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Koding Inc. has announced its second annual global virtual hackathon, set for December 12-13. Sponsored by IBM, this year’s virtual event is expected to draw more than 100,000 participants worldwide, setting a new Guinness World Record and surpassing last year’s inaugural event, which set the record for the largest-ever virtual hackathon.
IBM’s sponsorship of the event is part of the company’s strategic relationship with Koding, a developer community and cloud-based developer environment that allows users to easily work, collaborate, write and run apps—all within a Web browser. Confirmed hackathon participants will receive an invitation for a free trial of IBM Bluemix, an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture based on Cloud Foundry, an open source platform as a service.
Registration is now open, and teams of up to five developers from around the world can sign up for this year’s hackathon at https://koding.com/Hackathon. During the event, participants will have 48 hours to hack their way into $150,000 in cash prizes. This year’s themes include educational games, enterprise productivity and data visualizations.
Koding was inspired to tap the minds of developers all over the world for a second year after an overwhelmingly positive response to last year’s event. Koding’s 2014 hackathon had more than 60,000 participants from a total of 900 total cities, and more than 500 projects were completed and submitted within 48 hours.
Today at IBM, we’re gearing up for The 360Fashion and Technology Awards in San Francisco: ibm.biz/BdHxyF. We’re bringing together the world’s most talented technology startups and guest speakers, while looking at technology trends through the lens of fashion. While the event is sold out, we’re excited to announce a new way for you to engage with the fashion and technology conversation from wherever you are.
To continue the conversation around fashion and technology, take part in this one-day challenge facilitated by Ta-Dah, a new social media app where you can connect, challenge, compete and be entered to win a set of Beats by Dre headphones.
Interested in participating? Follow these simple instructions:
1. Download the Ta-Dah app at www.ta-dah.today
2. Upload a video that is up to 30 seconds in length
3. Share and gather votes for a chance to win a pair of Beats by Dre Headphones
4. A winner will be selected at 12 am PST November 4, 2015 and will be notified by email from Ta-Dah
The Ta-Dah app is a great example of an innovative solution running on IBM Cloud. This challenge is open to all.
Join in the excitement of tonight’s event and follow the 360Fashion and Tech story on Twitter @IBMGE #IBM360F #IBMGE.
Good luck!
Java? yes Java!
The Java™ platform has been critical for us here at IBM for almost two decades and continues to be as we move deeper into the era of cloud, mobile, and cognitive computing, all of which are key themes in this year’s JavaOne conference happening this week today through Thursday!
IBM embraced the Java programming language beginning 20 years ago. As Java grew into a large-scale enterprise platform, IBM was in lock-step, building its extensive middleware suite on this innovative and versatile technology to support not only a wide array of customers in disparate industries, but also powering its own development.
Java is critical to IBM, even moreso as we find ourselves at the beginning of a new era with cloud, mobile, and cognitive computing leading the way.
It’s no surprise, then, that IBM is again a Diamond sponsor at this year’s JavaOne conference, supporting and endorsing the platform that continues to shape its and others’ innovation in the enterprise.
Here’s an overview of some of IBM’s activities during JavaOne 2015.
Monday, October 26
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Time
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Location
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Title
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Speaker(s)
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8:30 a.m.
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Hilton—Franciscan Room B/C/D
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HOL6939: DevOps of Java and Scala Apps to the Cloud with Cloud Foundry
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Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas, Architect/Evangelist, IBM
John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist, ActiveState |
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11:00 a.m.
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Hilton, Continental Ballroom 4
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CON5630: invokedynamic: Evolution of a Language Feature
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Dan Heidinga, J9 VM Interpreter Team Lead, IBM
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4:00 p.m.
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Parc 55, Market Street
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CON10767: Bringing IBM Watson to Developers: Building a Winner with Java
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Dale Lane, Software Developer, IBM
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4:00 p.m.
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Parc 55, Powell I/II
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CON10790: Is Enterprise Java Still Relevant?
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Ian Robinson, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect
Erin Schnabel, Senior Software Engineer, IBM |
Tuesday, October 27
Tuesday is all about the cloud — with some code optimization thrown in for good measure.
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Time
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Location
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Title
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Speaker(s)
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12:30 p.m.
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Parc 55, Market Street
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CON10775: A Technical Deep Dive into Bluemix for Cloud-Based Java Development
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Michael Behrendt Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect Bluemix Core Platform, IBM
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12:30 p.m.
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Hilton, Imperial Ballroom B
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CON5609: Confessions of an Automation Addict
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Holly Cummins, Delivery Lead, WebSphere Liberty Profile, IBM
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12:30 p.m.
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Parc 55, Embarcadero
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CON6441: All Change! How Cloud Economics Will Make You Think Differently About Java
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Steve Poole, Lead Engineer IBM Cloud and Development Platforms, IBM
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2:30 p.m.
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Hilton, Continental Ballroom 1/2/3
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CON6700: From Java Code to Machine Code: How to Write Highly Optimizable Java
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Chris Bailey, Runtime Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect, IBM
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2:30 p.m.
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Hilton—Golden Gate 4/5
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CON6946: Script Bowl 2015: The Emerging Languages Take Over
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Hadi Hariri, Team Lead, JetBrains
Nick Howard, Senior Software Engineer, Twitter Dierk Koenig, Fellow, Canoo Engineering AG Charles Nutter, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas, Architect/Evangelist, IBM |
Wednesday, October 28
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Time
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Location
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Title
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Speaker(s)
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8:30 a.m.
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Hilton, Golden Gate 4/5
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CON7863: What’s in an Object? Java Garbage Collection for the Polyglot
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Charlie Gracie, Advisory Software Developer, IBM
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1:00 p.m.
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Hilton, Golden Gate 6/7/8
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CON7547: Beyond the Coffee Cup: Leveraging Java Runtime Technologies for Polyglot
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Daryl Maier, Compiler Development and Performance, IBM
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3:00 p.m.
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Parc 55, Mission
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CON7535: EJB 3.2/JPA 2.1 Best Practices with Real-Life Examples
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Ahmad Gohar, Architect and Technical Team Leader, IBM
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4:30 p.m.
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Parc 55, Market Street
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CON6447: DevOps and the Dark Side: 10 Ways to Convince Your Team That DevOps Is a Force for Good
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Steve Poole, Lead Engineer IBM Cloud and Development Platforms, IBM
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Thursday, October 29
IBM winds down the conference on a high note with two timely sessions and a keynote from Distinguished Engineer and IBM Java CTO John Duimovich.
Thursday’s schedule of IBM talks
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Time
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Location
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Title
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Speaker(s)
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12:15 p.m.
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Marriott Marquis, Salon 7/8/9 (Yerba Buena Ballroom)
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Java Community Keynote: Cask-Strength Java, Aged 20 Years
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John Duimovich, IBM Runtimes CTO and Distinguished Engineer, IBM
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2:30 p.m.
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Hilton, Continental Ballroom 7/8/9
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CON10777: Quickly Building IoT Solutions with MQTT
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Ian Craggs, Eclipse Paho Project Lead, IBM
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| 4:00 p.m. | Parc 55, Embarcadero | CON5394: Leveraging Java Optimizations to Improve Density in Cloud Environments | Michael Dawson, Senior Software Developer, IBM |
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We kicked off the world’s largest Challenge ! Vice Chancellor Maheshappa and I celebrated with over 500 students!!!
