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"
In this digital age we store more files than we ever did in a rich variety of systems, from local disks and network drives, through IBM Connections Files and Content Manager, to Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Domino mail files and applications. Learn how the Dutch Tax Office is using insightful visual analytics across hundreds of thousands of files and terabytes of data, turning the mere existence of files into valuable knowledge for fact based decisions and strategies. Discover how files can help you investigate sharing and collaboration patterns, optimize costly enterprise storage, and more!
Robert van den Breemen (Dutch Tax Office) @rvdbreemen
Florian Vogler (Panagenda) @panvof
Bus05. Direct from the OGS: Transformation with modern Software in East Africa
Wednesday, March 23 | 17:15 - 18:00 | B. Neptune
The first ten minutes will be the real OGS Session about this project in East Africa including the film shown on screen. We will then talk about how we power innovation and engagement at WebGate and how we where able to pull this of. How we where able to invest more than 1'500 hours into this non profit project. We will show that with this project we not only transformed the life of many thousend farmers in East Africa but also the workforce of WebGate into a modern development team and our engineering into a very effective cloud enabling department.
Roman Weber (WebGate) @RomanWebGate
Christian Güdemann (WebGate) @guedeWebGate
Com02. Get the most out of IBM Connections with XCC – Web Content & Custom Apps Extension
Wednesday, March 23 | 14:45 - 15:30 | D. Saturn
See a showcase of a deeply integrated Intranet and Extranet that spans Internal Communications, Employee Relations and Enterprise Collaboration. The showcase also includes Best Practices of integrating Custom Applications that use Domino, Forms Experience Builder (FEB) and REST. A case study from a customer will demonstrate a real world example.
Felix Binsack (TIMETOACT GROUP)
Dr. Eric Marzo-Wilhelm (ThyssenKrupp)
Dev07. Once You Go Graph
Wednesday, March 23 | 11:45 - 12:30 | D. Saturn
Faster than relational and more robust than document, graph databases are taking the big data world by storm. Every major player in big data is using them for everything from inventory control to intelligence analysis to knowledge discovery to social searching. Now you can apply this same technology to your existing Domino applications without moving or copying any data using the OpenNTF Domino API. See and learn how to apply this exciting new technology to your existing NSF databases, whether one application at a time, or for your entire domain, using both Java and JSON APIs.
Nathan Freeman (Red Pill Now) @ntf
Dev09. Get ready for moving from Java 6 to Java 8 - Now!
Thursday, March 24 | 16:00 - 17:00 | D. Saturn
With the recently announced upgrades from Java 6 to Java 8 the IBM Notes client and the IBM Domino server are finally moving to a competitive development stack. The importance of this upgrade for XPages and OSGi plug-ins is incontestable. Learn in this session what changes you can expect when moving from Java 6 to Java 8. Switch-with-string, parallel operations, Lambdas, Stream API, multiple inheritance or a complete new Date/Time package are only a few changes to name. Your developer life will get easier, better, faster after adapting the new capabilities.
René Winkelmeyer @muenzpraeger
Eme02. Where code goes, where data flows, cognitive will follow
Thursday, March 24 | 14:45 - 15:30 | D. Saturn
In this session you will see real life examples of where IBM Watson and cognitive computing are changing industries, businesses, job roles. You will find out how IBM has very rapidly moved from a game winning technology with Jeopardy to a day-to-day knowledge partner in a variety of environments.
Laurent Boes (IBM) @laurentboes
Eme07. Free Beer 13! Think Outside the Sphere: Box for IBM Professionals
Wednesday, March 23 | 17:15 - 18:00 | E. Pluto
We've all had that new technology bug once in a while. You know, the one where you get a glimpse of an emerging market or tech and are compelled to play with it. Well the bug has bitten once again, and through a set of coincidences including a strategic partnership with IBM, the recent release of a simple set of APIs, and integration with IBM Connections and IBM Domino and Notes, Box has proven to be a very interesting bug. In this session Rob will explain the Box platform for file sharing and collaboration, discuss the IBM | Box partnership, demonstrate the integration points provided by IBM and partners, detail the security model for admins, and overview the Box Content and View APIs for developers -- all in terms that Domino and Connections folks will understand. As this isn't a vendor session, Rob will also share any pain points and perceived areas for improvement as we explore how IBM professionals can take advantage of the Box platform.
Most Intranets suffer from too many tools with to little integration. Let us discuss challenges, pitfalls and best practices.
Felix Binsack (TIMETOACT GROUP)
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.