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We in the team always love this task. Extracting all the great abstracts from the database, compiling them in an Excel file and choose! But it is also one of our hardest tasks. Always. Because, with no exceptions, we always have a large amount of fantastic abstracts to go through. The range, the quality, the ingenuity. We never stop to be amazed.
Each conference is different to the other. News trends, new technique and solutions. Our speakers never cease to impress us. In the end we always aim to end up with a good mix of both technical and non technical sessions.
A developer, an administrator, a manager, an adoption consultant. All of them should be able to find something they like.
So please have a look at the 2018 spring edition of Social Connections!
We invite you all to participate in our great event! 2 days of networking, learning and fun.
See the agenda here
Could not get to all the sessions at IBM Think? Did not attend ? Come and listen to IBM Offering Management talking about the ICS strategy and 
product roadmaps at Social Connections in Philadelphia. We have a strong representation of the ICS OM’s that will speak at our event in April.
Come and listen to Aarti Borkar‘s keynote on how to make organizations work smarter and connected using smart technologies. IBM’s latest vision on the future of work.
All news on the Watson Workspace Roadmap, Marlon Machado will share the long term strategy and direction.
Baan Slavens will guide us through the roadmap for IBM Connections and the future of work.
Last but not least, Sam Bobo will on IBM Connections Application Development and Low Code
Our next sponsor is a big player in ICS with a small ‘p’ – yes, it is panagenda!
panagenda offers a wide portfolio of applications and add-ons for IBM Notes, Domino and, of course, IBM Connections. Their services cover analytics and optimization, transformation and migration, social adoption, business intelligence, strategy, IT security. Don’t forget to check their products such as ConnectionsExpert or ESN Health Check while you attend Social Connections 13.
panagenda is our long-term and loyal sponsor and a big supporter of Social Connections that often picks the premium sponsor packages and offers multiple speakers for every conference. Last but not least, people from panagenda help(ed) many times to run our events – Femke, Christoph and now Nico. Thank you again, panagenda!
Following on from our announcement regarding our customer keynote from Wells Fargo, the team are now pleased to announce that Rachel Happe, the Community roundtable will keynote at our next event!
Keynote:
Community management is quickly becoming the future of all management – and leadership. The ability to inspire and engage a diverse network to solve complex problems quickly is a powerful differentiator. At the same time, the barriers to building networks are lower than ever.
You will leave this session with an understanding of the latest research and thinking about community management, based on data and conversations with hundreds of community professionals from around the globe.
Bio:
Rachel Happe is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable, a company dedicated to advancing the business of community. The Community Roundtable collaborates with clients to develop proven, practical strategies for better engagement. Clients rely on TheCR’s models, research and networks to take their communities to the next level.
Rachel co-founded The Community Roundtable to support business leaders developing their community, collaboration, and social business strategies. Clients including SAP, Aetna, BASF, CA, and H&R Block benefit from Rachel’s ability to make sense of abstract trends and her ability to see the implications that technical and operational decisions can have on people and processes.
Rachel has over 25 years of experience working with emerging technologies including enterprise social networking, eCommerce, and enterprise software applications.
To find out more about the community roundtable – https://communityroundtable.com/
Look out for some other announcements from the team over the coming days. Places at the event are proving to be very popular, so please register now!
With each event that the Social Connections team organise, one of our the key aims of is to find an organisation who would be willing to speak about their use of IBM Connections and explain the challenges and opportunites that working with Connections presents!
For the event in Philadelphia, I think you will agree that we have found a keynote that promises to be one of the best yet!
Keynote: Digital transformation, Enterprise Social Networks and the Future of Work are all labels for similar efforts. The catalyst for success, however, is far less about technology and far more about culture. I’ll share how we quickly shifted from a focus on technology to instead leverage our need for cultural change as the secret to our success as we engage 325,000 employees and contractors on IBM Connections. Our journey started on Yammer, evolved to Jive, and found our sweet spot with Connections as the means to invest in our company’s most important and valuable assets – our team.
About Ross: Ross Cavanaugh is a Digital Marketing Consultant on the HR & Team Member Communications team within the Corporate Communications department at Wells Fargo. With a functional title of Internal Collaboration Leader, Ross is responsible for the creation, launch, and facilitation of internal social & collaboration platforms, tools and functionality across Wells Fargo. He is the Platform and Product Manager for Team Moments, Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Social Network.
Ross is attending IBM Think in Vegas and the team are delighted to have him join us in Philadelphia. We have some other exciting news to announce over the coming days, so why not register today and join this great event in Philadelphia!
Register now – https://socialconnections.info/#tile_registration
Our second gold Sponsor is Riva. Riva is one of our trusted sponsors and we are really happy to have them join us again.
Riva integrates the world’s best CRM systems – Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SAP Cloud for Customer, Oracle Sales Cloud, SugarCRM, NetSuite, and others – directly with IBM Collaboration Solutions.
By doing so it allows you to seamlessly sync CRM contacts, calendars, tasks, email, opportunities, cases, custom fields, and custom objects with IBM Verse, IBM Smart Cloud Notes, IBM Notes and Domino, and IBM Notes Traveler mobile devices. Helping IBM customers bridge the CRM integration gap, drive sales productivity, deliver better customer experiences, and improve CRM adoption and satisfaction.
Check out the Riva booth at social Connections to see more about the Riva products or visit their website for more information www.rivacrmintegration.com/integrations/ibm-notes/.
Hi all,
many of you perhaps finish preparation for IBM Think but it is also a high time to introduce our nice sponsors without whom we can not run our Social Connections events. As usual, we start with our Gold sponsors “in order of appearence” followed by the rest. And by accident we start with letter A – A as for AppFusions.
I bet you already know AppFusion for their AppSpokes integration for IBM Connections – a solution that integrates many aplications or service by 3rd party vendors into IBM Connections, both cloud and on premises:
I am pretty sure that AppFusions has some news so come and check their booth in Philadelphia. You can learn more at www.appsusions.com
We are proud to announce you the dates for Social Connections in Europe. We will having our 14th event in the fall of 2018 in a European city to be announced
Dates are set to
15-16/10
Watch our space for updates on the location.
Please remember that call for abstracts for our Philadelphia conference are still open until monday
https://socialconnections.info/submit-abstract/
We also have a couple of sponsors slots open
https://socialconnections.info/become-a-sponsor/
See you all in Las Vegas and Philadelphia soon, and somewhere over the ocean later this year
Hi everyone!
First of all, we want to thank all of you who have submitted an abstract for our next event in – Social Connections 13 in Philadelphia.
The response to the call for abstracts has been great and we have had some requests to extend the deadline so that people are able to submit before they head off to IBM Think in Vegas!
As a result we have decided to extend abstract submission by ONE week – Abstract submission will now close on Monday 12th March at Noon (CET)
So, what are you waiting for – here is your last chance to submit and abstract and speak at this great event – call for abstracts
Do you have something super awesome that you want to tell the world about IBM Connections, or Social Business as a concept? Send in an abstract now. We would love to have you do your presentation. This time around we have some different time slots to choose from. You can go 15, 30 or even up to 60 minutes if you got something extra inspiring for everyone to hear and see!
Haven’t got anything yet?
Still plenty of time left. We will close submissions on the 2nd of March.
Cheers!
