PREVAIL 2020: IBM CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING, AVAILABILITY AND SECURITY
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, September 15th Wednesday, September 16th Thursday, September 17th Friday, September 18th

Tuesday, September 15th

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08:00-09:00 Session 1: Keynote: Architecting for Reliability

Keynote: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion

08:00
Ingo Averdunk (IBM, Germany)
Architecting for Reliability (abstract)
09:00-10:00 Session 2A

Day 1

09:00
Lydia Duijvestijn (IBM, Netherlands)
Andrew Roden (IBM, UK)
Conducting a resilience and scalability assessment I - method, tools and outcomes (abstract)
09:00-10:00 Session 2B
09:00
Ken Ueno (IBM, Japan)
Day 2 Operations for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 3A
10:00
Matanya Moses (IBM, Israel)
Changing architecture: changing aircraft wings in flight (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 3B
10:00
Haytham Elnahas (IBM, Egypt)
Haytham Elkhoja (IBM, UAE)
Addressing the elephant in the cluster: Highlights of the AoT OpenShift Design - Resiliency Squad findings (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 5A
12:00
Benjamin Walterscheid (IBM, Germany)
Digital Twin Operations (DTOps) by edge and cloud computing (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 5B
12:00
Mark Buckwell (IBM United Kingdom Ltd, UK)
Multicloud Encryption built for a Resilience (abstract)
13:00-14:00 Session 6A
13:00
Rafal Szypulka (IBM Garage Solution Engineering / IBM Cloud, Poland)
Build to Manage (abstract)
13:00-14:00 Session 6B
13:00
Suman Athuluri (IBM, India)
Neshoo Kachroo (IBM, India)
Himika Gupta (IBM, India)
Capacity and Performance Testing on RedHat Openshift Container Platform (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 7: Keynote: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion
16:00
Andrea Sayles (IBM, United States)
Allen Downs (GTS, United States)
B.J. Klingenberg (GTS, United States)
Keynote: Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 8A
17:00
Vijaya Bashyam (IBM, United States)
Lokesh Murthy (IBM, India)
Deploy, Optimize, Scale, Perform with Continuous Deliveries - How IBM Sterling Order Management makes it happen (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 8B
17:00
Eduardo Patrocinio (IBM, United States)
Achieving Application Resilience using MCM Capabilities (abstract)
18:00-19:00 Session 9A
18:00
Kevin Green (IBM, United States)
CSMO - a modern approach to IT Service Management (abstract)
18:00-19:00 Session 9B
18:00
Himika Gupta (IBM, India)
Simran Solanki (IBM, India)
Performance Testing Strategies for BIG DATA Applications (abstract)
18:30
Vijayanand Kuppurao (IBM Corporation, United States)
Satheeshbabu K (IBM India PVT Limited, India)
Blockchain - Hyperledger - Performance Evaluation (abstract)
20:00-21:00 Session 11A
20:00
Veng Ly (IBM, United States)
Fimy Hu (IBM, United States)
Seewah Chan (IBM, United States)
Paul Lekkas (IBM, Germany)
Performance Evaluation of Server Consolidation on IBM Z (abstract)
20:00-21:00 Session 11B
20:00
Tbd Tbd (Client?, United States)
SRE Transformation - Real Life experience and results (CEMEX) (abstract)
21:00-22:00 Session 12A
21:00
Sandeep Mangalath (IBM, India)
Jyoti Chawla (IBM, United States)
Protecting Operator managed stateful apps with Velero (abstract)
21:00-22:00 Session 12B
21:00
Surya Duggirala (IBM Cloud, United States)
Stefan Liesche (IBM Systems, Germany)
Architecture and Performance of Z platform for Cloud Workloads (abstract)
Wednesday, September 16th

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03:00-04:00 Session 14A
03:00
Samvedna Jha (Systems, India)
Threat modelling Process in Software Development (abstract)
03:00-04:00 Session 14B
03:00
Nithin S N (IBM, India)
Prathyusha Vankayala (IBM, India)
Benefits of Using AI-ML in Performance testing (abstract)
04:00-05:00 Session 15A
04:00
Rima Bose (IBM, India)
Security of the Internet of Things (abstract)
06:00-07:00 Session 17A
06:00
Julius Wahidin (IBM, Australia)
A demo on building a topology and see the topology changes over time using Agile Service Manager (abstract)
07:00-08:00 Session 18A
07:00
Rethiking Enterprise Backup and DR for the Cloud (abstract)
07:00-08:00 Session 18B
07:00
Andrew Roden (CSI&A UKI, UK)
Guy Williamson (Global Cloud CoC, UK)
Does Red Hat OpenShift enable a new paradigm in Performance and Availability Engineering? (abstract)
09:00-10:00 Session 20A

Day 2

09:00
Robert Barron (IBM, Israel)
Failure is not an option! (abstract)
09:00-10:00 Session 20B
09:00
Stefaan Van Daele (IBM, Belgium)
Applying zero trust in an hybrid cloud environment: one principle at dual speed (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 21A
10:00
Haytham Elkhoja (IBM, UAE)
Always On and Resilient workloads with Chaos Engineering (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 21B
10:00
Jerome Tarte (IBM, France)
Security best practices for a container platform (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 22: Keynote
11:00
Stacy Joines (IBM, United States)
Keynote: Performance Engineering: The IBM Garage Perspective (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 23A
12:00
André Fachat (IBM, Germany)
Transactions in the cloud - achieving consistency with unreliable infrastructure (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 23B
12:00
Jonathan Dunne (IBM, Ireland)
Lisa Cassidy (IBM, Ireland)
Sonya Leech (IBM, Ireland)
Usage Data Modelling: A Robust Capacity Planning Framework (abstract)
13:00-14:00 Session 24A
13:00
Raghuram Srinivasan (IBM, United States)
Sampath Swaminathan (IBM, United States)
Crawl-walk-run – Our approach to reliable systems with SRE and Automation (abstract)
13:00-14:00 Session 24B
13:00
Anik Manik (IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Indonesia)
Enhancing Performance Predictions using Machine Learning (abstract)
13:30
Vinay Nama (IBM India Pvt LTD, India)
Creating a scalable and reusable JMeter and ELK setup on OpenShift cloud (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 26A
17:00
Alex Zverev (IBM, Canada)
Exploratory Performance Testing and Quality by Design (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 26B: Kubernetes resilience is not enough: the journey to make a simple application resilient
17:00
Eduardo Patrocinio (IBM, United States)
Kubernetes resilience is not enough: the journey to make a simple application resilient (abstract)
18:00-19:00 Session 27A
18:00
Wesley Stevens (IBM, United States)
Robert Barron (IBM, Israel)
Rod Anami (IBM, Brazil)
IBM Services ChatOps: Automation, Process, & Collaboration (abstract)
18:00-19:00 Session 27B
18:00
Surya Duggirala (IBM Cloud, United States)
Yanni Zhang (IBM Cloud, United States)
Methods and Techniques for Securing Enterprise Applications deployed on IBM Cloud Paks (abstract)
20:00-21:00 Session 29A
20:00
Haytham Elnahas (IBM, Egypt)
Eduardo Patrocinio (IBM, United States)
Amine Anouja (IBM, UAE)
Breaking OpenShift: Best practices for managing users and projects in an OpenShift cluster (abstract)
20:00-21:00 Session 29B
20:00
Alan Piciacchio (IBM, United States)
Ingo Averdunk (IBM, Germany)
Larisa Shwartz (IBM, United States)
David Leigh (IBM, United States)
Chris Tobey (IBM, United States)
Post Incident Learning for SREs - Best Practice Principles Including Ecosystem Assessments and Prescriptive Actions (LECTURE) (abstract)
21:00-22:00 Session 30A
21:00
Michael Mitchell (IBM Corporation, United States)
Multi-Cloud: Architecture & Design (abstract)
21:00-22:00 Session 30B
21:00
Hollis Chui (IBM - DevOps Garage Solution Engineering, Canada)
Andrea Crawford (IBM - DevOps Garage Solution Engineering, United States)
Chris Lazzaro (IBM - DevOps Garage Solution Engineering, United States)
DevSecOps - Approaching devops through the lens of security (abstract)
Thursday, September 17th

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03:00-04:00 Session 32A
03:00
Swetha P J (IBM, India)
Jyothi Peddalingam (IBM, India)
Performance Testing of Home Automated IoT Devices (abstract)
03:00-04:00 Session 32B
03:00
Vijay Vardhan (IBM Limited, India)
Performance Testing Using Automation Framework (abstract)
04:00-05:00 Session 33A
04:00
James Bradley (IBM GBS, Australia)
Mario Gaon (IBM GBS, Australia)
A Framework for Approaching Organisational Resilience (abstract)
04:00-05:00 Session 33B
04:00
David Coleman (IBM, United States)
Cloud Availability (abstract)
06:00-07:00 Session 35A
06:00
Jing Yu (CIO, China)
Making a secure transition to IBM public cloud (abstract)
06:00-07:00 Session 35B
06:00
Sukumar Ganapathy (IBM, India)
Test Data challenges in Performance Testing (abstract)
06:30
Nithin S N (IBM, India)
WORKLOAD MODELING FOR PERFORMANCE TESTING USING RPA (abstract)
07:00-08:00 Session 36A
07:00
Harnessing the AgileTechniques in the Perfromance Engineering_Whitepaper (abstract)
07:00-08:00 Session 36B
07:00
Jyothi Peddalingam (IBM India pvt ltd, India)
Network Virtualization Concept for Performance Testing (abstract)
08:00-09:00 Session 37: Keynote: Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats
08:00
Thomas Ward (IBM Chief Data Office, United States)
Rahul Nahar (IBM Chief Analytics Office (CAO), United States)
Chester Karwatowski (IBM Chief Information Office (CIO), United States)
Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats (abstract)
09:00-10:00 Session 38A
09:00
Haytham Elkhoja (IBM, UAE)
Principles of data integrity and transaction consistency in a multi-active cloud architecture (abstract)
09:00-10:00 Session 38B
09:00
Aslam Shaik (IBM, UAE)
A Journey from IGNITE Performance Testing/Engineering Frameworks To Monitoring Console at Control Tower (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 39A
10:00
Haytham Elkhoja (IBM Services, UAE)
Availability in a Cloud-native world. Guidelines for mere mortals. (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 39B
10:00
Aslam Shaik (IBM, UAE)
IBM IGNITE Cloud Performance Testing/Engineering case study on Private Data Center Migration at Etihad Airways (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 41A
12:00
Rik Lammers (IBM, Netherlands)
SAFe, Resilience and SRE (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 41B
12:00
Christopher Giblin (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Grant Miller (IBM F&O, United States)
Pascal Vetsch (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Andreas Wespi (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Monica Manni (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Dave Ryan (Global Chief Data Office Finance and Operations, United States)
Our Journey Towards Continuous Compliance (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 43: Keynote
16:00
Rami Akkiraju (IBM, United States)
AI Ops?? To be added by Rami (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 44A
17:00
Samir Nasser (IBM, United States)
Application Performance & Resiliency Tuning Approaches (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 44B
17:00
Utpal Mangla (IBM, Canada)
Mathews Thomas (IBM, United States)
Sharath Prasad (IBM, United States)
Juel Raju (IBM, United States)
5G and Edge (abstract)
18:00-19:00 Session 45A
18:00
Alan Lee (IBM Canada Ltd., Canada)
DB2's new integrated cluster manager providing High Availability (abstract)
18:00-19:00 Session 45B
18:00
Kevin Yu (IBM Toronto Software Lab: AI Applications, Canada)
Roxsana Vahdati-Moghaddam (IBM Toronto Software Lab: AI Applications, Canada)
Ingo Averdunk (IBM, Germany)
SRE Feature Delivery to Tackle Technical Debt (abstract)
19:00-20:00 Session 46: Keynote
19:00
Sam Lightstone (Data and AI, Canada)
KEYNOTE: AI for Performance Engineering (abstract)
20:00-21:00 Session 47A
20:00
Dale McInnis (Global Markets, Canada)
DB2 Resiliency Models: what are Db2 customers really doing (abstract)
20:00-21:00 Session 47B
20:00
Grant Miller (IBM Global Chief Data Office, United States)
Chris Giblin (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Andreas Wespi (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Ilya Hardzeenka (IBM GCDO, Belarus)
Implementing Policy-Based Access Control in a hybrid cloud datalake (abstract)
21:00-22:00 Session 48B
21:00
Surya Duggirala (IBM Cloud, United States)
Moss Uchida (IBM Cloud, United States)
Designing and Deploying High Performing Enterprise Applications with IBM Cloud Paks (abstract)
Friday, September 18th

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03:00-04:00 Session 50A
03:00
Vandana Verma (IBM, India)
Trust, No Trust or Zero Trust – Myths Demystifying (abstract)
03:00-04:00 Session 50B
03:00
Swathi S (IBM, India)
Goutham Krishnan E S (IBM, India)
Enhancement of Application Performance using DevOps Oriented Synthetic Monitoring (abstract)
06:00-07:00 Session 53A
06:00
Mukesh Saha (IBM India Pvt Ltd, India)
Essence of IOT Security testing - Firmware & Embedded Web Applications (abstract)