Events for IBM Attendees
Kick off AWS re:Invent 2024 at Visionaries of the Stadium
It's game time at re:Invent 2024! Join the brightest minds in tech for an evening like no other. This premier event is your chance to go deep with visionary leaders revolutionizing AI and technology.
Don't drop the ball - RSVP now to reserve your spot on the roster! AWS re:Invent 2024 badge is required for entry.
Visionaries in the Stadium
Date: Monday, December 2
Time: 7:00PM - 10:00PM PST
Learn More: Agenda, Special Guests, Transportation
Location: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas
*Space is limited, registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Attend the IBM & AWS Lunch Reception
Join your IBM colleagues and the AWS team for a fun networking lunch at Flight Club Social Darts during re:Invent! Enjoy drinks and food at this exclusive event for IBM
When: Tuesday, December 3 2024, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM PST
Where: Flight Club Social Darts, 3327 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas
*Space is limited, registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Visit the Draw the Map Lounge for Strategic Accounts
As an AWS Strategic Account, IBM has access to the Draw the Map meeting lounge at the 1923 Live venue, located in the Venetian. The space will be available for IBM attendees to meet with their AWS account team, see demos from the AWS OPTICS and ProServe teams, and connect with other Strategic Accounts attendees for networking events. Food and beverages will be provided throughout the day.
Where: 1923 Live, The Venetian Resort
When: Monday, December 2 to Wednesday, December 4 from 10am to 6pm daily
Thursday, December 5 from 10am to 2pm
Happy Hour at Draw the Map Lounge
Enjoy drinks and food at this exclusive event for Strategic Accounts
Where: 1923 Live, The Venetian Resort
When: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 4:00pm -6:00pm PST
No pre-registration required.

Visit IBM Booths in the Expo
As a Diamond Sponsor, IBM will showcase the latest Data & AI, Automation, Security, Sustainability SW portfolio and Consulting capabilities. Visit booth #1642 and learn how IBM helps customers scale what they create. Come by and see all that the Expo has to offer!
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IBM Hosted Roundtables
Tuesday Roundtables @ CUT
Tuesday, December 3
Location:
CUT Restaurant
The Palazzo at The Venetian Resort
3325 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109
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Pathways to optimize your VMware workloads on AWS
10:45 am - 11:15 am
IBM Speaker:
Vikas Ganoorkar, Global Cloud Migration Offering Leader, IBM Consulting
Arnab Bag, Partner, Cloud Modernization, Hybrid Cloud Transformation - Americas, IBM ConsultingBill Lobig, VP Product Management, IBM Automation
IBM’s approach is about speed and scale - but also about giving clients the options they require to drive their business outcomes. There are various pathways for optimizing your VMware workloads to AWS in a cost-effective manner. Join the session to learn how to achieve a risk-free VMware modernization and optimization on AWS while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO). Understand how IBM's methods, genAI-powered assets and accelerators can speed up modernization at scale and help you deliver on your business objectives. Register Now
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Empower automated, unified observability on AWS
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
IBM Speaker:
Alan O'Connor
Discover how IBM’s Observability solutions help organizations manage dynamic, cloud-native environments on AWS with precision and control. Learn how IBM Instana’s real-time, automated observability enables rapid troubleshooting and performance optimization for AI and traditional workloads. Discover how IBM Concert uses generative AI to unify data, map dependencies, and deliver insights that reduce MTTR. By aggregating data from tools like Instana, Concert offers a comprehensive view of application resilience, scoring critical dimensions like availability, recoverability, and scalability. Hear from industry leaders on how IBM’s Observability solutions enhance visibility, reduce complexity, and drive operational excellence. Register Now
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Governed, secure, and responsible AI with IBM watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
IBM Speaker:
Heather Gentile, Director, watsonx.governance
Product Management, IBM Data & AI
While businesses recognize AI’s power, 80% of business leaders acknowledge ethical concerns with adopting generative AI. In this session, explore strategies to transform responsible AI practices for your enterprise and gain end-to-end visibility over your AI landscape. Learn how the powerful machine learning capabilities of Amazon SageMaker coupled with IBM’s watsonx.governance on AWS deliver end-to-end AI model lifecycle governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, and security of your AI. Discuss real-life challenges and solutions for IT, risk, compliance, legal and privacy teams to overcome transparency, reliability, and ethical AI model development. We will also discuss topics of retaining trust and transparency with open, efficient, and purpose built models tuned to your business needs. Register Now
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Scaling IBM Software on AWS with mutual business partners
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
IBM speaker:
Nick Otto TBC
Join us to hear about the business objectives and growing success of the IBM & AWS strategic partnership, and understand the significant opportunity the IBM and AWS relationship presents for mutual business partners.Learn further about the top IBM on AWS go-to-market offerings across Data and AI, Automation & FinOps, Security, and Sustainability. Share your feedback with partnership leadership, and discover how existing business partners are leveraging this relationship to grow in their existing client base and acquire net-new customers. Register Now
Wednesday Roundtables @ Bellini
Wednesday, December 4
Location:
Bellini Meeting Room #2005
Venetian Convention & Expo Center
Level 2
3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109
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Deliver AI-ready data with an open and trusted data foundation using watsonx on AWS
10:45 am - 11:15 am
IBM Speaker:
Marcela Pasqualetti - VP, Data & AI America
The success of AI in business hinges on high-quality, secure data. Enterprises that double their ROI from AI have invested in trustworthy, governed data. This growth brings complexity, challenging organizations to effectively manage and utilize diverse data sources for gen AI. How do you manage unstructured data for use cases such as RAG while also combining it with your structured data stored on databases such as Amazon RDS for Db2, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift for analytics? To build the right data foundation for analytics and AI, organizations need to focus on building an open and trusted data foundation. In this roundtable, come discuss the real-life challenges of delivering high quality and reliable data, opportunities to eliminate data silos with watsonx.data open data lakehouse on AWS, and how to prepare and deliver secure, governed data for your AI models and applications with a new, integrated and intelligent approach to Data Fabric.. Register Now
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Accelerate digital reinvention with hybrid cloud and generative AI on AWS
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
IBM Speaker:
Varun Bijlani, Global Managing Partner, Hybrid Cloud Services, IBM
Shawn D’Souza, Global Hybrid Cloud Transformation (HCT) Service Line Leader, IBM Consulting
Generative AI has revolutionized how businesses operate. Organizations aiming to derive value from their cloud investments and scale AI must adopt an intentional, hybrid-by-design approach and leverage insights from FinOps and cloud cost management. Adopting this strategy allows organizations to align architectural choices with business priorities and realize higher and faster ROI. Join IBM to discuss how intentional architecture decisions based on business needs are the key ingredients for amplifying the value of hybrid cloud and AI to drive business outcomes. Register Now
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Harnessing AI for autonomous cloud security: IBM & AWS game-changing solution
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
IBM Speaker:
Jayesh Kamat, Director, Product Management, Cybersecurity Services, IBM Consulting
Michael Massimi, Global Principal, Cloud Security Services for AWS, IBM Consulting
Organizations today face mounting pressures in managing complex security requirements and maintaining compliance within their cloud environments. IBM and AWS have developed Autonomous Security for Cloud (ASC), a solution that revolutionizes how businesses secure their cloud adoption. ASC leverages Amazon Bedrock-based generative AI technologies to generate security controls based on applicable compliance requirements, automate deployment, and respond to misconfigurations and remediation drifts. Join the session to learn how ASC employs AI to meticulously tailor the AWS environment to the client's context, automating security deployment and ensuring that controls are aligned with compliance requirements. It also automatically adjusts to regulatory changes. Explore how ASC leverages AI to respond to security misconfigurations and drifts. Register Now
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Optimizing your cloud with continuous resource management
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
IBM Speaker:
Oved Lourie
Determining the exact resources your applications need to deliver peak performance at the lowest cost is a complex challenge. In this session, learn how IBM Turbonomic continuously analyses your application resource needs and automatically generates resourcing actions, in real-time, to meet application demand. Hear how Turbonomic is helping clients optimize performance and cost efficiency on cloud native AWS services, like EBS, EKS, EC2, RDS and more, by automating elasticity. Also hear how Turbonomic leverages full stack observability data to ensure peak performance. Register Now