Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. To help you stay ahead of the curve, the IBM Technical Summit is delivering a trifecta of talks on leadership and innovation. Hosted by Robert LeBlanc the Senior Vice President, Middleware Software, for IBM Software Group this session will open with thoughts from Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog “Startup Lessons Learned. “ Bringing principles from lean manufacturing and agile development to the process of innovation, Eric will discuss the Lean Startup strategies that help companies succeed in a business landscape riddled with risk. Continuing the discussion, Martin Nally, former Rational CTO and current VP of Emerging Programming Models will host a panel of IBM CTOs as they engage in a discussion of current trends impacting software delivery and product development, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation in large organizations. And finally, we conclude the session with the original innovator, Steve Wozniak. Co-founder of Apple, and creator of the Apple II computer, Steve will engage in an onstage question and answer session with host Katie Linendoll. Join this session to hear from innovation leaders, and stay ahead of the curve.

How do you accelerate your build, test, deploy, and release processes for faster time to market and improved quality without sacrificing mission-critical performance or availability? How do you quickly reuse and extend your core enterprise applications to new customers? How do you get a better return on the investment from the systems you depend on?

You have probably experienced that even minor updates can be tedious and error-prone when dealing with applications that span multiple platforms, languages and processes.

IBM has been helping IT organizations and teams to embrace DevOps practices and address these challenges. In this session, we'll share some of our customer success stories as well as highlight the new announcements and capabilities that IBM is bringing to market for DevOps and beyond— including support for mainframe, mobile, and cloud development environments.

The infusion of software in the products and systems of today is changing not only what is possible, but the expectations of the consumer.  Gone are the days of bent metal, a few wires and chips here and there. To compete, companies are being forced to evolve their technology while facing the new complexities associated with “any-time, any-where” development, such as social collaboration, cloud-based applications, big data and agile methodologies. Furthermore, their engineers must work closely and collaboratively across engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, systems engineering and software development.

Join this keynote and learn how IBM is helping companies adopt a systems approach to product and systems development.  You will hear from industry leaders on the need to adopt an integrated systems engineering approach and achieve tighter collaboration with operations. You will also learn about our three (3) imperatives to success and how we are investing for your future success with

• New product enhancements around RELM and DOORS Next Generation
• Expanded focus on industry best practices and tool certifications for A&D, Automotive, Medical Devices, Electronics, Telecommunications and more.  
• Ecosystem announcements with Mentor Graphics and National Instruments

Agile in the Enterprise is a lot like exercise: Many claim to be doing it, most are not and those that are doing it are doing it wrong.

The biggest challenge is scaling agile beyond a few teams. Even if you are able to adopt agile with your Development teams, can operations or the business keep pace? Can you remove the overhead and waste associated with waterfall governance and status reporting? How do you keep pace with competitors who are cranking out new versions of their solutions every day with a relentless focus on their customer needs?

Join our technical leaders as we explore the new Agile paradigms, practices and tools that are needed to stay ahead of the competition.

On today's Smarter Planet, enterprises are turning to the cloud to revamp existing business models while managing an unprecedented rate of change. In fact, the number of enterprises moving to cloud computing will double within the next few years as they seek to transform enterprise IT into a strategic center of business innovation.

Join us at the Cloud Computing Mini-main tent session to understand how this transformation will help to drive delivery of high-quality software and services. Focusing on an open=standards approach to cloud computing, and leveraging cloud to help developers deliver software faster and more efficiently, IBM's cloud strategy can help your organization seize market opportunities and gain a competitive advantage.

In a world where everyone is connected to everything, your mobile presence is becoming the face of your organization. The challenge is building, testing, managing and securing mobile applications to deliver superior value for customers, suppliers and employees and respond rapidly to their feedback.

IBM MobileFirst solutions help organizations stay ahead of their competition and create the highest quality mobile apps while responding rapidly to user feedback, turning every interaction into an opportunity to create value. 

Join our technical leaders as we explore how IBM MobileFirst is helping increase your enterprise’s agility in delivering new mobile apps and multichannel web experiences connected to back-end systems and applications, along with the evolving M2M/machine-to-machine paradigm for instant access to information and transactions.

Big Data has opened up a new frontier to access and leverage data for making informed decisions in the enterprise. The challenge starts from getting the data into a form that can be understood and combined with other existing data. Come hear a walkthrough of the evolution of Big Data from full bore custom development over the last few years to more standardized approaches and see a glimpse of how the platforms and best practices are starting to evolve to make help speed up deployment of Big Data applications.