IBM Edge 2016 takes place from Monday, Sept. 19 to Thursday, Sept. 22 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with this year’s event designed to help attendees “outthink the status quo.” The sessions at IBM Edge will cover open innovations for the cloud platform, the future of cognitive business and more.

Once a storage-centric event, IBM Edge now spans the company’s mainframe, power and storage initiatives. Given IBM’s streamlined offerings in this area after selling off much of its hardware business to Lenovo, questions loom over Big Blue’s strategic direction in leveraging its remaining datacenter products to drive more Software-as-a-Service offerings in today’s cloud-first economy. Analytics has been a promising area of development to this end, as IBM continues to release vertical-ready solutions for its data-hungry artificial intelligence platform, Watson.

“IBM’s always been very thoughtful about its strategies, they’re very good,” said Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante. “Its strategy was easy when it had a mainframe monopoly, then it became a services-led company. With an established distribution channel (it kept Lotus Notes, storage, middleware and Platform-as-a-Service products alive), IBM is looking to monetize the services layer.”

Boosting its analytics prowess, IBM launched its Power Systems S822LC for High Performance Computing, earlier this month. Together with Nvidia Corp., the new system has been built specifically for artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics use cases.

SiliconANGLE’s video production team, theCUBE will be broadcasting live from IBM Edge and will be interviewing some of the top industry leaders from IBM, BCM One Inc., Everledger and more.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all theCUBE interviews from IBM Edge, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube, ensuring you don’t miss out on any of the action.

SiliconANGLE TV

All of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews from IBM Edge 2016 will be available on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from IBM Edge, starting on Sept. 19, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests to be interviewed on theCUBE

On Monday, Sept. 19, theCUBE will interview Hayden Lindsey vice president and distinguished engineer of DevOps for Enterprise Systems at IBM; Matt Cadieux, chief information officer at Red Bull Racing; and Eric Herzog, vice president of product marketing and management at IBM Storage Systems and Software Defined Infrastructure.

Other guests include Jason Pontin, chief executive officer, editor-in-chief and publisher at MIT Technology Review; Mukesh Sharma, senior IT manager at Welch Foods Inc.; and Jamie Thomas, general manager of strategy and development at IBM Systems.

Michael Lawley, senior vice president of IT at HealthPlan Services; Michael Goodenough, vice president of cloud solutions at BCM One; and Stefanie Chiras, vice president of power systems offering management, system of engagement infrastructures at IBM will also be joining theCUBE.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, theCUBE will interview IBM executives including Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president of IBM Systems; Donna Dillenberger, IBM Fellow of Watson Research Center; and Calista Redmond, director of OpenPOWER Global Alliances at IBM Systems.

Other guests include Greg McCoy, manager of IT architecture at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital; Leanne Kemp, founder and chief executive officer of Everledger; and Major Hayden, principal architect at Rackspace Inc.

Live stream the IBM Edge 2016 sessions

If you are unable to attend IBM Edge in Las Vegas, you will still be able to watch the sessions thanks to IBMGO. Sessions are also available to watch on demand after the event. You can sign up on the IBMGO site and check out the full IBM Edge schedule.

You can also get all the coverage from IBM Edge on SiliconANGLE.

Disclosure: TheCUBE is the paid media partner for the event. Neither IBM nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on SiliconANGLE or theCUBE.

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