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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

Our series of interviews with HCL executives continued a week later during Czech Lotus user group gathering in Prague. This time I had an opportunity to talk to Richard Jefts regarding HCL Digital Solutions strategy and innovation and to Luis Guirigay regarding the upcoming product education and certifications. You can watch the interviews on the following links:

• LetsConnect Interviews at Sutol Richard Jefts, Senior Vice President & General Manager HCL Software – Digital Solutions at HCL Technologies
• LetsConnect Interviews at Sutol – Luis Guirigay, Senior Global Director at HCL Software

Please check also our other videos on our Youtube channel.

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

We are happy to say that we have lots of good content for you to watch and read from Let’sConnect Connects!

We give you for example several sessions from HCL on where HCL Connections is heading, a keynote from Richard Jefts and Andrew Manby, a session on how you can customize HCL Connections to tailor it matching your wishes, and also a session on research on the flora of tools for enterprise collaboration.

Find presentations from sessions here.

On our Youtube channel we showcase both new and previous sessions for you to rewatch.

For example:

HCL Keynote: The State of Collaboration in 2021 and Beyond

Enterprise Collaboration: A Zoo of Tools – Current Strategies behind Enterprise Collaboration Platforms

The Connections Roadmap: A First Glimpse at v8.0

HCL Connections Customizer

We hope we will see you next time!

Should you want to contact us, you can always reach us at team@letsconnect.world

We’ll go straight to the point: The agenda for our 2 half day September event is published!

We have for example several interesting sessions from HCL Offering Management scheduled. For example “Connections v8” and “Business Value of Connections”. And more!

We hope this intrigues you as much as it does to us, so head on over to our website to take a look and register! (Scroll down for some highlights.)

Join us on 28 – 29 September 2021 at 3 pm CET to hear news from HCL and the Let’sConnect team.

Enterprise Collaboration: A Zoo of Tools – Current Strategies behind Enterprise Collaboration Platforms

Join this session and hear about the different approaches used by user organisations to develop their software portfolio for Enterprise Collaboration.

We are going to discuss the complex collaborative technology landscape in order to understand the evolving portfolios of collaboration software currently in use in organizations. This will include the examination of different areas of collaboration activity that these tools support and the areas of overlapping and redundant functionality. We will present findings from a study of 23 user organisations in which we identified three dominant strategies. In this session, you will learn how the companies in our sample are addressing the zoo of software tools to shape their Enterprise Collaboration Platform.

The Connections Roadmap: A First Glimpse at v8.0

We have shared our plans for HCL Connections 8 in the past so you have probably heard about or even seen the new designs by now. But let us give you a refresher on what the development teams are working on.

Register here

We have news for you! Our September conference which was planned to take part in Madrid, will instead be a virtual one.

As much as we had hoped to gather the community this fall, we have taken the decision to postpone a face to face event to later. Even though the world is gradually openening up, there are still hurdles we feel will be too big at this stage.

In the meantime we want to make sure that the waiting is worthwhile! We are inviting you to a 2 half day online event taking place on the 28-29 September 2021.

We already have several interesting sessions from HCL Offerings Management scheduled, on the future of Connections. And more!.

We now invite you to participate with a session if you feel you have a topic you think might interest the Connections community. If you would like to submit an abstract, please email us at team@letsconnect.world

We have already opened up the registration for the event here.

Agenda and more information will be published in the next coming days.

Let’sConnect soon!

Summer holidays are getting closer for many of us, and for some winter is coming. Regardless times are changing and we look forward to a hopefully more open world where we can finally gather the community live!

In the meantime we welcome you to our bi-monthly webinar!

Join us on June 29, 2021 at 3 pm CEST to hear news from HCL and the Let’sConnect team.

Agenda snippets below:

HCL Connections news

At our last online event we collected the latest and greatest news all about HCL Connections and presented it to our attendees. We got good feedback on this, so we will of course repeat this news section!

Kickstart with the HCL Connections Engagement Centre

Join this session to learn how to kickstart HCL Connections Engagement Center. Roger will take you through the steps of creating a base intranet page brining content in from HCL Connections and other sources. In 45 minutes you can have a simple intranet. Roger will also show you how to create a separate intranet page for visitors so you don’t expose internal data to them.

Roger Zirn: As a Senior Software Engineer at Belsoft Collaboration AG, Roger gathered his HCL Connections experiences during installations, troubleshooting, administering and customizing tasks for several on-prem as well as for ThreeThirds cloud customers. He started to work in the collaboration area as an HCL Notes and Domino developer 30 years ago (actually, at this time it was called Lotus Notes developer). You can still find him coding @Formulas and LotusScript… sometimes.

Please register for the event  in order to receive the webinar link. The event is free!

We are looking forward to see you soon.

Maria, Wannes, Matteo, Martin and Jan