Chris Leonard

STSM, AI Technologies, IBM MQ

Chris is a senior technical staff member (STSM) at IBM and leads AI initiatives for IBM MQ as part of his Service Architect role within the IBM MQ engineering team. He has previously worked in several roles within messaging product development and engineering, including assisting with a wide range of customer deployments. Chris currently has responsibility for strategy, architecture and maintenance of current IBM MQ products, and helping shape future product releases to meet clients’ needs.

Talk:
Get Hands-on with the IBM MQ AI Agent (lab)

Meet the IBM MQ Agent, your digital coworker for MQ operations. In this session you’ll be guided by the MQ Agent to investigate realistic problem scenarios, explore the associated MQ configuration, and interrogate the Agent’s extensive product domain knowledge. The lab will also demonstrate how recent MQ and Agent enhancements, such as remote retrieval of queue manager error log data, can be utilised to drive MQ insights and augment ops team skills to drive operational efficiency.

Key Takeaways:

  • Attendees will gain first-hand experience how AI can be applied to messaging components in a ‘production solution’ in identifying the root cause of a problem report.

Target Audience:

  • Administrators, developers, CTOs and leaders interested in operational efficiency.