Agenda:

18:00 Registration

18:30 What Makes A Sporting Great?

19:15 Networking

Value add services such as Watson, IoT, Blockchain, The Weather Company, Integration and Analytics can all be accessed as microservices through a platform as a service. These are services are creating new markets and new innovative companies.

This Unconference is to facilitate business and technical relationships amongst like minded companies that have a connection to Cloud Foundry and Bluemix and know how to bring together value from micro-services and would benefit from networking, sharing of opportunities, skills, challenges and solutions where teaming and collaboration would benefit all in what is an important and growing market.

You might be a software development house, software agency, a small and growing systems integrator.

As the meet-up group is still relatively new, we are constantly looking for ways to make sure that anyone that attends the event gets the most out of it and has the chance to network & gain valuable insight with a wide community of people.

The role of Cloud is maturing, and IBM is focusing on a single Cloud platform that is designed for both Data and Cognitive. This leads us to our next step for the current Cloud Foundry/Bluemix Ecosystem Meet-Up, which is to combine with Big Data Developers in London!

Pele or Messi? Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson? Navratilova or Serena Williams? Who is the greatest of all time is a debate that rages across all sports. But what makes a sporting great? Is it the number of medals they’ve won? The sportsmanship they’ve shown? Or how they’ve come back from defeat?

IBM’s campaign for Wimbledon 2017 was set around what makes a great Wimbledon champion. The challenge set to Darren Shaw and his colleagues at IBM’s Emerging Technology group was could they use Watson services to combine statistics, unstructured data and fan’s opinions to find out what makes great?

In this talk, Darren will give a tour of the project, setting out the problem and the technologies used and what it was like to work with tennis pros, coaches and journalists on a technology based project. He'll talk about the results they found and if they were able to answer the question of what makes a great Wimbledon champion.