verb: engage; 3rd person present: engages; past tense: engaged; past participle: engaged; gerund or present participle: engaging
1. occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention).
"he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans and engage Sutton's attention"
synonyms: capture, catch, arrest, grab, seize, draw, attract, gain, win, captivate, hold, grip, engross, absorb, occupy
"the tasks must engage the children's interest"
involve someone in (a conversation or discussion).
"they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation"
2. participate or become involved in.
"organizations engage in a variety of activities"
synonyms: participate in, take part in, join in, become involved in, go in for, partake in/of, occupy oneself with, throw oneself into; share in, play a part in, play a role in, be a participant in, be associated with, have a hand in, be a party to, enter into, undertake, embark on, set about, launch into
"they like to engage in active sports"
establish a meaningful contact or connection with.
"the teams needed to engage with local communities"
This time we did not have our meeting at the IBM forum, due to unavailability, but very close by in Diegem, at the NH Hotel (details below).
On Tuesday, June 28th we had a BLUG meeting.
This was the agenda:
15.30h
Welcome with Coffee
16.00h
UCC Is The Action In Social Business: What's new with Sametime ?
We had 2 speakers:
Thierry Batut is driving Sales in Southwest Europe and leading many engagement for Sametime and telephony convergence project.
Teaming with many high value partners in the UC ecosystem like Polycom, Radvision, Plantronics, Alcatel Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Siemens, ...
Follow him on twitter: @tbatut
Vincent Perrin, IBM Collaboration Solutions Architect for SouthWest Europe Look at the slides: Sametime 8.5.2 and beyond
17.00h
Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) for Domino Admins/Devs
We'll demonstrate how the FREE tool Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) can be used to “fill in the gaps” of your Domino Directory using other non-Domino data sources. Learn how you can use TDI with your Domino directory and other databases to move data back and forth between Domino and other data sources. We’ll cover simple and complex data transformation, setting up connectors, and other scenarios for using TDI. You’ll have the skills to start using these assembly lines immediately in your own environment – as an administrator or a developer. So why not start leverage the best tool for Domino you’ve never heard about? You’ll think that TDI stands for The Domino Integrator when we’re done!
Speaker:
Amy Widmer , Solution Architect - Lotus Services (ISSL) EMEA Pan-IOT Team Download the slides: Domino_TDI.pdf
18.00h
Networking time !
Drinks offered by our sponsors.
Thierry, Vincent and Amy did a great job. Thanks a lot.
by Car
See the map below. The hotel is close to the main highway exits of Brussels.
You can park your car for this meeting for free in the pretty big underground parking lot (there is also some space the left and right of the hotel entrance).
by Train
The hotel is opposite a small railway station 'Diegem' (so a 25 m. walk). You can get there e.g. via Brussel 'North'
by Air
The hotel itself is very close to the Airport of Zaventem (Brussels).
There is a complementary shuttle service, on the busiest hours of the day.
Here's the shuttle timetable:
You can also take a taxi. This will be around 15 EUR.
Here's a map for you
A is the Hotel where the meeting is being held this time (B is the IBM Forum, Bourgetlaan 42, Zaventem, where it used to be):
I have been to numerous events over the years and this was be far the best one I can remember. The structure, venue and content was great.
Wonderful event, one of the best I have been to. Focused on IBM Notes/Domino and Connections. Just what I want.
Theo (and team) did it again ! A very professional conference, with a great value for me as a Customer!
My first Engage, and despite the long travel distance for me, hopefully not the last.
It's a privilege to be able to attend Engage and this year was, most probably, one of the very best out there!!
Awesome event, for sure an organizational masterpiece. Excellent! It's hard to believe the Engage staff is not organizing conferences as principal job ;-)
It was the best event I attended so far. And I attend about 5-8 each year!
2nd time for me attending Engage, but it was incredible again! 2 days packed with extremely informational content, a great venue and a great community!
We did more business and collected more leads during Engage 2017 in Antwerp, than at IBM Connect in San Francisco.
As a first-timer I didn't really know what to expect. The organization of the event positively surprised me!
A premiere event that rivals anything produced by any other organization. Great job...AGAIN!!!
It's a treat to always keep coming back for more! Well done, once again, and look forward to the 10th edition next year!
It is mind boggling to see two people create an event that rivals those put on by larger vendors with dozens of resources.
And huge thanks to Theo and the others for giving me my first international speaking engagement!
Theo is a legend, Theo has style. And he is putting together the best event in this space, year after year.
Engage was my first UG as a speaker and it has developed into arguably the premier user group for ICS in Europe.
Yet again a brilliantly done event. One that is used as the yard-stick by which all other user group events are measured.
Theo and Hilde did it again: Engage was bigger than last year, venue was impressive and the event most successful.
It was a pleasure, due to the efforts of Theo his team, the sponsors, the location and the participants. Much appreciated!
I was extremely impressed on all levels. Thank you to Theo Heselmans for the opportunity to speak at this event!
I’ve been to several of the past Engage conferences and Theo always puts on a great event but this was better than ever.
What can one say about this Engage, Eindhoven, NL. It is in fact THE European user group meeting,...
Theo Heselmans has raised the bar yet again as to what can be achieved with organizing an IBM User Group event.