ApacheCon @Home 2020 Tuesday keynote: Sam Lightstone, IBM

Double inflection point: Open Source meets AI
Sam Lightstone: Chief Technology Officer for AI Strategy, IBM

Abstract: Machine Learning is almost as old as the electronic computer, but the domain has experienced a massive infusion of energy and investment over the past 8 years. During this time the open source community has simultaneously developed a wide landscape of rich, sophisticated OSS packages for machine learning and deep learning such as Apache Marvin-AI, DLlab, Spark, MLlib, MADlib and OpenNLP. In this talk IBM CTO for AI Strategy, Sam Lightstone, will explore the confluence of these two disruptions and the possibilities that lie ahead for dramatic advances in AI, computation power, distributed computing, and a sea-change in computer science.

Sam Lightstone is IBM Chief Technology Officer for AI Strategy, IBM Fellow and a Master Inventor in the IBM Data and AI group. He is also chair of the Data and AI Technical Team, the working group of IBM’s technical executives in the division. He has been the founder and co-founder of several large-scale initiatives including AI databases, next generation data warehousing, data virtualization, autonomic computing for data systems, serverless cloud SQL query, and cloud native database services. He co-founded the IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems. Sam has more than 65 patents issued and pending and has authored 4 books and over 30 papers. Sam’s books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. In his spare time he is an avid guitar player and fencer. His Twitter handle is @samlightstone.