In Awe of IBM Insight 2015’s Wow Factor

October 22, 2015 John Mark Ivey Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

It seems like every time I’m preparing to attend one of IBM’s large user conferences, event organizers just keep upping the wow factor. Whether it’s Serena Williams sharing how using data improved her tennis game or Kevin Spacey preaching about how technology empowers the rule breakers, I am amazed at how these celebrity keynote speakers always bring the message down to its essence with an IBM spin. So now it’s time for IBM Insight 2015, and who’s on the bill to speak but Hollywood legend Ron Howard.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Cooking with IBM Watson Part 2

May 20, 2015 Caitlin Long Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Not many people can say they’ve had a chance to attend a dinner party where the menu was created by a cognitive computer system, but my colleagues and I made it happen! The Dinner Party After hours spent in the kitchen, it was finally time to enjoy the fruits of our labor with an IBM […]

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Cooking with IBM Watson Part 1

May 13, 2015 Caitlin Long Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Part one: The cognitive cooking campaign was designed to showcase Chef Watson’s culinary prowess, and resulted in the cookbook “Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson,” populated with recipes from the “mind” of a computer. Given the fact that I love any excuse to have a potluck, I decided to put my crack team of IBM investigators on the case by hosting a Watson Dinner Party. In part one of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Cooking with IBM Watson you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the trials and tribulations of cooking alongside IBM’s Chef Watson.