[AISWorld] 2018 SIGSAND Keynote Speech on Microservices

[Padmal K Vitharana]

Dear Colleagues,



Microservice-based software development is gaining momentum in the industry.  However, little is known about this emerging paradigm among the IS community.  An industry expert on Microservices, Shahir A. Daya of IBM will give the keynote speech at the 2018 SIGSAND Symposium

(https://whitman.syr.edu/sigsand/) held this year at the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University.



Keynote Title: "Cloud-Native and Microservices Accelerate Process Improvements at a Major U.S. Airline"

Date: Thursday May 24

Time: 8:45am - 10am



Shahir is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Application Development in the IBM Services Cloud Center of Competency. He is an IBM Senior Certified Architect and an Open Group Distinguished Chief/Lead IT Architect.



We are pleased to announce that the keynote for this year will be live streamed on Thursday, May 24 at 8:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time via Adobe Connect. The abstract for the keynote and live stream instructions are available at the end of this message.



Please contact Padmal Vitharana (padmal at syr.edu) if you have any questions.



Best Regards,

Padmal



On behalf of

Roman, Arturo, and Binny

2018 SIGSAND Symposium Planning Committee



Binny Samuel, samuelby at uc.edu, Program Co-Chair

Roman Lukyanenko, lukyanenko at edwards.usask.ca, Program Co-Chair

Arturo Castellanos, Arturo.Castellanos at baruch.cuny.edu, Program, Co-Chair



Padmal Vitharana, padmal at syr.edu, Conference Chair









*Keynote Abstract*

Everybody involved with software development is talking about Microservices these days. What are they and why should you care? The keynote speaker Shahir Daya from IBM will discuss how a major U.S. airline is delivering process improvements to its customers with speed and scale using Microservices on IBM Cloud. He will discuss not only about Microservices and how they are implemented and operated but also about the organizational and process changes necessary to be successful in a transformation to cloud-native and Microservices.









*Live stream instructions*

You will need to have Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer in order for Adobe Connect to function properly. You can download Adobe Flash Player at: http://www.adobe.com/



To install Adobe Flash player, click on Support - Download & Install and then under Downloads click on Adobe Flash Player" and follow the instructions. You might want to uncheck the box that will automatically install the Google Toolbar and Google Chrome if you do not want these applications.

To connect:

1. Navigate to: https://webconference.syr.edu/sigsand

2. Click Enter as guest, and type in your name 3. Make sure that your audio output of your computer is set for the speakers.



For more detailed information, go to: www.connectusers.com/learning_center/getting_started/

Click on the Quick Start Guide and then Participants





Padmal Vitharana
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Padmal Vitharana, Associate Professor
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Martin J. Whitman School of Management
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