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Featuring the fabulous demo team from the OGS Demo at IBM Connect, Sarah Gibbons and Christopher Crummey. They will be providing a demo on IBM’s New Way to Work.
I think I can safely say that a lot of people (including me) were impressed by the demo at IBM Connect earlier this year. Missed it, want to see it again, this is your chance.
With the first keynote speakers getting announced and the first abstracts for Social Connections 10 in Toronto flowing in, it is time to start thinking about submitting YOUR abstracts. Yes that’s right we are talking to all of you!
Social connections has always prided itself in being a very open conference that offers a podium to both the best of the best of seasoned and well known speakers as well as to anyone that can contribute from a wealth of day to day experience. Be it customers, business partners or vendors.
We welcome first time speakers as well as seasoned ones as we believe that it is important to hear the stories of those that might otherwise never get told. Stories of those ‘living it’ and working with it day in day out without being in the spotlight. Be it as an administrator, a developer, a business user, a project member or anything else. To do so we offer a variety of categories and time slot options ranging from 15 minutes to 1 hour to accommodate the different topics:
So if you are an experienced speaker and have a topic you know you can expand on or have never spoken at a conference before but feel you have something to contribute, a story to tell, a lesson learned that could help others in a similar situation then please don’t hesitate and submit a session. We would love to hear from you!
The abstract deadline is Friday April 8th.
The Social Connections team are pleased to announce that we have secured another great keynote speaker at our event in Toronto on June 6th and 7th – Alan Lepofsky, VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
Tools like Apple Siri, Google Now and Microsoft Cortana help keep us informed about the weather, news, stocks and sports scores. They can perform web searches, set alarms and play our favourite music. So what if you could have a similar digital assistant at work? One that dynamically prioritizes your daily work, automates responses, notifies you about important content, and recommend people you should contact. These assistants are coming, and in this session we’ll discuss not only what they’ll do, but why we should be wary.
Wednesday June 8th – 9am to 15:30pm
Lunch and refreshments included
The Social Connections team are please to announce that as part of our Social Connections 10 event that we are collaborating with Luis Suarez to host an unique event in Toronto – a Social Business Masterclass!
What if instead of “driving” adoption within your organisation, you could inspire and facilitate adaptation instead? What if you would have the means to re-define a new way of working with your fellow colleagues and peers through that very same adaptation to become a successful Socially Integrated Enterprise? What if that methodology, good practices, extensive expertise and know-how would all be at your fingertips, so you could apply it right away? What if you knew the nuts and bolts of getting your management and senior leadership teams all involved right from the start to help facilitate the final social business transformation you have always been looking for? Are you ready?
Come and join us on this one day masterclass to find out and learn how you can get the most out of your IBM Connections deployment to begin, or continue, that transformation journey into becoming a successful Social Business.
You will learn how to
Whether you are just getting started with your Social Business Adaptation Journey, or whether you are already a very well seasoned 2.0 knowledge worker, this workshop will provide you an opportunity to learn with other fellow practitioners through plenty of practical, hands-on advice, good practices, lots of hints and tips and, most importantly, all of the necessary knowledge resources available to date.
This session is going to be really focused, packed with value and offer tremendous opportunities to learn from both Luis and the other attendees’ experience. So do not hesitate too long. Places will be allocated in order of registration.
The cost to attend this masterclass is in addition to your attendance at the Social Connections Conference (the event is only open to attendees of the Social Connections conference). We have put together a really attractive rate for the masterclass and if you register before April 1st, you can benefit from a ‘Early bird’ rate!
What are you waiting for – please register now
The Social Connections team are very proud to announce Luis Suarez as one of our keynote speakers.
Luis Suarez is a Chief Emergineer and People Enabler. A well seasoned Social / Open Business evangelist and 2.0 practitioner with over 15 years of experience on knowledge management, collaboration, learning, online communities and social networking for business, and has been living, since February 2008, a work life without email challenging the status quo of how knowledge workers collaborate and share their knowledge by promoting openness, transparency, trust, sustainable growth, engagement, connectedness and overall smart work.
Luis can be contacted over in Twitter at @elsua or Google Plus.
You can find Luis’s profile here and his session at Social Connections 10 here
It is already March and we are fast approaching our 10th conference in Toronto. The planning for this event move very fast and we in the team work very hard to keep up. For example we are thrilled that our sponsor slots are filling up in a steady pace. As you know, this event could not happen without our fabulous sponsors. They play an important role in our community and we will highlight each and every one of them as they come onboard.
So here are our first sponsor for Social Connections 10 in Toronto, Gold sponsor Harbour Light
Enrich your web presence with social community services now !
The future of corporate web presence is no longer static content and forms. It is key for any organisation to recognise new market trends and to be responsive to changing customer demands. The delivery of first class seamless web experience that makes your client wanting to do business with you becomes critical to your business success and growth strategy.
By providing additional social components to your clients as part of your commerce or mobile strategy will increase client loyalty.
We believe that businesses that are enabled to include social components into their business strategy are better positioned for future growth. Also they are expanding their client reach better than others. But unlike public social networks, creating your own social community delivers true value to clients and your extended business networks.
By integrating tools from your present social intranet into your key web business processes makes these tools truly become social business tools for the first time. They start to bring new and extended value to web presences and customer portals.
Let your clients interact with one another and allow your product management and sales force to join in. Create social business interactions on the go.
We help you getting there !
Contact us if you want to turn your business into a Social Business.
We help you to evaluate the options and the steps to take based on your today’s web presence. We help you to evaluate the steps to transform your organization into fully social enabled web experiences, shops and customer portals.
Our consultants, products and implementation services are there to help you to take the next step on this journey to become a true Social Business.
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/
We are very proud to announce that for this event, Social Connections 10 in Toronto, we will provide our attendees with a mobile app. The app has been published in the Google Playstore and the Apple apps store.
The app allows for Social interaction using attendee profiles and an activity stream. Please engage with each other. We will also publish our agenda as soon as we have it. We will be adding our keynotes in the next couple of weeks.
You will be able to create your own schedule, see speaker profiles, rate speakers and sessions. We will also have our sponsors listed in the app, so if you want to know more about them, you can. We will be adding more functionality over time, so go and download now and check the app on a regular basis.
May we ask you to allow the app to send notification, that way we can notify you during the event on schedule changes or other important information.
Please use the following link for: iPhone, Android
If you are running Windows Mobile, we have a mobile web version as well
As soon as we announced our next event in Toronto, Canada, we also opened the call for abstract plus early bird registration and announced the sponsorship packages for Social Connections 10. Just within few hours abstracts, registrations and sponsorship inquiries started to come. We are thrilled by the feedback from the community and looking forward to meet you all in Toronto!
Today we are happy to announce the unofficial “winners” in all the categories above.
First of all, we are proud to announce our first sponsor, which is Harbour Light Software Development Ltd. from Canada! They picked a gold package and thus moved our event budget far away from ground zero. You can learn more about Harbour Light here and we encourage you to watch their company session at the conference and meet them at their pedestal in sponsors showcase.
The first abstract was submitted by Robert Farstad from Norway. It is a case study on a custom single-sign-on scenario . Congrats to Robert and we hope that his abstract will be selected.
Last but not least, our first registered attendee was Victor Toal from the U.S. Victor is a long term member of the community, an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions and recognized expert on IBM Connections. Great to see Victor again.
And what about you? Will you join us in Toronto? There is less than 100 days until Social Connections 10 which is a perfect time to submit an abstract or book one of the sponsors slot.The SOCCNX team is looking forward to hear back from you soon.
Hi everyone!
We now, finally, have a call for abstracts running for Social Connections 10 in Toronto, Canada. It’s been long in the making, but we promise you, it’ll be worth it!
Do you have something awesome that you want to tell the world about IBM Connections, or Social Business as a concept? Send in an abstract now. We can’t wait to see you share your insights. As in the past, we’ve got a couple of different lengths to pick from. You can go 15, 30 or even up to 60 minutes if you are bursting with things to say!
Haven’t got anything yet?
Still plenty of time left. We will close submissions on Friday April 8th 2016.
If you’re asking what’s in it for me? You’ll of course get all the awesome recognition and kudos from your peers, plus the opportunity to take part in our ‘Ask the Experts’ panel, you’ll receive complimentary admission to the event including the gala reception and be offered an invite to our exclusive VIP reception.
And for those that might be too shy to talk. Register for Social Connections 10 now, and we’ll see all of you in Toronto on 6th and 7th of June 2016!
Cheers!
