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"
Happy to host the V11 Domino Jam in Belgium with Uffe Sorensen leads IBM's Notes/Domino Messaging & Collaboration Business world wide Andrew Manby is Director Product Management for IBM Collaboration Solutions Anthony Blake from HCL, Director of GTM/Enablement and Richard Jefts, Vice President HCL.
24 people joined us for another exciting round of face-to-face workshops and virtual events
and helped us build a better Domino for the future.
Thanks for your passionate participation. October 10th, 2018 at the IBM Client Center in Brussels
Happy to host the V10 Domino launch in Belgium with Uffe Sorensen leads IBM's Notes/Domino Messaging & Collaboration Business world wide Barry Rosen is the Director for Products and Platforms at HCL Technologies Davide Iesini: IBM Europe Domino Technical Sales Leader
Have a look at our Session Agenda and all the Session Details
(presentations become available as soon as we get them from our speakers).
Over 90 speakers, with about 40 IBM Champions!
For the first time ever we've organized Engage Idol.
Bob Schultz: General Manager, IBM Watson Talent and Collaboration Solutions Richard Jefts: Vice President & General Manager, Collaborative Workflow Platforms at HCL Technologies
TOP speakers from all over the world! 5 Tracks:
Business & Strategy, Development, Administration & Deployment,
Emerging Technologies and new Big Data & Analytics
More than 90 speakers, 40 of them are IBM Champions.
Ed Brill, Ann-Marie Darrough, Jason Roy Gary, Huguette Ranc, Peter D'Haeyer and Luis Guirigay joined us during the keynote.
Thanks to our
2017 sponsors this event was free to attend! Tack-On WORKSHOP on Wednesday, May 10th Ann-Marie Darrough organized a free half-day workshop about 'Make Watson Work for You'
This time we were at the brand new, and at the same time 19th century Elisabeth Center Antwerp
aka 'Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp'.
Right in the city center, next to the Central Station.
Welcome to the Cognitive Era - The Future of Technology for Social Business by Petra Florizoone & Jean-Marie Smets
Thanks everyone for coming, and many thanks to all our speakers!
Watch the recorded meeting, made possible by Jean-Marie & Stijn. March 23-24, 2016 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Inhi Cho Suh
General Manager,
IBM Collaborations Solutions
honored us by doing the keynote!
Awesome!
Who joined her on stage? Suzanne Livingston, Sarah Gibbons
and Christopher Crummey
Getting Started With Modern Domino Applications in IBM Bluemix & Exploring a World of Possibilities for Domino Applications in Bluemix
Martin Donnelly - Software Architect and Team Leader, IBM Ireland
Brian Gleeson - Software Developer, IBM Ireland
IBM Watson goes to work, real life examples behind the hype & Watson Analytics: A new way to work in the new Insight economy
Laurent Boes - Disruptive Technologies Strategist, IBM Benelux
Peter D'Haeyer- Business Analytics Specialty Architect and Watson Analytics Evangelist, IBM March 30-31, 2015 in Ghent, Belgium THANKS everyone for another excellent event: Speakers, Sponsors and Attendees
4 top IBM keynotes speakers: Uffe Sorensen, Kramer Reeves, Omar Davison, René Schimmer.
Another interesting meeting featuring
HP Dalen - ICS Sales Leader Europe
Omar Davison - IBM Connections Cloud - Tech Sales Lead, Europe
Maurice Teeuwe - IBM Connections Cloud Tech Sales Lead, Europe
Roman Weber - CEO of WebGate Consulting AG, Switzerland Topics:
Mail.Next live
Notes/Domino roadmap
From on Premises to the Cloud with Domino: all you wanted to know, and a customer case by WebGate March 17 and 18, 2014 at the Chassé Theater in Breda(Netherlands). THANKS everyone for another super event: Speakers, Sponsors and Attendees
3 top keynotes speakers: Katrina Troughton, Vice President, IBM Social Business & Smarter Workforce Solutions, Kramer Reeves, Director, Product Management, IBM Messaging and Collaboration Solutions
and Suzanne Livingston, Lead product manager for IBM Connections
65 Different speakers!
among them 30 IBM Champions!
Howard Greenberg (TLCC) did an excellent workshop about 'Rapid XPages development' on Wednesday, March 19. October 29th, 2013 in Brussels: All things Mobile with
IBM: WorkLight (with Ed Brill)
Teamstudio: Unplugged
We4IT: Aveedo/DocLinkr
Red Pill Development: redpill Now
About 80 people joined us. They were also the first to see our new logo! March 21 and 22, 2013 at the Faculty ClubinLeuven.
Here is the list of sessions and speakers,who did an outstanding job!
Almost all of the slides are available.
We had the honor of having 17 current and 2 former s !
The keynote was the best ever. Thanks to these guys:
Louis Richardson
Social Business Evangelist and Storyteller at IBM ICS
Scott Souder
Product Manager for IBM Notes, iNotes and IBM Connections Mail
Paul Mooney's full-day workshop about 'Ethical Hacking' was packed too. September 6th, 2012 in Brussels.
Almost 90 people showed up !
2 topics on the agenda this time:
John Beck (IBM US): Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5.4 The Social Edition
Mark Osborn (IBM UK): IBM Connections 4.0
March 22 and 23, 2012 in Antwerp.
Listening to your reactions, it was another successful event!
All thanks to YOU: attendees, speakers and sponsors!
This was the list of sessions.Most of the presentation Slides are available.
Our keynote speaker: Christopher Crummey
Business Unit Executive at IBM
Lead Evangelist for Collaboration Solutions
Look at the rest of our outstanding Speakers too. 16 of which are !
October 20th, 2011 at theIBM Forum in Brussels.
Over 80 people showed up !
3 Interesting topics, 2 highly regarded speakers from IBM:
David Via: The emergence of Social Mail and the evolution of the IBM Collaboration platform
Niklas Heidloff: OpenNTF and a summary of the (best) submitted XPages Custom Controls
& the new XPages extension around Mobile, Social, REST and Relational June 28th, 2011 at the NH hotel in Diegem.
2 Topics:
Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) for Domino admins/devs
UCC Is The Action In Social Business: What's new with Sametime ?
Our keynote speaker: Kevin Cavanaugh
IBM Lotus's Vice President for
Business and Technical Strategy
Also splendid presentations from the rest of the speakers!
October 26th, 2010in Brussels Nathan T. Freeman came to demonstrate the cool FREE Extensions to XPages they are developing together with IBM.
We also had a pre-meeting session sponsored by RIM: BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for Domino.
Over 80 people showed up. Thanks for your enthusiasm. June 22nd, 2010 in Brussels.
Over 50 people turned up, for 2 topics: What's new in 8.5.2 and Document Management.
March 30th, 2010 in Brussels at the IBM Forum.
We got mostly positive reactions from the 220 attendees and speakers.
We took a lot of pictures too !
Our keynote speaker was Alistair Rennie,
the new GM of IBM Lotus Software !
Here's the full list of sessions and speakers,
a lot of them including the slides.
March 2009 in Brussels: Our first event!
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.