Unlock The Hidden Data: Enterprise Microservices Seminar

IBM is organizing a technical event to show use cases of containers, API consumption and micro-services in enterprise environments.

The event will have live demos and the speaking/presenting panel consists of technical engineers, and the though the agenda is brief, the audience is free to ask for specific demos of use cases or features.

The event will hold place at Sirdab Lab on Sunday Oct 14th, 5 PM to 8 PM. Attendance is free, but registration is required to provide sufficient seating and catering.

Event Information & Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unlock-the-hidden-data-enterprise-microservices-tickets-51119341326

Blockchain & Crypto Currency Introduction Seminar

In collaboration with Sirdab Lab, I'll be talking about something that I should've since 2010: Crypto currencies.

The introduction's title is: 'Intro to Crypto Currencies: Blockchain, Bitcoin & Other Bits' on Monday December 4th, 2017 at 6 PM (1800).

The content will be suitable for newbies, traders, bankers, investors, law makers and the generally curious.

Sirdab Lab's location: Dasman Complex Ground floor, Jaber Al-Mubarak St, Sharq, Kuwait City. (Google Maps).

Update:

The session was recorded and the slides & audio were merged into a video that's available now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mu9_PcyJi0

The description has links to the slides and the raw mp3 file, for those who want to listen to the audio online. The slides have notes under each slide for added discussion and elaboration.

Link to the slides: https://goo.gl/bcZFmi

Link to the mp3 audio file: https://goo.gl/bHTRmC

Arab Internet Governance Forum: Preparations

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim is organizing a meeting to discuss topics and seek participants for the upcoming Internet Governance Forum event later this year.

The forum will be called "Arab Internet Governance Forum." There will be a brief about the scope here and more details will be discussed in a meeting with the bloggers.

Scope of the forum:

• Focus on discussing public policies related to internet governance especially in the areas of access, stability, security and development.
• Facilitate the exchange of information, best practices, knowledge and lessons learned by involving experts, technical community and academics.
• Gather different opinions and build consensus for harmonized Arab views on priorities and on mechanisms to respond to Arab countries needs related to internet governance issues.
• Discuss emerging issues and develop recommendations on them, as appropriate.
• Build and develop capacity in internet governance as well as improve the participation of all stakeholders to benefit from all possible resources of knowledge and expertise.
• Communicate the Arab positions globally and enhance the Arab role in formulating global internet governance policies.
• Engage in outreach with the internet governance forum and other regional IGFs with the purpose of exchanging knowledge and expertise.

IGF 2012 will be hosted in Kuwait and organized by KITS.

The main themes of the forums are:

• Access
• Openness
• Security and Privacy
• Content
• Managing Critical Internet Resources
• Youth

This preparation meeting will be held on Sunday August 5th, 2012 in KITS @ 9:30 PM.

You can invite as many people as you want, as we want this to reach all the bloggers if possible. It's important for all to know about it.

Tech Talk: Knowing NoSQL

Web Master, developer of the underground, and master of mischief @burhan will be talking on NoSQL databases, on Wednesday Feb 22nd 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM at Kuwait IT Society in Roudha area.

Event details: on Failbook (Arabic); on Google+ (English).

The event is organized by our favorite local code exporter, @ahmad_alibrahim.

Virtualization Workshop

Greetings humans and bots!

I'll be presenting and showcasing a VMware vSphere5 virtualization workshop at Kuwait IT Society in Rouda area on Wednesday at 7 PM.


What is virtualization? What does it have to do with cloud computing? What features does it offer? Is it worth the hype & the investment?
All of that & more plus a live demo of a VMware infrastructure in the session. No cats will be hurt during the demo.

Note: I'll briefly mention the differences between offerings from Citrix, RedHat, Microsoft, VMware & IBM, but most of the focus will be on VMware as it's my area of expertise.

The event is free for all to attend so feel free to invite others.