Events | May 22-23, 2018: General Sessions
- Workshops
on Monday - General
Sessions - Corporate
Sessions - Business &
Strategy - Administration &
Deployment - Development
- Emerging
Technologies - Analytics
- Round Tables
with IBM - HCL
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These session lists are subject to minor future changes.
These session lists are subject to minor future changes.
Here's the 2-day agenda and the floorplans of the main venue.
Sp1. Keynote and Opening General Session
Tuesday, May 22 | 09:00 - 10:45 | A. Theater
Download: Engage2018_DBaptiste_OGS.pdfDownload: Engage2018_Voessing.pdf
The entire OGS was recorded thanks to Periscope and Tony Holder: Look at it again
Reimagine Work in the Era of AI
Join IBM Collaboration Solutions for a peek into the future of work. No matter your line of business, organizational mission, or role within the company—how you, your teams and your external ecosystem get work done can make all the difference in building a competitive advantage. This session will share IBM's vision for the future of work and how our partnerships and technological innovations, including AI-infused collaboration tools, are making the future a reality now. Understand how creating digital work hubs that unite people, content and operations with the speed and efficiency of the cloud can revolutionize everyday interactions, tasks and processes and transform your business.
A new chapter begins: Domino V10
In the digital era, empowering the workforce with the ability to reengineer their workflows, processes and activities into more competitive and effective outcomes for the business is essential. In this session, we will share our vision for developers refreshing and developing new Domino apps that are foundational to automating processes that free up workers to pursue higher-value activities. Plus, see what businesses using mail and chat on their desktops and mobile devices can expect in 2018.
Reimagine Work in the Era of AI
Join IBM Collaboration Solutions for a peek into the future of work. No matter your line of business, organizational mission, or role within the company—how you, your teams and your external ecosystem get work done can make all the difference in building a competitive advantage. This session will share IBM's vision for the future of work and how our partnerships and technological innovations, including AI-infused collaboration tools, are making the future a reality now. Understand how creating digital work hubs that unite people, content and operations with the speed and efficiency of the cloud can revolutionize everyday interactions, tasks and processes and transform your business.
A new chapter begins: Domino V10
In the digital era, empowering the workforce with the ability to reengineer their workflows, processes and activities into more competitive and effective outcomes for the business is essential. In this session, we will share our vision for developers refreshing and developing new Domino apps that are foundational to automating processes that free up workers to pursue higher-value activities. Plus, see what businesses using mail and chat on their desktops and mobile devices can expect in 2018.
Huguette Ranc (IBM) @huguetteranc
Huguette Ranc is Vice President, Collaboration and Talent Solutions, Europe. She has lead this business in Europe for more than 5 years now, focusing on Client Success and Europe specifics requirements, working closely with our clients, partners and IBM Champions.
She is passionate about innovation & how technology is supporting enterprise business transformation. Huguette had various leadership positions in IBM for the Industrial Sector, Clients Software Services. She was CEO of IBM France Finance, and is part of IBM's worldwide Diversity & Inclusion council.
She is passionate about innovation & how technology is supporting enterprise business transformation. Huguette had various leadership positions in IBM for the Industrial Sector, Clients Software Services. She was CEO of IBM France Finance, and is part of IBM's worldwide Diversity & Inclusion council.
Bob Schultz (IBM) @_bobschultz
Bob Schultz oversees IBM’s collaboration and talent management solutions business, which helps companies transform their business by providing a unique combination of software, analytics and behavioral science to help clients source, attract, recruit and hire the right people, design the workplace to ensure people feel valued and engaged, and develop strategies to help people reach their full potential and optimize the business. Schultz is also responsible for driving and innovating a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of SaaS and premise-based email, social and communication software, infused with cognitive and analytics capabilities.
As a technology veteran with more than 30 years of experience creating, building and running businesses for leading Silicon Valley companies, Schultz has also held a diverse set of leadership roles at Citrix, HP, Adaptec, Compaq and AT&T. Before IBM, he was Chief Strategy Lead of VMWare’s End-User Computing group, helping transform the business into a recognized technology innovator and Digital Workspace market leader.
As a technology veteran with more than 30 years of experience creating, building and running businesses for leading Silicon Valley companies, Schultz has also held a diverse set of leadership roles at Citrix, HP, Adaptec, Compaq and AT&T. Before IBM, he was Chief Strategy Lead of VMWare’s End-User Computing group, helping transform the business into a recognized technology innovator and Digital Workspace market leader.
Richard Jefts (HCL)
Richard is the Vice President and General Manager of HCL’s Collaborative Workflow Platform business. In this capacity, Richard is responsible for leading HCL’s multi-hundred million dollar SaaS and Premise based Social, Mail, Meetings, Chat and Workflow / Apps Businesses. Richard’s responsibilities include day to day operations of the enterprise and portfolio leading ongoing engineering and next generation technologies. He leads the continuous delivery of software into the cloud, enablement of Agile development processes globally and overall quality and customer experience.
Andrew Manby (IBM) @andrewmanby
Andrew Manby is responsible for the market and product strategy of the IBM Domino portfolio including IBM Notes, IBM Domino, IBM Sametime, IBM Verse on Premises and IBM Connections Cloud (Mail and Sametime) offerings. Andrew has experience in both product and marketing leadership roles across the analytics, data management, and data integration markets.
Bernd Gewehr (Vössing Ingenieurgesellschaft) @Bgewehr
In his CIO role, Bernd Gewehr has constantly driven innovation processes in the companies IT infrastructure as well as in enterprise applications. Currently he is responsible for moving to the cloud to deliver a perfect fit digital workplace experience.
Bernd is an IBM champion for 2018 and speaker at Think 2018 as well.
Bernd is an IBM champion for 2018 and speaker at Think 2018 as well.
Danielle Baptiste (IBM) @SocialBaptiste
Danielle Baptiste is Director of Offering Management for the Collaboration portfolio with IBM Collaboration & Talent. Spending most of her career focused on client experiences in onsite consulting roles, technical project management, and leadership in various client success environments at Pfizer, JP Morgan Chase, State Street Bank, IBM, and others, Danielle understands the importance of driving client experiences that are efficient in both their execution and their deployment. Transforming the way you work doesn’t mean replacing what you have, but continuing to evolve your business to be ready for the next waves of new generational work styles, artificial intelligence instrumentation, and automation.
Each Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsor gets 30 seconds to entice you to come to their booth!
Frantic, speedy and fun!
Frantic, speedy and fun!
Libby Ingrassia (IBM) @notesgirl
Your Mistress of Ceremonies
Libby Ingrassia runs the IBM Champion program worldwide for IBM. She has a long background in IBM technology as a certified instructor, book author, and speaker. Libby is passionate about engaging with and supporting the authentic voices in the tech community.
Libby Ingrassia runs the IBM Champion program worldwide for IBM. She has a long background in IBM technology as a certified instructor, book author, and speaker. Libby is passionate about engaging with and supporting the authentic voices in the tech community.
Stay for the 'Speed Sponsoring' on Tuesday evening.
It's fast, frantic and fun - and in just 3 minutes you'll learn something cool about each of our sponsors.
On top of that: the BAR is open, and you might win something too!
It's fast, frantic and fun - and in just 3 minutes you'll learn something cool about each of our sponsors.
On top of that: the BAR is open, and you might win something too!
Tony Holder (+All Sponsors) @bigtoneuk
Your Master of Ceremonies
Tony Holder is a prolific traveler, hiker, runner, fly fisherman and beer connoisseur. In his professional life he is an enterprise social business advocate and evangelist. Tony is Sales Manager North America and UK for panagenda and is also a board member of the Penumbra Group. “If you want to make me smile, show me a picture of some mountains or even better, lets go hiking!”
Tony Holder is a prolific traveler, hiker, runner, fly fisherman and beer connoisseur. In his professional life he is an enterprise social business advocate and evangelist. Tony is Sales Manager North America and UK for panagenda and is also a board member of the Penumbra Group. “If you want to make me smile, show me a picture of some mountains or even better, lets go hiking!”
Sp4. IBM Champions Meetup with Bob and Richard
Tuesday, May 22 | 11:45 - 12:30 | A. Theater
No Slides availableThis session is intended for IBM Champions ONLY.
Libby Ingrassia (IBM) @notesgirl
Libby Ingrassia runs the IBM Champion program worldwide for IBM. She has a long background in IBM technology as a certified instructor, book author, and speaker. Libby is passionate about engaging with and supporting the authentic voices in the tech community.
Alan Hamilton (IBM) @alanghamilton
Alan Hamilton is the Worldwide Collaboration Channels Leader. In his role he gets to lead an incredibly talented group of business professionals who's sole mission is to help IBM Business Partners be more successful when solving their customer's problems with IBM Collaboration Solutions. Alan is a passionate believer in the need to drive the adoption of collaboration tools in all organizations to help all areas of the business get the most benefit. As well as this role, Alan is also the IBM Champion Program Manager for Collaboration Solutions and works with our fantastic group of IBM Champions.
Bob Schultz (IBM) @_bobschultz
Bob Schultz oversees IBM’s collaboration and talent management solutions business, which helps companies transform their business by providing a unique combination of software, analytics and behavioral science to help clients source, attract, recruit and hire the right people, design the workplace to ensure people feel valued and engaged, and develop strategies to help people reach their full potential and optimize the business. Schultz is also responsible for driving and innovating a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of SaaS and premise-based email, social and communication software, infused with cognitive and analytics capabilities.
Richard Jefts (HCL)
Richard is the Vice President and General Manager of HCL’s Collaborative Workflow Platform business. In this capacity, Richard is responsible for leading HCL’s multi-hundred million dollar SaaS and Premise based Social, Mail, Meetings, Chat and Workflow / Apps Businesses. Richard’s responsibilities include day to day operations of the enterprise and portfolio leading ongoing engineering and next generation technologies.
Please join us in evaluating
The 'celebrity-judges' will select 2 winners, and they both get a 20 minute session at the end of the event.
These are the Candidates:
May the 2 best presenters win !
5 'newbies', whom have never before spoken at Engage
They will have about 7 minutes to convince the jury of their speaking skills and content value.The 'celebrity-judges' will select 2 winners, and they both get a 20 minute session at the end of the event.
These are the Candidates:
- WINNER: Supercharge your work with Watson Rachael Dickens (IBM)
- Solution Architecture in the era of open platforms leveraging IBM Watson Services Paul van der Hulst (Jibes Data Analytics)
- WINNER: Business Analytics meets Corporate Culture Stephan Multhaupt (deep white.analytics)
- Not without my IBM Domino Fredrik Malmborg (PSK Syd AB)
- Bye bye Wordpress, Hello Domino ! Michael van de Bovenkamp,Remco Angioni (ASPerience-VIP Marketing and E-office)
May the 2 best presenters win !
The honourable members of the Jury:
Jason Roy Gary (HCL) @jasonroygary
Jason Roy Gary is the HCL Vice President of Next Generation Engineering. A recognised executive in social business and collaboration, at HCL, IBM, and in the global marketplace, Jason has demonstrated, in more than two decades of leadership, vision and drive in social collaboration, agile development, cloud and hybrid, software architecture, real-time collaboration, agile transformation, open source initiatives, and situational applications. Jason has led innovation efforts in collaboration and workflow from development engineering and services. He is an acknowledged thought leader and is widely solicited, by the industry, to speak and provide thought focus around the world.
Alan Hamilton (IBM) @alanghamilton
Alan Hamilton is the Worldwide Collaboration Channels Leader. In his role he gets to lead an incredibly talented group of business professionals who's sole mission is to help IBM Business Partners be more successful when solving their customer's problems with IBM Collaboration Solutions. Alan is a passionate believer in the need to drive the adoption of collaboration tools in all organizations to help all areas of the business get the most benefit. As well as this role, Alan is also the IBM Champion Program Manager for Collaboration Solutions and works with our fantastic group of IBM Champions.
Femke Goedhart (panagenda) @femkegoedhart
Femke Goedhart is a business consultant and IBM Champion working for panagenda as a specialist in topics relating to Enterprise Social Software, user enablement and data analytics. She lives in The Netherlands and is a frequent speaker at business conferences and usergroup events in Europe and the United States. Her main focal points are in social business and software adoption, strategy enablement, business development, usability, data analytics and data visualization. Bringing the technical and human aspects of modern businesses together.
Peter Presnell (Red Pill Now) @peterpresnell
IBM Champion 2011/12, former director of the Atlanta User Group for IBM Collaboration, and architect of the .Domino framework on OpenNTF, Peter Presnell is globally recognized as a lecturer, trainer and thought-leader within the IBM Notes marketplace. Peter leads Red Pill Now’s market strategy and program management practice.
Simon Vaughan (AppFusions) @simplyS1mon
Simon Vaughan is a Product specialist at AppFusions and an IBM Champion for Collaboration (since the program was launched).
He is a keen advocate for driving business value thru the adoption of an integrated digital workplace and a board member of Social Connections – The IBM Connections user group.
A season ticket holder at Liverpool FC, Simon has presented at a number of international conferences including IBM Impact, Lotusphere, Connect, Engage, Social Connections and keynote sessions at a number of international conferences.
He is a keen advocate for driving business value thru the adoption of an integrated digital workplace and a board member of Social Connections – The IBM Connections user group.
A season ticket holder at Liverpool FC, Simon has presented at a number of international conferences including IBM Impact, Lotusphere, Connect, Engage, Social Connections and keynote sessions at a number of international conferences.
See all 5 candidates
These are the 2 speakers the Celebrity Judges selected out of the 5 candidates!
Stephan Multhaupt (deep white.analytics) @smulthaupt
Stephan H. Multhaupt is founder of deep white.analytics which combines Business Analytics with aspects of Corporate Culture, Identity and Business Communications under the deep white brand. For nearly 20 years Stephan is passionately engaged in optimizing processes using Business Intelligence and Business Analytics solutions. Also, he is deeply committed to and inspired by new topics like Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability or technologies like Conversational AI. Customer satisfaction is his top priority. Competence, reliability and quality are as important to him as meeting the customer on an equal footing.
Rachael Dickens (IBM) @RachaelHDickens
Rachael Dickens is a Sr. User Experience Designer and Design Thinker. She joined IBM Collaborative Solutions in 2013 after receiving her Master of Graphic Design and Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching from North Carolina State University.
She currently leads AI design for Watson Workspace and Watson Work Services. An experienced Design Thinking facilitator, she is passionate about co-creating delightful user experiences and bringing Design Thinking to those outside of the discipline—regularly collaborating with users, partners, developers, researchers and more.
She currently leads AI design for Watson Workspace and Watson Work Services. An experienced Design Thinking facilitator, she is passionate about co-creating delightful user experiences and bringing Design Thinking to those outside of the discipline—regularly collaborating with users, partners, developers, researchers and more.
Sp7. The History of Notes/Domino and the Events that Shaped us
Wednesday, May 23 | 12:40 - 13:30 | A. Theater
It's Engage 10, and with Domino 10 around the corner and a promise of new releases planned for 2025 and beyond its time take a step back into memory lane and look at the rich history of the Notes/Domino family. We will start with the origins of the product and work our way forward through all the major release, Lotusphere, and all the other many cool and innovative things that that have been going on around us over the past 29 years. We might even have a few sneak peeks at what is to come! Please bring (or wear) your own favorite piece of Lotus memorabilia as a prize will be awarded for the best item.
Viktor Krantz (Red Pill Now) @viktr
Viktor Krantz has worked in the Lotus and IBM business for over 25 years for consulting companies, IBM and business partners.
His current role is Director of Modernization Solutions at Red Pill Now.
He has been a presenter at over 40 IBM conferences and User Groups over the years.
His current role is Director of Modernization Solutions at Red Pill Now.
He has been a presenter at over 40 IBM conferences and User Groups over the years.
Uffe Sorensen, Rob Novak, Theo Heselmans,... (The 'Yellow' Community)
Always fun, and a big chance of winning a cool prize. We got several great giveaways.
The bar is open till 18.00h
The bar is open till 18.00h
Theo Heselmans (Engage) @theoheselmans
In 1993 Theo Heselmans started working as a Notes/Domino consultant with version 3. He delighted (and still does) many customers with custom applications. He founded his own company Xceed. He's also a proud member of the Penumbra Group.
For 10 years now, he is responsible for Engage. During these events he gives users, speakers, IBMers and Business Partners the opportunity to share information, collaborate and network.
Theo visits other User Groups regularly, and has been to 23 Lotusphere/Connect/Think conferences.
He is an avid believer in all things 'Social'. He loves to talk about Notes, Engage, Excel, wine and beer!
For 10 years now, he is responsible for Engage. During these events he gives users, speakers, IBMers and Business Partners the opportunity to share information, collaborate and network.
Theo visits other User Groups regularly, and has been to 23 Lotusphere/Connect/Think conferences.
He is an avid believer in all things 'Social'. He loves to talk about Notes, Engage, Excel, wine and beer!
