IBM Federal Anylitics Events for April
April 8, Washington, DC
The Intersection of Privacy and Analytics – What Every Government Agency Should Know
Agencies throughout the government are turning to analytics to improve their performance, gain greater insights into their business, and fulfill their agency missions. But how do you employ analytics while maintaining compliance with the government’s privacy policies? How do you use a Privacy Framework to guide your analytics programs? Are there technology solutions coming to help you share or commingle data sources?
This session Includes a panel discussion with leading industry and IBM thought leaders:
- Dan Chenok, Senior Vice President, Pragmatics Inc., Chair, Information Security & Privacy Advisory Board (NIST)
- Ari Schwartz, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Center for Democracy and Technology, Member Information Security & Privacy Advisory Board (NIST)
- Jeff Jonas, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Scientist, Entity Analytics
- Barbra Symonds, IBM Associate Partner, Security, Privacy, Wireless & IT Governance
- David Alley, IBM Optim World Wide Solution Leader
- Panel Moderator: Harriet Pearson, IBM Vice President, Security Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer
April 15, Washington, DC
Emerging Technology for Smarter Government: Using Next Generation Collaboration and Data Analytics
You’ve heard about cloud computing, and you may have heard about Hadoop; now it’s time to see it in action and learn how they can be used to build a Smarter Government. In this session you’ll hear from Stewart Nickolas, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Dan Gisolfi from IBM’s Emerging Technologies group. Stew and Dan will demonstrate some of their group’s projects, and Proofs of Concept (POCs) they have been building out with the U.K. Government to leverage these new technologies. Dan will talk about leveraging telepresence technology to improve collaboration, increase productivity and drive decision agility. Stew will then show how data analytics can easily be done on very large volumes of data using these emerging technologies.
April 22, Washington, DC
Threat Prediction and Prevention: Connecting the Dots in an Increasingly Complex Threat Environment
The challenge of maintaining national security has never been greater. The issue is,,, how to "connect the dots?" Meet Fred Walker from NSA and Dale Killinger from the FBI to learn about the challenges involved with connecting and analyzing huge volumes of data in real-time. Then hear from IBM experts, Tim Paydos and Tony Curcio, on proven practices for "connecting the dots" to support national security.
Register for any of these events and check out the IBM Analytics Solution Center website !

While researching sensor swarms, I came across a page over at the University of Notre Dame (EE Dept.) from their
IBM has been working on "stream computing" for the past 5 years. What first caught my attention was the "SmartBay" Environmental Monitoring System Installed in Galway Bay. The project is deploying advanced ocean sensors to collect and transmit real time information.


