We are very happy to announce René Schimmer as keynote speaker for Social Connections. As a sr. product manager for Social Software at IBM René is in pole position to talk to us on how Working Out Loud translates in the IBM Social Software roadmap.
Please register asap for the conference if you want to hear René speak. You can find his abstract here
After announcing John Stepper as keynote speaker yesterday, we are very proud to present Silvia Cambie as keynote speaker. As a digital strategist and thought leader in social technology she is well placed to talk about cultural changes needed to adopt to enterprise social networking.
Convincing the C-Suite: Collaboration begins with Culture
We are in the middle of the biggest change the enterprise has ever experienced in history. Yet, according to a recent Altimeter study, getting buy-in from execs still remains a top priority. Only 9% of the companies surveyed reported participation from the C-Suite on social.
Why are senior execs still so reluctant to embrace the benefits of enterprise social networking?
In this talk, you will learn how to use collaboration’s core principles as well as emerging phenomena like employee advocacy and disruptive innovation to get the C-Suite’s support to help you create a new corporate culture of connectivity and sharing.
You can find the abstract for her session here
We are very proud to announce John Stepper as one of our keynote speakers. John is the author of “Working Out Loud”.
A lot of his ideas and work is available on http://workingoutloud.com/
He will talk about how to make work more effective & fulfilling across your organization.
You can find the abstract for his session here
It’s been an amazing first day at Social Connections 8.
Awesome atmosphere, captivating keynotes, sensational speakers, innovative ideas shared, satisfied sponsors, great speedgeeking, and to cap it all off, a night at the museum!
What does day 2 bring? A keynote from Ed Brill, another 30 or so breakout sessions including our new TED-style spotlight track, a chance to grill the assembled IBMers at the ‘Ask IBM’ session, and even unconference sessions to allow more informal discussion and debate. It promises to be another exciting Social Connections day!
See all the photos below or at our gallery, or follow along at Twitter.
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As we are approaching April 16, the date for the first day of the Social Connections conference, we will be highlighting all our sponsors. This event could not happen without their support and we are delighted to have them on board but also as a member of our community.
So we present you one of our sponsors for Social Connections, Bronze sponsor for Boston: AppFusions
AppFusions is a packaged systems’ integration company focused on saying “Yes!” to your most common integration challenges between the business systems you use the most. AppFusions’ solutions are use-case / pain-point driven – solving logical yet challenging integration problems, with eliminated hassle.
Due to AppFusions’ extended partnership and technology relationships with some of the most prolific collaboration and workflow platform vendors in the industry, such as IBM, Microsoft, Dropbox, Google, Jive, Atlassian, Box, Lingotek, Egnyte, Alfresco, and more, AppFusions’ solutions bridge and scale to your Enterprise needs. Our 50+ solutions (and growing) include everything for IT integration and deployment success: rich native user interfaces to engage users more, seamless and secure authentication hurdles solved, smooth logical data transactions to save you time, and sustained platform version support as you grow.
With AppFusions, gone are the days of long RFP processes, lengthy requirements’ definition phases, long procurement approval cycles, delayed or deferred PoC windows. Instead, AppFusions’ solutions are available and deployed within days, and often hours. Our solutions are ready to go: quick to deploy yourself (or with light support if needed) – for trial, and quick to appease – to buy.
With AppFusions, you succeed faster, better, smoother. Because that’s the way it should be.
For more details, visit www.appfusions.com.
As we are approaching April 16, the date for the first day of the Social Connections conference, we will be highlighting all our sponsors. This event could not happen without their support and we are delighted to have them on board but also as a member of our community.
So we present you one of our returning sponsors for Social Connections, Silver sponsor for Boston: Infoware
With good understanding of client challenges and with focus on Social Business, Infoware has for 20 years developed successful products that make IBM Platforms more efficient. Among the experiences include content and user management, as well as platforms for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Our customers have used our products successfully to automate administration tasks of user management, application management and solving email issues of archiving, out of office and quota handling. We are proud to say that our customers continue to use our products, renewing their maintenance from year to year. Once you have it, you cannot live without it.
Infoware works long term with large organizations, where both premises and social strategies vary widely. Together with our clients, we are navigating through change processes, organizational and cultural challenges and alters the foundation of the way of working. Thanks to the decreased distances in the organization, customers can then cost-effectively increase knowledge transfer, productivity and innovation.
We are probably the largest IBM Partner in Scandinavia with full focus on IBM Business. IBM Premier Business Partner with IBM-focus since 1995 and we work primarily with worldwide enterprise clients.
For more information, checkout www.infoware.com…
As we are approaching April 16, the date for the first day of the Social Connections conference, we will be highlighting all our sponsors. This event could not happen without their support and we are delighted to have them on board but also as a member of our community.
So we present you one of our sponsors for Social Connections, Champagne sponsor for Boston: Trilogy Group
Trilog Group is an leader and visionary in the IBM Collaboration Solutions community. Trilog group is a leading IBM ISV Business Partner, known for inventing the innovative XSP programming model, acquired by IBM in 2004 and known today as Domino XPages.
Today, with the prevalence of social computing technologies and the availability of IBM’s leading enterprise social platform, Trilog markets and sells ProjExec®, an innovative social project management solution built on IBM Connections. ProjExec adds robust project management capabilities within IBM’s enterprise social platform and cloud, which enables effective execution of business processes. ProjExec’s Project Wall and Social Gantt demonstrate Trilog’s continued commitment to innovation, by delivering a Facebook-style social project experience that fosters engagement and increases productivity and visibility. Our commitment to innovation is further enhanced with the recent announcement of ProjExec 7 Mobile powered by Darwino, an innovative, full-stack, Enterprise Mobility platform for cross-device, ultra-fast development of Social Business apps that can be deployed on IBM Bluemix, run offline on iOS/Android and sync with IBM Connections, IBM Domino and any enterprise data system. The best part — Darwino enables Domino, Web and Java developers to leverage extensively their existing application development skills in the new social, mobile, cloud era .
In addition to acknowledging Trilog’s leadership in innovation through acquisition of strategic technology, IBM has also recognized Trilog’s vision of Social Project Management for Social Business with a prestigious total of 11 IBM Awards in the past 8 years. For more information visit: www.triloggroup.com
As we are approaching April 16, the date for the first day of the Social Connections conference, we will be highlighting all our sponsors. This event could not happen without their support and we are delighted to have them on board but also as a member of our community.
So we present you one of our returning sponsors for Social Connections, Bronze sponsor for Boston: Engage
Engage (formerly BLUG) remains the only User Group in the Benelux focusing on all IBM Collaboration Solutions.
Our next major 2-day event:
March 30-31, 2015
Ghent, Belgium
Almost 50 sessions, all in English
Top speakers from all over the world
Some much respected speakers you can count on:
Scott Souder, Gabriella Davis, Chris Miller, Rob Novak, Pete Janzen, and many more.
As we are approaching April 16, the date for the first day of the Social Connections conference, we will be highlighting all our sponsors. This event could not happen without their support and we are delighted to have them on board but also as a member of our community.
So we present you one of our returning sponsors for Social Connections, Silver sponsor for Boston: Panagenda
Debating between migrating or virtualizing? Unsure if the cloud or consolidating is right for you? Getting serious about upgrades or modernizing and mobilizing apps?
As leaders in optimizing collaboration landscapes, panagenda helps companies around the world minimize cost, complexity and workload and maximize agility. panagenda solutions are the key to making your strategic decisions a success – from analytics to execution, all across clients, servers and applications, email and social business. With over 7 million licenses in 70 countries, panagenda is your single point of contact for optimizing communication and collaboration!
Visit panagenda.com for more details.
As we are approaching April 16, the date for the first day of the Social Connections conference, we will be highlighting all our sponsors. This event could not happen without their support and we are delighted to have them on board but also as a member of our community.
So we present you one of our returning sponsors for Social Connections, Silver sponsor for Boston: Ephox
Ephox has reimagined how content authoring and analytics should work.
Today, The Ephox Editor is used by thousands of developers and content creators from around the globe.
The company’s technology is licensed by leading web content management vendors including IBM, Oracle, OpenText and EMC.
Visit ephox.com for more details
