Day 2 at btsummit

Business Technology Summit
4th November, 2009
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore

This day starts with a keynote talk by Nils Puhlman on the topic "A New World to Protect" focusing on security in the current world. He highlights on the risks of social networking, online gaming, botnet zombies, etc. Did you know that iphone was capable of taking screenshots periodically!! (FBIs would be the happiest) ;). Lots of facts for life!. Indeed a great talk.

There were parallel talks on SOA, cloud solutions, collaboration and virtual machines. I had a tough time choosing a particular topic among such interesting talks. I heard a lot about cloud computing and SOA the other day, so thought of attending a topic out of the box. I zeroed in on Team intelligence, Information overload and emerging open source technologies.

Team intelligence is a must for all kinds of organisations,big or small. Imagine a world where we contribute to work without taking the pain of it. Woww.. does'nt that sound great! Take cues from the current web 2.0 world, twitter, digg, wiki, delicious, tag cloud... and the list does not end. When work is done, the trace or the contributing factors get lost... which could be of use to organisations to verify or track back. Imagagine how delicious can work here. All the links get stored under a tag name, which would help interested people in digging further. Collaboration does not end there... like there is no end to our innovation!

Information overload... isnt there lots of information around us? on the web, email, messenger, news, phone calls... along with these, also comes spam, a lot of SPAM. Infact people started talking of Information overload syndrome.. check this funny video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFEBbPIEOI

This was the most intersting talk of the day... I loved this one.. "Cloud Computing and Open Source". The speaker, Janakiraman, (I am sure many of the participants revered him) had showed us the pathway to enlightenment. He discussed the need for opensource alternatives to implement virtualization using xen, kvm. He explained in brief (was crisp enough for the non-technical participants) about how kvm and xen work, their design motives and comparisions. During his presentation, he gave a live demo of AWS EC2. Started a server in 5 mins flat. Wow... I am impressed.

Another presentation that I'd not forget was "Building Enterprise Dashboards" by Vivek Khurana. Some hints...
- Need for dashboards?
- Recipe for building usable dashboards...
- Difference between current and real data
- Latest trends -- smileys making it to dashboards :P
and many more.

-- I will try to detail out individual topics in posts to come --

[Just submitting a feedback form was the eligibility criteria]
Winners of technical books were announced at the end of the day. I dont know why my heart was pounding when the winner for the grand 16GB iphone was being announced.... Ended with a bigg Ohhhhhh when the winner was announced (expect for the person who won it).

The next day at office... i felt something amiss. Kudos to saltmarch!