IBM Client Center THINKLab

Blockchain is one of the fastest-growing emerging technologies, and has the potential to completely disrupt all industries. Businesses all over the world massively invest in Blockchain and it’s important for them to understand what they can expect.

In this Webinar, you learn why Blockchain is so popular and what challenges it can address.

• We explain why Hyperledger Fabric is the best Blockchain platform for business, with its key concepts of shared ledger, consensus, permissions and smart contracts.
• We outline the business benefits:
  • reduced transaction time
  • cost and risks
  • increased trust
  • enabling new business models
  • We give you useful insights on what is a good (or bad) candidate use-case for Blockchain & on how to start your Blockchain journey.
• We present the top Blockchain use-cases for the industries, with some common patterns of supply chain, traceability, information sharing & visibility, digital identity and smart contracts.
• Finally, we describe how you can benefit from the IBM GISC Nice-Paris.
  • Watch live demonstrations of solution prototypes running in our center.
  • How we can help you accelerate your Blockchain adoption.

Advanced cognitive IoT technologies offer transformative opportunities to reimagine the way organizations learn, decide, and act—improving virtually all aspects of every process. Financing can be a powerful way to acquire, build, and scale advanced IoT solutions. In this session you learn how IBM Global Financing can help companies worldwide fund transformational IoT initiatives through a wide range of flexible financing options that include low rate loans, fair market value leases, customized payment plans, payment deferrals and asset buy-backs. The session is expected to appeal to CFOs, CMOs, LOB leaders and anyone responsible for making or recommending IoT purchase decisions.

In this webinar, you will have a quick overview on 3 of many IBM Client Center solutions available: Cognitive Mirror at IBM Client Center Madrid, IBM Terminuter at IBM Client Center Zurich and Blockchain at IBM Client Center Copenhagen.

Index 2018 – A conference for developers, by developers
It is a first-of-its-kind conference an one of the most important developer initiatives in 2018. Index is a “giant meet-up” — created for developers by developers — to build their skills.
Developers congregating to share code, insights and skills. It is code-forward and brand agnostic and has speakers from partners and competitors.

• Index gives useable code as the takeaway from most how-to sessions
• Index contains curated content by panels of IBM and non-IBM experts
• Index is the critical open developer community

Cognitive Discovery gives pioneering engineers, inventors and scientists an expert assistant for research and development. It can unearth trends and patterns in diverse sets of structured and unstructured data and match them to specific Key Performance Indicators, in order to accelerate the creation of new knowledge and discovery.

IBM® Watson® Content Hub is a cloud-based content management system that powers digital experiences. It allows you to create content-enabled applications, such as mobile applications or modern single-page web applications. An intuitive authoring user interface lets marketers work with their content easily. Content includes structured information as well as rich media like images or videos. It can also include the definition of web pages along with the hierarchy of the entire web site. IBM Watson Content Hub provides powerful features like automatic tagging of information by Watson AI services. A powerful workflow guides the users through the process of publishing the resulting content across all delivery channels. Our zero-configuration, embedded CDN distributes the results across the world to achieve high performance and global scale. Last but not least, rich APIs let developers build versatile content-driven applications which take advantage of modern microservices architectures.

Every year, we all spend a lot of our precious time on a tedious but necessary task: writing meeting minutes. TERMINUTER has been developed in order to address this issue. Watch this webinar in order to find out more about this game-changing solution and how it can help take your company into the cognitive era.

The fourth industrial revolution is driven by data and its ability to deliver new levels of efficiency and effectiveness in manufacturing and industrial products. IBM Watson IoT for Manufacturing is articulated around three value drivers: Availability (Improve asset and production performance with historical and IoT data ), Efficiency (Increase process efficiency while delivering better quality and yield) and Cost (Deliver higher resource efficiency while reducing cost).
In this webinar the speaker introduces the underlying solutions with real-life examples based on industry challenges:

• in a situation of synchronous manufacturing, a severe quality problem is detected. How to react fast with automatic problem detection, findings on the cause of the problem, recommendations for problem resolution, recommendations on whether or not I should replan my production?
• I am a plant manager in charge of to final assembly sites. How an assistant can help me prevent a major disruption due to a combination of unrelated not so important events?

Join this webinar to get an inspiration on how to leverage the unique power of cognitive IoT technology also for your organization and learn what all is happening in the IBM Watson IoT Center (US) in Munich, Germany, the first IBM's global headquarters outside of the US, opened in February 2017. You are going to learn about the concept of "cognitive collaboratories (US)" that are located in the IoT Center, which bring companies such as Avnet, BMW, or BNP Paribas together with IBM experts to explore use of IoT to drive business and industry transformation. You are going to hear stories of start-ups as well as established companies and learn how they started their own IoT journey with the IBM IoT Center in Munich. You are also going to explore the IBM Industry Lab and see real examples how IoT and cognitive computing transform industries such as manufacturing, automotive, or government services.

The recent global cyber-attacks are a clear reminder of the critical importance to have a proactive integrated plan for “Cyber Resiliency”, which is an enterprise imperative underpinned by an alignment between information security, business continuity and organizational resilience, and networking. For Cyber Resiliency to work, and to mitigate the costs and impact of data breaches, business continuity, security and networking must work in a partnership. Organizational preparedness across security, systems and network is critical to achieving a plan for incident response, remediation and restoral services. Integrated Cyber Resiliency capability is the new norm that needs new organizational thinking. During this webinar we introduce you to the IBM Cyber Resiliency Life Cycle Program.

A brief introduction to quantum computing and its applications.

Blockchain is revolutionising transactions, just as the Internet has revolutionised communication. The new concept will drastically change industry, society and everyday life. This change is happening fast.

That is why IBM Research, Swiss Re and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, who are at the forefront of blockchain research, development and prediction, joined forces to approach the topic from the technology & innovation, business and society points of view at the Blockchain Valley Conference in June 2017. This event connected networks of blockchain research and practice with thought leaders and decision makers from society, business and the media. Alex Tapscott presented the keynote speech at the event opening.

Alex Tapscott is convinced that blockchain represents the second internet era, and that the internet is evolving from the internet of information to an internet of values. Today, middlemen “frack” our data in order to exploit it for profit. Blockchain would bypass this. “It’s the combination of two technologies that will have a big impact: AI and blockchain”, says Tapscott. The financial sector currently works like a Rube-Goldberg machine; i.e. a machine that performs a simple task in numerous unnecessary and complicated individual steps. Blockchain would simplify the system and also make founding and investing in start-ups much easier, as companies such as Cosmo Hub and Bancor demonstrated when they managed to collect millions in donations in just a few hours. Energy markets and elections could also be made more straightforward, secure and less expensive. If a government is not using blockchain by 2020, it will be considered a “late adopter”. Hence, his call to the audience: “Start now!”

In their race for profitable growth, Wealth Management & Personal Banking are in the focus, for most of Financial Institutions.

Their Advisors or Relationship Managers struggle to grow their Clients’ wallet share, get net new assets and manage more Clients, with the same level of service. With an integrated portal powered by Watson, all Financial Advisors can significantly increase their business results.

Learn how Cognitive and Analytics Technologies assist Financial Institutions to make it happen.