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04/032019

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

News abstract, connections, hcl, ibm, ibm connections, session, sessions, speaker, submit, submit abstract by Maria Nordin

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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13/042018

IBM ICS Collaboration strategy for the Future of Work

News ibm, ibmcnx, ics, keynote, philadelphia, schedule, sessions, soccnx, speaker by Wannes Rams

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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30/032018

Our agenda is out! Better than ever. Time to buy your ticket to the event!

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The day has come. We now know who will be a speaker and what they will speak about at Social Connections 13 in Philadelphia on April 26-27, 2018.

We have an agenda!

We in the team always love this task. Extracting all the great abstracts from the database, compiling them in an Excel file and choose! But it is also one of our hardest tasks. Always. Because, with no exceptions, we always have a large amount of fantastic abstracts to go through. The range, the quality, the ingenuity. We never stop to be amazed.

Each conference is different to the other. News trends, new technique and solutions. Our speakers never cease to impress us. In the end we always aim to end up with a good mix of both technical and non technical sessions.

A developer, an administrator, a manager, an adoption consultant. All of them should be able to find something they like.

So please have a look at the 2018 spring edition of Social Connections!

We invite you all to participate in our great event! 2 days of networking, learning and fun.

See the agenda here

Time to buy your ticket!

 

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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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05/102014

Announcing the keynote speakers for Social Connections VII!

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Maybe you’ve already checked out our agenda and seen the hints…?  Either way, we are thrilled to officially announce that we’ll have three keynote speakers at Social Connections VII! All three keynote speakers are Social Connections veterans and we are honored to have them back to speak again.

LouisRichardsonFirst up…Louis Richardson.  I don’t exaggerate when I say that Louis is one of the premier story tellers of the social business story. Although he is from IBM, the message is always unbiased and about how to work smarter using social. Louis rarely even mentions a product as he speaks.  One of my favorite presentations from Louis is ‘Have you lost your mind‘.

MikeRoche052011Second…we have Mike Roche. Mike is the Chief Technologist at IBM Ireland and works directly with development of IBM Connections. Interestingly enough, Mike was one of the of the speakers at the first Social Connections event ever in 2011. Mike will be sure to bring us the latest news of what IBM has planned for IBM Connections.

Luis SuarezAnd last but not least, we have Luis Suarez. An independent social business trusted advisor, who is leading the charge to work out loud as a charter member of Change Agents Worldwide. Luis is a passionate evangelist who speaks from his heart. He delivered one of the top sessions at Social Connections VI in Prague, ‘From Adaptation to Engagement‘.

If you have never seen these three guys speak, you are in for a real treat! And if you have see them, don’t worry…they will be delivering new and exciting presentations not previously seen at any Social Connections event!

So, if you haven’t already…go register now for Social Connections VII and we’ll see you in Stockholm on November 13th and 14th!

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24/022014

Announcing the keynote speaker for Social Connections VI!

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The team are thrilled to announce that the keynote speaker will be…

First some clues…

This man is a:

  • IBM Connect OGS and session speaker
  • Connections product manager
  • demo god
  • blogger extraordinaire
  • community advocate
  • former Connections deployment specialist

Got it yet?

Yes, we can publicly declare that the keynote session at Social Connections VI will be delivered by IBM’s Luis Benitez:

I am a Social Software Product Manager at IBM and an Social Business/Enterprise 2.0 enthusiast who simply loves the whole concept of innovating. I help companies understand and implement Enterprise 2.0/Social Business solutions, specifically IBM Connections, all over the world.

Luis Benitez announcing IBM Mail.Next at the Connect 2014 Opening General Session (Orlando, Jan 2014)

The Social Connections team are thrilled and honoured to have Luis attending and speaking at this event.

We’ve always been delighted at the willingness of IBM’s Connections product management and development teams to support Social Connections events. Given that Luis is such a great advocate for the wider Connections community this increases our excitement at his attendance in Prague for this event.

Look out for more details regarding the agenda and timings very soon.

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