In the spring of this year (2025) we started with the first Beta Implementations of the new Domino IQ based features and functions at a company for packaged coach tours and river cruises in Germany. The company is one of the market leaders in this sector reselling packaged travel arrangements in the whole DACH Region. During the COVID season, the company went through rough times, almost going bankrupt with revenues coming to a total halt during the pandemic. During that time, layoffs had been necessary and a large amount of highly qualified speciallists lost their jobs and went into different professions. Fast forward to today - the market segement is booming and the company is grwoing rapdidly, so fast, that they are not able to find enough skilled personell to meet the growth. As a long term HCL Notes/Domino user, we sat down and came up with an idea, how Domino IQ could come to the rescue - let complex marketing and controlling tasks be automated using LLMs, RAG and MCP servers, allowing the customer to do a lot more with less - and meet their goals to regrow the business in a lot more efficient way than before.
In this presentation, I will talk about the use cases and the business impact that using AI and Domino IQ had. Also, I will. give an overview of the technical implementation Join me on a customer journey through making productive use of AI and Domino IQ!
Where
Main Room
10:10 - 10:20
Sponsor: AI integrated in Connections? Yes, Now! Meet Sonny
By Sandra Bühler co-owner and co-founder of Belsoft Collaboration AG
We have spent the last few months developing a secure and sovereign AI solution and integrating it with HCL Connections. This sponsored session will demonstrate Sonny's ability to summarize files, locate content in Connections, and translate text into other languages with ease.
Sponsor Session
Where
Main Room
10:20 - 10:40
Adopting HCL Nomad: Pitfalls and best practices
By Tim Clark Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware, Christoph Adler Head of Solution Consulting at panagenda
Getting Notes applications in your web browser has never been easier. From adding HCL Nomad to your HCL Domino server, through to tweaking your apps for to show their best side in Nomad.
Christoph and Tim have 20 minutes that are not to be missed, and will leave you heading for your Domino server to add Nomad as soon as you can.
Where
Main Room
10:40 - 11:10
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30
Notes Next: peer into the future
By Tim Clark Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware
The number one idea in the Notes idea portal is simply 4 words. “Make Notes Look Great!” And that is exactly what we are doing with the next release coming in 2026. The Design, Development and Testing teams are all working together to bring you enhancements that will delight you.
Tim has the client installed and will show you mostly live demos of enhancements that are ready for your review. We’d love to know what you think, so please give your feedback after the session at the HCL demo station.
OnTime Group Calendar transforms how organizations plan and coordinate their workdays. Instead of wasting time piecing together calendars across teams, departments, or time zones, OnTime delivers a clear, unified view of availability—whether you’re running on HCL Domino or Microsoft Exchange.
With the Event Hub, users gain a simple yet powerful way to keep corporate events, holidays, and key dates in one place—making “who, what, when” questions instantly answerable.
But OnTime is more than just events. It’s about saving time every single day:
Smart Scheduling suggests the best slots and reduces endless email back-and-forth.
Custom Views—daily, weekly, time-off, or list—let you plan the way you prefer.
Work on Behalf empowers assistants to manage calendars efficiently, often saving 30 minutes per day.
Polls & External Scheduling (via Pollarity) streamline meeting coordination beyond your organization.
Time Off Workflows provide transparent vacation planning without spreadsheets.
OnTime is available in 11 languages and extends further with add-ons like Mobile for scheduling on the go, Room Display for instant meeting space bookings, and Catering for hassle-free meeting services.
Organizations with HCL Domino CCB/CEO licenses can start risk-free: the Freemium version supports 25–50 users, with Premium unlocking the full feature set.
With OnTime, scheduling stops being a drain and becomes a productivity driver. Talk with Jens Overgaard Dinesen to see how OnTime can enhance your organization’s everyday work life.
Join Christoph for a focused and practical session dedicated entirely to the upgrade journey to HCL Notes 14.5. This session will walk you through the critical steps of transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture, including uninstallation routines, cleanup procedures, and data migration strategies. Learn how to streamline your upgrade process using command-line installation techniques, log parsing, and automation best practices.
Christoph will also cover the nuances of installation rituals, folder structure changes, and the impact of bitness on client behavior. Whether you're upgrading a single endpoint or rolling out across an enterprise, you'll gain insights into common pitfalls, troubleshooting tips, and proven methods to ensure a reliable and efficient deployment.
By the end of this session, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to confidently plan and execute your HCL Notes 14.5 upgrade, tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
Where
Main Room
12:15 - 12:35
Culture eats AI for breakfast - the human side of becoming truly data driven
The real bottleneck to AI isn’t the technology -it’s culture and mindset.
In the race to adopt AI, organizations quickly realize that the real challenge is not the tools themselves, but the culture required to use them effectively. In today’s digital landscape, cultivating a strong data culture is both critical and difficult, yet is the key to unlocking the true value of technology investments. While many aspire to be data-driven, few fully understand what that means in practice.
A truly data-driven business is not defined by its platforms or algorithms, but by its people, their ability to explore, question, and act on insights with confidence. Without a supportive culture, even the most advanced AI initiatives risk underdelivering.
This session will explore how organizations can translate AI investments into tangible business value by strengthening the cultural foundations of a data-driven enterprise. We will examine three interconnected pillars, data strategy, data governance, and data culture, with particular emphasis on how culture determines whether AI becomes a driver of growth or simply another experiment.
Participants will gain practical approaches to fostering curiosity, creating safe spaces for experimentation, and embedding values such as learning, innovation, and exploration into everyday decision-making. A case study of executive teams using AI-enabled simulation tools will illustrate how cultural readiness accelerates adoption and turns technology into measurable outcomes.
By looking beyond technology and investing in culture, organizations can unlock the full promise of AI, not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for growth, resilience, creativity, and innovation.
Where
Main Room
12:35 - 13:45
Lunch Time
13:45 - 14:05
Domino Partner Program 2025 Update
By Uffe Sorensen Global Director of Strategy at HCLSoftware
Level-Up! to Domino 14.5. This session highlights 10 good reasons to upgrade with enhancements in the Domino Product family. We’ll explore new features designed to improve performance, streamline workflows, and deliver greater value to users. Gain insight into the most impactful changes, including upgraded tools, user experience improvements, and expanded integrations.
What is a sovereign cloud, what is the impact being in one and what are the risks not being in one. What is the impact on your data and organisation.
In the current political landscape this topic is becoming more and more important and HCL Ambassadors Andreas and Wannes will make sure you walk out of this session with he right amount of knowledge to take care of your own business.
Where
Main Room
14:35 - 14:55
HCL Digital Solutions Collaboration in a Sovereign Cloud today
By Sandra Bühler co-owner and co-founder of Belsoft Collaboration AG, Wannes Rams Senior Cloud Architect at ISW
You want to protect your data and work on your corporate sovereignty? This is what you can do today with the HCL Digital Solutions portfolio for your Sovereign Collaboration. Listen to Sandra and Wannes, both working for an HCLSoftware CH-MSP offering solutions in sovereign cloud data centers in Europe today
Where
Main Room
15:00 - 15:20
What’s next in Sovereign Collaboration: HCL Domino Workspace
By Andrew Manby Senior Vice President of Product Management at HCLSoftware
For organisations seeking digital determination and independence for collaboration and communication, Andrew will provide a sneak peek at HCL's new offering for governments and regulated industries. If you are concerned about your digital sovereignty and data privacy and want to know what’s in the roadmap, you’ll want to attend this session.
Where
Main Room
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:30
Domino IQ Deep Dive: Sovereign Artificial Intelligence
By Thomas Hampel Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware
With Domino IQ now being released as part of Domino 14.5 we can show what Generative AI can do for you while being in full control of your data. This session is a compact overview of current features and functions, practical tips and tricks, lessons learned and a glimpse into enhancements planned for IQ with Domino 14.5.1. We will talk about agentic AI, LLMs, GPU, RAG, MCP, VectorDB and more.
Hold your breath for a fast paced session about Artificial Intelligence done right. Warning - there may be DEMO's.
Where
Main Room
16:35 - 16:55
What's new in Domino+ and Connections Why should you upgrade
By Thomas Hampel Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware, Andrew Manby Senior Vice President of Product Management at HCLSoftware, Tim Clark Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware
Level-Up! to Domino 14.5. This session highlights 10 good reasons to upgrade with enhancements in the Domino Product family. We’ll explore new features designed to improve performance, streamline workflows, and deliver greater value to users. Gain insight into the most impactful changes, including upgraded tools, user experience improvements, and expanded integrations.
Where
Main Room
16:55 - 17:05
Wrap up
17:05 - 18:30
Have a drink!
Join us for a drink and a chat to close off the day
Where
Sponsor Area
8:30 - 9:00
Registration and coffee
Pick up your badge, enjoy a cup of coffee and some pastry
In the spring of this year (2025) we started with the first Beta Implementations of the new Domino IQ based features and functions at a company for packaged coach tours and river cruises in Germany. The company is one of the market leaders in this sector reselling packaged travel arrangements in the whole DACH Region. During the COVID season, the company went through rough times, almost going bankrupt with revenues coming to a total halt during the pandemic. During that time, layoffs had been necessary and a large amount of highly qualified speciallists lost their jobs and went into different professions. Fast forward to today - the market segement is booming and the company is grwoing rapdidly, so fast, that they are not able to find enough skilled personell to meet the growth. As a long term HCL Notes/Domino user, we sat down and came up with an idea, how Domino IQ could come to the rescue - let complex marketing and controlling tasks be automated using LLMs, RAG and MCP servers, allowing the customer to do a lot more with less - and meet their goals to regrow the business in a lot more efficient way than before.
In this presentation, I will talk about the use cases and the business impact that using AI and Domino IQ had. Also, I will. give an overview of the technical implementation Join me on a customer journey through making productive use of AI and Domino IQ!
Where
Main Room
10:10 - 10:20
Sponsor: AI integrated in Connections? Yes, Now! Meet Sonny
By Sandra Bühler co-owner and co-founder of Belsoft Collaboration AG
We have spent the last few months developing a secure and sovereign AI solution and integrating it with HCL Connections. This sponsored session will demonstrate Sonny's ability to summarize files, locate content in Connections, and translate text into other languages with ease.
Sponsor Session
Where
Main Room
10:20 - 10:40
Adopting HCL Nomad: Pitfalls and best practices
By Tim Clark Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware, Christoph Adler Head of Solution Consulting at panagenda
Getting Notes applications in your web browser has never been easier. From adding HCL Nomad to your HCL Domino server, through to tweaking your apps for to show their best side in Nomad.
Christoph and Tim have 20 minutes that are not to be missed, and will leave you heading for your Domino server to add Nomad as soon as you can.
Where
Main Room
10:40 - 11:10
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30
Notes Next: peer into the future
By Tim Clark Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware
The number one idea in the Notes idea portal is simply 4 words. “Make Notes Look Great!” And that is exactly what we are doing with the next release coming in 2026. The Design, Development and Testing teams are all working together to bring you enhancements that will delight you.
Tim has the client installed and will show you mostly live demos of enhancements that are ready for your review. We’d love to know what you think, so please give your feedback after the session at the HCL demo station.
OnTime Group Calendar transforms how organizations plan and coordinate their workdays. Instead of wasting time piecing together calendars across teams, departments, or time zones, OnTime delivers a clear, unified view of availability—whether you’re running on HCL Domino or Microsoft Exchange.
With the Event Hub, users gain a simple yet powerful way to keep corporate events, holidays, and key dates in one place—making “who, what, when” questions instantly answerable.
But OnTime is more than just events. It’s about saving time every single day:
Smart Scheduling suggests the best slots and reduces endless email back-and-forth.
Custom Views—daily, weekly, time-off, or list—let you plan the way you prefer.
Work on Behalf empowers assistants to manage calendars efficiently, often saving 30 minutes per day.
Polls & External Scheduling (via Pollarity) streamline meeting coordination beyond your organization.
Time Off Workflows provide transparent vacation planning without spreadsheets.
OnTime is available in 11 languages and extends further with add-ons like Mobile for scheduling on the go, Room Display for instant meeting space bookings, and Catering for hassle-free meeting services.
Organizations with HCL Domino CCB/CEO licenses can start risk-free: the Freemium version supports 25–50 users, with Premium unlocking the full feature set.
With OnTime, scheduling stops being a drain and becomes a productivity driver. Talk with Jens Overgaard Dinesen to see how OnTime can enhance your organization’s everyday work life.
Join Christoph for a focused and practical session dedicated entirely to the upgrade journey to HCL Notes 14.5. This session will walk you through the critical steps of transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture, including uninstallation routines, cleanup procedures, and data migration strategies. Learn how to streamline your upgrade process using command-line installation techniques, log parsing, and automation best practices.
Christoph will also cover the nuances of installation rituals, folder structure changes, and the impact of bitness on client behavior. Whether you're upgrading a single endpoint or rolling out across an enterprise, you'll gain insights into common pitfalls, troubleshooting tips, and proven methods to ensure a reliable and efficient deployment.
By the end of this session, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to confidently plan and execute your HCL Notes 14.5 upgrade, tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
Where
Main Room
12:15 - 12:35
Culture eats AI for breakfast - the human side of becoming truly data driven
The real bottleneck to AI isn’t the technology -it’s culture and mindset.
In the race to adopt AI, organizations quickly realize that the real challenge is not the tools themselves, but the culture required to use them effectively. In today’s digital landscape, cultivating a strong data culture is both critical and difficult, yet is the key to unlocking the true value of technology investments. While many aspire to be data-driven, few fully understand what that means in practice.
A truly data-driven business is not defined by its platforms or algorithms, but by its people, their ability to explore, question, and act on insights with confidence. Without a supportive culture, even the most advanced AI initiatives risk underdelivering.
This session will explore how organizations can translate AI investments into tangible business value by strengthening the cultural foundations of a data-driven enterprise. We will examine three interconnected pillars, data strategy, data governance, and data culture, with particular emphasis on how culture determines whether AI becomes a driver of growth or simply another experiment.
Participants will gain practical approaches to fostering curiosity, creating safe spaces for experimentation, and embedding values such as learning, innovation, and exploration into everyday decision-making. A case study of executive teams using AI-enabled simulation tools will illustrate how cultural readiness accelerates adoption and turns technology into measurable outcomes.
By looking beyond technology and investing in culture, organizations can unlock the full promise of AI, not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for growth, resilience, creativity, and innovation.
Where
Main Room
12:35 - 13:45
Lunch Time
Lunch at the Museum, a 5 minute walk from the venue
Where
Museum
13:45 - 14:05
Domino Partner Program 2025 Update
By Uffe Sorensen Global Director of Strategy at HCLSoftware
Level-Up! to Domino 14.5. This session highlights 10 good reasons to upgrade with enhancements in the Domino Product family. We’ll explore new features designed to improve performance, streamline workflows, and deliver greater value to users. Gain insight into the most impactful changes, including upgraded tools, user experience improvements, and expanded integrations.
What is a sovereign cloud, what is the impact being in one and what are the risks not being in one. What is the impact on your data and organisation.
In the current political landscape this topic is becoming more and more important and HCL Ambassadors Andreas and Wannes will make sure you walk out of this session with he right amount of knowledge to take care of your own business.
Where
Main Room
14:35 - 14:55
HCL Digital Solutions Collaboration in a Sovereign Cloud today
By Sandra Bühler co-owner and co-founder of Belsoft Collaboration AG, Wannes Rams Senior Cloud Architect at ISW
You want to protect your data and work on your corporate sovereignty? This is what you can do today with the HCL Digital Solutions portfolio for your Sovereign Collaboration. Listen to Sandra and Wannes, both working for an HCLSoftware CH-MSP offering solutions in sovereign cloud data centers in Europe today
Where
Main Room
15:00 - 15:20
What’s next in Sovereign Collaboration: HCL Domino Workspace
By Andrew Manby Senior Vice President of Product Management at HCLSoftware
For organisations seeking digital determination and independence for collaboration and communication, Andrew will provide a sneak peek at HCL's new offering for governments and regulated industries. If you are concerned about your digital sovereignty and data privacy and want to know what’s in the roadmap, you’ll want to attend this session.
Where
Main Room
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:10
From General to Specific AI Responses with Domino Data
How to Use Domino Data to Expand an AI Model’s Knowledge in an Effective and Controlled Way.
Where
Main Room
16:10 - 16:30
Domino IQ Deep Dive: Sovereign Artificial Intelligence
By Thomas Hampel Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware
With Domino IQ now being released as part of Domino 14.5 we can show what Generative AI can do for you while being in full control of your data. This session is a compact overview of current features and functions, practical tips and tricks, lessons learned and a glimpse into enhancements planned for IQ with Domino 14.5.1. We will talk about agentic AI, LLMs, GPU, RAG, MCP, VectorDB and more.
Hold your breath for a fast paced session about Artificial Intelligence done right. Warning - there may be DEMO's.
Where
Main Room
16:35 - 16:55
What's new in Domino+ and Connections Why should you upgrade
By Thomas Hampel Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware, Andrew Manby Senior Vice President of Product Management at HCLSoftware, Tim Clark Senior Product Manager at HCLSoftware
Level-Up! to Domino 14.5. This session highlights 10 good reasons to upgrade with enhancements in the Domino Product family. We’ll explore new features designed to improve performance, streamline workflows, and deliver greater value to users. Gain insight into the most impactful changes, including upgraded tools, user experience improvements, and expanded integrations.
Where
Main Room
16:55 - 17:05
Wrap up
17:05 - 18:30
Have a drink!
Join us for a drink and a chat to close off the day
Where
Sponsor Area
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