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04/032019

We welcome you to submit your abstract for Social Connections Munich 16-17 September 2019

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We have opened our call for abstract and speakers for our fall conference in Munich.

Submit your abstract here


As always we are looking for speakers who are passionate about collaboration solutions. It can be deep-dive technical sessions, best practices, use cases, success stores, catastrophe stories. Or something unique, that just you thought of. For inspiration, see below.

Do you have any questions? We are here for you: info@socialconnections.info

We are inviting sessions in the following tracks:

  • Administration – sessions relating to administering collaboration platforms. It could be the design and build of infrastructure, upgrading, managing users, migrating to the cloud, integration with other services or platforms etc. Sessions relating to cloud, hybrid or on-premises infrastructures are welcome!
  • Case Study – We love case studies! Sessions focused on telling the story of existing collaboration projects. And the more honest the better! Ideally these sessions should feature at least one speaker from the company that uses the platform, but they could be accompanied by a vendor or partner.
  • Development – how and why to develop for these services. We’d love you to share your tips, techniques and experience of developing solutions or applications, where you might hit issues, and how you overcome them.
  • Future of Work – sessions in this track should explore topics around the area of improving the productivity of individuals and organisations through the use of collaboration platforms.
  • Management and Adoption – sessions that take a higher-level view of the issues, challenges and opportunities that surface when deploying collaboration platforms.
  • Spotlight – this track is designed to give new (or experienced) speakers the chance to present a short session on a topic of their choice. Think of it as being akin to TED talks, but within the framework of Social Connections. You can choose to use a presentation deck or not, to prepare earnestly or to speak from the heart, the choice is yours. What we’re after is insight, interest and passion – the rest is up to you!
  • New Technology – We also want to reach out to new things, if you feel you have an interesting session on a new technology, please submit in this track.
  • Sponsor – for those organisations that are sponsoring the event at Gold level or above, there is the option to submit a Sponsor session for the conference.
  • Workshop – For hands on training. Please supply all information needed on what you need to be able to run it.
  • Academic – For faculty, IT staff or even students of any academic institution who want to share what they have achieved with collaboration platforms and how they see the future of collaboration.
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06/062018

Call for abstracts is open for SocCnx 14 in Berlin

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Sharpen your pens, supercharge your keyboards, tickle those brain cells and release some awesome content to present at

Social Connections 14 in Berlin on October 16 & 17.

Yes we are calling on you, faithful speakers from our previous conferences, experienced but Social Connections novices and presenting rookies. Whether you are presenting geeky technical topics, want to use case the hell out of us or you just want to tell us an interesting story… the clock is ticking, the deadline is getting one second shorter with every second that passes.

Our call for abstracts will be open until Friday July 6. Submit fast and furious and we will reward many of you with spotlight, applause and eternal gratitude.

ps.: New submission form this year (thanks to Buzzy). Submit here

 

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13/042018

IBM ICS Collaboration strategy for the Future of Work

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Come to Social Connections, and more specifically to the keynote of IBM’s Vice President, Offering Management and Design, Watson Talent and Collaboration, Aarti Borkar to learn about the strategic vision from IBM on the Future of work.

Learn how IBM will combine the different parts of the portfolio to create a unified toolset to take on the challenges companies face today and tomorrow.

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23/032017

Think Pink, Connections Pink comes to Social Connections Chicago!

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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.

 

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26/012017

Join the Social Connections team at IBM Connect 2017!

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While we are working hard on planning Social Connections 11 in Chicago we want to do a shout out to another great conference: IBM Connect in San Francisco!

The Social Connections team have four speakers at IBM Connect delivering 5 sessions, details below, so we’re pretty excited!

IBM Connect 2017 promises to be an interesting event. Firstly, it is in a new city and conference venue, the Moscone Centre, San Francisco, which guarantees something new and refreshing. Secondly, with new Watson based cognitive functionality within the IBM Collaborative solutions, there’s exciting new content for IT professionals, developers and business leaders giving a great opportunity to teach, learn and share how they will deliver a new way to work using IBM Watson and the other collaboration solutions from IBM.

We look forward to networking with all our friends and also learning from thought leaders, researchers, gurus, Business Partners and experts who are driving results and transforming organisations, both large and small, around the world.

 

With over 200 sessions being delivered over 3 days it’s going to be difficult to choose which season to attend when we’re not delivering our own. Nothing beats hearing real-world insights from industry-leading companies, learning about the technologies, APIs, platforms and services that boost your existing solutions, extend productivity and deliver new business results.

IBM promises these goodies:

  • Expand your horizons—explore the promise of emerging technologies like augmented reality, Internet of Things, Blockchain, AI and Watson.
  • Reimagine everyday work—learn how the solutions that are redefining work—Watson, Verse, Connections, Notes, Domino, Bluemix, Box and more—fuel productivity and collaboration.
  • Meet the experts—hear from experts on solutions that focus employees on work that matters by connecting the right people, information and processes.
  • Experience solutions first-hand—see the latest workplace technologies and research projects in the EXPO. Work with the products in labs. Discover new approaches to integrate and extend IBM solutions.

As discussed, we’re proud to have Social Connections team members contributing to IBM Connect. We look forward to welcoming you at one of  to our sessions!

Femke:
1223A: Socialytics: Accelerating IBM Connections Adoption with Watson Analytics – Femke Goedhart, Date/Time: Tue, 21-Feb, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Simon:
1488A : Employee Engagement using IBM Connections   – Simon Vaughan, Date/Time : Wed, 22-Feb, 09:00 AM-09:45 AM

Wannes:
1056A : How to Be a Lion Tamer (Keeping IBM Connections under Control with Free Tools) – Wannes Rams, Date/Time : Wed, 22-Feb, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Christoph:
1268A: IBM Connections Adminblast – Christoph Stoettner, Date/Time: Thu, 23-Feb, 8:00 AM-8:45 AM

1269A: Best and Worst Practices for Deploying IBM Connections, Date/Time: Thu, 23-Feb, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

 

We hope to see you at IBM Connect 2017!

 

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19/052016

2 days, 20 sponsors, 80+ speakers, 18+ IBM Champions and an awesome venue!

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The countdown continues to Social Connections 10 in Toronto and the team who organise the event wanted to highlight some of the great things that you will find when you attend this event!

Some of key points that we would like to highlight are:

– This is an event managed by a team of volunteers who are IBM Connections users – it is put on by customers of IBM, for customers!

– One of the key themes of the event is to continue to  develop a community, foster team work and share best practices around IBM Connections (Cloud or On Premises)

At the event in Toronto, a selection of our ‘Not to be missed sessions include’:

  • Alan Lepofsky, VP @Constellation Research will talk to how AI will help us get work done!
  • Luis Suarez (A World without E-mail) will present a keynote session, be involved in the famous ‘PTI’ session and also host a Social Business Masterclass on Wednesday June 8th
  • Tony Byrne of the Real Story Group will present a session on the ‘Next Digital Workplace‘
  • IBM’s take on the future of work and demo – If you saw this at the IBM connect conference, now is the chance to see an updated version of this session!
  • What is coming to IBM Connections
  • How IBM design their products – a number of sessions focused on this important topic
  • Toscana – Come and see what is coming!

– Come and hear how businesses are leveraging the IBM Collaboration platforms to drive business outcomes.

Here is a selection of the great customer case studies:

  1. Lowe’s:  will talk to how they enable collaboration and drive diversity of thought through strategic alliance that maximize impact to employees, customers and vendors
  2. A&W: How they changed minds of execs to support adoption
  3. Tuft’s Health: How they created an integrated intranet for communication, collaboration and applications
  4. Waterfront Toronto: ongoing journey to becoming a more Social organization on a collaboration platform that supports all aspects of city buildings, citizen engagement and business ecosystem
  5. TD Bank: Presenting their usage and journey with the adoption of IBM Connections
  6. Verisure Securitas will explain their experience of using IBM Connections cloud
  7. How Telus used Collaboration to change the company culture
  8. The Superior Group will discuss their use of Connections
  9. SES highlight their new way of Knowledge networking
  10. and more….

And last, but not least, our sponsors, without who we could not put on this event!

Come to the event, listen to some great sponsor sessions and visit them on the sponsor floor!

Sponsors

In addition, we have a full program of Social events that will keep you entertained late into the night!

So if you have not registered, do so now before all the tickets are sold!   REGISTER HERE

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22/022016

Calling for abstracts – Social Connections goes to Canada!

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Hi everyone!

We now, finally, have a call for abstracts running for Social Connections 10 in Toronto, Canada. It’s been long in the making, but we promise you, it’ll be worth it!

Do you have something awesome that you want to tell the world about IBM Connections, or Social Business as a concept? Send in an abstract now. We can’t wait to see you share your insights. As in the past, we’ve got a couple of different lengths to pick from. You can go 15, 30 or even up to 60 minutes if you are bursting with things to say!

Haven’t got anything yet?

Keep Calm & submit your abstract!Still plenty of time left. We will close submissions on Friday April 8th 2016.

If you’re asking what’s in it for me? You’ll of course get all the awesome recognition and kudos from your peers, plus the opportunity to take part in our ‘Ask the Experts’ panel, you’ll receive complimentary admission to the event including the gala reception and be offered an invite to our exclusive VIP reception.

And for those that might be too shy to talk. Register for Social Connections 10 now, and we’ll see all of you in Toronto on 6th and 7th of June 2016!

Cheers!

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30/062015

Calling for abstracts – submit yours now!

News abstracts, sessions, soccnx9 by Martin Jinoch

Hi everyone!

We have a call for abstracts running for Social Connections 9 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Do you have something super awesome that you want to tell the world about IBM Connections, or Social Business as a concept? Send in an abstract now. We would love to have you do your presentation. This time around we have some different time slots to choose from. You can go 15, 30 or even up to 60 minutes if you got something extra inspiring for everyone to hear and see!

Haven’t got anything yet?

Keep Calm & submit your abstract!Still plenty of time left. We will close submissions on the 31st of August.

If you’re asking what’s in it for me? You’ll of course get all the awesome recognition and kudos from your peers, plus the opportunity to take part in our ‘Ask the Experts’ panel, you’ll receive complimentary admission to the event including the gala reception and be offered an invite to our exclusive VIP reception.

And for those that might be too shy to talk. Register for Social Connections 9 now, and we’ll see all of you in Stuttgart on 5th and 6th of November 2015!

Cheers!

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30/062015

Calling for abstracts – submit yours now!

News abstracts, sessions, soccnx by Martin Jinoch

Hi everyone!

We have a call for abstracts running for Social Connections 9 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Do you have something super awesome that you want to tell the world about IBM Connections, or Social Business as a concept? Send in an abstract now. We would love to have you do your presentation. This time around we have some different time slots to choose from. You can go 15, 30 or even up to 60 minutes if you got something extra inspiring for everyone to hear and see!

Haven’t got anything yet?

Keep Calm & submit your abstract!Still plenty of time left. We will close submissions on the 1th of September.

If you’re asking what’s in it for me? You’ll of course get all the awesome recognition and kudos from your peers, plus the opportunity to take part in our ‘Ask the Experts’ panel, you’ll receive complimentary admission to the event including the gala reception and be offered an invite to our exclusive VIP reception.

And for those that might be too shy to talk. Register for Social Connections 9 now, and we’ll see all of you in Stuttgart on 5th and 6th of November 2015!

Cheers!

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05/022015

10 days…

News abstracts, schedule, sessions, soccnx by Wannes Rams

Submit your abstract!It is just 10 days until the Social Connections 8 call for abstracts slides ever so tightly shut.

Yes, you have just ten short days in which to submit your great ideas for sessions at the upcoming IBM Social Business user group, which takes place in Boston on 16th and 17th April.  We’re looking to select 20-30 really tip-top sessions to fill out our provisional event schedule – we’ve had some really super abstracts so far (thanks go to everyone that has submitted) but we’d really love more!

For the first time at Social Connections, we will be offering a selection of session durations:

  • 15 minutes – solely for Spotlight sessions (see below)
  • 30 minutes – the standard session length, used for ~75% of our session slots. You will increase your chance of being selected by opting for this session length
  • 60 minutes – for in-depth technical sessions, where it is difficult to get to grips with the content in 30 minutes

We are inviting sessions in the following tracks:

  • Administration – sessions relating to administering Social Business platforms. It could be the design and build of infrastructure, upgrading, managing users, migrating to the cloud, integration with other services or platforms etc. Sessions relating to cloud, hybrid or on-premise infrastructures are welcome! (30-minute and 60-minute slots)
  • Case Study – sessions focused on telling the story of existing Social Business projects. We love case studies! And the more honest the better! Ideally these sessions should feature at least one speaker from the company that uses the platform, but they could be accompanied by a vendor or partner. (30-minute slots only)
  • Development – how and why to develop for these services. We’d love you to share your tips, techniques and experience of developing solutions or applications, where you might hit issues, and how you overcome them. (30-minute and 60-minute slots)
  • Future of Work – new for this conference, sessions in this track should explore topics around the area of improving the productivity of individuals and organisations through the use of social technologies. (30-minute slots only)
  • Management – sessions that take a higher-level view of the issues, challenges and opportunities that surface when deploying social platforms. (30-minute slots)
  • Spotlight – also new for Social Connections 8, this track is designed to give new (or experienced) speakers the chance to present a short session on a topic of their choice. Think of it as being akin to TED talks, but within the framework of Social Connections. You can choose to use a presentation deck or not, to prepare earnestly or to speak from the heart, the choice is yours. What we’re after is insight, interest and passion – the rest is up to you! (15-minute slots only)
  • Sponsor – for those organisations that are sponsoring the event at Gold level or above, there is the option to submit a Sponsor session for the conference. (30-minute slots only)

The theme for the conference is ‘Beyond the Enterprise‘, so you may wish to give some thought to how your topic relates to this. You can take it any way you like, e.g. bridging internal and external communities, working with partners, making Social Business relevant to small organisations, creating non-work-related social communities, and so on.  It’s not mandatory for the abstract to relate to the theme, but obviously it would be even better if it did.

The deadline for submitting an abstract is Sunday 15th February 2015, so you need to get your proverbial skates on!

Some advice that might help:

  • If you’re an experienced speaker and want to submit your session that you presented at IBM ConnectED, or will present at InterConnect, Engage or ICS UG, then we’d be happy to accept it. We’d just advise that you might tweak it to suit the session lengths described above. Also, we do try to have a really interactive atmosphere at Social Connections, so make sure you leave some space for questions and feedback from the audience.
  • Keep Calm & submit your abstract!If you’re new to speaking at events such as user groups and conferences, please don’t let that put you off! We all have to start somewhere, and we’d love to support you make your debut at Social Connections 8! You might want to consider submitting for the Spotlight track mentioned above, which would give you an informal 15-minute slot to cover your case-study, concept, solution or idea. If you need longer, but feel unsure about delivering a session alone, please reach out to the Social Connections team – either one of us would be delighted to assist or co-present, or else we can recommend another speaker that might be ideal for your session.
  • We’re always very keen to receive submissions for the case-study track, so please give some thought to whether you can tell your own organisation’s story regarding adoption of Social Business technologies. Typically case study sessions get really high ratings from attendees, as well as comments that suggest how useful they’ve been in assisting their own organisation’s journey.
  • Please consider submitting multiple abstracts for different topics and tracks. The selection team will be trying to create a balanced and informative schedule for the two days of the conference, therefore we may (for example) have a surplus of great management sessions, where a quality administration abstract would have been selected.
  • Submit ASAP! We’ve already highlighted a number of speakers on our site and will be selecting a few key sessions throughout the remaining few days of the process to list on our site. If you have a great idea for a session, get it to us right away…

So, ten days and counting! Hope to read your abstract(s) very soon!

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