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Let’sConnect 2022 will become a online event instead of a face to face one. Join us for a 1 day virtual event on October 26. More details on how to register for this event will follow later this week.

Due to the aftermath of the pandemic and the restrictions companies are putting on travel as a result of the economical crisis, we are forced to change this event to an online one.

We will deliver the same quality content with the same quality speakers and now have the opportunity to have the keynote be presented by Richard Jefts ( General Manager HCL Digital Solutions).

Check our updated agenda and register for this amazing online event here

 

The Let’sConnect Team

We have opened our call for abstracts for Let’sConnect 2022 in Cologne, Germany on October 25 – 26.

You are a HCL Connections user and want to tell us more about how you use Connections to improve your productivity, or you are responsible for Connections inside your company and want to elaborate how you increase the usage of the tool, or how you extended, integrated, ….
Submit a session here

You are managing a Connections environment and want to talk about the latest deployment / upgrade / monitoring you have worked on
Submit a session here

You are a manager / executive / decision maker and want to tell other customers more about the reasons you chose Connections over the competition, or any other Connections related topic
Submit an abstract here

You are not in the above list but have something else you want to share about HCL Connections
Submit an abstract here

You are really shy
Submit an abstract here and get over it for once and for all 😉

Or just visit and listen to all our wonderful speakers sharing their stories with you
Register here

After a couple of virtual events, we are very excited to be back with a face to face live event in Cologne on October 26. Join us for a day to hear all the news on Connections from HCL, partners and customers!

On October 26, our agenda will be loaded with sessions. Listen to customers using the products on how they use, adopt, measure, …
Listen to HCL updating you on what is coming right now and in later versions. Meet with the Product Management team.
Listen to partners and HCL developers talking in depth technical about installation, configuration, maintenance …

Last but not least, we will host 2 workshops on the afternoon of October 25:

• HCL Connections Next IdeaJam
• HCL Connections Design workshop

Please keep an eye on our website for updates. Registration is open, please go here to get your ticket

Are you interested in submitting a session to our event, please look out for our call for abstracts which will open soon. We look forward hearing from you!

We hope to see you all in Cologne!

Let’sConnect Team

Let’sConnect’s Jan Valdman and Wannes Rams visited the Engage user group event in Bruges last week, our face to face conference in over 2 years. It was a great event with over 300 attendees.

You can find the interviews on our Youtube channel

• Jan Valdman with Jason Roy Gary, CTO, Vice President Engineering and Innovation, Digital Solutions at HCL Technologies
• Wannes Rams with Maria Nordin, Program manager Ambassadors and User Groups, Digital Solutions HCL
• Wannes Rams with Rene Schimmer and Adam Gartenberg, Product Managers for HCL Connections at Digital Solutions HCL

 

There were also some interesting Connections sessions, slides links included where possible

• HCL Connections Roadmap: Faster Deployment, Better Integration, Reinvented User Experience with Rene Schimmer and Adam Gartenberg
• HCL Digital Solutions Product Strategy with Andrew Manby
• Connections Admin Toolbox 2022 with Christoph Stoettner
• Build a Collaborative framework for your business applications with Communities with Urs Meli and Wannes Rams
• Delivering an engaging content creation experience within your organization with Kate Bazilevskaya
• Understanding collaborative work in Enterprise Collaboration Platforms with Petra Schubert, Martin Just and Julian Mosen
• HCL Connections fully implemented at accounting firm NEVB with Roland Driesen and Gert van Kempen
• Long-term management of digital workspaces and content with Susan Williams and Julian Mosen
• Building a dynamic digital workplace hub by integrating on prem and cloud services with Bernd Gewehr
• What is the Importance of having Ambassadors, Guides or Super Users within HCL Connections ? with Femke Goedhart and Jörg Rafflenbeul ( Roundtable, no slides)
  
• Connections v8 Live Demo: Collaboration just got easier! with David Bell and Stefan Hessler

 

Hi all and a happy New Year from the Let’sConnect team,

We sincerely wish you all the best for 2021 and we hope that this can be the year the world goes back to normal ( if it ever was).

We have some exciting announcements to make so let’s get started:

• First of all, we have secured a venue for our fall event and are keeping that booking for now in the hope that by the end of September we will be able to meet in person. The dates that are booked are
  27-28 September 2021!
  MadridObviously, these plans are subject to change and will largely depend on the pandemic situation and your willingness to travel
• Second of all, 2020 has learned us that virtual events are the thing and we did one successfully. So we want more!
  We will be holding a bi-monthly virtual meeting where we will invite speakers to talk to us about Connections and were we will have the opportunity to discuss amongst the participants.The schedule we are looking at would start in March (day to be decided)

  The goal is to have a mix of content. Adoption, Use cases, technical sessions, HCL sessions, ….. We are looking for content and speakers. So please contact us if you have an interesting topic to discuss. Reach out to your favorite Let’sConnect team member, mail us ( team@letsconnect.world), tweet @_lets_connect, ….

Let’s make it a great year together!!!!

Some more feedback from our virtual event earlier this week. We had a lot of questions from the audience ( thank you for your engaged participation) and we had most of them answered by our amazing HCL panelists. Posting a recap of them here.

Thank you so much for joining our event earlier this week. We ran some polls during the event and wanted to share the results with you.

Dear friends,

We hope that you all are safe and healthy.

As you all know, planning can at the moment be a bit tricky. So today we have some news for you. Good news! You will not only get one, but two Let’sConnect events!

First news is that we are downsizing our September event to focus on the latest updates from HCL. The new Product Manager Andrew Manby and his team will talk about the current Connections version and give you a sneak peak into the Connections 7 preview. We also have some customers lined up sharing their stories on how they use Connections.

Join us for our 2 day event on September 29 and 30 from 3 pm CEST until 5 pm CEST ( 9 am EST until 11 AM EST). This timing should alow for viewers to join from around the world.

See the agenda here

Register here

It is a great pleasure to announce an additional virtual Let’sConnect event that will take place in February 2021. Having this just after the Connections 7 release allows all of our speakers to cook up new content on usage, installation, business value and configuration of the new version. Stay tuned for updates on the exact date for this event.

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We hope you have all received the survey from the HCL product team on Connections. If not or if you have not yet had the time to take the survey, it will only take 5 minutes of your time. HCL is inquiring how your organization is using HCL Connections, this feedback will help them understand your use cases and will help guide future roadmap decisions.

Don’t miss your opportunity to co-create the future of HCL Connections with us!

And of course a reminder of our previous announcement that we have moved our physical event to 2021 in Madrid on September 27 and 28. We are super excited to see all of you in person again.

We hope to see you all soon!

Let’sConnect 2021 will be in Madrid!

If you want to reach us, contact us at team@letsconnect.world Or sign up to our newsletter

Bye for now!

The Let’sConnect team (Maria, Wannes, Matteo, Jan and Martin)