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The app is available for iOS and Android. It will be used for all future events. Do not uninstall it after the event! You will miss important updates during the year.
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PS: Check out our agenda and register for the event! T – 22 days 😉
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.
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
We know that a perfect way to end the first day our conference is a fabulous Gala evening together with old and new friends! Other ingredients should include good food, refreshing beverages and something extra fun. And this is the Chicago edition!
Welcome to a fun and playful evening at the table tennis club Ace Bounce – the home of PING PONG.
Ace Bounce offers an immense subterranean playground. Filled with ping pong tables each with their own party going. All kept in perpetual motion by DJs. And topped off with generous servings of food and beverages by award winning chefs & mixologists. Perfect for our conference!
We are sure you will enjoy a night with a game of table tennis and a bite to eat with your customer, your IBMer or that other business partner!
Register for Social Connections here and then check your email for the registration link to this evening event! Make sure you secure your spot to our fabulous gala night! 1 ticket per attendee.
So come and play with us! The Social Connections team is in hard training! 🙂
We are announcing our 
first session!
We are proud to present Mr. Pink Jason Gary as a speaker at Social Connections. Jason will tell us all about the future of IBM Connections which we know as Connections Pink.
Those of you who attended IBM Connect remember the excitement and vibe in his session where the room was so full we all had to stand in the back and along the walls.
We can’t wait to hear more from Jason on the latest updates regarding Pink since IBM Connect.
Jason will be speaking with Baan Slavens. Baan is Senior Offering Manager for IBM Connections. Baan focuses on understanding the collaboration market and the future direction for collaboration for IBM Connections. She is also the Offering Manager for IBM Connection Mobile and the lead for the strategic direction of all the mobile applications in IBM Collaborations.
Check out the full description of this session here.
More to come! This is only the first of many great sessions we have lined up for you. Stay tuned for more information.
Register for the conference through our website, and note that we are accepting abstracts until end of the month if you are interested in speaking.
Conflict in Dates!? No Conflict between Teams! – June is the month to enjoy one of the two major User Group Events in 2017
There will be a conflict in dates between the conferences of Social Connections and DNUG on June 1st, 2017. This happened by accident. We regret this inevitable circumstances very much, both boards agreed to cooperate and stay in close touch.
We will be able to offer two world class user group conferences in close time. As part of the short overlap between the opening session of 11th Social Connections in Chicago and the closing session of the 44th DNUG conference (#dnug44) in Berlin, we plan to have a joint web session.
Best wishes to the participants of both events for a successful and exciting conference, regardless of your decision.
Boards of DNUG & SOCCNX and good friends (!)
Daniel Reichelt, Erik Wüstner, Jörg Rafflenbeul, Maria Enderstam, Simon Vaughan, Stefan Gebhardt, Wannes Rams
After a frantic couple of weeks, the searching, comparing, discussing and negotiating is over!
We have made the choice, signed the contract so it is official – It’s gonna be Summit West that will host Social Connections 11 in Chicago.
The event will take place June 1 & 2 in this amazing downtown location!
The venue we have chosen for our 11th event is for sure gonna rock. It is called Summit Chicago and is located in the heart of Chicago with plenty of hotels nearby. Those of you who joined us in Toronto will recognise the high quality, the professional staff and the fantastic location!
Want to find out more about the location – please follow this link http://www.summitchicago.com/
We are extremely excited that we can finally kick off things and start finding speakers, sponsors, event venues for our evening events.
In the meanwhile we have opened call for abstracts and registrations.
For our sponsors, the ones that make this event happen, see the sponsor page for our packages
Join us for 2 days of learning, networking and fun. We will be running tracks spread over 3 separate rooms on a variation of topics. Of course we will talk about IBM Connections, both cloud and on premise and we will provide you with the latest news on 6.0 and Connections Pink. Apart from that, we have decided to add some more content next to IBM Connections. We will be having a limited number of sessions on Watson Workspace and Analytics.
We have created a special IBM Connect rate for the first 20 people who register before the end of IBM Connect. This rate will automatically expire after IBM Connect, so make sure you register fast. $99 for this conference is not even a bargain, it’s nearly a free giveaway!!
We hope to see you all in Chicago for a great event.
The Social Connections team
(Maria, Simon, Wannes, Lars, Martin, Femke, Doug, Christoph, Jan)
Are you ready for the best conference of the year, organized by the largest user group focusing on social collaboration technology from IBM?
Good, we are too!
We are sorry we have kept you waiting. A somewhat bumpy road since our last event has made us focus on the thing we knew all along:
Quality before quantity
So here we are, ready to announce the location of Social Connections 11. We want to welcome you all in the beginning of June to the amazing city of Chicago!
What do we have lined up for you?
We will continue our success story with a 2 day event filled with keynote sessions, quality speakers, captivating break out sessions, lots of IBM Champions, a Gala night with extra specials were socializing is the focus, speed sponsoring and of course lots of networking!
We won’t stop there. This time we will renew our concept a bit and add some extra things which will make this our best conference yet!
But don’t fret! Social Connections will still keep our main focus and deliver a conference with a strong focus on social collaboration technology, aimed at both existing and prospective customers and partners, and at individuals with both business and technical perspectives.
Hello sponsor: for you we offer a solution showcase with sponsors and breakout sessions in multiple tracks! You will have the perfect opportunity to network with your customers and new prospects.
Hello IBM customer: for you we offer a broad variety of tracks ranging from use cases, management, best practices, development, design and administration etc.
Hello speaker: time to start thinking and write your abstract to the sessions mentioned above!
We have it all for you!
The Social Connections team is stronger than ever and we are working around the clock around the globe to make this event the best one yet!
Stay tuned for more details such as venue, exact date, where to submit your session and where we will spend our magic gala night.
In the meantime, contact us at info@socialconnections.info should you have any questions.
Wannes, Simon, Maria, Jan, Lars, Femke, Christoph, Doug and Martin
p.s. we are very proud to let you know that all our team members are IBM Champions for 2017!
