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26/012017

Join the Social Connections team at IBM Connect 2017!

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While we are working hard on planning Social Connections 11 in Chicago we want to do a shout out to another great conference: IBM Connect in San Francisco!

The Social Connections team have four speakers at IBM Connect delivering 5 sessions, details below, so we’re pretty excited!

IBM Connect 2017 promises to be an interesting event. Firstly, it is in a new city and conference venue, the Moscone Centre, San Francisco, which guarantees something new and refreshing. Secondly, with new Watson based cognitive functionality within the IBM Collaborative solutions, there’s exciting new content for IT professionals, developers and business leaders giving a great opportunity to teach, learn and share how they will deliver a new way to work using IBM Watson and the other collaboration solutions from IBM.

We look forward to networking with all our friends and also learning from thought leaders, researchers, gurus, Business Partners and experts who are driving results and transforming organisations, both large and small, around the world.

With over 200 sessions being delivered over 3 days it’s going to be difficult to choose which season to attend when we’re not delivering our own. Nothing beats hearing real-world insights from industry-leading companies, learning about the technologies, APIs, platforms and services that boost your existing solutions, extend productivity and deliver new business results.

IBM promises these goodies:

Expand your horizons—explore the promise of emerging technologies like augmented reality, Internet of Things, Blockchain, AI and Watson.
Reimagine everyday work—learn how the solutions that are redefining work—Watson, Verse, Connections, Notes, Domino, Bluemix, Box and more—fuel productivity and collaboration.
Meet the experts—hear from experts on solutions that focus employees on work that matters by connecting the right people, information and processes.
Experience solutions first-hand—see the latest workplace technologies and research projects in the EXPO. Work with the products in labs. Discover new approaches to integrate and extend IBM solutions.

As discussed, we’re proud to have Social Connections team members contributing to IBM Connect. We look forward to welcoming you at one of to our sessions!

Femke:
1223A: Socialytics: Accelerating IBM Connections Adoption with Watson Analytics – Femke Goedhart, Date/Time: Tue, 21-Feb, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Simon:
1488A : Employee Engagement using IBM Connections – Simon Vaughan, Date/Time : Wed, 22-Feb, 09:00 AM-09:45 AM

Wannes:
1056A : How to Be a Lion Tamer (Keeping IBM Connections under Control with Free Tools) – Wannes Rams, Date/Time : Wed, 22-Feb, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Christoph:
1268A: IBM Connections Adminblast – Christoph Stoettner, Date/Time: Thu, 23-Feb, 8:00 AM-8:45 AM

1269A: Best and Worst Practices for Deploying IBM Connections, Date/Time: Thu, 23-Feb, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

We hope to see you at IBM Connect 2017!

06/062016

Today is Social Connections 10 day – and we stream the first morning of the event

News Stream Soccnx by Simon Vaughan

Today is the day, Social Connections 10 starts in Toronto.

The attendance figures at the event will be announced at the OGS, but we wanted to confirm one point – We will be streaming the first morning’s keynotes from the event!

If you would like to watch the Morning sessions from Social Connections 10, details of how to watch the event can be found here –

http://www.smpav.ca/webcast.php?ID=30680

26/052016

11 days to go…..

News soccnx by Simon Vaughan

With only 11 days to go until Social Connections 10 kicks off in Toronto, we wanted to highlight a number of the great sessions that are being presented at the event in Toronto…

The first session of the day is an introduction to IBM’s take on the Future of work followed by a demonstration of how this will work in real life. This session was a huge success at the recent Connect Conference in Orlando and it promises to be another great session

Following this session, we have a Case study from Lowes who explain how they have adopted and now use Connections in their organisation.

In addition, here is a selection other sessions that make Social Connections 10 in Toronto a ‘Not to be missed event!’

So, what are you waiting for – register now!

20/052016

An exciting addition to our agenda…

News FOW by Simon Vaughan

The Social Connections team are pleased to announce that at our event in Toronto the internationally recognized digital workplace expert, bestselling book author and futurist Dion Hinchcliffe will be presenting a session –

‘Conversational Collaboration: How Messaging, App Integration, and ChatBots Are Changing Social Collaboration’

The session will cover the following topic:

‘While the enterprise social network is still the top model for mass collaboration, a combined sprint of innovation recently in the messaging industry, the user experience field, and lightweight app integration is blazing a trail towards the next generation of digital workplace engagement. Upstarts like Slack are showing us that our applications will be connected deeply to our daily conversations, which will be gamely assisted by intelligent chatbots in real-time messaging environments and connected devices. Understand the implications for modern collaboration strategy, the recent growth of private social media, and explore new case studies of how leading-edge organizations are blending all these technologies into a workable new digital workplace that does useful things we’ve couldn’t have just imagined 2 years ago’

Details of this session can be found here

Dion joins an international line up of digital workplace experts including Luis Suarez, Alan Leposky and Tony Bryne.

Make sure that you register and book you place at this not to be missed event in Toronto – Register now!

29/032016

Social Connections Keynote with Luis Benitez – IBM’s Take on the Future of Work

News keynotes by Simon Vaughan

The Social Connections team are please to announce another keynote presentation at our event in Toronto on June 6th and 7th (at the St. Andrew’s conference Centre) – Luis Benitez presenting IBM’s Take on the Future of Work.

IBM’s Enterprise Social Solutions provides the platform of tools you need to transform your organization into a social business, enabling you to reach your customers and partners faster, drive innovation, share content and expertise, and complete work faster.

Last year, you heard our vision for a #NewWaytoWork. Today, we will show you what the future of working together with new innovations for personal insights, teamwork, and more. This session will explore our open strategy for Box and Exchange support, and how we will provide a persistent workplace for small teams. Join us and see first hand where IBM Enterprise Social Solutions will take you in the future!
Luis Benitez is the Product Management Leader in the IBM Social Software team. Luis has been helping customers embark on their Social Business transformation since 2007. As part of the product management team, Luis is responsible for the social, mobile, and app dev strategy for IBM Collaboration Solutions, driving the feature requirements into the product plans, understanding market needs and pain points, expanding business opportunities and naturally evangelizing IBM technologies to name a few. Luis spends a good portion of his time helping customers and partners think about how they can use IBM social technologies to help change the way they work.

Luis has been at IBM for 14 years and has held a variety of positions specializing in the collaboration space in addition to the social area. Luis can be found on Twitter at @Lbenitez and at his blog site – Socialize Me

To book your place at the event, register now (and take advantage of our Early bird offer which expires at the end of March!) – Register now!

The View from the Social connections 10 Venue!

07/032016

Social Connections 10 – What a venue we have for you!

News connections, soccnx, StAndrews, toronto, Venue by Simon Vaughan

The Social Connections team are pleased to announce that we have now secured a venue for our event in Toronto on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th June.

The venue is…………

The St Andrew’s Club and Conference centre in Downtown Toronto!

We have secured the 16th floor for our event and the location offers first class facilities and stunning views of downtown Toronto!

For the convenience of our attendees, the conference centre is located in the heart of Toronto, near all major hotels and connected through the underground path system to all major office towers in the city core as well as sitting atop the St. Andrews subway station. The conference venue is located on the 16th floor of the SunLife Financial tower.

We are sure that this venue will be hosting one of our best events to date.

We have a limit on the number of people that can attend the event, so we would advise that you register and book your place before it is too late! – Register Now!

To find out more about the venue, please visit the following website: http://www.standrewsclub.ca/

We are currently talking to some of the downtown hotels and we hope to announce some discounts for our delegates – stay tuned for a future announcement!

http://www.standrewsclub.ca/

20/072015

Sponsorship opportunities available for #SOCCNX 9

News soccnx, sponsors by Simon Vaughan

The clock is ticking and the countdown has begun for the IBM Connections event of 2015 – Social Connections 9 in Stuggart – Thursday November 5th and Friday November 6th 2015.

With a venue that can hold 250 people, this promises to be the largest event that we have held. With keynote speakers from IBM, Business partners, IBM Champions and most importantly of all – Customers, this is the event that you need to attend to learn from others and find out what is coming to the IBM Connections platform in 2016.

As for previous events, sponsorship opportunities are available and it is due to the contributions from our sponsors that the event is such a success.

From past events we have received great feedback from our sponsors. Below are some examples:

‘What an event, the number of people we met far exceeded our expectations. We will certainly be at the next event!’

‘It was great to meet so many Connection customers and the interest in our product was amazing. It is the first time we have sponsored this event and we will be at the next event!’

‘Speed sponsoring was great! The chance to showcase our new product to both IBM and IBM Connections customers was really worthwhile.’

‘Thank you Social Connections team! The team responded to all our questions in the run up to the event and ensured that we received maximum return from our sponsorship. We will be at the next event!’

We have recently announced the sponsorship packages for the next event. For the first time we are offering a ‘Early bird offer (sign up and pay by August 31st to get a 10% discount) and a discount for those organisations who have sponsored this event in the past.

Are you a Business partner who has a solution to offer in the Connections space – If so, what are you waiting for?

Interested in sponsoring the next event?

Detail of the packages can be found here or get in touch with one of the team by sending in an enquiry to info@socialconnections.info and ask us about our sponsorship packages (before they are all gone!).