Speaker: Patrick Bohrer

Distinguished Engineer @IBMCloud

Patrick Bohrer is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM’s Cloud division. His responsibilities include serving as the technical lead for the Mobile Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas, as well as, leading IBM’s Global Swift Engineering efforts. Patrick co-lead the 2012 Global Technology Outlook entitled MobileFirst which helped set the technical direction for IBM's current mobile and cloud efforts. Patrick received a B.A in computer science from the University of Texas.

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Talk: The Case for bringing Swift to the Server

Track: Modern Native Languages

Location: Mountbatten, 6th flr.

Day of week: Wednesday

Duration: 5:25pm - 6:15pm

The Swift language continues to grow and is now one of the most popular mobile programming languages. Since the introduction of open source Swift for Linux, IBM has been enabling the language on the IBM Cloud.

During this session, we will present a preview of our latest cloud deployment configurations, Swift package-based cloud services, and tools integration. In addition, the IBM Swift Sandbox continues to be the place to get a taste of Swift running on the cloud. Come join this session to hear more about what is next for Swift @ IBM.

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