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IBM. Global Technology Unit (GTU). Smarter Industries Week, November 2nd-5th, 2009. Energy & Utilities November 2nd. Banking November 4th. Telco November 5th.

Past Events

GTU. 24th june 2009

comm event

jazz & rational team concert seminar. 25 march 2009

eclipse semminar. 9th December 2009

Ideas without limits. IBM Innovations Centers. DB2 9.5 Workshop, July 28-30, 2008

Thank you for joining the GTU and IBM Innovation Center (IIC) for a DB2 9.5 Workshop

This technical workshop provided deep-dive training on IBM DB2 Version 9.5 for Linux, UNIX and Windows in a classroom setting, hands-on.
Other related technologies, products, and offerings including IBM Data Studio and IBM Balanced Warehouse products were also discussed in this workshop.

The course was conducted by:
Olaf Mueller, DB2 Consultant - DM ISV Solution Enablement EMEA, IBM Software Group

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Ideas without limits. IBM Innovations Centers. Israel center Lunching June 1. 2008, IBM Petach-Tikva.

Thank you for joining the GTU at the opening of the new IBM Innovation Center (IIC) in Israel.

The center in Israel is part of tens centers worldwide, provide technical assistance and skills transfer to Business Partners, Hi-Tech companies and Academic institutes throughout the application development cycle. In Israel, this center is part of the GTU.

The event was composed of two parallel sessions, on top of the main one – the IIC launching:

A roundtable session for key industry leaders from the Venture Capital community, Academia and Hi-Tech industry. This session discussed topics like IBM's continues investment and support in the ecosystem of startups, business partners, academics and IT professionals.

The parallel session was actually the first IIC technological session, presented IBM Information Management offerings, focusing on Cognos and solidDB. The audience was developers and IT managers from all organizations.

Both sessions ended with an opening ceremony for the new IBM Innovation Center in Israel, cocktail reception and networking.

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From left to right:
Radoslav Nokolov, Director of Strategy and Emerging Businenss, Developer Relations, IBM Software Group
Meir Nissensohn, General Manager, IBM Israel
Michael Oran, Global Technology Unit Leader, IBM Israel
Gabi Tal, Director, ISV & Developers Relations, IBM South West


From left to right:
Yahal Zilka, Managing Partner, Magma Yossi Vardi, Hi-Tech Entrepreneur Eddy Shalev, Founder & Managing Partner, Genesis Partners







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Lifecycle

May 19-20, 2008, Avenue Convention Center, Airport City

One of the GTU missions is to be involved and influence the eco-system in Israel in order to integrate IBM technologies, services and strategy to the Israeli Hi-Tech in an earlier stage. As part of this mission, the GTU is very active among the Israeli VC community.

The Israeli Hi-Tech conference is an annual VC event, attracts worldwide investments players who wish to meet the Israeli innovative Hi-Tech industry and explore potential investment opportunities.

The GTU was a sponsor of this event and had a panelist in a "Strategic Partnerships" session: Dr. Michael Rodeh, VP, Growth Initiative Projects, IBM. IBM had a keynote presentation "IBM in Israel and some thoughts for the future", by Dave Johnson, VP Corporate Development, IBM.

In this event, IBM got the annual IVA award, which presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the Israeli hi-tech and VC industries. IBM got the award for its intense focus on developing human capital; its major influence on managerial capacities and professional standards - with implications far beyond the high-tech industry to the entire Israeli business environment.

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Lifecycle

Thank you for joining the IBM Global Technology Unit (GTU) and the IBM developerWorks for a briefing focusing on: SOA and service Lifecycle.

The attendees got an in-depth look on how to use IBM's Rational and WebSphere tools to define, model, and implement new services, as well as manage those services throughout their lifecycle. They also learned how the IBM Rational tool suite and methods can help to implement a firm foundation for governance and management.

Speakers:

  • Emmanuel Genard, e-Business Architect, European Business Solution Center, IBM France
  • Michael Dundek, e-Business Architect, European Business Solution Center, IBM France

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Jazz - Colaboration in software development

Thank you for joining our Jazz technical session

Jazz is an open commercial software development platform, developed as a joint project between IBM Rational and IBM Research. Jazz takes software delivery to a new level with a new approach to create a super collaborative software environment for development teams as well as for customers and partners.

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Eclipse: Empowering the universal platform

December 2007, IBM building, Petach-Tikva

Thank you for joining the IBM Global Technology Unit (GTU) and the IBM developerWorks for a briefing focusing on: Eclipse Tools.

IBM Forum, Petach Tikva - December 17, 2007
Ben Gurion University - December 18, 2007
Technion - December 19, 2007
 
The Eclipse community is constantly working on high level projects that extend Eclipse's functionality. This briefing explored some of the most important, feature rich projects that the Eclipse community is developing. The discussion was also about Eclipse as a tool that is great not only for Java development.

Speakers:
 
Laurent Felici, e-Business Architect, IBM France
Frederic Berzolla, e-Business Architect, IBM France 

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Annual Event for the Israeli Venture Capital Community. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Location: 'Stuko', 2 Shitrit street, Hadar Yosef, Tel-Aviv.

Thank you for joining the Global Technology Unit (GTU) for the Annual Event for the Israeli VC Community
November 28, 2007

The IBM GTU and the Israeli VC Community are in the business of creating a joint masterpiece: increasing the value of our portfolio companies.
This event presented the latest business perspectives by IBM executives, and how to mix these ingredients for a successful IBM partnership.

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ISV Meeting Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Thank you for joining the GTU at the Annual ISV Symposium

In this event, we provided the attendees with the knowledge about new technology trends, creating global partnerships, and driving joint business with IBM. 130 people attended the event.

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IMA VoIP Knowledge Café

(IBM Israel Building, 9.8.07)

The GTU hosted the  

Israel Mobile Association (IMA) "VoIP Knowledge Café". (IBM Israel Building, 9.8.07)

IMA is a non-profit organization who wishes to be the leading hub of innovation. Its member companies are provided with joint business development opportunities, while enabling technological knowledge sharing and joint international R&D programs. The main knowledge sharing is carried trough the IMA Tech Clusters - communities of mobile & communication industries professionals.

IMA Tech Knowledge Cafe Program

in conjunction to the IMS/IP Services Cluster activities.
About 25 IMA members and IBMers attended this meeting.

The agenda included these presentations:

  • IMS & WAS SIP Infrastructure − Overview: Yafit Sami, Development Manager, IBM
  • VoIPand switching implementation over SIP Middleware - benefits to application developers and service providers: Jonathan Levingston, Director, Senior IMS Product Manager, Comverse
  • Best Of Breed, IMS-based VoIP Service for Service Providers and Enterprises - Applications & Infrastructure: Haim Melamed, Director, Corporate & Channel Marketing, AudioCodes
  • VoIP Peering: Ory Biran, Director of Technology, StarHome
  • Telephony & IM Going Mobile: Roy Timor-Rousso, VP Product Marketing, Fring

Presentation downloads are available at the  

IMA website

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Thank you for joining the IBM Global Technology Unit (GTU) and the IBM developerWorks for a briefing focusing on: Open Community Tools.

This briefing explored the innovation of open source solutions available from IBM and illustrated the power and flexibility of an open community development environment. The discussions included IBM's open source strategy, the "open computing" environments and its components, as well as an in-depth discussion of IBM's open community development tools.

Speakers:

  • Laurent Felici, e-Business Architect, IBM France
  • Frederic Berzolla, e-Business Architect, IBM France

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Thank you for joining our IBM Partnership Roadmap event for ISVs.

In this event, we provided the attendees with the knowledge about how to take advantage of IBM's worldwide partner resources. We focused on the tools and frameworks, which our partners need to drive their market growth as an IBM partners. About a 100 people attended the event.

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Thank you for joining our Eurekify-AlMo event, hosted at IBM by the GTU.

The event was designed for Executives and 90 participants took part in it: CEOs, CFOs, Directors, IT Managers, Security Managers, Internal & External Auditors and IT Risk Managers.

The event focused on the following topics:

  • Unsecured system threats
  • IT controls efficient definition
  • Automatic tools for management and auditing role-based access control
  • Automatic tools to maintain accurate privileges and enforce compliance
  • Reports for IT auditors and regulation needs

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Thank you for joining our Express Runtime Workshop

This workshop demonstrated how to reduce application costs, installation time and installation complexity with IBM Express Runtime.

IBM Express Runtime provides an easy, cost-effective way to install, deploy and manage core middleware infrastructure developed for Business Partners targeting mid-market customers.

Express Runtime delivers:

  • Database server: DB2 - Express or IBM Informix - Express
  • Application server: IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express
  • Web server: IBM HTTP Server
  • Solution management console
  • Solution development tools with an auto-install wizard

Speaker: Cherryl Dawson, IDR Technical Enablement, IBM Innovation Center - Dallas, Texas.

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Thank you for joinning our Web 2.0 technical session targeting the Israeli high-tech community:

Web 2.0 means different things to different people. It is a combination of technological (meshups, AJAX, blogs, wikis, RSS) and social (social tagging, user created content) aspects. It works on the Web and there is no reason why it can not work in the enterprise.

New IBM technologies and exciting research projects prove that Web 2.0 can work for the business workers and make enterprises much more efficient.

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Thank you for joining our Technical-Briefing focusing on IBM Rational Software Development tools (March 1st, 2007).

Software development is a business process. Rational recognizes that it takes many different talents to make a development project successful. Every development team has a mix of roles and responsibilities that work toward project success.

This briefing demonstrated the latest version of the IBM Rational Software Development tools, their broad range of functionality and their use throughout the entire software development process, focusing on application modeling, design, development, coding and testing.

The attendee got an understanding of the breadth and depth of the Rational tools, how well they are integrated, and how easy they are to use.

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Thank you for joining the Software Conference for Incubator Companies, January 14th, 2007

The conference explored the recent innovations of 12 start-up companies.
The main goal of the conference was to create collaborations between incubator companies. In addition, VCs and relevant companies attended.

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Thank you for joining our Technical Briefing seminar:
Making the Most of Eclipse

Technion - December, 11th
Tel Aviv University - December, 13th
IBM Forum, Petach Tikva - December, 14th

Over the last five years, one of the most significant breakthroughs in the world of Java™ development has been Eclipse. Donated to the open source community by IBM in 2001, Eclipse has since grown to be an independent project endorsed by over 100 software companies worldwide. The extremely active Eclipse community means that Eclipse skills will be valuable in the marketplace for many years to come. In the Eclipse Technical Briefing we presented an introduction to Eclipse, the foundation behind it and a little about the platform's architecture.

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Thank you for joining our Acdemy Day Event for faculty members
November 9th, 2006.

For the first time, IBM Global Technology Unit (GTU) hosted a unique Academy Day Event for faculty members from all the leading Academy institutes in Israel.
This event provided them with a special opportunity to learn about the recent university relation plans offered by IBM. It also enabled them to take a look into the future of technology, focusing on Services Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME), through the eyes of senior IBM executives and guests from the Academy.

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Thank you for joining us at "Lauren's Gallery"
November 6th, 2006.

The Art of Cooperation and Innovation

The IBM GTU and the Israeli VC Community are in the business of creating a joint masterpiece: increasing the value of our portfolio companies.
We practice the art of collaboration to build infrastructure, reduce risk, and speed the path to profitability.

The "Lauren's Gallery", a culture and art center located in a restored historic building in the heart of old Jaffa, will provide the artistic venue for sharing with you the latest on the art of cooperation and innovation between the IBM GTU and the Israeli VC Community. The evening will culminate with a gourmet dinner.

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Thank you for joining the GTU to learn how IBM combines its new version of WebSphere Application Server with its expertise in telecommunications service delivery platform environments to deliver a comprehensive services platform that companies can use to create, integrate, execute and present next generation services.

The IBM offering for telecommunications supports emerging standards such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Furthermore, it helps service providers and software vendors to adopt a service orientation in the telecommunications network environment - reusing individual service components and separating the creation and execution of new service applications from the underlying network.

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Thank you for joining the GTU and IBM developerWorks for a Technical Briefing about Open Source Development: Tools and Open Standards.

Building innovative software applications requires developers with the tools and skills of tomorrow. The seminar explored the open source solution stacks of Linux/Windows, Apache, Derby and PHP. See Web application development using commercial open standards based products such as IBM's Cloudscape, DB2, and Rational Web Developer which provides an advanced, Eclipse-based, functionally rich Web application development environment.

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Thank you for Joining the technical session.

In today's competitive business climate, availability of your IT infrastructure and the solution installed in your customer's premises is a must. Proactive system monitoring often identifies problems early, enabling rapid fixes before your internal and external customers experience significant impact to their performance.

The new IBM Tivoli Monitoring Solutions are designed to help you easily manage critical online business applications by proactively monitoring essential system resources, efficiently detecting bottlenecks and potential problems, and automatically responding to events.

IBM Tivoli has also developed an Agent Development Toolkit (ADT) for ISVs, to help you easily develop monitors to your business application and combine it in our Tivoli Enterprise Portal solution. Using our new technology, you can optimize efficiency in both your IT department as well as your home grown business applications.

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Thank you for joining our Technical-Briefing about: Laying the Foundation for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

This session provided the opportunity to increase the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) knowledge and skills. The participants learned how easy it is to build web services with Rational Software Architect. WebSphere Business Integration Modeler was being used to design a business process and then export it to Business Process Execution Language. This session also included demonstrations of other capabilities of the tools that provide strong support for building SOA-based applications.

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Thank you for joining our seminar.

In the seminar, we introduced you the tools which can help to leverage the agreement signed between IBM and the Office of the Chief Scientist to sponsor up to $50,000 for your porting project.

The seminar presented Mainsoft's fast-track solution, which enable you to reach the J2EE and Linux markets without having to rewrite your entire code or retrain Visual Studio® developers.

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