Many professionals in the data science field have predicted that we will all one day be “citizen data scientists,” mining and utilizing data to improve our businesses and lives. Now, the exciting prospect of democratizing development is on the horizon, said Sandy Carter, GM, IBM entrepreneurs and developer ecosystems, social business evangelism at IBM.

Carter told John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that according to a Gartner forecast, “By 2020, 60 percent of all apps will be built by what they call citizen developers.”

Carter said that IBM is taking strides to provide excellent services to developers to foster creativity and build applications from the ground up. IBM developerWorks is a resource for developers, and, “At this conference, we announced the developerWorks Architecture Center,” which offers 40 different architectural patters with sample code, she said.

She outlined the process “citizen developers” use to build apps. “Composing — using a service, you don’t actually have to be a hardcore, knuckle-dragging coder. You can actually create an app and compose it together,” she said. One of the programming languages she recommends composers use is Swift. “It’s a phenomenal language, easy to use,” she said.

Is 2016 the year of the IoT developer?

Carter was full of forecasts for the future – -she stated, “IBC says that 2016 is the year of the IoT developer.” She confirmed that IBM is seeing a lot of IoT interest from the developers they work with. “We see tremendous use of the IOT assets that we have,” she said.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM InterConnect 2016. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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