology for your first big data project based on IBM's experience with hundreds of customer engagements and lessons learned.

3932A Tuesday General Session - Big Opportunties

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: Events Center - Mandalay Bay Events Center

Start Time: 8:15 AM

End Time: 9:30 AM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

In this session, you will hear how leading organizations are optimizing their business and IT investments using IBM Smarter Analytics solutions designed to address their unique industry imperatives in critical business processes across the C-suite. Learn from IBM executives about the imperatives, solutions and capabilities that deliver game-changing results for a single department, an entire organization and those helping transform whole industries. Attend this session to understand the latest industry and C-suite studies that will help you discover your next big opportunity.

3704C Analyzing Big Data in Motion With InfoSphere Streams

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: Mariners AB - Station 7 - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 10:00 AM

End Time: 11:00 AM

Speakers: Trenten Peterson, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Making sense of big data can be difficult and that difficulty can increase with data in motion. IBM InfoSphere Streams can help. This session focuses on the new capabilities of InfoSphere Streams that can help you visualize the data for important insights that can lead to more accurate and timely business decisions. Walk through the latest designs and prototypes and have an opportunity to discuss what you see and what your needs are. You are required to sign a nondisclosure agreement to participate.

 

3816B InfoSphere Data Explorer for Big Data Discovery and Visualization

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 11:15 AM

End Time: 12:15 PM

Speakers: Stacy Leidwinger, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

What if you could leverage virtually ANY data source inside or outside your enterprise for big data analytics--including critical enterprise and line-of-business applications? What if you could discover, navigate and evaluate the usefulness of all this data before moving it into Hadoop? IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer helps expand the scope and effectiveness of big data analytics through federated data access across multiple systems, and by making it easy for data scientists and end users to search and navigate. See product demonstrations and learn how to easily discover relationships, extract structured information from text and social media, combine it with data from enterprise applications, and visualize results.

3963C BOF: The role of Federated Discovery and Navigation in Big Data Initiatives

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: Bayside Dining IM BoF Tables 1&2 - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Start Time: 12:45 PM

End Time: 1:45 PM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over

lunch.

 

3705C Developing Big Data Applications With IBM InfoSphere Streams

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: Mariners AB - Station 7 - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 1:45 PM

End Time: 2:45 PM

Speakers: Trenten Peterson, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Learn about new tools that make it easier to develop IBM InfoSphere Streams applications for processing large volumes and varieties of data in motion. In this session, you will walk through the latest designs and prototypes for drag-and-drop development, code generation, testing and monitoring. Take this opportunity to provide feedback on these tools and talk with IBM about your needs for developing applications for big data in the future. You will be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement to participate.

3929A Information Management Keynote: The Future of Information Management

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: Mandalay Bay H - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Start Time: 1:45 PM

End Time: 2:45 PM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

From present to the future, this session is designed for IM professionals looking to understand the information management innovations that will be important to their IT investments over the next three to five years. Also, we offer a point of view on what skills you will need to garner in order to support the data scientists in your organization, and skills that help you integrate your information across broader IT initiatives such as mobile and cloud.

2074A Big Data Analytics Meets Social Media: Understanding & Responding to Your Customer in Real-time

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 3:00 PM

End Time: 4:00 PM

Speakers: Shiv Vaithyanathan, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Businesses can derive significant benefits from listening to what users are publicly saying on social media by transforming the massive amounts of textual content into insights specific to enterprise applications. Defining, extracting and representing entities such as people, organizations and products, along with their relationships, can help you build comprehensive consumer profiles that you can use in enterprise applications such as customer retention and acquisition, campaign management and lead generation. Join this session to learn how social media analytics can help you know your customers so you can give them what they want and keep them coming back.

4107A Accelerating Big Data Deployments with Use Case Accelerators

Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 4:30 PM

End Time: 5:45 PM

Speakers: Vijay Ramaiah, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

A big data platform can enable an organization to fully exploit the volume and variety of its data to gain deeper insights. Applying a big data platform to address specific use cases requires the development of application or solution-specific extensions. IBM application accelerators can help jump start big data use cases with pre-built application-specific extensions. Join this session to learn how IBM accelerators for machine data, social media and telecommunications can speed up and simplify your project deployment.

3933A Wednesday General Session - Big Future

Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Location: Events Center - Mandalay Bay Events Center

Start Time: 9:00 AM

End Time: 10:15 AM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

In this new era of computing, the possibilities that lie ahead are endless, but succeeding in the future requires that you think differently today. In Wednesday’s session, top technology thought leaders will discuss the exciting possibilities that lie ahead and how you can stay ahead of your competition by positioning yourself for success. With their insight, youll begin to see opportunities instead of challenges and view the possibilities in a different way. You’ll leave the session ready to return to your organization with a new vision for the future.


 

3686A Simply Good Design: SOA & Big Data for Business Insight

Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 10:45 AM

End Time: 11:45 AM

Speakers: Claus T. Jensen, IBM; Robert F. Sawyer, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

With the increasing volume, velocity and variety of data today's enterprise faces, it is more important than ever to leverage the core design principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA) for driving business insight. SOA connects the world of sensors, devices, people and IT systems. SOA ensures that master data can be easily plugged into business processes and unlocks the information in operational processes and information and makes it accessible for analytics solutions. Join us for a timely discussion on how SOA and Big Data can drive enterprise success through new business insight.

2007A IBM InfoSphere Streams: The Power of Big Data in Real Time

Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 12:00 PM

End Time: 1:00 PM

Speakers: Michael Spicer, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

IBM InfoSphere Streams is designed for the ongoing and just-in-time analysis of your data.  There's no need to store the massive volumes of data that are flowing into your organization when you can analyze it as you receive it, take immediate action on critical insights and keep only the data you need. This session provides a technical discussion of this big data offering, including recent product enhancements, product direction and how customers are using it to solve real-world big data problems.

 

3819A Extending the Value of Your Warehouse with Hadoop-based IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 2:30 PM

End Time: 3:30 PM

Speakers: James Kobielus, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Organizations invest in the IBM big data platform to support a wide range of analytics

applications. Although a lot of popular attention has been on Hadoop for the most sophisticated new analytic applications, you can also use it to supplement or extend your MPP enterprise data warehouse, data marts and other business intelligence infrastructure components. In this session, learn how Hadoop and other big data investments can power your predictive analytics and data mining programs, while also supporting high-volume, low-latency ETL, data cleansing and other mission-critical data management functions.

3820A Log Analysis With Hadoop-based IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 3:45 PM

End Time: 4:45 PM

Speakers: Shankar Venkataraman, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Every day, IT systems generate petabytes of system logs. The majority of log data is treated as the disposable byproduct of IT operations. IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, with its machine data analytics, changes all that. In this session, learn how you can use these logs to better understand your business and IT operations, including customer behavior, network bottlenecks and system security.

2092A Using Big Data Technology to Revolutionize Cyber Threat Detection

Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 5:00 PM

End Time: 6:00 PM

Speakers: James Giles, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Government - Central/Federal

For the US government, cybersecurity is mission critical. With dozens of deployments in the US Department of Defense (DOD), IBM Infosphere Streams has revolutionized how these agencies do business. In this session, learn how, as attacks on networks increase in volume and sophistication, the big data analytics capabilities of Infosphere Streams are helping the DOD secure cyberspace and the critical infrastructure on which we all depend.

4108A Accelerating Big Data Deployments with Analytic Accelerators

Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Location: South Pacific F - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 8:15 AM

End Time: 9:30 AM

Speakers: Roger Rea, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Bringing the analytics closer to the data is a key component of IBM's big data strategy. Offering analytic capabilities that are integrated into IBM big data solutions means that you can implement your solution more quickly and get down to the business of extracting insight from your data faster. Come to this session to learn about analytics, including statistics, text, geospatial, video, audio and predictive modeling, and how they can be used to gain new and transformative insights from your big data.

4209A New Approach to Smarter Computing - Tips and Techniques

Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Location: Tradewinds B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 10:00 AM

End Time: 11:00 AM

Speakers: Suchitra Joshi, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

We are in the midst of an extraordinary technology shift driving growth and innovation. The confluence of Big Data, cloud, mobile and social technologies present special challenges to the IT organization, but also great opportunities to the company. In this presentation, we will describe the Smarter Computing approach to these opportunities and how companies have successfully met the challenges - how they did it and the solutions they used. We will also describe solutions IBM provides to meet these key challenges, the components used, and how they were put together in successful engagements with customers.

2779B IBM InfoSphere Streams Programming Overview

Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 11:30 AM

End Time: 12:30 PM

Speakers: Pete Nicholls, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

IBM InfoSphere Streams provides a high-performance computing system that enables ongoing and extremely fast in-memory analysis of information in motion to help improve business insights and decision-making. This session will provide an overview of the latest innovations and features that are improving InfoSphere Streams programming by making it faster and easier to develop InfoSphere Streams applications.

 

4210A Next? Join the Conversation

Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Location: Mandalay Bay H - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center

Start Time: 12:45 PM

End Time: 1:45 PM

Session Code: CGS

Program: Conference General Sessions

Track: General Sessions and Keynotes

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Knowing what we know now, what next? Wherein lies the future of technology? Join a conversation over lunch with the revered luminaries and IBM technical gurus Jeff Jonas, Irving Wladawsky-Berger and Dave McQueeney, as they psychically divine seemingly unseen answers to YOUR questions about the future. Where did these great IBM seers, sages and soothsayers get their powers? Brief alien abductions? Access to portal worms that let you see into the future? Too many viewings of "Back to the Future?" See what answers you can divine at this session. No speeches. No scripts. Just psychic insights and answers. And lunch. Moderated by the "Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age, host Jason Silva.

 

2164B IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Programming Overview

Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 2:00 PM

End Time: 3:00 PM

Speakers: Stephen Brodsky, IBM; Hui Liao, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Get the most from your big data by developing new applications. This session covers the popular programming styles for big data, including Map-Reduce, HBase, SQL and Hive, Jaql, Pig and Text Analytics, and how you can create new applications from spreadsheets and visualize the results graphically.

3817A Super-scaling Your Big Data Applications With High Performance Computing Capabilities

Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Location: South Pacific B - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

Start Time: 3:30 PM

End Time: 4:30 PM

Speakers: Scott A. Campbell, IBM; Klaus Roder, IBM

Session Code: IBD

Program: Information Management

Track: Big Data for the Enterprise

Subtrack: None

Industry: Cross Industry

Low-latency workload support is emerging as a high priority for organizations that need to analyze big data for mission-critical applications. Financial services (risk mitigation, fraud detection), life sciences (bioinformatics) and government (intelligence) require a heterogeneous high performance computing framework that can distribute and schedule workloads with numerous, simultaneous short-running jobs in a grid of computing resources. In this session, you will learn how IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and InfoSphere Streams work with Platform

Symphony to run low-latency big data applications for increased resource utilization, higher availability, improved job execution predictability and better manageability.