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We are very happy to finally open the registration for Social Connections 13 in Philadelphia!
Don’t wait too long. Our Early Bird tickets are very limited! Please register using the form below or by following this link.
Are you thinking about speaking at Social Connections? Our call for abstracts already started. You are welcome to submit your session proposal.
Also, don’t miss to visit our venue page to check out our amazing venue as well as useful information around Philly.
Hi everyone!
We have a call for abstracts running for Social Connections 13 in Philadelphia.
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!
After announcing the dates, then the city, time to release another part of the puzzle. The venue!!!
We are proud to present you the “National Museum of American Jewish History” aka NMAJH.
This awesome venue in the beautiful Museum Area is in a amazing piece of architecture. Watch this space and our Social Media channels in the next couple of days as we will open registrations and call for abstracts very soon. If you are interested in sponsoring, please visit our sponsor page
Museum from Market Street
Todd Mason/Halkin Photography
Golda Och Atrium
Barry Halkin/Halkin Photography
We have a strong focus on social collaboration technology, aimed at both existing and prospective IBM customers and partners, and at individuals with both business and technical perspectives. Our events bring together highly qualified attendees, speakers and business partners from all over the world.
Our goal is to take up the thread where IBM Think left off! Hear updates from your favorite areas and learn from both speakers and attendees.
After organizing and hosting 12 conferences we have learned a thing or two about running these events! As a result, all our gathered experience has allowed us to create an unmissable 2 day event in the IBM Collaboration space. We focus on bringing together customer decision makers to discuss, learn and get inspired about what is relevant in the IBM sphere and what is coming next.
New this time: We are broadening our scope with a new Security track! We have touched the subject before with a couple of sessions here and there, and now we feel ready to add Security as it’s own track. As collaboration is all about communication in between people we also think it is natural to look at how to protect the company’s biggest assets against threats through behaviors and solutions to detect and eventually close security gaps.
We offer our attendees and sponsors
Stay tuned for registration links this week!
Are you our next speaker? Call for abstracts is opening this week!
Are you a sponsor? Take a look here for our fabulous sponsor opportunities!
Questions? Email us or tweet us!
Just when you thought you could start relaxing before the Christmas Holidays we would like to have your attention for a little bit with an important piece of information.
The Social Connections team is today announcing our next stop on our never ending world tour, where we bring people who have collaboration close to their hearts together.
This time we are heading for the East Coast USA, April 26-27, 2018!
The reason why we haven’t pinned down a specific city yet is that we are looking at more than one option. And the reason for that is that there is so many good places to chose from, which makes the task quite pleasant.
So while we are investigating and choosing the exact right city and venue, book April 26-27 2018 in your calendar for 2 days of networking, collaboration, learning new things from IBM, doing business, learning new trends within collaboration and communication, learning technical skills, meeting old and new friends and more.
We also might want to tell you that we have a few new tricks up our sleeve, which we think you will like.
Stay tuned for more information!
Happy Holidays from the Social Connections team
Happy Day! Today we say a very warm welcome to Nico Meisenzahl who is joining our team of fabulous volunteers. Nico is a consultant at panagenda from Germany.
We have had our eyes on him quite a while before we asked him to join the team. He is energized, responsible, has an inner motor and seems to always have a smile on his face. Just the type of person we are looking for!
We are looking forward to have lots of fun together planning our next event!
(And when is that? Folks, look out for tomorrow’s blog post!)
It’s over…. finally….. damn, it’s over… is it really???
Mixed emotions at the end of a conference as always. The team is physically and mentally exhausted, so we are happy to see an end to it as we can now go back to full nights sleep and actually taking time to have lunch during lunch.
On the other hand, this conference that is so close to our hearts we have been working together on for months is over, how can it already be… It was too fun to be over already…
Well as it really seems to be over… some statistics for you
So what has happened in those 2 days… a lot, we kicked of with some great keynotes by IBM, Customers and External speakers to the fill up all 4 rooms across all tracks for an afternoon packed with sessions. Only to be paused for some food in the amazing palace we held the event at.
The evening dinner was a blast, what an amazing experience… It was hosted in the oldest basement in Vienna and had no cellular reception and no WiFi… We must admit we were not 100% sure it was a good idea to send 200 IT geeks into a basement where they could not use their phone, but it seems all survived and only about 60% needed mental treatment afterwards.. Unintentionally the lack of WiFi in the cellar was completely inline with the lack of it at the venue on the first day. We tried solving it on the second day to have 1 of the team members rush out to pick up some 4G routers and it 
seemed to help a bit. The evening in the cellar was a blast, the photo booth got us some great pictures and everyone seemed to have a good time.
On the second day we toned it down and only used 3 rooms… Lot’s of great sessions again to end in the main auditorium again for the Connections Pink session and closing with prize draw… Again a couple of winners that were not in the room, we should really start listing them on the website so they realise what they have missed out on by not staying around…
The team’s view on the conference… apart for the normal organisers hickups….it was a GREAT event… it shouts out to us.. let’s rock on with 
Hi everyone!
We wanted to share the invite we got from IBM. This offering is open to participants of Social Connections 12 ONLY, and the seats are filling up fast, so please register asap if you want to take part
Finding a venue for our Gala night is one of the most fun tasks when planning the Social Connections conference.
We all know our attendees look forward to the days with sessions, learning, networking and fun. We also know that our attendees almost as much look forward to our Gala night where they can wind down/wind up (whatever they prefer) after a day of conferencing with their peers, friends, colleagues, customers and partners.
Our Gala nights are often positively talked about long after the conference, which we are very happy for. So we always take time to find that place where we think we can achieve that special Social Connections Gala vibe we all like so much.
This time we found the oldest cellar vault in Vienna. Arrive hungry! The chefs here concentrate on traditional and fresh food, often from local producers.
The Melker Stiftskeller is part of the Melkerhof in Vienna’s Schottengasse 3 in the first district. A certificate from 1629 proves that there was a wine-cellar connected with the Melkerhof already at that time. The Melker Stiftskellers fine cuisine developed out of this wine-cellar.
In addition to the good food there will be some extra fun we can’t reveal yet.
So join us for an evening of good food and lots of laughter in a historic environment!
Melker Stiftskeller is located in Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien and is a 10 minute walk from our conference venue.
Register for Social Connections here! Make sure you secure your spot to our fabulous gala night!
Welcome
Here is Part 4 of our blogging series where we highlight our Platinum and Gold sponsors.
And Today it’s time for our Gold sponsor – The team from Kudos!
Kudos have been long time supporters of Social Connections and it is great to see them make the long trip to Vienna!.
In addition to their widely used Kudos Badges and Kudos Analytics, they are showcasing some of their latest innovations around Connections and Watson Workspace.
Kudos Boards (Pink!) transforms Activities within IBM Connections into a visually manageable format. Leveraging the tried and true method known as Kanban, Kudos Boards features the ability to filter by person, priority or colour, and drag and drop your Tasks as activities progress or circumstances change. Now, Boards is available in the cloud, on prem, and for Connections Pink!
Buzzy for IBM Connections brings intelligent instant apps for IBM Connections and Watson Workspace. Empowering citizen developers to create cognitive apps within IBM Connections to engage both internal and external users, all in a matter of minutes!
Kudos Ideas is the teams latest innovation. Introducing a ideation space where peers can raise, review and vote on ideas across the workplace – whether for management, project, marketing, human resources or even team building activities, Kudos Ideas empowers colleagues to think proactively, innovate together, and execute on their ideas.
Kudos has a session that will showcase each of these new innovations, as well as a session by Jay Agrawal that shows how you can also develop solutions like Kudos for Connections Pink!
You can also find out more about Kudos on their Website
