Jerry recaps The Art of Automation Season 1 and gives a preview for Season 2. 

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For the final episode of Season 1, Jerry is joined by Vice President of IBM Digital Business Automation, Ed Lynch. They take a step back and discuss the concept of Enterprise Automation as a whole, specifically, where we are today and how we got here. Ed explains that Automation is everywhere - not limited to one specific industry.  He then elaborates on the future of Enterprise Automation, and how it inevitably will be centered around AI and augmenting human work. They close by determining that Automation all comes down to the human beings and that the best place to begin your Automation journey is with the data.  

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Jerry is joined by Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at NCR Corporation, Tim Vanderham. They discuss how progressive retailers are beginning to use Automation to transform the customer's shopping experience - a transformation that has been catalyzed by the ongoing pandemic. Tim shares Automation examples from self-checkout to online ordering and explains how this goes beyond classic Automation to Edge, Computer Vision, Internet of Things, and even Cryptocurrency. They close by jumping the tracks to AI and diving into how, out of necessity, retail companies are utilizing AI to filter through millions of events to isolate outages and create a more personalized experience for their consumers. 

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Tim's Interview on Crypo in Retail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aGURdd9i4c

Jerry is joined by IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO of IBM Application Platforms, and a Founding Father of the WebSphere Application Platform, Dr. Ian Robinson. Jerry and Ian discuss the story of Java, from its beginnings at Sun Microsystems, to its role today as the platform for an enduring software development ecosystem of languages, runtime platforms, open source projects, and much more. Ian explains how the Internet as we know it today, would simply never have existed without Java. He then elaborates on Automation and AI's role in Java with examples from real operations, IT, and other enterprise teams. They close by exploring a new game-changing technology (which combines Java and AI-powered Automation) that is taking monolithic applications and increasing their agility by breaking them down into smaller microservices. 

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IBM Semeru Runtimes - http://ibm.com/semeru-runtimes 
The Open Liberty Project for Java microservices - https://openliberty.io/ 
Mono2Micro - http://ibm.biz/Mono2Micro 
WebSphere Automation - https://www.ibm.com/cloud/websphere-automation

Digital Jerry (DJ) and Human Jerry return for a special episode on one of the most popular technology trends of the last decade, Blockchain. Jerry begins by clearing up a few common misconceptions about Blockchain, like the fact that it's not the same thing as Bitcoin. He reframes the popular narrative around Blockchain by sharing its extensive use cases, all of which are unified by a desire to build a trusted network to handle interactions between known parties. Jerry then shifts the discussion to Enterprise AI-powered Automation, where Automation technology is generally bounded by a company's firewall. With Blockchain, however, Automation is being expanded to multi-party processes (such as supply chain), saving substantial amounts of time and money. Jerry closes by summarizing how Blockchain's immutable shared ledger creates a foundation of trust and confidence, by forming one system of truth for all players involved. 

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More on Blockchain and Trust: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-we-trust-well-after-you-add-little-blockchain-jerry-cuomo/

Jerry is joined by Director of Engineering at Submergence Group and the mastermind behind the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, Don Scott. They discuss the unique application of Automation and AI at sea, specifically around the Mayflower Autonomous Ship project, which is attempting to become the first entirely automated vessel to traverse the Atlantic Ocean. Don explains how this "AI Captain" operates and makes decisions while at sea. He also elaborates on safety, trust, and international marine regulations and how AI explainability is such an important part of the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (or any other AI system). Jerry and Don close by exploring how lessons learned from Automation at sea can be applied back to an enterprise setting. 

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Follow the Mayflower Autonomous Ship: https://mas400.com

Jerry is joined by Vice President of Automation Intelligence and leader of the IBM France Development Lab, Harley Davis. They set out to answer the most frequently asked question by The Art of Automation's audience: "Where do we start"? Harley explains the concept of Process Mining and how it takes a data-driven approach to translating an enterprise's desire for improved operations into actions and automations that can actually be implemented. He also discusses how Process Mining technology allows a business to simulate (using a "Digital Twin") what would improve if certain automations are applied, removing risk and justifying AI investments.  

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IBM Process Mining: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/process-mining  
myInvenio: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/1.0?topic=foundation-process-mining

Jerry is joined by Turbonomic CEO and member of the "Forbes Midas List" six years running, Ben Nye. They discuss the concept of "ARM" (Application Resource Management) and how it can be used to save companies 30% on their cloud infrastructure bills. Ben explains that the infamous "spinning wheel of death" (which often comes when applications are being starved of resources) can effectively be eliminated when a company uses ARM technology to automate optimal resource allocation. He clarifies this point with an analogy of an auction or negotiation, where applications bid on and trade resources, depending on their needs. Finally, Ben shares how ARM is saving enormous amounts of energy in data centers, reducing carbon emissions and an enterprise's impact on our climate.  

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Jerry is joined by IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO of IBM Cloud Paks, and host of "The Hybrid Cloud How-To Series", Andre Tost. They begin by discussing a broad definition of Hybrid Cloud, which includes flexibility of location and the ability to support a wide variety of application architectures. Andre shares his view that Automation in one of the core principles of Cloud and that it's impossible to do Cloud Computing without it. He also discusses how AI brings intelligence to automating Hybrid Cloud, by helping predict and fix operational problems before they happen. 

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Listen to The Hybrid Cloud How-To Series here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JEaNrwIEBXPY0H5GREwVE

Jerry is joined by IBM Distinguished Engineer, self-published author, and the most prolific inventor in the history of IBM (with over 800 patents), Lisa Seacat DeLuca. They discuss how AI-powered automation helps businesses understand the environment and how they can use that data to tackle challenges related to climate change, sustainability, and everyday business operations. Lisa shares an example from the airline industry, where flights still use a paper-based flight manifest that a pilot must sign, and she explains how much faster and more accurate the process could be if reinvented with AI-powered automation. She also makes predictions for how automation will play an even bigger role in public health as the world transitions to the next normal, with technologies coming together to help us be safer as a society.  
  
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