Events | May 8-9, 2017: Agenda with Sessions

Brad Boston (IBM)

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:30
A. Okapi 3

You've moved hundreds (or thousands!) of users to the cloud for IBM Verse mail, but what about the hundreds (or thousands!) of IBM Domino applications you're running in-house? How many servers could you retire with those apps running in the cloud? In this session, you'll walk through the entire application migration process with two experts, from the provider-selection process to the final data moves and application maintenance cycle. You'll learn how to identify potential difficulties with specific applications, estimate time requirements, and use specific tools to make your migration easier; you'll also see real-world examples from among your peers who have already made the move. Be ready when the boss asks, "What about our apps?"

Christoph Stoettner (panagenda) @stoeps

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:30
A. Okapi 3

Buckle up, join Christoph and get ready to learn 50 tips and tricks you can implement right away to improve your IBM Connections environment. Your users will thank you as they too benefit from this best practice list gathered from real-world projects while deploying and administering IBM Connections On-premises. Walk away with knowledge covering anything from Cognos integration, docs, CCM and Forms Experience Builder to the back end and DB2, TDI and SSO.

Daniel Nashed (Nash!Com) @DanielNashed

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:30
A. Okapi 3

How can you professionally operate Domino with lower cost? Virtualize, consolidate, optimize and automate.
This session covers real life customer scenarios and best practices The session will highlight advantages/synergy effects and helps you to understand dependencies.

Gabriella Davis (The Turtle Partnership) @gabturtle

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:30
A. Okapi 3

Are you looking at Cloud options and wondering how and if you can get there from where you are? If you have Domino on premises and are considering Cloud then a good option is a hybrid architecture which maintains all your on premises configuration managed by your own administrators but adds Cloud client access managed by IBM. We will look at how simple it is to create this hybrid solution using Domino passthru servers and review how things like user and directory maintenance, client access and mail routing will then work. From Domino Admin to Domino Hybrid Admin in a few simple steps.

Hogne Bø Pettersen (Brunvoll AS)

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:45
A. Okapi 3

Discover the power of plugins that can be used for IBM Connections. In my company these are heavily used, and they have been the key factor in getting users to adapting Connections, since it makes it much faster for them to share documents and emails, and increase collaboration.
Learn how administrators can skin and brand the plugins to fit with their company logo, colors and templates. A similar presentation was given by Hogne last year, but after creating a complete manual for the IBM Notes plugins and posted it online, a lot of people who missed it have asked if he can give it again.

Roberto Boccadoro (ELD Engineering) @robboc59

Sharon Bellamy James (BCC) @socialshazza

Monday, May 8
13:30 - 14:30
A. Okapi 3

In this sessions we will guide you through the most frequent tasks needed to do troubleshooting IBM Connections. We will talk about lessons learned, best practices and give you some tips and tricks.

Maurice Teeuwe (IBM) @m8ui

Steve Lievens (IBM) @steve_lievens

Tuesday, May 9
08:00 - 08:45
A. Okapi 3

During this session we will take you through customization and integration options in a LIVE DEMO session on the IBM Connections Cloud like you have never imagined before. Making Connections and Verse so much easier to use. If you ever wanted to know what to do for using your own CRM system in your Connections Cloud you have come to the right place at the right time. This session is a must have that you cannot afford to miss!

Luis Guirigay (IBM) @lguiriga

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:45
A. Okapi 3

Are you a customer considering a move to IBM Verse? Whether a long time Domino customer, or moving from another platform, don't miss this opportunity to learning about the techniques, tools and best practices to make your migration fast, painless and successful. We'll uncover and share the best practices you can only get from countless global migrations to IBM's Verse cloud. We'll take you through planning, migrating, and deployment best practices. We'll help you choose the right tools for your migration, and uncover some of the low hanging fruit to make your transition successful. Whether you're a veteran administrator or manager, or just want to understand what your company can expect, this session will help you move with success.

Gert van Kempen (Silverside BV) @gvkempen

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:20
A. Okapi 3

With the new IBM Connections Pink coming soon a new architecture is introduced. This session will show you what Docker is and how you can use it and how IBM is using it in the Orient Me homepage that is included in Connection 6.0.

Maurice Teeuwe (IBM) @m8ui

Monday, May 8
16:25 - 16:45
A. Okapi 3

Administration on the cloud has always been a critical task in terms of security and the scale of users to manage. An Administrator has always had to control the entire organization. A new Connections Cloud feature is Partitioning. This would decentralize administration of users, by partitioning an organization into groups of users and have a separate administrator for each partition. This session will take you into the details of Departmental Admin, and give you an Administrator's view of an organization and how we can 'Departmentalize' your organization for better and more efficient manageability. Not to be missed!

Daniel Nashed (Nash!Com) @DanielNashed

Bill Malchisky (Effective Software Solutions, LLC) @billmalchisky

Barry Rosen (IBM) @b_rosen

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:15
Table 2 Gorilla 1

Linuxfest comes to Europe! Join Bill Malchisky, Daniel Nashed, and IBM's Barry Rosen as they discuss the current strategy regarding Notes and Domino on Linux in an informative roundtable setting. If you are new to Linux, a pro, or just curious, bring your questions while hearing the latest information from within the IBM Community. We welcome you to provide feedback to IBM about their current direction including SLES and AIX, too. Join us!

Luis Suarez (panagenda) @elsua

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:30
E. Gorilla 5

Whether you are in HR, Sales, IT, Security, Marketing and Communications or Business Transformation, you know that one of today’s major business problems is that one of Employee Engagement, or, to be more precise, of employee disengagement. When only 13% of the global workforce is engaged at work (Cf. Gallup 2013 - https://hbr.org/2013/10/map-the-sad-state-of-global-workplace-engagement), one has got to question whether we have got a rather catastrophic business problem, or an unprecedented business opportunity to transform the way we collaborate and get work done.
What if we could use data analytics to make sense of what’s happening around us? To seek out the different business opportunities that may be laying around out there dormant in order to influence a shift of behaviours on how employees get work done more effectively by enabling a more open, public and transparent work environment where open knowledge sharing, cooperation, coopetition and collaboration would help transform our work culture(s).
What if each life of business embarks on a journey to identify new business opportunities, new markets, by making sense of data analytics to help us work smarter, not necessarily harder? Whether it’s data coming out of traditional tools like email and applications, or whether it’s data coming out of your own Enterprise Social Networking platform (i.e. IBM Connections), there is always an opportunity to seek > sense > share what we know, and use, to eventually transform the way we work.
What if you could make use of smart data analytics to influence the increase and further growth of the overall levels of employee engagement, talent retention, sales (by becoming a customer centric organisation), existing or new marketing goals as well as fine tuning more effectively your entire IT infrastructure. Would you also want to work smarter, not necessarily harder?
Come and join us then to find out how we could help you AND your business transform the way you work and interact with your customers using data analytics to inspire and influence smarter work!

Peter D'Haeyer (IBM) @pdhaeyer

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:30
E. Gorilla 5

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 derived from different views of information
In this session, we do not only talk about it, but show it live!

Tim Malone (Intec Systems Limited) @timwmalone

Hans Petter Dalen (IBM)

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:30
E. Gorilla 5

The main differentiator for really successful companies today is data and the intelligence they draw from their data to make better and faster decisions.
Data is the new bacon!
We will provide a quick (and not very technical) overview of the hottest trends in Analytics and Big Data like Hadoop, Spark, Data Streaming and Real Time Analytics. We will discuss a number of examples from a variety of industries, with emphasis on real outcomes for business users from big data and dark data. We will discuss how combining different data sources for instance from your Domino applications, Smarter Workforce systems, business data like point of sales data with new and innovative data from weather, Twitter and government data can help you uncover hidden relationships in your data that will help you better understand your business and help you make better decisions.

Laura Eisenhardt (iKnow Solutions)

Veeru Muppalla (iKnow Solutions Europe) @veerumuppalla

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 10:00
E. Gorilla 5

We know how stressed everyone is over being compliant with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in a few short months, so we designed a way to take some of the pain out of the process! We will demonstrate the tooling that goes into the iKnow GDPR solution.
- iKnow GDPR Console
- IBM Gardium
- IBM StoredIQ
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server
The GDPR applies to all companies worldwide that process personal data of European Union (EU) citizens. This means that ANY company that works with information relating to EU citizens will have to comply with the requirements of the GDPR, making it the first global data protection law.
- The GDPR widens the definition of personal data
- Obtaining valid consent to using personal information
- Data breach notification requirement
- The right to be forgotten
- Privacy by design

Koen Lenaerts (IBM) @koen_lenaerts

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:20
D. Gorilla 4

IBM Watson Talent Insights (TI) enables HR organizations to explore virtually any workforce data by simply typing in questions to help understand and predict the impact of talent decisions. TI delivers results through visualizations that are easy to interpret and can be shared throughout the organization to align resources. This enables human resource professionals to easily make strategic, fact-based decisions based on talent analytics to improve business outcomes.
Join this session to find out more about IBM Watson Talent Insights and see a live demo.

Patrick Spedding (Rocket Software) @spedding

Monday, May 8
16:25 - 16:45
E. Gorilla 5

The basis of innovation is being able to build upon the work of others: collaborating. Yet Traditional BI ‘collaboration’ is too often one-to-many—e.g. emailing a spreadsheet or PDF—it’s like running a webinar where the participants are on mute. The key to collaborative BI is speed. Speed to a decision. Having better, more informed, fact-based conversations with the right people. Learn how to put business into your social business, by infusing the networks with meaningful analytics, personalized to your problem. Learn how to leverage the entire IBM Collaboration stack to enrich self-service BI with context, to build consensus. Collaborative BI helps teams take action in real time, to work on the right things, at the right time.

Hans Petter Dalen (IBM )

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:20
E. Gorilla 5

Watson Explorer is a cognitive search and content analysis platform that gives you access to insights from all the data you care about, so you can drive business performance and growth. Watson Explorer allows you to search both structured and unstructured data. IBM provides a Watson Explorer API for Domino and this is a show and tell session which will give you more insight into powerful business outcomes when combining Domino and Watson Explorer.

Femke Goedhart (panagenda) @femkegoedhart

Tuesday, May 9
10:15 - 11:00
A. Okapi 3

Is your IBM Connections environment successful? Is it reaching its potential, is it performing and do you have insight into your participation rates?
In this session we will show you how using panagenda ConnectionsExpert will give your admins, your management and your adoption team the insights they need to make your social collaboration platform a success. Helping them to drive adoption, monitor performance, get insight into detailed activity around usage and communities and pro-actively identify and solve problems before they even happen. Join us to learn what ConnectionsExpert can do for your organization. from the free basic version to the professional version that gives you deep dive information, panagenda ConnectionsExpert is sure to help you.

Ole Reim (GROUP Business Software Europa GmbH)

Olivier Zardini (Cooperteam)

Monday, May 8
14:45 - 15:30
Table 1+2 Gorilla 1

During this roundtable session we will discuss how companies can modernize their existing IBM Domino application environment. For customers looking for a way to make their applications web and cloud ready we will introduce a state-of-the-art solution which relies on the Domino backend and which makes the front-end browser-ready. In addition we will have a look into the retirement of unused IBM Domino applications. The GBS and Cooperteam experts will highlight a proven approach to convert existing IBM Notes/Domino data into PDF and XML format. Based on an automated and centralized process, all existing Domino content will be converted without the risk of loosing data. For customers who are using SharePoint we will explain how to automatically import these data into SharePoint for further use.

Philippe Riand (Darwino) @philriand

Jesse Gallagher (I Know Some Guys) @Gidgerby

Monday, May 8
14:45 - 15:30
A. Okapi 3

Darwino is a unique application platform endorsed by IBM to extend your Notes/Domino applications. It lets you incrementally enhance your existing applications while retaining your existing investment. It takes advantage of the latest IBM technologies like Bluemix, Watson, and Connections... but also Microsoft ones, like MS Azure, Active Directory, and Sharepoint. It delivers these capabilities to web browsers, mobile devices, report editors and desktop applications, including full offline access. Darwino rejuvenates your applications at your own pace, at the least cost. Come and see why it won the Hackathon at IBM Connect 2017!

Adam Brown (Kudos - ISW) @Adambrownaus

Monday, May 8
14:45 - 15:30
D. Gorilla 4

This session will highlight the current release of Kudos Boards Cloud for IBM Connections Cloud.
We will demonstrate how this app has dramatically increased user adoption of Connections as well as explain how it was designed and developed to be ready for Connections Pink.

Roland Driesen (Silverside) @RolandDriesen

Frans Mandersloot (Silverside)

Monday, May 8
14:45 - 15:30
B. Okapi 2

Silverside is known for her PACE methodology to increase User Adoption of Microsoft and IBM platforms. PACE Online is the new platform to make these proven services and accumulated knowledge available and accessible to everyone—from wherever they are, and at a price point that makes sense.
This session will be the official launch of the first module of PACE Online: The Collaborative Culture Assessment. With this online survey we can automatically produce a specific report on your company culture and behaviour including a tailored advice for your User Adoption approach.
In this session Frans and Roland will share the ideas and concept behind the PACE Online platform, a live demonstration of the first module, the roadmap ahead and a technical peek under the hood.

Jens Overgaard Dinesen (OnTime Group Calendar) @JensOvergaard

Lars Schorling (OnTime Group Calendar)

Tuesday, May 9
10:15 - 11:00
C. Gorilla 3

OnTime Group Calendar delivers a real-time overview of the people in your organisation by location, availability and business division anytime, anywhere. Available for IBM and Microsoft customers with interfaces for IBM Notes, iNotes, Connections Cloud, IBM Connections, Outlook and Office 365 - and of course on Mobile devices as well as in IBM Connections. OnTime is available in a variety of languages.
Interested in becoming a reseller? Come to the session and visit us at our booth.
NEW - We are proud to announce the release of the OnTime Pollarity our newest addition to the OnTime family. OnTime Pollarity significantly reduces the time used to decide upon a common time slot for a meeting by polling the intended participants.

Tim Clark (BCC) @TimsterC

Sharon Bellamy James (BCC) @socialshazza

Tuesday, May 9
10:15 - 11:00
Table 1+2 Gorilla 1

We have the cookies, you bring the coffee and let's discuss where this train is heading.
BCC's IBM Champions will host this 2-way discussion about what is coming up for Domino/Notes, Connections 6.0 / Pink and Watson Workspace.
It doesn't matter if you are staying on-premises, hybrid or moving to the cloud. The discussion is going to be valid for everyone.
Come and join in the discussion and compare your plans with others.
Let's make the next set of best practices together.

Jan F. Zeuthen (Opus Neo) @janfzeuthen

Monday, May 8
14:45 - 15:30
C. Gorilla 3

In this session we will explore how the Opus Neo solution "workplaceON" has provided clients with an intuitive interface to IBM Connections that targets content for all users. We will also show a IBM Connections on-boarding process (available for Cloud or On-premises) and that is available on any device. Using actual case studies, we will show some insights from the journey our clients are on. In one case we will show how they increased the usage of IBM Connections Cloud by > 1100% in just 4 short weeks,
You will also learn how an intuitive interface can make the difference in adoption and how the usual content from IBM Connections can be styled in a appealing and modernized design.
With the 'workplaceON SocialStudent Edition' students are provided with a real-world collaborative environment similar to the ones they’re likely to experience once they’ve graduated and entered the workforce

Ben Menesi (Ytria Inc.) @BenMenesi

Tuesday, May 9
10:15 - 11:00
D. Gorilla 4

We've been developing tools for IBM Notes administrators and developers going on 15 years now, and with each year a new major release. Our investment in the ways we help you understand and manage data runs deep, whether that involves ACL entries, documents, agents, or even your server consoles.
In this session, we'll use just 3 slides; we'll spend the rest of our time looking at how the recently introduced flexYgrid lets you better understand your application usage, agents, overall security situation, and more.
Whether you're already a Ytria customer or your just curious about how the tools can make your environment more efficient, through our sharing of true scenarios of customers willing to consolidate, modernize, or migrate their IBM Notes infrastructures you'll walk away with a firm understanding of the shortcomings of the native interface, and how to better deal with them using Ytria's EZ Suite.

Patrick Spedding (Rocket Software) @spedding

Kris De Bisschop (GroupWave) @debisschopk

Tuesday, May 9
10:15 - 11:00
B. Okapi 2

It's no longer enough to just have Analytics. It's about Speed. It's how fast you can get the analytics you need, understand it, share it, to allow the team to take action. Learn how to put business into your social business, by infusing the networks with meaningful analytics, personalized to your problem. Traditional BI ‘collaboration’ is too often one-to-many – e.g. emailing a spreadsheet or PDF – it’s like running a webinar where the participants are on mute.
Learn how to leverage the entire IBM Collaboration stack to enrich self-service BI with context, to build consensus. Collaborative BI helps teams take action in real time, to work on the right things, at the right time. The future of collaborative BI must evolve to ‘many-to-many’.

Bob Kadrie (Red Pill Now) @bobkadrie

Peter Presnell (Red Pill Now) @peterpresnell

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:30
D. Gorilla 4

Most Notes applications were designed and coded simultaneously. The process was simple and straight-forward – but not always the best experience for your customers. Designing a modern, Web-based version of your legacy application requires careful planning, analysis and design to ensure success. So, what’s a one person, Notes developer to do when tackling the modernization of that old app, or developing something brand new for the Web?
Red Pill Now’s CEO, Peter Presnell and Creative/UX Director, Bob Kadrie want this to be the most valuable 60 minutes of your time during this year’s Engage. They’ll help you make your next application your best – without the need for a business analyst or designer. This rapid-fire session will begin with a quick step-by-step case study in modernizing a complex Notes application – from concept through deployment. Then, Bob and Peter will teach you how to plan, analyze, wireframe, and design a prototype of an application using simple, Web-based tools, and resources available to any programmer – on any budget and timetable.

Christian Güdemann (OpenNTF) @guedeWebGate

Martin Jinoch @mjinoch

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:30
D. Gorilla 4

SmartNSF is one piece of the big application modernization puzzle! Learn how you can turn a simple NSF within minutes to a smart microservice. See how the YAML export fits into IBM's REST API Strategy and get inspired what can be done with SmartNSF in your business. Will there be a demo? For sure: See how you can extend IBM Verse and integrate address data from your Notes based CRM with SmartNSF!

Frank van der Linden (elstar IT) @flinden68

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 10:00
A. Okapi 3

The role of a human resources employee can be hard work when it comes to filtering hundreds or thousands of job applications. Often, the cover letters are submitted in unstructured formats making keeping data in order and identifying interesting job applications difficult.
In this session we will give a look behind the scenes of the award winning HR Assistant application which uses a combination of IBM Bluemix, Watson and a Cloudant database to improve the recruitment process. We will explain how we integrate the different technologies and display the content graphically using XPages along with how the development progressed and the challenges we faced.

Jamie Magee (MartinScott Consulting) @jamiemagee

Monday, May 8
13:30 - 14:30
D. Gorilla 4

IBM has renewed emphasis on Domino as an applications platform, and it is still a superior server for most types of collaborative applications. Nonetheless, some organizations are unfortunately forcing the removal of Notes and/or Domino due to political, budget/consolidation, or other reasons. What are your options, and what are the costs and expectations of each? This session begins with a demo of free analysis tools for discovering what applications are used in your environment and which designs will be most challenging to implement outside of Domino. Then you'll survey the landscape of several options for migrating your template and custom apps, including SharePoint & .NET, Force.com, Google Apps, turn-key solutions, third-party platforms, and even some hybrid modernization techniques for keeping Domino on the back-end. Pros and cons, as well as costs of several approaches are compared. This high level session does not delve into code, but includes detailed screenshots of each approach. You will be prepared for further evaluating the range of migration options for your own applications, including how to push back on management to keep certain types of applications in Domino.

Joe Russo (IBM) @russoDesigns

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:45
E. Gorilla 5

To drive strong business outcomes in today's competitive marketplace, there is a need to rapidly innovate and respond. Achieving this requires a new way of working: small teams collaborating seamlessly, staying constantly connected and up to date. A new breed of messaging application is being created to meet this need. But work isn't just about messaging. Different teams use different external systems and workflows that need to plug into their team collaboration environment. Come for a session on how to extend the IBM Watson Workspace team collaboration platform through the IBM Watson Work Services & APIs to take advantage of cognitive capabilities and mold them to the way you work.

Mark Wallace (IBM) @mewallace

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 10:00
D. Gorilla 4

IBM Verse now includes a set of extension points that allow third-party application developers to integrate their applications. In this session you will learn how to exploit the currently available extension points. The session will also discuss the IBM Verse extensibility roadmap and what extension points are planned for 2017.

Maureen Leland (IBM) @mvgirl

Martin Donnelly (IBM) @TweeterDonnelly

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:30
D. Gorilla 4

The next generation of Connections will feature great new ways to truly customize and extend the platform. Collaboration will reach a whole new level through the introduction of exciting app dev capabilities. Come see how to build and embed live situational applications that leverage new JSON-based APIs and cool open source JavaScript UI controls. Personalize Connections so that it meets your organization's requirements by customizing its look, feel and behavior in simple and intuitive ways! This session is a must for those of you interested Connection app dev futures... and there's a lot to see!

Philippe Riand (Darwino) @philriand

Jesse Gallagher (I Know Some Guys) @Gidgerby

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:30
D. Gorilla 4

An well integrated application in IBM Connections is an application that provides the Connections experience to the user. It includes authentication, navigation, look & feel and more. In this session, we'll show you how to achieve this goal, for both cloud and on-premises! All the code presented is open source and the library is delivered though darwino.org

Eamon Muldoon (IBM)

Heath McCarthy (IBM)

Tuesday, May 9
08:00 - 08:45
D. Gorilla 4

Applications will be front and central to the next generation of Connections ... which means you will need a whole new way of managing applications for your organization. The new Application Catalog and Registry will give you all the tools you need to build, locate, share and deploy apps across Connections Cloud. This session will show you how administrators, developers and end-users can work together in different roles to create, categorize, view, tag, deploy, comment, like, and publish a slew of applications, from the very simple to the very sophisticated. See how ISV applications can be published, enabled, subscribed and metered. Learn how feedback can be collected and managed... and check out the cool new user experience that delivers all these capabilities. This is all about apps!

Richard Moy (Phora Group) @richardmoy

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:45
D. Gorilla 4

The message from IBM Connect 2017 to Domino Web developers is "All things API" with new capabilities from the community like OpenNTF's SmartNSF and expansion of the Domino REST API. Libraries and frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue allow developers to surface these APIs and create interactive web experience with minimal development.
For simple applications, these tools provide excellent capability with great community support. However, when applications involve complex life cycles with dynamic routing or routerless SPA you need to consider the grand daddy of Javascript frameworks, Dojo. With its flexible architecture and scalability, Dojo provide enterprise developers with many capabilities not available in other frameworks. By combining Dojo with popular CSS and Javascript libraries like Bootstrap, Fontawesome, and Chartjs one can create amazing solutions beyond want you have seen in IBM OneUI.
Join Richard Moy from Phora Group for this fast pace learning experience on how to create your own custom widgets/controllers using Dojo and extend your set of tools. This session will guide you through the process of creating individual widgets, the pitfalls to watch out for, and how to add them into any Web-based application.

Remco Angioni (e-office) @Angioni

Monday, May 8
16:25 - 16:45
D. Gorilla 4

In this session you will see and learn how to create a tiny application, deploy it to Bluemix and connect it to Connections. Learn how Bluemix can help you create applications and integrate it into your collaboration environment.

Christian Güdemann (OpenNTF) @guedeWebGate

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:15
Table 2 Gorilla 1

Have a talk about the direction of OpenNTF. Share your ideas about our new brand strategy and get involved with OpenNTF. Have a discussion why Connections, Watson Workspace and Darwino needs a vibrant open source eccosystem.

Paul Withers (Intec Systems Ltd) @paulswithers

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:30
Table 2 Gorilla 1

If a hypothetical application uses Domino only for data and REST services, can we get to a future without Domino Designer? This round-table discussion will gather what the requirements would be and the technical aspects that would be required (e.g. how to create views), deployment and maintenance. The aim is to come up with ideas for a blueprint and inspire the community to build an open-source solution aggressively during the rest of 2017.

Stefan Sucker (We4IT) @stefan_sucker

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:30
Table 2 Gorilla 1

App Modernisation was named as one of the major points at IBM Connect. What is the right strategy for companies to go ahead with this point on the agenda?
Discussion about ideas, thoughts and strategies in App Modernisation.

Femke Goedhart (panagenda) @Femkegoedhart

Franz Walder (panagenda)

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:45
E. Gorilla 5

Social adoption is a challenge for many companies. What is the most effective utilization of the environment? Who is using which resources, what in the environment is dormant or orphaned? Where should efforts focus in order to improve adoption? All of these questions can be difficult to answer and there is no "one size fits all" solution as each organization has their own unique needs. Join Femke Goedhart and Franz Walder and learn how to tackle this topic using IBM Connections and Watson. Starting out with IBM Bluemix Data Connect to collect and combine data from relevant sources, they use the cognitive power of IBM Watson Analytics to answer those tricky questions and provide solutions to real-world adoption challenges.

Gabriella Davis (The Turtle Partnership) @gabturtle

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 10:00
C. Gorilla 3

Enabling Internet of Things (IoT) so your employees and your customers can have a simplified experience with new services and products sounds exciting. In this session, we will dig into the top ten risks that come with the IoT experience. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of IoT and associated threats, there are risks in allowing access to your enterprise resources. Custom firmware, embedded operating systems and wi-fi connectivity of IoT devices offer many possible areas for exploits and misuse. Come explore current security offerings and get a first look at best practices. Walk away with an immediate checklist to benefit your enterprise as it deploys and offers IoT access.

Christian Güdemann (WebGate Consulting AG) @guedeWebGate

Christoph Stoettner (panagenda) @stoeps

Tuesday, May 9
08:00 - 08:45
C. Gorilla 3

Make your data sustainable and enhance the value of your applications. Your application and your work deserve it! We use applications everywhere but unfortunately a lot of them are old and monolithic. They are heavily used by your business but adding new functions to catch up with the business needs is almost impossible. We, a developer and an admin, will show you how you can transform your monolithic applications into modern apps using a smart architecture. Learn how you can leverage IBM Bluemix, Docker and suchlike to bring cognitive services to your applications. We will show you a live example to illustrate how we extended IBM Verse using IBM cloud technology to fulfill an urgent business need.

Katelyn Applegate (IBM) @kalunas

Joe Russo (IBM) @russoDesigns

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:30
C. Gorilla 3

Design thinking helps us understand and empathize with our users so we can provide them with the most enjoyable experience possible. As app developers, you can create tools that allow users to get their work done faster and with less interruptions. With the introduction of cognitive technology we have even more opportunity to extend our users’ expertise and build it into their everyday work. Together, we will discuss how users are interacting with apps today and explore new ideas for creating smarter, more engaging experiences with third-party content.

Knut Herrmann (Leonso GmbH) @KnutHerrmann

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:30
C. Gorilla 3

Developers around the globe are excited about Facebook's React.js, a JavaScript library for building high performance user interfaces. Websites like Instagram, Airbnb and Netflix are powered by React. This session will examine the library’s main concepts like virtual DOM, JavaScript extension JSX and unidirectional data flow. It will explain how to build a single page application and why React code is easy to write and maintain. React is a perfect match for Domino. Let's explore a working example that combines an optimal client development environment with npm, Babel, ESLint and Webpack with the power of Domino as database and application server.

Luis Guirigay (IBM) @lguiriga

Bart Vanden Wyngaerd (Cisco) @bvandenw

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:30
E. Gorilla 5

IBM and Cisco are partnering to bring joint solutions to market, enabling customers to take advantage of industry-leading collaboration cloud technologies in an integrated experience. Combining IBM mail, social and cognitive with Cisco Spark and WebEx, together we enhance team collaboration. Existing customers of IBM and Cisco will be able to integrate the platforms holistically. In addition, joint offerings will be offered that combine the capabilities of both platforms into a single solution. In this session we will demonstrate existing integration and preview what's coming in 2017 as well as our vision for the future with cognitive.

Matt White (LDCVia) @mattwhite

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:30
C. Gorilla 3

A world of adventure awaits you within every app's lifetime, none greater than when the managers decide it is looking a bit long in the tooth.
The realm is a tricky one, your cause may be just but how to you justify you opinion to the grand council of the Elder PMs?
Hunt for the hidden forest where backing from the business is said to dwell.
Visit the fantasy lands of 'bolting on the latest tech'
Face the dark overlord of Rip and Replace
Your challenges will not just be technical, but political & economic, can you defeat evil forever or will it rise stronger in 5 years time?
Let us be your Gandalf, and take you on a journey where you are the hero

Paul Withers (Intec Systems Ltd) @paulswithers

Philippe Riand (Trilog Group) @philriand

Monday, May 8
13:30 - 14:30
C. Gorilla 3

GraphQL is a key approach for allowing flexible and performant querying via REST. Find out why it's at the heart of Watson Work Services, will be used in Connections Pink and has been implemented for Darwino. We'll also launch an open source implementation for accessing your Domino data. Learn its history and how it allows flexible run-time querying to return only the data you want. With natural language JSON querying independent of a specific database or storage engine, this introduction to GraphQL will be key for developers wanting to use or implement a flexible REST service API for their applications.

René Winkelmeyer (Salesforce.com) @muenzpraeger

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:45
D. Gorilla 4

The newly announced partnership between Salesforce and IBM opens up a new world of possibilities for customers, partners, and developers. Are you interested in learning about how to leverage them? Then join this session which will showcase real-world examples around direct integration, weather or Watson. Authentication, authorization, workflows and UI - all will be handled and source code included. Become inspired to build your own solutions today!

Rob Novak (SNAPPS) @IBMRockStar

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:45
C. Gorilla 3

IBM's relationship with Box is just getting heating up, but they've managed to make a lot of noise about the sales deals, integration points, and now the APIs, workflow and Box Platform.
In this session (after a beer) we will review for end users and execs what can be done with the platform, then move on to admins and developers to see where integration makes sense to us Domino & WebSphere people, what tools might help and finally look at a fully integrated OSGI application running in the Notes client, accessing Box through the Java SDK. Cheers!

Katelyn Applegate (IBM) @kalunas

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:05
C. Gorilla 3

As we arrive at the intersection of bots and humans — the delivery of intuitive user experiences becomes more important than ever. In this session we will talk about how the design of cognitive experiences in Watson Workspace moves beyond bot interactions in products today, and toward more intelligent, natural interactions that are integrated into our workflows.

Steve Lievens (IBM) @steve_lievens

Tuesday, May 9
15:10 - 15:30
C. Gorilla 3

IBM Watson Workspace is the latest addition to the IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio and offers group messaging with cognitive (Watson) capabilities built-in. As a developer you can hook into the conversation space and extend it as you wish. This session will show you how the API works and walk you through the setup and development of an intelligent bot that listens to what people are saying and can offer assistance when needed !

Stefan Sucker (We4IT) @stefan_sucker

Roland Becker (We4IT) @roland_we4it

Tuesday, May 9
08:00 - 08:45
E. Gorilla 5

In this session we will show how easy it is to build a cognitive search that unlocks actionable insights hidden in your unstructured Domino/Notes application data, using Watson Discovery and aveedo. Watson Discovery uses data analysis combined with cognitive intuition to take your unstructured data and enrich it, so you can query, discover, and pinpoint the information you need. aveedo is the platform to make Domino/Notes applications available on browser and mobile, modernize their UI and augment them with new features. With aveedo it is easy to get Watson Discovery to work on Domino/Notes data and to integrate the results in your applications. In our demo we will highlight different capabilities of Watson Discovery and aveedo.

Oliver Busse (We4IT) @zeromancer1972

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:45
C. Gorilla 3

You already now what Watson Services can provide - but are you able to use them in production?
In this session we will discuss and provide Real World examples and how to implement the services in Domino applications.
The focus is on using the 'Natural Language Understanding' features to tag and categorize User Help-Desk calls and filter all kinds of text data to give additional insights of what's going on in your production data.
We will use the Node.js SDK for Watson as Proxy in combination with some a 'legacy' Domino application.

Ellen Feaheny (AppFusions) @ellenfeaheny

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:00
Table 2 Gorilla 1

Integrations. Integrations. Integrations. Not a new word, not a new concept - positively an old and challenging problem - but one that is finally being reckoned with head-on. Through either IBM Connections (cloud, on-premise, hybrid) or an adaptive collaboration fabric - come learn about the networked strategy you've been waiting for to bring all your applications, data (IoT or other), processes, systems of records and information, together, to collaborate better. Disparate data sources to apps - integration is simply NOT A LUXURY to power up your enterprise collaboration network! From IoT to File Mgmt (O365, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive...) to Customer Process (Salesforce, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Oracle...) to Process Mgmt (JIRA, Wrike, Asana, Github...) or maybe your homegrown data and systems - it is time for unlimited contextually integrated communities working together, today.

Peter Presnell (Red Pill Now) @PeterPresnell

Bob Kadrie (Red Pill Now) @bobkadrie

Monday, May 8
13:30 - 14:00
Table 2 Gorilla 1

Red Pill Now’s CEO, Peter Presnell, and Creative/UX Director, Bob Kadrie want to share their tips, tricks, and well… just about anything you want to know about developing modern Domino applications using web components, and Google's Material Design Specification. No question about planning, UX, back- or front-end development, or UI design will be too big, too small, or too silly for this session.
So join Bob and Peter at the round table – for all this – plus a killer rabbit with a vicious streak a mile wide for one lucky participant!

Ed Brill (IBM) @edbrill

Lauren Maxwell (IBM) @maxwelllauren

Monday, May 8
13:30 - 14:00
Table 1 Gorilla 1

The future of collaboration is powerful. It's time to move past noise and splintered applications and drive true business outcomes. The future of collaboration is open, integrated, seamless, and smart. Best of all, the future is now. Come learn how ICS is making collaboration more modern and intuitive with IBM Connections, IBM Verse, Notes/Domino, and beyond.

Ann-Marie Darrough (IBM) @amdarrough

Joe Russo (IBM) @russoDesigns

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:15
Table 1 Gorilla 1

Jason Roy Gary (IBM) @jasonroygary

Maureen Leland (IBM) @mvgirl

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:30
Table 1 Gorilla 1

The future isn't just rosy, it's PINK!!
Join this roundtable to get a quick introduction to the Connections Pink plans and strategy, and then join us in an open discussion.
Ask your questions and learn how you can travel with us on the Pink journey!

Martin Donnelly (IBM) @TweeterDonnelly

Brian Gleeson (IBM) @BGleesonIE

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:00
Table 1 Gorilla 1

Peter D'Haeyer (IBM) @pdhaeyer

Laurent Boes (IBM) @laurentboes

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 09:30
Table 1 Gorilla 1

Huguette Ranc (IBM) @huguetteranc

Uffe Sorensen (IBM) @uffesorensen

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:30
Table 1 Gorilla 1

Your key questions about IBM Collaboration Solutions from a European perspective.

Huguette Ranc (IBM) @huguetteranc

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:15
Table 1 Gorilla 1

IBM Business Partners are invited to this interactive discussion sessions, chaired by Eduardo Angulo. We want to discuss our roadmaps, incentives, general feedback on being a partner and what we can do better for you in 2017.

Scott Souder (IBM) @sssouder

Uffe Sorensen (IBM) @uffesorensen

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:00
Table 1 Gorilla 1

This is your opportunity to talk with the guys in charge about IBM Verse and IBM Verse On-premises (VOP)

Alastair Forbes (BOX)

Huguette Ranc (IBM) @huguetteranc

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:30
Table 1 Gorilla 1

Huguette Ranc (IBM) @huguetteranc

Ed Brill (IBM) @edbrill

Ann-Marie Darrough (IBM) @amdarrough

Jason Roy Gary (IBM) @jasonroygary

Peter D'Haeyer (IBM) @pdhaeyer

Monday, May 8
09:00 - 10:45
Queen Elisabeth Hall

Amanda Bauman (+All Sponsors) @amandabauman

Monday, May 8
10:45 - 11:15
Queen Elisabeth Hall

Each Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsor gets 30 seconds to entice you to come to their booth!
Frantic, speedy and fun!

Tony Holder (+All Sponsors) @bigtoneuk

Monday, May 8
17:50 - 19:15
Sponsor Area

Stay for the 'Speed Sponsoring' on Monday 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!

Theo Heselmans (Engage) @theoheselmans

Tuesday, May 9
17:00 - 17:30
Sponsor Area

Always fun, and a big chance of winning a cool prize. We got several great giveaways.
The bar is open till 18.00h

Daniel Lieber (Innovative Ideas Unlimited, Inc.) @danlieber

Ann-Marie Darrough (IBM) @amdarrough

Tuesday, May 9
08:00 - 08:45
B. Okapi 2

Come learn how IBM Watson Workspace compares against the many team space tools in the market. What makes these tools work well or cause failures within organizations? We will compare Workspace with other teaming tools (Slack, Spark, Skype, Teams, Hangouts, etc.). In addition, learn how Workspace can integrate with some of these other tools and which tools are most appropriate for your teaming needs. We will explore the benefits, and pitfalls, of using these tools based on real work lessons. Where can you improve productivity? How do you avoid more noise from yet another communication tool? You will more productive from learning about the tools in this session -- all done without any sales pitches.

Florian Vogler (panagenda) @panvof

Uffe Sorensen (IBM) @UffeSorensen

Monday, May 8
11:45 - 12:30
B. Okapi 2

Join Uffe Sorensen and Florian Vogler as they show how to turn IBM’s Domino Application Modernization Plan into action, starting with panagenda ApplicationInsights. Find out how to convert your very own data into easy to understand dashboards that show application usage, design complexity and business value of each application. Learn which code dependencies exist and how to segment your application landscape into what can be archived, rewritten or modernized easily.  Gain a clear understanding of what the IBM entitlement of ApplicationInsights has to offer and how modernization partners can add value.

René Schimmer (IBM) @rschimmer

Jason Roy Gary (IBM) @jasonroygary

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:45
B. Okapi 2

IBM Connections provides the platform of social tools you need to transform your organization. IBM Connections enables you to reach your customers and partners faster, drive innovation, share content and expertise, and complete work faster. In this session, we'll describe what's new in the brand new IBM Connections release and preview a few new features being planned for the next release. See first hand how IBM Connections can work for you and how you can embrace all the new capabilities coming.

Robert van den Breemen (Belastingdienst) @rvdbreemen

Henning Kunz (panagenda) @panconkun

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:30
B. Okapi 2

Your files are a Gold Mine reloaded! Last year Dutch Tax Office started an innovation project to explore the digital inventory on local disks, network drives, IBM Connections Files and Content Manager and attachments inside IBM Domino Databases. This year we are sharing our first insights. How did we do that, what have been the issues collecting and massaging the raw data, which way did we go on the analytics path? Last but not least what did we find? Which stories did the data tell us? How could that be used to help the business, saving money, streamlining processes, make smarter decisions?

Simon Vaughan (workplaceON) @simplyS1mon

Tuesday, May 9
11:30 - 12:30
B. Okapi 2

Mears Group today employs over 20,000 people in every region of the UK. A long standing Notes Domino, Quickr and Sametime user, in 2015 Mears embarked on a journey to roll out IBM Connections cloud to all its employees in order to facilitate a new way to engage with its employee base. The biggest challenge we faced was how to engage 16,000 employees who had no access to any information systems. Their interaction with the new environment had to be intuitive (from their first interaction) and provide them with relevant information that ensured they use the system on a consistent basis. The aim of this session is to explain the vision, the challenges and the current status of the implementation and we will demo our new environment.

Martin Donnelly (IBM) @TweeterDonnelly

Brian Gleeson (IBM) @BGleesonIE

Barry Rosen (IBM) @b_rosen

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 10:00
B. Okapi 2

This presentation will show off the best app dev features delivered in Feature Pack 8 and examine the road map to see what's in the pipeline for FP9 and beyond. We will explore the many options available for app modernization and profile what works best for different use cases. A must-see session for Domino developers and IT decision makers.

Scott Souder (IBM)

Klaus Roder (IBM)

Monday, May 8
13:30 - 14:30
B. Okapi 2

IBM has revolutionized the enterprise inbox from the ground up for today's social and mobile workplace. Check out this session for the latest updates and future plans for IBM Verse and Verse on Premises, including advances in offline, cognitive, calendaring and connecting to third-party applications, plus an update on the recently delivered "IBM Verse On-premises" product for on-premises Domino environments.
You'll also learn how your organization can position itself for driving massive improvements in end-user satisfaction and engagement with IBM's amazingly powerful and easy-to-use inbox!
This is the can't-miss roadmap session!

Sandra Bühler (Belsoft Collaboration AG) @sandraCH

Roberto Mazzoni (University of Zurich) @davoser

Tuesday, May 9
16:00 - 16:45
B. Okapi 2

The goal in giving access to IBM Connections to its more than 12’000 employees has been achieved last year. We will share what challenges we had to overcome and what worked well. Learn how the platform is used today and how the University will extend and open IBM Connections to all its students in giving access to 40’000 users in order to share knowledge without boundaries.

Wannes Rams (Ramsit) @wannesrams

Maria Nordin Enderstam (Infoware) @mariaenderstam

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:20
B. Okapi 2

In this session you will learn how the Social Connections user group took the jump from using Slack as our team collaboration tool to IBM Watson Workspace. We joined the limited beta program in July in a very early phase and functionality was still limited. However, the opportunity to help shape this new tool and provide valuable feedback to IBM was impossible to resist. We will explain why you should be using this new tool to increase your productivity by showing use cases from our team and why to choose IBM Watson Workspace over other tools on the market. Join our session and see how 9 fairly unorganized, devoted team members from all over the world organize 2 conferences a year in our free time using this tool.

Sasja Beerendonk (Silverside) @sbeerendonk

Tuesday, May 9
14:45 - 15:05
B. Okapi 2

Learn how adoption of Connections at Kawasaki Motors accelerated from pilots to general adoption for all of Europe. Connections grew through small Communities of Practice - proving real business value through real work scenarios. Work scenarios that replaced old ways of working with new ways to work. See how Kawasaki was leveraging adoption through Kudos Badges and a brand new XCC homepage.

Alex Fischer (Riva CRM Integration) @LX_Fischer

Tuesday, May 9
15:10 - 15:30
B. Okapi 2

The tides are changing in the IT world as digital transformation impacts the way people communicate, work, and purchase. Today’s age of the customer-driven economy is challenging companies to innovate in order to enhance the customer experience. That's why Customer relationship management (CRM) technologies has become an essential component for departments in all verticals. We can expect new CRM trends and technologies to emerge. Here's what to expect.

- Data Security is a Top Priority
- Emerging Tech Leads the Way
- CRM will start to explore enhanced realities
- Silos will continue to Fall
- Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration will increase
- Behavioral Insights about Customer ( customer journey analytics, trustsphere)
- Cloud Adoption Supports Quick Innovation

Tony Holder (HADSL) @BigToneUK

Amanda Bauman (IBM) @amandabauman

Monday, May 8
16:25 - 16:45
B. Okapi 2

Amanda and Tony will explain to you how the IBM Champion program benefits the community as a whole, not just the IBM Champions and IBM, and how IBM Champions can impact your business.
Ever wondered what it takes to be an IBM Champion?
We’ll bring you up-to-speed.

Laura-Jane Parker (Postshift) @little_lj

Monday, May 8
16:00 - 16:20
C. Gorilla 3

Senior leaders may believe otherwise, but digital transformation does not just come from the top in organisations. Cultivating digital behaviours at all levels is important if you want to create a culture of action and ownership. Handing off to middle managers to implement digital transformation as a project does not work, as has been proven time and time again.
In this presentation, Laura-Jane draws from her experience working with global clients at Post*Shift, to discuss one of the most effective methods of cultivating sustainable change - through the identification and mobilisation of a change agent network - or guiding coalition - to drive digital leadership you need for your organisational change to stick.
Learn from Laura-Jane’s in-the-field experience so that you gain:
- proven methods for supporting and enabling change agents
- clarity on the behaviours and skills to use to identify them
- benefits that change agents bring
- tips on how to overcome challenges to distributed change

Felix Binsack (TIMETOACT GROUP) @TIMETOACTGROUP

Monday, May 8
16:25 - 16:45
C. Gorilla 3

Market leaders are swiftly challenging their traditional business models and moving quickly to the digital future. The journey to market leadership will require all viable companies to run harder, eliminate redundancies, hire and retain the ‘next generation’ workforce. In this session, Felix Binsack and several of our customers will show you how the Digital Workplace Hub provides the corporate office, management and workforce with a single user experience for their corporate/division communications, workplace enterprise social collaboration and custom applications – regardless of your device, work location or role. Look forward to many different use cases and interesting customer projects all about a Digital Workplace based on IBM Connections and XCC – Web Content & Custom Apps Extension.

Jan Valdman (Whitesoft) @jan_valdman

Tuesday, May 9
09:00 - 09:30
Table 2 Gorilla 1

Do you give training or education on how to use IBM Connections? Are you an user who has experienced either very good or very poor Connections training? Then come and join us to share your ideas and experience how to organize the training, what topics to cover and in what order, what to do or avoid, etc. Lessons plan outlines or curricula samples welcome :-)

Sasja Beerendonk (Silverside) @sbeerendonk

Monday, May 8
17:00 - 17:30
Table 2 Gorilla 1

Particularly with a social collaboration and communication platform employees can be dazzled with all the possibilities and the huge change it requires of them. For such a transformation you need more than training 'how' to use a tool, or even 'why' to use it. Tooling is the technology-push that makes new ways of working possible, but it does not make me change my work habits.
To effectively change or start behavior requires practice and we need to take small steps that are easy to do.
Follow me along in how to make change possible through practicing tiny habits.
Learn about how this fits in the whole spectrum of user adoption strategies.
Share your experiences and feedback with each other.

Andreas Rosen (QKom)

Nils Rosen (Qkom)

Tuesday, May 9
13:30 - 14:00
Table 2 Gorilla 1

IBM Connections offers users great features for working together such as activities and files structured in communities. These team oriented features would be very useful to have in strictly structured applications like sales oriented CRM systems.
Why not enhance IBM Connections with automatically created structures like communities for accounts or activities for sales opportunities?
Why not use the account information and the sales success to automatically tag the IBM Connections’ items?
Why not store production documents of the ERP system inside the IBM customer communities?
There are so many good reasons to enhance or use IBM Connections content by using the API. Considering IBM Connections as a back end for your team work provides you a completely different view on IBM Connections and its richness.
We would like to discuss the best use cases to make the most out of your investment in IBM Connections.