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"
With the confluence of technology drivers like AI, mobile, social, blockchain and IoT lots of new opportunities are possible which businesses can capitalize on. The common denominator to all this is data. Today we are living in the beginning of the Data Renaissance era. Just like in the 14th century the Renaissance gave birth to some cultural masterpieces so will the Data Renaissance give birth to data masterpieces that will lead to competitive advantages and innovation. In this talk Jack Esselink will share compelling case studies, best practices and inspirational examples how every organsation can get ready for the data renaissance. If you want to become the new Da Vinci than this is a must attend session.
Jack Esselink is a seasoned professional with a passion for IT, (emerging) technology and music. Currently Jack is working as a Data Science & Machine Learning Evangelist for IBM and he loves to share his stories and experiences on big data, analytics and data science/ machine learning with audiences across the world
Ana02. Visual story telling: the key to unlocking the data gold mine
For two years now the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration has been collecting metadata of unstructured documents and files on multiple platforms to gain more insights into internal collaboration patterns. A vast lake of data has been collected which offers key observations and insights that help drive the strategic decisions, essential in a time where things like GDPR and data protection require in-depth knowledge of every aspect of an organization's data production, consumption and dispersal. However having the data is not enough. Making it consumable to management and end-users alike is key to showing value for the business. This session is about how the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration we went from visual data exploration to visual storytelling to allow the understanding of key insights gained from the dataset being collected. Making it consumable and allowing users to further question the data relevant to them. Join Robert and Femke to hear about how they use visual storytelling and dashboards to help users understand the data and see how this helps the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Robert van den Breemen (Dutch Tax and Customs Administration) @rvdbreemen
Robert van den Breemen has been working for the Dutch Tax and Customs administration for almost 20 years and is passionate about the use of technology at enterprise scale. Working as an Enterprise IT Architect, Robert’s main responsibility is innovation within the Technology department. With more than 6 year’s experience in Digital Workspace Initiatives he helps to deliver meaningful user experiences and services to users, allowing them to more effective and efficient. The last four years working on innovation capabilities around Analytics and Cognitive Solutions for the modernization of the Tax Systems. Robert has been an IBM Champion for the last 3 years.
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.
Ana03. Using IBM Watson to extract information and classify documents at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration
How we use IBM Watson Explorer and Content Analytics in particular, for the Information Extraction and Document Classification use case and its position within the business and the application architecture. The functional and technical considerations to create a generic solution using IBM Watson for content analysis in order to classify documents, exploring the possibilities of machine learning. We will explain the Solution Architecture, its functional decomposition and mircoservices based architecture as enabler for scalability and evolving capabilities.
Margo van der Stam (Dutch Tax and Customs Administration)
Margo van der Stam is a young professional bringing new concepts and technologies to The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration as a software developer/data scientist, specializing in "Cognitive Solutions". She develops end-to-end business solutions using for example natural language processing techniques and exploring the possibilities for machine learning, using the IBM Watson stack and open source tools.
Ana04. The Power of Social Media Analytics: from data to story
IBM Watson Analytics for Social Media guides you through the traffic of social networks and automatically creates data visualizations for exceptionally insightful discoveries, all on the cloud. Identify a topic and quickly get relevant content that shows you interesting relationships and patterns. You can easily take the pulse of your audience, gain greater visibility into a topic or market and compare results with other data sources for new insights and better decisions. In this session we discuss and build a practical use case and transform it into a story you can easily share within your company.
Peter D'Haeyer joined IBM in 2008 through the Cognos acquisition. Combining business and technical skills for more than 25 years in the area of Business Analytics, he provides insights to customers how to leverage business intelligence, performance management and predictive solutions in their existing processes and technical environment. As Watson Analytics Evangelist, he introduces business users into breakthrough innovative cognitive ways to recognize patterns in data, get and share insights that lead to accelerated and better decisions. Prior to joining IBM, he build up a broad experience in consulting and service assignments.
Ana05. What’s the Story of Your Community Building Programme in Your Social Business Journey?
Online communities are the key driver of social business adaptation programmes. There's a great chance you already have an on-going community building programme using IBM Connections. You're now thinking about how you could help accelerate that adaptation process for your different communities. WHAT IF data analytics could help you with that? What if you'd find an effective way to engage your top contributors & SMEs to influence user behaviour? Do you know where your lurkers are? What if you could identify some of the core activities within your communities so you can encourage more active participation & engagement? What if you could spot right away potential trouble areas slowing you down in your community building efforts? Time to act now!
Luis Suarez is a Digital Transformation and Data Analytics adviser at panagenda. A well seasoned Social / Open Business strategist and 2.0 practitioner with over 21 years of working experience on Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Learning, Online Communities and Social Networking for Business. Currently focusing on helping organizations make the most out of their own change initiatives and digital transformation programs through making sense of their own data analytics visualizations.
Ana07. IBM’s Business Analytics Lifecycle - you don't know, what you don't know...
Wednesday, May 23 | 09:00 - 10:00 | C. Trinidad
No Slides available
Driving intelligence from data is an ongoing iterative process to understand what’s happening, and why, what’s likely to happen, and what you should do about it. See how a Bikeshare company leverages all styles of analytics to optimize their business results in this integrated demonstration.
Torben Noer (IBM)
Torben Noer leads the global IBM Business Analytics presales team, helping customers becoming Analytics driven in a Cognitive world.
Ana08. The danger of Self Service Analytics (20 min.)
Over the past decade, self service analytic tools have been introduced to the mass. But how trustful can we be when we put these tools in the hands of business users or people that are not familiar with analytics. In this session we highlight some pitfalls and discuss how "smarts" and "augmented intelligence" can help overcome those obstacles.
Peter D'Haeyer joined IBM in 2008 through the Cognos acquisition. Combining business and technical skills for more than 25 years in the area of Business Analytics, he provides insights to customers how to leverage business intelligence, performance management and predictive solutions in their existing processes and technical environment. As Watson Analytics Evangelist, he introduces business users into breakthrough innovative cognitive ways to recognize patterns in data, get and share insights that lead to accelerated and better decisions. Prior to joining IBM, he build up a broad experience in consulting and service assignments.
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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.