Today’s social and environmental challenges are too complex for any single actor to solve in silo.

To make the positive impact that is needed in this context, two things are of crucial importance:

·      Exploit technologies that are available today (cloud, Internet of Things, Watson cognitive, analytics, predictive, mobility).

·      Optimize costs by partnering with the private sector.

During this session we will present you a solution that was built with the purpose to turn exactly these conditions in today’s complex world into a powerful opportunity you: BUN - Bluemix for the UN ecosystem.

Bluemix is the biggest open standard cloud services platform that gives easy access to 130+ cutting edge services, such as Watson cognitive, Internet of Things, Blockchain, weather.com, analytics and mobility services. We are convinced that all these services can have a great impact on achieving the Sustainable Development Goal’s (SDGs).

We will demonstrate live how to easily compose such a solution on BUN and Bluemix. This will include explanations and a demo on:

-       How actors from the UN ecosystem can register on BUN,and post requests clearly linked to specific SDGs, as well as it’s sub targets

-       How to get responses back from private sector actors

-       How BUN - as a platform - can enable your collaborative work with actors from the private sector as well as the academic community (e.g. integrators, developers, schools, universities and others) worldwide and is able to propose a solution based on Bluemix services.

- How a solution is being selected and ready for deployment on Bluemix – either public or private/confidential

Furthermore we will share with you how BUN can also be a  smart way to give back to the broader UN community. Any organization of the UN ecosystem is able to share its solutions and services defined to the others in the entire ecosystem, as they can be exposed in a specifically dedicated Bluemix catalog of services..

About the Organizers:

Impact Hub Geneva is a space where social entrepreneurs and innovators come together to prototype new models for a society that works for all.

IBM is a leading IT company providing powerful, affordable and cutting edge technologies in the field of hybrid cloud, Watson cognitive, Internet of Things, analytics, weather.com.

BUN is a collaborative platform that extends the reach of what Impact Hub Geneva is doing by leveraging cross sectorial work and giving an easy access to cutting edge technologies.

If you have a request with regards to  a SDG or one of its  specific sub targets the collaborative platform BUN can help you find the solution, based on open standard, that can be global and local, and secure.