How is IBM Corp. fast-tracking data, particularly in regards to differentiating its products for speeding up the machine learning development pipeline, data ingestion and data modeling?

Looking to answer this question and others, SiliconANGLE is at the IBM Fast Track Your Data event, taking place in Munich, Germany, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

IBM’s machine learning portfolio has had consistent product launches over the past 18 months. As part of its $3 billion global investment in Watson Internet of Things, IBM has allocated more than $200 million to its global Watson IoT headquarters in Munich. But IBM is facing escalating pressure to start productizing in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

“The industry is waiting for IBM to get serious about going real deep on artificial intelligence to contend with strong pushes from Google and Microsoft,” said James Kobielus, lead analyst for data science, deep learning and application development at Wikibon, owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE.

Earlier this month, IBM announced a partnership with Hortonworks Inc. that will combine the company’s data science offering with Hortonworks’ software platform for managing huge amounts of data. At the start of this year, IBM announced its support for Google Inc.’s TensorFlow machine learning framework.

One of the presentations at the Munich-based event will explore the enterprise impact of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation set to go live in less than a year. With this presentation in mind, theCUBE expects announcements from IBM with regards to its hyper-data management, unified governance and data science products.

Keynote speakers at the IBM Fast Track Your Data event include IBM executives Rob Thomas, general manager of IBM analytics platform; Marc Altshuller, general manager of IBM business analytics; Seth Dobrin, vice president and chief data officer for IBM analytics; and Dinesh Nirmal, vice president of IBM analytics development.

Other keynote speakers include Hilary Mason, co-founder of Fast Forward Labs Inc. and data scientist in residence at Accel Partners, and Dez Blanchfield, strategy and policy consultant for the Australian Federal Government and head of digital business, resident data scientist at Flexdata Solutions Pty. Ltd.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at the IBM Fast Track Your Data event, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage starts today at 9:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. CEST.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from the IBM Fast Track Your Data event on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from IBM Fast Track Your Data 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 who will be interviewed on theCUBE

TheCUBE’s coverage at the IBM Fast Track Your Data event starts with a panel discussion featuring Ronald Van Loon, director at Adversitement France; Lillian Pierson, data science trainer and coach at Data-Mania; Chris Penn, vice president of marketing technology at Shift Communications LLC and co-host of Marketing Over Coffee; Dion Hinchcliffe, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research Inc. and chief strategy officer at 7Summits LLC.; and keynote speaker Dez Blanchfield.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include IBM Fast Track Your Data keynote speakers Rob Thomas, Seth Dobrin, Dinesh Nirmal and another IBM executive, Daniel Hernandez, vice president of IBM analytics.

In addition to interview coverage being available on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page, coverage will also be available on theCUBE and IBM Channel on Ustream.

Livestream of IBM Fast Track Your Data

If you are unable to attend the IBM Fast Track Your Data event in Munich, various sessions will be livestreamed, including Rob Thomas’ “Where Data Goes Next” and Hilary Mason’s “Making Beautiful Things With Data.” Other sessions will be available on-demand after the event.

To ensure you don’t miss out on the action from IBM Fast Track Your Data, you can register for the livestream, which starts today at 1 p.m. CEST.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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