Members
of the JCS (Jamaica Computer Society), take note of this on your Google
Calendars!
IBM Caribbean recently launched
their Twitter page and it has been abuzz with activity.
Their
very first post relates to their IBM Bluemix Workshop set to take place at the
Jamaica Conference Center on Wednesday October 18th between 9:00am to 4:30pm in
the Caucus Room.
Learn more about how IBM’s #cloud can help you weather the storms. Attend #BlueMix session at Biztech 2017 in #Jamaica. pic.twitter.com/QX9QdxBUZ0— IBM Caribbean (@IBMCaribbean) October 13, 2017
Cost
is as follows:
1. JA$10000
for JCS members
2. JA$16000
for non-JCS members
So
what is this all about? Is it worth the entry fee?
IBM Caribbean and
Bluemix – Developers with the Jamaica Computer Society meet AI in the Clouds
Presenters
Peter Tomes and Alfredo Ramirez will focus on Bluemix, IBM's latest cloud
offering aimed at Developers and organizations to quickly and easily create,
deploy and manage applications in the cloud. Bluemix is an implementation of
IBM's Open Cloud Architecture based on Cloud Foundry, an open sources PaaS
(Platform as a Service).
Essentially this is an API script for developers to add cloud applications to websites without having to install or configure them. Simply write your application and the use the API script to add the cloud application to your website or app.
We
may soon see Developers using this platform to create Cloud based VoIP
Applications and even AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbots, such as the one on
the IBM Caribbean Twitter feed:
Need an easy way to get started with #AI? Build a chatbot https://t.co/2zszIZ1WAJ pic.twitter.com/PF14VYj8QN— IBM Caribbean (@IBMCaribbean) October 14, 2017
Here
you can login and get a free Bluemix Cloud account and follow the instructions
to either build your own chatbot, a basic form of AI or play with the simple
Food Coach chatbot. There are also a lot of thought-provoking articles on the
IBM Caribbean twitter feed, such as this one on chatbots replacing customer
care agents.
With #AI & #Chatbots, what's the future of #callcenters? https://t.co/LHRU59QrXZ— IBM Caribbean (@IBMCaribbean) October 14, 2017
No
surprise there…Digicel already has plans to do this as noted in my blog article
entitled “How
Digicel and Wysdom AI will handle BackOffice as AI prepare to take over 24-7
Customer Care”.
As
Bluemix is an Open Source PaaS, this makes Bluemix, IBM's Open Cloud
Architecture based on Cloud Foundry, very attractive and competitive.
Developers can easily create Cloud based applications such as chatbots and VoIP
platforms and just add them to a website via a simple API script…all done
within Bluemix.
Especially
when compared to Digicel Cloud, which is mainly used for Data Backup as noted
in my Geezam blog article entitled “Digicel’s Cloud Backup
Services – A deep Analysis”
Interested?
Then share this with your friends as AI is coming to Jamaica...whether you like
it or not.....
Here's
the link to register:
http://www.myjcs.info/
Call:
754-9640, 325-2301
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