Think Digital Summit Israel 2020 Sessions

If you are starting your journey into the containerized world, the first thing you’ll come across is Docker. This session will give you a quick start: it will provide you with the tools to play with Docker. Also you will get a glimpse to orchestration solutions like Kubernetes and Openshift.
Docker container technology separates applications from the underlying Operating System and infrastructure. Docker technology virtualizes the Operating System (OS), and thanks to it only the application, and specific dependencies like libraries and binaries are being packaged in the image. Starting such an image is much faster omitting start of an OS. In addition the image now is very portable among various host servers running the Docker engine.
In this webinar you will learn the fundamentals and basic concepts of Containers, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift. The overview will be followed by a hands-on lab showing how to build Docker images and how to run Docker containers.

Speaker:

Jaffa Sztejnbok - SW Architect, Developer Advocate, Developers Ecosystem and IBM’s AlphaZone accelerator

Jaffa Sztejnbok

SW Architect, Developer Advocate, Developers Ecosystem and IBM’s AlphaZone accelerator, IBM Israel

Use Decision Optimization with Watson Machine Learning to maximize profit and minimize costs

Decision Optimization adds prescriptive analytics capabilities to IBM Watson Studio and IBM Watson Machine Learning. This hands-on lab is created around a simple Marketing Campaign problem. you will set up a Watson Studio project and go through all the necessary steps to use Decision Optimization for Watson Studio and Decision Optimization for Watson Machine Learning. As an example, an objective function could be to maximize profit or to minimize costs. In our use case it is maximize allocation of PPE products The decision variables might represent how many of different types of product to allocate based on importance and county requirements or which county to assign these products and how much.

Speaker:

Avi Vizel - University Relations Manager & Developer Advocate, IBM Israel at IBM Developer ecosystem

Avi Vizel

University Relations Manager & Developer Advocate, IBM Israel

Run your containers on a managed serverless platform. Auto-scale workloads and only pay for the resources you consume with IBM Cloud Code Engine

IBM Cloud™ Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that runs your containerized workloads, including web apps, micro-services, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. Code Engine even builds container images for you from your source code. Because these workloads are all hosted within the same Kubernetes infrastructure, all of them can seamlessly work together. The Code Engine experience is designed so that you can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. in this session we will learn how to use Code Engine and deploy simple application inside a container using IBM Cloud services.

Speaker:

Tal Neeman - Developer Advocate, IBM Israel

Daniel Melka

Daniel Melka

Country General Manager, IBM Israel

Melka joined IBM about 20 years ago and held many senior management positions in the company’s services and sales fields in Israel and in France. During the 3 years before his appointment as CEO, he served as Deputy CEO and led IBM Israel’s Sales division. Before he joined the company, he worked for one of the leading integration companies in France.

Melka did his BSc. in Engineering at the Technion, Haifa, and his MBA at Henley Business School, London.

Dr. John Cohn

Dr. John Cohn

IBM Fellow, MIT- IBM Watson AI Labs, IBM

John Cohn is an IBM Fellow in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Research Group based in Cambridge, MA. John earned a BSEE from MIT (’81) and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (‘91) where he was named a Distinguished Alumni in 2014. John has authored more than 40 technical papers, contributed to four books and has >120 worldwide patents. In 2005 John was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to high speed integrated circuit design.

John is active in education issues at a local, state and national level. In 2019 John was awarded the IEEE CAS John Choma Education award for his efforts at STEM promotion. He is so passionate about promoting STEM careers that he spent 59 days living and inventing in an abandoned steel mill as part of Discovery Channel's technical survival show "The Colony". John lives with his family in a restored 19th century schoolhouse in Jonesville Vermont and is eager to share his love of science and technology with anyone who will listen.

Limor Afik

Limor Afik

country manger Israel Greece and Cyprus, Red Hat

Limor has over 26 years of experience in the IT market. In her last role, Limor established and managed the Israel office and assumed general responsibility for the sales, marketing, Professional Services support and training for the SAAS platform. Limor was also the country manager of Mercury and led the HP software devision. Limor has vast experience in sales and managing the business side of organizations.

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