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"
These are the candidates for Engage Idol.
They get 7 minutes to convince the jury of 'celebrities' of their speaking skills and content value.
The judges will select 2 winners: those will get a 20 minutes session at the end of the event.
Idol01. Supercharge your work with Watson
Tuesday, May 22 | 13:30 - 14:30 | A. Theater
Best practices for designing for AI - including lessons learned with summarization, prioritization, and personalization leveraging Watson Work Services.
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.
Idol02. Solution Architecture in the era of open platforms leveraging IBM Watson Services
Tuesday, May 22 | 13:30 - 14:30 | A. Theater
Jibes Data Analytics is a front-runner in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing helping companies from concept inception to solution delivery to production. We are recognized as Global IBM Beacon Award Winner for best Cognitive Solution. We help our clients adopt IBM Watson Cognitive Services and experience that is a key factor for successful solution design that provides operations robustness with technological agility. We will share our key take always in our role as solution architect, where the key challenge is to select, mix and match a set of technologies from a the broad set of platforms and services that fits with the (enterprise) architecture and capabilities of an organization. The potential of new technology is undisputed and provides endless possibilities, our goal is to put that technology to work in new solutions on Market Monitoring, Contract Mining, Agent Technology and Predictive Analytics.
Paul van der Hulst (Jibes Data Analytics)
Paul van der Hulst is the founder and director of Jibes Data Analytics and has a clear vision how new technology requires busines to re-invent their process and tap into new opportunities. He sparks innovation and helps organizations to initiate new programs, while mobilizing the right talent and capabilites required to succesfully deliver.
Idol03. Business Analytics meets Corporate Culture
How to measure Corporate Culture to enable successful Business Transformation.
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.
A brief description of how PSK Syd AB is transforming there solutions from tradtional Domino web applications into using other frameworks and technics for the web client generation. Showcase how we use React JS, node.js, mongoDb to extend what IBM Domino delivers. Includes dynamic generation of forms and views based on XML/JSX configuration. At the backen we use latest version of openNTF Domino API with Managed Beans via an XPage to provide interface for the web client.
Fredrik Malmborg (PSK Syd AB)
Fredrik is driven by happy customers and to keep solutions as simple as possible for the given task. IBM Domino is the main environment where he developed his skills, but his curiousity extends beyond that.
Idol05. Bye bye Wordpress, Hello Domino !
Tuesday, May 22 | 13:30 - 14:30 | A. Theater
When IBM Champion Remco Angioni was hired to do a routine Domino 8.5 to 9 migration, he discovered a Domino treasure that had not seen Daylight before. It's as easy as PHP, It's as Dynamic as X-pages, It's as Fast as static html, It's 100% Web development in the browser, It's 100% Proven concept and It's 100% Basic Domino. By explaining the technical details we will show you the power of the Domino environment regarding web development. For Domino developers we will show how we revived old school Domino knowledge to do modern web development. For Marketeers and Content managers we will show how our vision on "evolutionary website development" eliminates the need for constantly re-building of your business websites. We will present our online Domino web publisher to the world for the very first time. Our live demo's will surely be interesting for everyone. Be there, let's Engage and say: "Bye bye Wordpress, Hello Domino !"
Michael van de Bovenkamp (ASPerience - VIP Marketing)
Michael van de Bovenkamp started designing webbased products with Domino in 1999. He designed several backend integrated web solutions, for large companies, using Domino R5 to R9. In 2007 he realised his dream by becoming co-owner of ASPerience BV. By setting up the commercial business unit VIP Marketing in 2009, Michael created the terms to fully focus on ASPerience's core product, a web publisher. Resulting in a fully online, Domino based, web publisher that can compete with any big Vendor in the market.
Remco Angioni (E-office)
Remco Angioni started working with IBM software as of 1996. He's a real Dutch IBM enthusiast. He worked his way up from service desk to Senior Consultant and now is a Connections and Watson specialist and blogger. Remco was a speaker at IBM Connect 2017. It all began with Notes 3 on OS/2 Warp!
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.