• This month we are excited to have Ivan Portilla to come talk about Watson Alchemy API . 

  5:30-6:10: Networking and Food
  Food, Soda, Beer and Networking. We are grateful to TEksystems for their continued sponsorship of the Food and Soda! Our friends over at FullContact have taken over the beer sponsorship, so a big thanks to them. 

  6:10-6:20: Announcements 

  6:20-7:50: Watson Alchemy API - Ivan Portilla

  The product of more than 75 years of engineering effort, AlchemyAPI is a text-mining platform providing the most comprehensive set of semantic analysis capabilities in the natural language processing field. Used over 3 billion times every month, AlchemyAPI enables customers to perform large-scale social media monitoring, enhance business and government intelligence systems, and create smarter applications and services.

  Attend this session to learn what AlchemyAPI can do for you, steps to get started, and an overview of the APIs.

  About Ivan Portilla: 

  Ivan Portilla is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist/Architect with GBS at IBM. A prolific author and speaker, he is recognized for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments. Ivan is member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the CTVC.

  7:50: Door prizes: 
  JetBrains IDE License
  Books - Provided by O'Reilly Media