Inside the Cloud and Data Campus
You need the right technical know-how to take full advantage of your data using the right cloud architecture. With better data you can uncover valuable insights, and turn those insights into perfectly timed actions. AI-ready, designed for data, and secure to the core, IBM Cloud then helps you achieve your business goals. In the Cloud and Data Campus, challenge conventional thinking around how data and cloud are used to help you find the right solutions to accelerate your business and transform your industry.
Cloud and Data Experts
Maya Leibman
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
American Airlines
David Kenny
Senior Vice President, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform
Arvind Krishna
Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud, and Director of IBM Research
Inderpal Bhandari
Global Chief Data Officer
IBM
Jason McGee
General Manager, IBM Cloud Integration
Anthony Scriffignano
Senior Vice President, Chief Data Scientist
Dun & Bradstreet
Featured Sessions
Building Future-Proof Cloud Solutions with an Enterprise-First Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprises today need a smarter cloud infrastructure. One that tackles aggressive demands for big data resources, machine learning and analytics—all at a web scale. Join us for a look inside the capabilities of IBM Cloud infrastructure, and see how we're helping companies unlock new levels of performance, security and flexibility. Hear about their experiences behind our compute, storage and network solutions, to support their critical workloads in the era of digital transformation.
Speakers:
John Considine, IBM
A Public-Private Partnership to Deliver a Trusted Hybrid Cloud
NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is collaborating with their industry partners Intel, Dell, IBM, VMware, HyTrust, and RSA to engineer and build a solution leveraging commercial off-the-shelf technology and IBM Cloud to deliver a Hybrid Trusted Cloud implementation that is compliance-ready across multiple industry regulations. The panelists will describe the security properties, architecture design decisions, technology stack, and implementation.
Speakers:
Raghu Yeluri, Intel Cor; Michael Bartock, NIST; Harmett Singh, IBM; Hemma Prafullchandra, HyTrust
Take a Look Under the Hood of IBM Cloud's New GT Infrastructure
Join IBM Cloud and Intel for a deep dive into GT architecture as we peel back each innovative layer and discuss the disruptive technology that challenges convention and delivers the industry's first maximum performance, highly available cloud.
Speakers:
Steve Harrington, IBM Amy Blea; IBM Hasan Tuncer, IBM
Training-as-a-Service: Railway and Firearm Training Simulators on IBM Cloud
Savronik, a leading Turkish defense and transportation technology company, developed a new approach for their Railway and Firearm Training Simulators they call TaaS, Training-as-a-Service. In this session, learn all about this highly accessible, cost-effective, and easy-to-use virtual training environment with unique features like built-in core learning management systems, 3D rendering, and cognitive capabilities, built on the IBM Cloud Platform.
Speakers:
Hikmet Topcuoglu, General Manager, Savronik
Paper and Digital Banking Do Not Mix: Digital Customer Paperless Journey at Royal Bank of Scotland
Paper and digital banking do not mix. But how do we meet the expectations of the digital consumer from what has largely been an analog industry? Customers expect to receive communications from their bank instantly, but the time it takes to send paper documents slows down business processes and the customer journey. Hear how RBS is making the journey to a digital customer focus.
Speakers:
Rob Camp, CIO, Royal Bank of Scotland
IBM Planning Analytics at T-Mobile: You Can Do IT!
Interested in hearing about an alternative platform for working with data? This is the session for you. Moving beyond traditional IT to create a successful hybrid team of business and IT professionals, T-Mobile empowered business users to build and manage IBM Planning Analytics within its Finance organization. Hear how this solution grew to become the preferred tool for creating forecasts and executive reports. traditional IT to manage analytics.
Speakers:
Mark Rice, Senior Finance Manager, T-Mobile
Realigning to Align: How Stryker Automated Territory Changes to Meet New Business Strategies
No one wants to miss opportunities and leave revenue to the competition. Moving beyond cumbersome, manual territory alignment challenges, Stryker uses IBM Sales Performance Management (SPM) to build a smarter strategy. Learn about Stryker's automated territory alignment tool built in the IBM Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solution that allows for complex territory moves and quota assignment changes while assessing impact on comp plans.
Speakers:
Matthew Palazzolo, Associate Manager, Sales Compensation, Stryker and Kassidie Cross, Manager, Sales Compensation, Stryker
Combine SAP and AI on the IBM Cloud to Gain a Competitive Edge
Every organization wants an edge, whether that's getting to market first, delivering exceptional customer experience or creating unique operating efficiency. Running S/4HANA on the IBM Cloud is the starting point to capture that edge. We will cover IBM’s SAP consulting, migration, and managed services on the IBM Cloud: Designed for Your Data, AI Ready and Secure to the Core.
Speakers:
Mark Slaga, IBM
Anil Saboo, SAP
Darren Wyatt, LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc. (A Berkshire Hathaway Company)
Ann Corrao, IBM
What you'll find at the
Cloud and Data Campus
Hybrid Cloud
Manage your applications and IT environments across public, private and hybrid clouds with cognitive analytics.
Enterprise Workloads
Enable modernization of existing applications by moving your workloads from on-premises to the IBM Cloud.
Cloud Native
Build with infrastructure, Watson, and services on the IBM Cloud platform.
Data Management
Gain value from your data, without limits. From Db2 to data warehouse, share, solve and do more with experts who know how to get the job done.
Unified Governance
Discover, integrate and govern data to drive better business insights while mitigating compliance risks in the Unified Governance community.
Business Analytics
Fuel creativity, find new opportunities, make confident decisions and drive operational efficiency with the BA community.

How do I gain unique advantage from data delivered on a cloud built for business?
You need the right technical know-how to take full advantage of your data using the right cloud architecture. With better data you can uncover valuable insights, and turn those insights into perfectly timed actions. AI-ready, designed for data, and secure to the core, IBM Cloud then helps you achieve your business goals. In the Cloud and Data Campus, challenge conventional thinking around how data and cloud are used to help you find the right solutions to accelerate your business and transform your industry.

How do I engineer the right infrastructure with cloud and AI to support my business?
You understand that the future demands systems innovation. The Modern Infrastructure Campus will teach you how the best performing and most secure platforms can reliably handle your most data-intensive applications while working seamlessly with your existing investments. Meet industry leaders and IBM experts who can help you build and run the most important aspect of your digital transformation.

How do I make the right security decisions to safeguard my business?
Can you protect and maintain what’s most important: your business and your clients? The Security and Resiliency Campus can help you evolve your security and business continuity and disaster recovery plans for the future with the power of AI, collaboration, automation, orchestration and cloud. In a world where IT is your business and digital transformation is essential for you to compete, get expert advice from a trusted partner to help you prevent the if, and to respond and recover quickly from the when.

How do I design and deliver business solutions that leverage AI across industries and professions?
Now is your time to be the disruptor–see change before it happens or risk losing relevance. The way forward is to practice continuous reinvention of your business with the customer and employee at the core. Modernize applications and put the cloud to work. Redesign workflows and processes with AI, automation, IoT, and blockchain so your team can focus on uncovering insights that protect and fuel innovation at scale. In this campus, reimagine your business to conquer today’s biggest challenge: tomorrow.