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19/042018

Game time! Our Gala night will be as fun as ever – join us in Philadelphia and Social Connections

News billiards, buffalo, dart, evening, event, fun, gala, games, networking, night, pool, shuffleboard, table by Maria Nordin

Are you like us, who thinks that networking is as big part of a conference as the sessions and the learning and knowledge sharing?

Do you also, like us, think that evening events with peers, customers, business partners and IBMers brings that extra special layer of a conference?

A moment where you can have more relaxed conversations and get to know people you wouldn’t otherwise? Good. Are you also ready to have fun? Even better.

You are most welcome to our Gala night after the first day of the conference, Thursday April 26, 2018

We at Social Connections take pride in not only giving you food and a place for networking, we also want to give you that little extra. A trip down memory lane among our earlier Gala nights: Sensapolis in Stuttgart where we did wall climbing and go-karting, Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto where we played ice hockey games and shot pucks on goals, Ace Bounce in Chicago where we played table tennis to name a few.

So what have we cooked up for you this time?

Let’s just say pool/billiards, darts and shuffle boards. Accompanied by food and refreshing beverages.

Welcome to Buffalo Billiards 118 Chestnut St. Philadelphia at 7:30 pm. Right after speed sponsoring at the conference venue. Dress code: business casual

Do you want in on all the fun? Register here for Social Connections 13 in Philadelphia. The IBM Collaboration conference with value. One free ticket to our Gala event is included!

See you!

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29/012018

Social Connections 13 is coming to Philadelphia · April 26 & 27 2018 · Hook up with us and collaborate

News 13, announce, conference, connections, event, philadelphia, philly, security, soccnx, social, social connections, usa by Maria Nordin

We are announcing our 13th conference and we are just as excited as ever! This time we are heading to USA and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “The city that loves you back” according to local tourism

Welcome to a learning and networking conference arranged by the global IBM Connections and Collaboration user group Social Connections! 26-27 April 2018

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

  • Learning sessions and keynote sessions. Both technical, strategic and future of work. All with quality speakers from around the world
  • A great selection of user case studies focused on real life examples of how organizations have approached the rollout of IBM Connections!
  • Great sessions by IBM Champions
  • Speed sponsoring and of course lots of networking
  • A Gala night you won’t forget
  • A peak into the future with sessions on Connections Pink, Watson Workspace and What is coming to IBM Connections

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!

 

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20/122017

Social Connections 13 is announced! 26-27 April 2018 East Coast, USA

News 13, coast, connections, east, east coast, event, soccnx, social, social connections, socialconnections, usa, world tour by Maria Nordin

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

 

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15/052017

Party time! Time to reveal the location of Social Connections fabulous Gala evening!

News 12, Chicago, conference, connections, event, gala, gala reception, ibm, ibm connections, reception, soccnx, social, social connections, socialconnections by Maria Nordin

 

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! 🙂

 

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21/042017

IBM Connections Next Developer Briefing brought to you by IBM on May 31st

News briefing, connections, event, ibm, ibmcnx, ics, socialconnections by Wannes Rams

The Social Connections team is proud to announce that IBM will be hosting an IBM Connections Next Developer Briefing the day before our event.

The briefing will take place at the IBM building on 71 South Wacker Drive in Chicago, IL 60606 on Wednesday May 31st. It will start at 9 am and will end at 5 pm. Join Alan Hamilton and the other IBM speakers for a full day of exciting new technology.

 

Join us for this exciting preview of some of the technologies and techniques we are using to build the next generation of IBM Connections. This is a technical briefing to allow customers and business partners to understand how many of the components and technologies fit together for “Connections Pink”.
Presented by the IBM developers themselves, this is an ideal opportunity to get ahead of the curve and be ready to experience what Connections Pink will deliver. It is also the ideal primer for you to implement IBM Connections 6 with Orient Me – which is available now.
Open to customers and IBM Business Partners.

Places are limited so register here

Agenda:

Morning

Deployment and configuration of Connections 6.0 including Orient.Me

  1. What is Docker, Kubernetes, CFC?
  2. How do I set up Docker
  3. How do I access content in a Docker container
  4. How do I configure Docker
  5. How do I manage IBM Containers
  6. How do I scale those environments
  7. Tips/tricks/debugging CFC
  8. How do I do integrate between applications in Docker and WebSphere

Afternoon

Muse Middleware Proxy – Customisation of Connections using Muse

  1. What is Muse ?
  2. When do I Use it ?
  3. How do I configure it ?
  4. How do I build customisation’s for it ?
  5. How do I deploy and manage customisations
  6. Private Cloud v Public Cloud

Have you seen our Mobile app? Check it out here

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14/022017

Social Connections 11 Chicago Venue decided. We are going to Summit West on June 1st and 2nd!

News Chicago, connections, event, ibm, ibmcnx, register, registration, soccnx, social, socialconnections, Speakers, sponsors by 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.

 

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The Social Connections team

(Maria, Simon, Wannes, Lars, Martin, Femke, Doug, Christoph, Jan)

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17/012017

Announcement: Social Connections 11 comes to Chicago! See you there!

News connections, event, ibm, ibmcnx, ics, register, soccnx, soccnx10, social, socialconnections by Maria Nordin

Social Connections
comes to
CHICAGO!!!

 

Chicago

 

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!

 

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22/022016

Social Connections 10, we will go to Toronto!

News 10, abstracts, canada, event, ibmchampions, ibmcnx, june, registration, soccnx, soccnx10, social, socialconnections, toronto by Wannes Rams

We know we have kept you waiting. Maybe longer than both you and we wanted. But it was for a good reason!

After the great success of our last event in Stuttgart, and because this is our 10th event, we have cooked up something extra.

We won’t release all the details yet, there are much more exciting things to come.

But we can say this: It is with great pleasure that we can announce the dates and location for our next event. This time we will be crossing the Atlantic again, but to a new country for us. We are going to Toronto, Canada! Yes, you heard it right, the beautiful city of Toronto is waiting for us!

toronto-skyline-large-cropped-v2So gear up with your biggest smile and join us on June 6 & 7, 2016 in the vibrant capital of Ontario, Canada.

As before we are running a 2 day event filled with good speakers, captivating sessions, lots of IBM Champions, a Gala night you wont forget and of course the amazing Social Connection team.

But we cannot do this without you! So send in your abstract for that session you already have in the back of your mind here, or register here.
And last but not least, there is much more to come. Keep your eyes open here for more details, news and announcements. We will updating you on a regulat basis from now on.

 

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08/012015

Wrap up of Social Connections VII

News connections, event, soccnx, stockholm, vii by Lars Samuelsson

It’s been a while since we closed Social Connections VII in Stockholm, but it’s finally time to do a wrap-up and an official send off, over the Atlantic ocean and to Boston, MA.

First of all, our team. 

15930881002_eb74be52e4_oStuart, Brian, Martin, Jan, Wannes, Maria. Some of them I knew from before, some I met for the first time, but I hardly think i’ve ever worked in a team that was so hell-bet on delivering a project. We’ve done our fair share of stressing about with getting it all together, but the feeling of seeing it play out was all thereward i ever needed.

Thank you guys!

Secondly, Stockholm.

Stockholm_1600x900It was great seeing so many people coming to my home town to be part of this conference. From all across the globe, people came to socialize, and freeze their toes while beeing outside. I sure hope you liked visiting, and that you got to see a glimpse of the city as well, however, it is a lot more comforting in the summer, so I urge you to come back by then. It’s not as dark, and not as cold.

So what can we say about the event itself?

We had a 100% attendance rate, which is totally amazing. There were some nervous discussions in the team about the idea of charging for the event for the first time. In the end we are happy that we did.

The event itself seems to have been very well received, the results for the survey have been fantastic, also the amount of answers have been much higher than previous events. We wanna give you all a big thank you, it really helps us in planning onwards for the future!

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Our sponsors?

What can we say apart from that we are so happy to have you? You are the ones making all this possible. Infoware, Affecto, IBM, TrustSphere, Kudos, TimeToAct, Connect2Cloud, Intravision, Longana and Belsoft. We know that you all put so much energy as well as your time and money into sponsoring this event, and we are forever grateful for that.

The sessions?

The agenda was a little different this time to previous events, with the volume of abstract submissions lower than before, but the quality was definitely still there!  With fewer sessions the team had the opportunity to offer some longer 65-minute slots for the more technical topics, whilst still offering at least four session options for most time slots.  With speakers from more than 15 countries, including many IBM Champions, we feel that the agenda was one of the strongest we’ve fielded.  The feedback has been good, though a few attendees suggested we needed to go a little deeper for those organisations that have been using Social Business technologies for a number of years.  We’ll certainly be looking at that for the next event.  Our speakers did a fine job, so we thank them all!

The receptions?

We always try to deliver receptions that make our even especially memorable for our attendees. We know that everyone takes time out from their families and friends to travel to the event, and so we want to give them a reason to feel they’ve had a special and enjoyable time as well as achieved their work goals.

This time that took the form of a gala reception at the Fotografiska photo gallery on the water’s edge. Whilst the venue was a little bit of a trek, hopefully the quality of the food, wine and conversation more than made up for the effort involved in getting there!

15660941919_c7d13ffb1f_kAs usual, we invited our speakers and sponsors to attend a special reception to thank them for giving up their time and energy to plan, prepare and attend the event.  This time we hit the Hard Rock Cafe just 100 yards from the conference venue.  Beer flowed, friendships were rekindled, and the world was put to rights!

 

So where next?

Stuart and the team are not so presumptuous as to claim that they’ve conquered Europe, but with events in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and now Sweden over just 3.5 years, Social Connections has given it a good go!

So we’ve expanding our reach and heading to the US for the first time.  To Boston (or Cambridge to be precise), on 16th and 17th April 2015.  Registration is open, the call for abstracts has been made, sponsors are invited, and we’ll reconvene for Social Connections 8 in just a few months!

 

So finally…

Thanks for coming to Stockholm, to my home town, it was great to have Social Connections here and to welcome so many to this great city. See you in Boston!

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15/102014

Varför delta på Social Connections VII?

News event, soccnx, swedish by Lars Samuelsson

Har du redan IBM Connections? Kom och träffa ledande experter, få tips och idéer för hur ni kan utveckla ert användande.

Om du har planer på att implementera IBM Connections, eller för den delen någon form av social mjukvara så är det här platsen att besöka! Du kanske inte ens siktar mot IBMs lösning? Kom ändå! Det är mycket att tänka på vilken lösning ni än väljer. Och vi alla älskar att utbyta idéer och tips påmhur man bäst lyckas med sin implementation, i sann social anda.

Louis RichardsonOm inte annat, kom för våra talare! Louis Richardson, en av IBMs mest underhållande historieberättare (ja, hans titel är storyteller) kommer tala under temat ”What were you thinking?”. Ett nytt sätt att se på en affärssituation, att försöka betrakta den från ett ”utifrånperspektiv” och analysera ”Hur tänkte jag här, egentligen?”.

Luis SuarezLuis Suarez, föredetta IBM-are och en ren veteran i Social Connections-sammanhang kommer hålla två presentationer. En betitlad ”A day in the life of a knowledge (web) worker” och centrerar runt Connections har förändrat, inte bara ditt sätt att arbeta, men också ditt sätt att interagera med andra.

Den andra sessionen centreras runt de nya strukturer som skapas i och med sociala nätverk, fenomenet wierarchy förklaras och möjligheterna till mer demokratiska, inkluderande och på alla sätt ihopkopplade arbetsplatser.

Mike RocheMike Roche från IBM Irland, kommer att prata om och önska feedback på deras idéer om Connections och Docs och det som kommer framöver. Det blir en liten titt bakom kulisserna i IBMs labb.

I övrigt så har vi föreläsningar om det mesta, från molnet och övergripande tankespår kring sociala nätverk, till utveckling och administrationssessioner där ni kan lära er det mesta om det mest detaljerade.

Om ni inte sett hela startfältet så ta genast och surfa över till vårt program och hitta just det som intresserar dig.

Vill också trycka på att ni är där direkt från början på torsdagen, detta då förmiddagen kommer innehålla en session enbart på svenska för just er!

Vi ser fram emot att välkomna er till Stockholm i november, och ha en riktigt trevlig konferens tillsammans.

Anmäl dig här

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