OpenWhisk Events Archive

This event archive is maintained here to refer to the list of past events and access its content.

March 2018

• IBM Think, March 19th–22rd, Las Vegas, USA
  Several talks on OpenWhisk and IBM Cloud Functions.
• Voxxed Days Bristol, March 15th, Bristol, UK
  James Thomas gave a talk about “Microservices Without Servers.”

February 2018

• ServerlessConf Boston Meetup, February 7th, Boston, US
  Paul Castro presented on Apache OpenWhisk.
• ServerlessConf NYC Meetup, February 15th, NY, US
  Daniel Krook presented on Apache OpenWhisk using IBM Cloud Functions.
• Serverlessconf Paris, February 14th-15th, Paris, France
  A workshop and talk on OpenWhisk and IBM Cloud Functions.
• JeffConf Hamburg, February 15th-16th, Hamburg, Germany
  Several OpenWhisk members in attendance.
• DevNexus Atlanta, February 21st-23rd, Atlanta, US
  Raymond Camden provided “A general introduction to serverless with Apache OpenWhisk.”

January 2018

• CodeMash, January 9th-12th, Sandusky, US
  Rob Allen spoke about how to “Build a Delightful API with Serverless Technology.”

November 2017

• µCon London, November 6th-7th 2017, London, UK
  Rob Allen will give a talk on building serverless APIs in Swift
• Devoxx Morocco, November 14th-16th 2017, Casablanca, Morocco
  James Thomas gave a talk on building serverless applications with OpenWhisk
• UA Mobile, November 25th 2017, Kiev, Ukraine
  James Thomas gave a talk on building mobile APIs with Swift on OpenWhisk

October 2017

• TopConf Duesseldorf, October 4th-6th 2017, Cologne, Germany
  James Thomas gave a talk on building serverless applications using OpenWhisk
• NCDevCon Carlos Santana gave a talk on using OpenWhisk with Websites.
• ServerlessConf October 8th-11th, NY, US
  Several talks on OpenWhisk
• ServerlessConf NYC Meetup October 12th, NY, US
  Daniel Krook (IBM) and Dragos Dascalita Haut (Adobe) presented on Apache OpenWhisk
• Nordic APIs Summit, October 10th-11th 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
  James Thomas gave a talk on building serverless APIs using OpenWhisk and Swift
• Going Serverless, October 20th 2017, Online Webinar
  James Thomas gave a talk on building multi-provider serverless applications with The Serverless Framework and OpenWhisk
• BristolJS October, October 25th 2017, Bristol, England
  James Thomas gave a talk on serverless Node.js applications with OpenWhisk

September 2017

• APIDays Zurich, September 26th-27th 2017, Zurich, Switzerland
  Rob Allen gave a talk on building serverless APIs in Swift
• Pixels Camp, September 28th-30th 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
  James Thomas gave a talk on building serverless applications using OpenWhisk
• SwiftConf Europe, September 6th-7th 2017, Cologne, Germany
  James Thomas gave a talk on Serverless Swift APIs using OpenWhisk

June 2017

• OpenWhisk Meetup Austin, TX, June 21st 2017, Austin, TX
  Carlos Santana gave a talk, with demos, and discussion of latest features.
• Acadiana Software Group, June 14th 2017, Lafayette, USA
  Raymond Camden gave a talk on OpenWhisk

May 2017

• Meetup Serverless Amsterdam, May 29th 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Andreas Nauerz and Markus Thömmes gave a talk with a hands-on workshop on OpenWhisk
• Meetup Triangle CocoaHeads, May 25th 2017, Raleigh, USA
  Carlos Santana gave a talk on OpenWhisk and Swift at the Triangle Cocoa - Mac and iOS Development Meetup
• ApacheCon North America, May 16th-18th 2017, Miami, USA
  Carlos Santana and Matt Rutkowski gave talks on Apache OpenWhisk
• Codemotion Amsterdam, May 16th-17th 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  James Thomas gave a talk on building serverless applications using OpenWhisk
• Meetup Triangle Bluemix, May 11th 2017, NCSU Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC USA
  IBM Development team contributing to OpenWhisk provided an overview and live demos using Bluemix.
• Meetup Serverless Berlin, May 4th 2017, Berlin, Germany
  Andreas Nauerz and Jeremias Werner gave a talk and ran a hands-on workshop on OpenWhisk

April 2017

• ServerlessConf Austin, April 27th-28th 2017, Austin, USA
  OpenWhisk team attended
• ServerlessConf Austin, April 26th 2017, Austin, USA
  Andreas Nauerz et al ran a hands-on workshop on OpenWhisk
• Into the Box, April 26th-28th 2017, The Woodlands, USA
  Raymond Camden gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Meetup TRI REST, April 26th 2017, Raleigh, USA
  Carlos Santana gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Meetup Serverless Hamburg, April 10th 2017, Hamburg, Germany
  Andreas Nauerz and Xin Cai gave a talk and run a hands-on workshop on OpenWhisk
• Meetup Serverless Boston, April 5th 2017, Boston, USA
  Paul Castro and Perry Cheng gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, April 5th 2017, New York, USA
  Daniel Krook gave a keynote with other talks on OpenWhisk by Ioana Baldini and Rodric Rabbah

March 2017

• Meetup Serverless Vienna, March 28th 2017, Vienna, Austria
  Coding on various Serverless systems, incl OpenWhisk.
• CloudNativeCon and KubeCon Europe, March 29th–30th 2017, Berlin, Germany
  Daniel Krook gave an OpenWhisk demo at the IBM booth and was available for questions
• Devoxx US, March 21st–23rd 2017, Las Vegas, USA
  OpenWhisk team attended

• IBM InterConnect, March 19th–23rd 2017, Las Vegas, USA
  OpenWhisk team attended

  Ask Me Anything

  • 7291A: Bluemix OpenWhisk: Ask Me Anything Expert Station
    Tuesday, 1:00 PM-2:45 PM; DevZone Ask Me Anything # 6; Carlos Santana (IBM)
  • 7237A: Drones, Watson and Bluemix
    Tuesday, 3:00 PM-5:00 PM; DevZone Ask Me Anything # 1; Andrew Trice (IBM)
  • 7077A: Ask Me Anything on Using OpenWhisk for Your Next Cloud-Native Project
    Wednesday, 10:00 AM-11:45 AM; DevZone Ask Me Anything # 6, Daniel Krook (IBM)
  Breakout Sessions

  • 1427A: Serverless: Where We are Now and Where We're Heading
    Sunday, 09:30 AM-10:30 AM; Mandalay Bay South, Level 2 Reef A; Michael Behrendt (IBM), Andreas Nauerz (IBM)
  • 7377A: API Lifecycle Innovations
    Sunday, 10:40 AM-11:00 AM; South Pacific F; Jim Laredo (IBM), Erik Wittern (IBM)
  • 7402A: The Serverless Revolution Continues: OpenWhisk
    Sunday, 11:00 AM-11:30 AM; South Pacific F; Ioana Baldini (IBM)
  • 7380A: Data, Data Everywhere, and Lots of Drops to Drink (Demos)
    Sunday, 1:00 PM-1:30 P; South Pacific G; Paula Ta-Shma (IBM), Dalit Naor (IBM)
  • 7367A: The Serverless Revolution Continues: The Latest from OpenWhisk
    Sunday, 02:00 PM-02:30 PM; South Pacific H; Stephen Fink (IBM)
  • 7329A: API Economy Demonstrations
    Sunday, 2:00 PM-2:30 P; South Pacific G; Jim Laredo (IBM), Erik Wittern (IBM)
  • 3351A: MediaSpirit: A Bluemix and OpenWhisk Love Story
    Monday, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM; South Pacific G; Andreas Nauerz (IBM), Barry Nijenhuis (SiteSpirit)
  • 2724A: Create Event-Driven iOS Apps Using IBM Mobile Foundation, OpenWhisk Runtime and Server-Side Swift
    Monday, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM; South Pacific D; Srinivasan Nanduri (IBM), Girish Dhanakshirur (IBM)
  • 4467A: Containerize, PaaS or Go Serverless?: A Case Study in Application Deployment Models
    Tuesday, 11:30 AM-12:15 PM; Islander G; Phil Estes (IBM), Lin Sun (IBM)
  • 5496A: Cloud Native Applications and Microservices Made Easy!
    Tuesday, 2:30 PM-3:15 PM; Islander F; Erin Schnabel (IBM), Chris Vignola (IBM)
  • 5513A: Serverless Architectures in Banking: OpenWhisk on IBM Bluemix at Santander
    Tuesday, 3:45 PM-4:30 PM; South Pacific J; Daniel Krook (IBM), Luis Enriquez (Banco Santander)
  • 6229A: What's New in IBM API Connect
    Tuesday, 3:45 PM-4:30 PM; Lagoon H; Pramodh Ramesh (IBM), Amit P. Acharya (IBM)
  • 5064A: OpenWhisk, Adobe, and developerWorks Open for High-Powered Applications
    Wednesday, 8:00 AM-8:45 AM; South Pacific J; Tony Ffrench (IBM), Felix Meschberger (Adobe)
  • 5421A: How to Build Homogeneously from One Source Repository to Mobile and Microservices Targets
    Wednesday, 9:00 AM-9:45 AM; South Pacific J; Roland Barcia (IBM), John Pearson (Wakefern)
  • 6336A: Use IBM Bluemix to Build Cognitive Mobile Apps that Learn and Act Proactively
    Wednesday, 9:00 AM-9:45 AM; South Pacific D; Anton Aleksandrov (IBM), Matthew Perrins (IBM)
  • 1117A: Introduction to LoopBack
    Wednesday, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM; Islander F; Matt Roberts (IBM); Raymond Camden (IBM)
  • 3044A: Retail Customer Feedback: Case Study with OpenWhisk, Watson and Mobile Services on IBM Bluemix
    Wednesday, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM; Lagoon F; Thejaswini Ramachandra (IBM), Srinivasan Nanduri (IBM)
  • 1596A: Computation in Real-time on the Network
    Wednesday, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM; South Pacific B; Dan Zeitman, PubNub (IBM Business Partner)
  • 3248A: Integrating New Tools into IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery Toolchains
    Wednesday, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM; Mandalay Bay Ballroom D; Chris Brealey (IBM), Simon Kaegi (IBM)
  • 4073A: Serverless, Event-Driven Architectures and Bluemix OpenWhisk: Overview and IBM's Technical Strategy
    Wednesday, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM; South Pacific H; Michael Behrendt (IBM), Andreas Nauerz (IBM)
  • 4460A: Combining OpenWhisk (Serverless), OpenAPI (Swagger) and IBM API Connect to Build Powerful APIs
    Wednesday, 4:15 PM-5:00 PM; Breakers C; Joe Sepi (IBM)
  • 1081A: What’s New with the IBM Bluemix Core Platform?
    Thursday, 9:30 AM-10:15 AM; South Pacific E; Simon Daniel Moser (IBM), Michael Behrendt (IBM)
  • 6324A: How to Secure and Control API, Microservices and Serverless Workloads
    Thursday, 10:30 AM-11:15 AM; Lagoon H; Shiu-Fun Poon (IBM), Matt Roberts (IBM), Krithika Prakash (IBM)
  Customer Feedback Round Tables

  • 6637A: Shaping the Future of IBM DataPower and API Gateways
    Monday, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM; Coral A; Tony Ffrench (IBM), Ozair Sheikh (IBM)
  • 6671A: Shaping the Future of Serverless APIs and Microservices in IBM Bluemix
    Monday, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM; Coral A; Carlos Santana (IBM), Sajan Sankaran (IBM), Andrew Hoyt (IBM)
  • 6671B: Shaping the Future of Serverless APIs and Microservices in IBM Bluemix
    Wednesday, 8:00 AM-8:45 AM; Coral A; Carlos Santana (IBM), Sajan Sankaran (IBM), Andrew Hoyt (IBM)
  Engagement Theater Sessions

  • 7111A: Discovering the Fun World of Serverless with IBM Bluemix and OpenWhisk
    Tuesday, 1:30 PM-1:50 PM; Engagement Theater Booth # 319; Chanakya Lokam (Miracle Software Systems, Inc.), Jyotsna Duvvuri (Miracle Software Systems, Inc.)
  • 7432A: Create Secure Cloud Foundry and OpenWhisk Powered APIs in IBM Bluemix
    Wednesday, 11:15 AM-11:35 AM; Engagement Theater Booth # 649; Sajan Sankaran (IBM), Rob Thelen (IBM)
  • 6522A: Build a Cloud Native App with Apache OpenWhisk
    Wednesday, 11:45 AM-12:05 PM; Engagement Theater Booth # 649; Daniel Krook (IBM)
  • 1515A: Discover Dark Data behind Videos with OpenWhisk and IBM Watson
    Wednesday, 1:30 PM-1:50 PM; Engagement Theater Booth # 649; Ramratan Vennam (IBM), Frederic Lavigne (IBM)
  • 1515B: Discover Dark Data behind Videos with OpenWhisk and IBM Watson
    Wednesday, 4:45 PM-5:05 PM; Engagement Theater Booth # 649; Ramratan Vennam (IBM), Frederic Lavigne (IBM)
  Hands-on Labs

  • 3163A: Serverless Bots: Create Efficient Inexpensive, Event-Driven Bots with Node.js and OpenWhisk
    Monday, 3:15 PM-5:00 PM; South Seas B; Erin McKean (IBM)
  • 2450B: Working with IBM OpenWhisk in Bluemix
    Monday, 4:15 PM-5:00 PM; South Seas I1; Budi Darmawan (IBM), Pam Geiger (IBM)
  • 3397A: Event-Driven and Serverless Computing with IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk
    Tuesday, 1:30 PM-5:30 PM; South Seas I1; Andreas Nauerz (IBM), Carlos Santana (IBM)
  • 5130A: A Deep-Dive into Serverless Computing and Watson Service Chaining Via OpenWhisk
    Wednesday, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM; South Seas G; Vidyasagar Machupalli (IBM)
  • 2256A: Build Your First Cognitive Chatbot Using OpenWhisk
    Wednesday, 3:15 PM-5:00 PM; South Seas B; Carlos Santana (IBM), Andreas Nauerz (IBM)
  Hello World Labs

  • 7252A: Create Quick Twitterbots with OpenWhisk!
    Tuesday, 11:00 AM-1:45 PM; DevZone Hello World Lab # 4; Erin McKean (IBM)
  • 7078A: Get Started with Apache OpenWhisk on IBM Bluemix
    Tuesday, 2:15 PM-5:00 PM; DevZone Hello World Lab # 4; Andy Smith (IBM)
  • 7070A: Event-Driven and Serverless Computing with IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk: Learn the Basics Hands-On Now!
    Wednesday, 9:00 AM-12:45 PM; DevZone Hello World Lab # 4; Andreas Nauerz (IBM)
  Meet the Expert Sessions

  • 7122A: Creating Serverless IoT Applications Using OpenWhisk, Docker and Node-RED
    Wednesday, 9:00 AM-9:45 AM; Meet the Experts Forum # 1; Kalonji Bankole (IBM)
  Open Labs

  • 9002: Event-driven and Serverless Computing with IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk: Learn the basics now!
    Monday-Thursday drop-in; Mandalay Bay North, South Seas E&F; Andreas Nauerz (IBM)
• JS Remote Conf, March 15th-16th 2017, Virtual
  James Thomas gave a talk on OpenWhisk and Serverless
• ForwardJS, March 1st 2017, San Francisco, USA
  Raymond Camden will give a talk on OpenWhisk

February 2017

• TopConf Linz, February 28th-March 2nd 2017, Linz, Austria
  James Thomas gave a talk on building serverless applications using OpenWhisk
• London Serverless, February 1st 2017, London, UK
  James Thomas gave a talk on building OpenWhisk apps with The Serverless Framework

December 2016

• Build a cloud native app with OpenWhisk, December 14th 2016, Virtual
  Daniel Krook presented an overview of serverless architectures and dive into the OpenWhisk programming model

November 2016

• GOTO Berlin, November 14th-15th 2016, Berlin, Germany
  Andreas Nauerz & Simon Moser gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• CloudNativeCon 2016, November 8th 2016, Seattle, USA
  Daniel Krook highlighted OpenWhisk in his keynote
• ContainerDays NYC 2016, November 3rd-4th 2016, New York, USA
  Rodric Rabbah and Philippe Suter gave a talk on OpenWhisk

October 2016

• ServerlessConf London, October 26th-28th 2016, London, UK
  Andreas Nauerz et al gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• OpenStack Summit, October 25th-28th 2016, Barcelona, Spain
  Shaun Murakami gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• JavaDay, October 14th-16th 2016, Kyiv, Ukraine
  James Thomas gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• New York City Bluemix Meetup, October 13th 2016, New York, USA
  Daniel Krook et al ran a workshop on OpenWhisk and other Bluemix topics
• Serverless New York City Meetup, October 13th 2016, New York, USA
  Nick Mitchell gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Serverless Seattle Meetup, October 12th 2016, Seattle, USA
  Megan Kostick gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• New York City Bluemix Meetup, October 12th 2016, New York, USA
  Daniel Krook gave a talk on OpenWhisk

September 2016

• ServerlessConf Tokyo, September 30th–October 1st 2016, Tokyo, Japan
  Andreas Nauerz & Markus Thömmes gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Voxxed Days, September 28th-30th 2016, Belgrade, Serbia
  James Thomas gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• CloudFoundry Summit, September 26th-28th 2016, Frankfurt, Germany
  Andreas Nauerz & Andrei Yurkovich gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Codemotion Warsaw, September 15th-16th 2016, Warsaw, Poland
  Andreas Nauerz gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Node Interactive EU, September 15th-16th 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  OpenWhisk team gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Serverless New York City Meetup, September 15th 2016, New York, USA
  Philippe Suter gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• JDay, September 3rd 2016, Lviv, Ukraine
  James Thomas gave a talk on OpenWhisk

July 2016

• Bluemix and IBM Cloud Meetup, July 27th 2016, Dublin, Ireland
  Emmanuel Vregille gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• New York City Bluemix Meetup, July 21th 2016, New York, USA
  Ioana Baldini and Philippe Suter gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Serverless Meetups London, July 5th 2016, London, UK
  Nick O’Leary and James Thomas gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Serverless Meetup Sydney, July 5th 2016, Sydney, Australia
  Iwan Winoto gave a talk on OpenWhisk

June 2016

• Bluemix Developers in Cambridge Meetup, June 23rd 2016, Cambridge, USA
  Vatche Ishakia gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Silicon Valley Cloud Foundry User Group Meetup, June 14th 2016, Sunnyvale, USA
  Animesh Singh & Altoros gave a talk on OpenWhisk

May 2016

• ServerlessConf New York, May 26th-27th 2016, New York City, USA
  Michael Behrendt, Stephen Fink, and Andreas Nauerz gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Drones, IoT, Cognitive Computing, Bluemix, and OpenWhisk!, May 25th 2016, New York City, USA
  Andrew Trice gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Cloud Foundry Unconference, May 22nd 2016, Santa Clara, USA
  Animesh Singh gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• OSCON Austin, May 18th-19th 2016, Austin, USA
  Daniel Krook gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Hursley Summit, May 16th-18th 2016, Hursley, UK
  Andreas Nauerz gave a talk on OpenWhisk
• Codemotion Amsterdam, May 9th-12th 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Andreas Nauerz gave a talk on OpenWhisk

April 2016

• Triangle Bluemix Meetup, April 20th 2016, Durham, USA