In a world in which most of the unexplored treasures data and applications are hidden behind corporate firewalls, how will you create new applications that combine those gems to a beautiful jewelry? Let us show you how you can, quickly and easily, embrace the mainframes at Ministries, Banks and other organizations in Kuwait and create beautiful applications using APIs.

Join IBM experts for 3 hours on Sunday, 14th of October at 5 PM, and explore the world of the API Economy, and the ways how to access that hidden data.

Agenda:
• Introduction & Vision
• Demo
• API Economy - overview and why?
• IBM Cloud Private on Z
• Q&A and discussions

Speakers:

IBM Experts: Thomas Weinzettl & Sultan Alsaleem.

Sultan AlSaleem

Sultan's experience with IBM z is spanning over 14 years of various projects implementation in Ministry of Defence, Saudi Arabia and lately in IBM as an IBM z Architect. He is holding the associate degree from Marist college and is a true advocate of everything IBM z, traditional and modern.

Thomas Weinzettl

Thomas works with Clients, Business Partners and IBMers in Middle East and Africa to understand IBM Z and LinuxONE and how it can help them or their clients to address the challenges of digital transformation. He has 19 year experience in working with mainframes in various technical sales and services roles.
He is a passionate speaker about IBM Z, Blockchain, the API Economy, and Cloud with and on IBM Z. Thomas is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and he holds an Austrian Engineering Degree.

Organizers:

Suzana Obradovic, Majed B. & Sirdab Lab