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Today’s sponsor highlight goes out to returning sponsor Genus Technologies. After sponsoring us in Boston it is good to see them again for Social Connections Chicago!

Genus Media Upshot for Connections™ adds to the robust functionality of IBM’s business social network platform by simplifying the process of creating, managing, sharing and tracking documents, images, video and other rich media. With integration with Watson for image and voice recognition plus complete transcription (voice-to-text) and language translation automation, Genus provides cognitive video solutions for diverse enterprise workplaces.

Apart from that, Genus is also a long term partner of IBM providing expertise, integration and knowledge in the areas of:

• IBM Digital Experience
• IBM Enterprise Content Management
• IBM Social Business, more notably IBM Connections and Sametime

We are really happy to have Genus Technologies back on board, make sure to visit their booth in Chicago!

As abstracts for Social Connections 11 in Chicago this June are pouring in we also get some rather frantic requests from people asking for just a little more time. With the end of quarter upon us some seem to struggle to hand in that abstract before the deadline. And as we really want to make sure we can provide you with the best possible selection of sessions and give everyone a chance to submit, we’ve decided to extend it.

So, if you haven’t yet submitted and thought you were too late… This is your chance – but last chance! – to submit for this great event. The deadline has been extended to Friday April 7th. Which will be the final deadline for this event and although we already have an amazing line up of sessions to choose from, we are still open for any great design or administration idea, your real life experiences with ‘going social collaboration’ or any other interesting topic around social collaboration, Watson work services or analytics. So don’t wait any longer and use these extra days to submit that awesome session!

Want to get a feel for the type of sessions we generally look for? Visit our agenda for our previous event in Toronto and to read more about two of our keynote speakers that have already been selected for this event check out this blog. We look forward to seeing your session!

As people who have attended previous events know Social Connections isn’t just limited to a day time program. One of the things we try to do is to also provide attendees with an opportunity to really connect and network with other attendees, speakers and organizers by providing an evening program in the form of the Social Connections Gala event. A way to socialize, enjoy some good food, great entertainment and also see something of Toronto outside the venue location. All attendees are invited and there is no additional costs involved.

As we like to stay in theme and Toronto is known (among others) for its ice hockey we opted this time to select the Hockey Hall of Fame as our venue for the Gala. A great location to learn more about the sport (exhibits will be open) play hockey themed games but also a place where you will simply be able to enjoy a night out, have some good food, drinks, connect with other attendees and enjoy the life music. After all, Social Connections is a conference about social business so why not make that a reality!

The Gala event will be held in the Hockey Hall of Fame at 7PM directly following the speed sponsoring and is open to all attendees (badge required). The dress code is the same as for the conference itself (business casual) and the location is walking distance from the venue and most hotels.

We hope to see you there!

Entertainment will be provided by Toronto cover band “The Wrong Kids”:

As Social Connections team we always try to get an optimum mix of speakers for our conferences. Not just the well known names from within the IBM ICS community but also experienced speakers from outside the IBM ICS community. To get the best possible diversity in Enterprise Social / Technology / IBM Connections related topics but also to ensure that the discussions going on during the event which are crucial to it’s success get new input and fresh perspectives.

We are therefore very happy to announce that for Social Connections 10 in Toronto Tony Byrne will join us for a session on “The next digital workplace”. Offering practical approaches to taking your current environment to the next level. An experienced and well respected speaker, Tony is also a former journalist, a 20-year technology veteran and the founder of Real Story Group. An exclusively customer-focused analyst firm that prides itself for being completely vendor independent and is known for its toughness and in-depth research into Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software, Web Content Management, Digital & Media Asset Management, ECM & Cloud File Sharing, Enterprise Mobile Technology, Portals and Content Integration and Marketing Automation & Social Technologies. Exposing the ​real​ strengths and weaknesses of digital workplace and marketing technologies. We are sure Tony’s perspective to what is going on in the market of social enterprise and Digital workplace is going to be a great addition to the event and hope you will join us for this great session!

Session details: June 7th, 09:40-10:30 am, Room: Calgary

Don’t miss out and register soon as seats are going fast!

Source: Digital Workplace & Marketing Technology Vendor Map – Real Story Group