Making Data Simple: Think 2018 preview

In this special podcast, our Making Data Simple Podcast host Al Martin is joined by Caleb Curry, data guru for IBM Hybrid Cloud, and Sam Lightstone, IBM fellow of analytics, to talk about their session at the IBM Think 2018 Conference: “Next-Generation Data Management: Power and Simplicity to the Developer.”

Al Martin:      Al Martin here, host of the Making Data Simple series. Next week, I will be at the IBM think conference in Vegas, and I am giving a keynote on Wednesday, March 21st from 4:30 to 5:10. I think the session ID is 8106A, so please look me up during the keynote. I will be talking about next-generation data management power and simplicity to the developer, and I am bringing on two of my top podcast guests.

Number one is Caleb Curry who is the resident data group social strategists I call him the developer extraordinaire, he is essentially YouTube sensation for that purpose.

Al Martin: I am going to bring — yeah, I’ve got them on the call now that I’ll give you a chance to say a few words — but I’m also bringing in Sam Lightstone. He is the analytics fellow. What I plan to do in the keynote is I’m going to talk about why hybrid data management — that’s my day to day job outside of this podcast, you know — I’ll be talking about challenges and solutions on the ladder to AI. I  know Caleb, he’s going to show us how and what this means for the developer, and then Sam is going to get up and astound us with architecture in futures of hybrid data management. So did I get that right, guys? Caleb, did I characterize your role well? 

Caleb Curry: Yeah, that sounds about right. One of the things I want to bring to the session is I just want people to have something tangible — specifically a demo — that they can have something they get from this conference they’re able to take home the ideas and the concept behind this demo and apply in their workspace. So I really want someone to get something physical like, something they can, you know, apply to their jobs. So that’s what I’m hoping. 

Al Martin: So I always talk about making data simple and accessible. You’re gonna come to the conference in you’re gonna make this real for the developer, right? That’s your challenge.

Caleb Curry : And it’s going to be that dedicated to developers, but it’s also gonna bring in machine learning. It’s going to be really for those who want to utilize data and and a little bit of data science inside of their applications. Overall, I think the demo is a little complex but I will do my best to showcase what is possible in the short period of time that I have. But anyone who knows me knows it takes forever for me to explain anything. 

Al Martin: So if I am the developer and I sit in the audience, what am I gonna walk away from one after I see your demo, bottom line? 

Caleb Curry: How to integrate all of the hybrid data management platform into data science or a developer application, so how can we apply machine learning algorithms to this data and use that to make customized features and applications?

Al Martin: So you’re going to arm the developers as they leave. I like it.