Reflections/1st Conference Day

During the opening speech by Ms/Mrs Katie Keane, I learned about the need and the importance of change and how do we change, in an engineer's perspective. Some reasons include the difficulties we are facing these days such as the loss of about 40%-70% electrical energy due to inefficiency.
Also, i learned some extra information like 15 pedabytes of data are created/year. IBM is now working towards a smarter world by creating "smarter" software.
After the opening speech, we split into our own groups to attend separate lectures/trecks. I attended a lecture on "Performance Visibility for IP Network in Large Enterprise using TNPM".
I learnt about the how they used a product to check and manage performance. They use Simple Network Management Protocol to help give them visibility, control and automation. And they use Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager for fault management.
Also, I attended another lecture where we had a case study on an indonesian bank. I learnt what master data and rapid development package is. Master data are key facts, describing your core business entities, customers, partners, employee, products, list of accounts and location. It does not change frequently. Rapid Development package is a Party-Centric Model.
I also learnt how they helped an indonesian bank solve some of their problems. I learnt of the projects they took and the workshops they conducted for the employees.
After that, we had another small "lecture" by Mr Raymond Wong. He told us more about what IBM like their goals. He shared with us one of IBM's goal which is to make the world "smarter".