Morning Meetings

The morning hours of CASTLE between 10:00 - 11:00 and 11:00 - 12:00 (EDT), consists of daily meetings on a variety of topics for a variety of audiences. Details will be sent via meeting invites.

1. Monday (10:00 - 12:00 EDT) | CASTLE 2022 Opening Ceremony & 2022 CAS Projects Introduction
   
   

   Every year, CASTLE convenes and connects the IBM Advanced Studies community to exchange knowledge, share feedback, match grant application opportunities and foster cross-project collaboration. Join us as we kick off CASTLE 2022, prepare for the week ahead, hear from leadership and touch base with our faculty, students and IBM product teams.

   This session will also include an introduction to the 2022 CAS Projects:

   • 1149: An intelligent and dynamic planner for adaptive migration of big data systems
   • 1150: Optimizing data migration and performance of target systems
   • 1151: Automated Incident Prediction and Resolution for Cloud-native Applications
   • 1152: Effective Support for Multi-Processor Execution of Enterprise Applications
   • 1153: Reducing JVM memory costs in the cloud
   • 1154: Scalable Synchronization for Dynamic Workloads on Large-Scale Computing Systems
   • 1155: Intelligent Issue Analytics Assistant for IBM Runtime Systems
   • 1156: KAS: Keeping Analysis Stable
   • 1157: ValFly: Program analysis to make value types fly
   • 1158: Language Feature Migration
   • 1159: Developer Recommender for Cloud-Native Applications for Fault Analysis & Localization
   • 1160: Software Analytics for Support Logs in Websphere Systems
   • 1163: Fast and low-overhead demand forecasting for applications resource
   • 1164: Building Intelligent Support for Code Testing and Defects Fixing Activities
   
   
2. Tuesday (10:00 - 11:00 EDT) | Lessons Learned
   
   

   IBM Advanced Studies and faculty across Canada have a longstanding relationship in delivering research and innovation that is meaningful to both academia and industry. How can we support one another in expanding research, improving processes, sharing accomplishments, contributing to events, and driving academic success? Join us for a panel discussion with professors and IBM technical staff about their experiences working with Advanced Studies, followed by an open conversation on how we can work better together.

   Panelists:

   • Hausi Muller, Professor, University of Victoria
   • Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Professor, University of Ottawa
   • Sarah Nadi, Professor, University of Alberta
   • Joe Wigglesworth, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Spectrum Fusion Development
   • Robert Enenkel, Technical Leader, Numerical Computing & Compilers
   
   
3. Tuesday (11:00 - 12:00 EDT) | Introduction to CAS Operations
   
   

   New to CAS? Don't worry. In this session, we will tell you all the details you need to know about CAS Operations such as onboarding your students, reporting project milestones, getting publications cleared, filing patentable ideas and more..

4. Wednesday (10:00 - 11:00 EDT) | Students Experience with CAS
   
   

   Do you want to connect with the academic and research community at IBM? Are you interested in graduate studies? Come learn what the IBM Advanced Studies team and community of students, faculty and product experts are up to. Find out how you can engage to enhance your IBM and academic journeys. Participants will gain insight into the student experience, ask questions and learn about pathways, capstone projects and future events.

   Panelists:

   • Alexey Khrabrov, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
   • Maria Patrou, PhD Candidate, University of New Brunswick
   
   
5. Wednesday (11:00 - 12:00 EDT) | Learn@IBM
   
   

   Come and explore how to level up your potential with training and micro-credentials from IBM. Learn@IBM is a training program for learners who want to increase their career potential. It offers you the ability to earn credentials to demonstrate your expertise, validate your skills and capability to perform role-related tasks and activities at a specified level, resulting in an advantage in the competitive job market.

6. Thursday (10:00 - 11:00 EDT) | Matching Funding Discussion
   
   

   What funding opportunities exist today that support academic research? Join us for a panel discussion and share your experience in matching fund application.

   Panelists:

   • Kenneth Kent, Professor, University of New Brunswick
   • Marin Litoiu, Professor, York University
   • Ying Zou, Professor, Queen's University
   
   
7. Thursday (11:00 - 12:00 EDT) | CAS Projects ROI/Funding Discussion
   
   

   How can IBMers, Managers, Executives, STSMs, DEs, Architects and the Advanced Studies community work together to amplify academic-industry relationship, learn from our research, and deliver higher ROI? Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on the benefits of contributing to Advanced Studies, project accomplishments and how product teams budget investments for CAS research projects are handled.

   Panelists:

   • Anthony Renaud, Senior Manager, IBM Runtime Technologies
   • Derek Truong, Program Director, Z Hybrid Cloud Developer Experience - Dev and Pipeline Systems
   • Ian Watts, Program Director, CloudPak for Multicloud Management Software
   • Wang Chen, Senior Manager, Compiler Development
   
   
8. Friday (10:00 - 11:00 EDT) | CASCON x EVOKE 2022
   
   

   This year marks the 32nd edition of the conference, CASCON x EVOKE 2022, taking place from November 15 to 17, which also sees the much anticipated return to an in-person experience at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The 3-day event will consist of technical talks, engaging workshops, innovative exhibitors, diverse pitch competitions, complex hackathons and a national developer, academic and research awards program. Come and learn how to get engaged!

9. Friday (11:00 - 12:00 EDT) | Closing Ceremony and 2022 Video of the Year Award Presentation
   
   

   Join faculty, students, product experts, researchers and leaders from the IBM Advanced Studies community as we celebrate our accomplishments, discuss the year ahead and close CASTLE 2022. This session will also announce the winner of the IBM Advanced Studies 2022 Video Award.

Workshops

CASTLE 2022 will feature four technical workshops on various topics of interest everyday from 13:00 - 16:00 (EDT).

1. Monday | Cognos Analytics Overview and Introduction
   
   

   IBM Cognos Analytics is a Watson-powered BI solution that provides you with the capabilities to: clean and connect your data; create data visualizations; and show you where your business is while helping predict what will happen tomorrow. Cognos Analytics with Watson takes BI a step further with AI capabilities that not only bring an accurate, trusted and complete picture of your business, but forecast what's coming in the future, predict outcomes and explain why they may happen. In this session, we will demonstrate how to import data, and then, how to quickly create compelling, interactive dashboards through drag-and-drop functionality that create auto-generated visualizations.

   Speakers:

   • Dennis Buttera, Technology Advocate, Advanced Studies
   
   
2. Tuesday | Cloud Pak for Data as a Data Fabric Solution
   
   

   Enterprises are collecting data from diverse platforms and devices at a faster pace than ever. Coupled with unparalleled computing capacity, better algorithms and affordable storage, the innovative and disruptive power of data is accelerating.

   However, businesses are challenged in their efforts to put data to work. The growth in data sprawl and volume, diverse ecosystems and varied existing management systems hinders optimal data usage. Research shows that up to 68%¹ of data is not analyzed in most organizations and up to 82%² of enterprises are inhibited by data silos.

   To become fully data-driven requires enterprises to utilize an integrated data strategy and architecture that overcomes data complexity challenges.

   Cloud Pak for Data as a Service is a cloud service platform for data governance, data engineering, data analysis, and AI lifecycle tasks. Cloud Pak for Data as a Service implements a data fabric solution so that you can provide instant and secure access to trusted data to your organization, automate processes and compliance, and deliver trustworthy AI in your applications.

   In this presentation we will review use case tutorials that use Cloud Pak for Data on Data Fabric. Each of these tutorials is associated with resources of which you will be provided links to the full instructions for completing the tutorials.

   Speakers:

   • Dennis Buttera, Technology Advocate, Advanced Studies
   
   
3. Wednesday | Practical Microservices
   
   

   Microservices? Cloud? Cloud-Native Development? We hear them often and they are everywhere in the industry these days. What are they? What's the deal with them? What are they for and why should you care? If you are interested or simply curious about any of these, come and join us. In this workshop, we will attempt to demystify and offer you a practitioner's perspective on what they are and why do they matter. You will have a chance to get your hands dirty and build your first Java microservice as well as to dive deeper into various aspects of microservices too!

   Speakers:

   • Kathryn Kodama, Software Developer, Open Liberty Developer Expeirence Team
   • Leo Christy Jesuraj, Developer Advocate, Application Integration with Hybrid Cloud
   • Yee-Kang Chang, Senior Technical Staff Member, Developer Experience & Advocacy, IBM Application Platform
   • Priyanshi Patel, Backend Developer, Open Liberty Guides
   
   
4. Thursday | Coding Java in a Kubernetes World
   
   

   How is Java fairing in a cloud-native and Kubernetes-centric world today? Are there modern and open cloud-native Java APIs that will make life easier for today's developers? In this workshop, we will dive into technologies like MicroProfile and Jakarta EE that are leading the way to provide developers with open community-driven vendor-neutral solutions to build robust and scalable microservices and cloud-native applications. There will be opportunities for participants to get their hands dirty working with these Java APIs using cloud-hosted environments. This workshop builds on the Practical Microservices Workshop and will go into APIs relevant for Kubernetes/Cloud deployments.

   Speakers:

   • Kathryn Kodama, Software Developer, Open Liberty Developer Expeirence Team
   • Leo Christy Jesuraj, Developer Advocate, Application Integration with Hybrid Cloud
   • Yee-Kang Chang, Senior Technical Staff Member, Developer Experience & Advocacy, IBM Application Platform
   • Priyanshi Patel, Backend Developer, Open Liberty Guides