CH Open's video: CH Open Business Event - Open Standards and Open Source @ IBM

IBM is not only the company with the highest number of patents filed in the US since the last 27 years, it is also extremely active in making its portfolio freely accessible, for instance in the most recent Open COVID Pledge. Open source is also in the DNA of IBM. Long before the 2019 acquisition of Red Hat, a global leader in open source technology, IBM helped establish The Linux Foundation, The Apache Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation. This underlines the strong open innovation focus at IBM, which I’ll cover in this talk by reviewing key aspects of successful and dependable open source communities, as well as critical considerations for embracing open source, based on our collective experience. I’ll illustrate with examples stemming from the IBM Research community, such as the open-source Qiskit quantum computing framework, and the brand new IBM Analog Hardware Acceleration Kit, a python toolkit for exploring and using the capabilities of in-memory computing devices in the context of artificial intelligence. About the speaker: Robert Haas leads one of the technical research departments at IBM Research Europe based in Zurich. His department delivers critical system hardware and software innovation that powers the cloud, AI, server and storage platforms of IBM, as well as leads the race towards in-memory computing. He has an M.Sc. in Communications Systems from EPFL and the Eurécom Institute (Sophia-Antipolis, France), a Ph.D. from ETHZ, and an MBA from Warwick Business School (UK). He has contributed to over 60 patents and several open standards in networking and security.