BOF115 - IBM Connections 3.01 – Enhancement ideas from Connections users
With the anticipated release of Connections 4, the aim of this session is to review what users have requested in future versions of Connections and how these improvements are designed to help increase the adoption of Social business tools in an organization. Since the introductions of ‘idea blogs’ in Connections 3.01, an active community of users have been submitting, commenting and sharing ideas via the Connections User Community in Greenhouse - a community product managers and developers also participate in. With the audience's help, we will do a deep dive into some of these ideas. Simon Vaughan will focus on the user requests, Sharon Bellamy will focus on the technical improvements.
Speakers :
Simon Vaughan - Cardiff University, Stuart McIntyre - Collaboration Matters, Sharon Bellamy - Applicable
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 2
BOF120 - OpenNTF - An Open Source Community
This BoF will allow developers and others to come together to discuss OpenNTF projects. OpenNTF contributors are encouraged to come and share their apps and experiences with others in the community. This BoF is the perfect environment to get to know the developers behind the of apps, custom controls and other code on OpenNTF.org
Speakers:
Bruce Elgort, Elguji Software, LLC,
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 2
BOF137 - IBM Connections Adoption and Governance
Good planning can help you build initial adoption of the tools in IBM Connections quickly, and then to widen adoption of the tools steadily throughout your user base. IBM Connections is designed to help empower people as global professionals, innovators and citizens. Come discuss strategies to promote adopting IBM Connections among many different roles in your organization.
Speakers :
Mac Guidera, IBM
Luis Benitez, IBM
DATE: Tuesday 1/17
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 2
BOF130 - Spark Ideas - The Discussion
In Spark Ideas our speakers inspired you with their viewpoints on topics like getting young children into technology fields, home working and tapping into creativity. In this BOF we invite you to join us to discuss these ideas further and see where the inspiration takes us together.
Speakers:
Gabriella Davis, The Turtle Partnership
DATE: Tuesday 1/17
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 2
BOF135 - IBM Connections Configuration and Administration
IBM Connections is social software for business, designed to help empower business professionals to develop, nurture, and remain in contact with a network of their colleagues. Bring questions to this birds of a feather on our experiences, discuss and learn how to deploy IBM Connections in your organization.
Speakers:
Mac Guidera, IBM
Jay Boyd, IBM
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Osprey 1-2
BOF106 - Automation of Lotus Notes / Domino processes
Everyone is aware of the typical problems faced by administrators who have to perform all the administration processes. There are numerous help requests from users who have forgotten their passwords, users who require a new database for a project and users who need to change their names. The admins’ duties also include setting up email accounts for every new employee, implementing a new server and migrating Lotus Notes Users etc. Admins are busy all day with those requests. The delegation to the helpdesk is difficult because of the high manual complexity and required high access level. We will discuss how one can automate processes which previously had to be performed manually. We will explain how the requests can be delegated to the helpdesk and even to users themselves, and how a kind of self-service for employees can be created. This automation saves time and effort as well as minimizes mistakes and possible misunderstandings so that users and admins can work more efficiently.
Speakers:
Olaf Boerner, BCC
DATE: Tuesday 1/17
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Macaw 1
BOF111 - Creating and running a User Group event
User Group events provide an invaluable platform to learn from other IBM customers, promote your products, share best practice or just reinvigorate your investment midyear! But, how do you go about setting up a user group? What's needed to co-ordinate group members each year? Join the organisers of the UK and Belgian user groups to discuss what works, what doesn't and come away with invaluable tips!
Speakers:
Warren Elsmore, UKLUG Ltd
Theo Heselmans, Xceed / BLUG
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Macaw 2
BOF105 - Accelerating your business with Social, Mobile and Cloud
All this talk of Social Enterprise sounds nice, but can you really justify the investments for your company? And something like bring-your-own device sure sound attractive, but there is simply no way your security officer is going to agree, right? As with many new developments, it’s easy to get sold on the high-level story, but making it work in reality is something else. In this session, we will share experiences on how to innovate on a small budget, how to overcome the usual hurdles, how to convince the nay-sayers, how to keep the right focus and how to position yourself for greatest success. We’ll be talking about social business and mobile and will touch on the concept of Cloud Computing as an example of how the role of IT may be changing.
Speakers:
Flavien Boucher, Sogeti
DATE: Tuesday 1/17
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Macaw 2
BOF136 - Socializing your application with the IBM Connections APIs
Social businesses can help increase your organization’s agility and responsiveness . With the IBM social collaboration platform, you can help empower people with social networks, engage with experts and clients, and cultivate trust using people-centric experiences. The IBM Connections Application Programming Interface provides you with the means to integrate social collaboration with your existing applications. Come to this birds of a feather to discuss the many ways to transform your existing applications with IBM Connections. Whether it's extending applications through the tools available in IBM Connections, or embedding your application into the IBM Connections experience, you'll come away with ideas that will add a new dimension to the value of your applications.
Speakers:
David Brooks, IBM
Mac Guidera, IBM
DATE: Thursday 1/19
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Mockingbird 1-2
BOF128 - Enabling the Social Business: Governance, Compliance, ROI
Today, many organizations have social media initiatives designed to help promote new programs, products and services as well as help increase company brand loyalty by leveraging social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Across the organization, social networking has become a valuable tool to business lines decision makers including Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, and Human Resource. But with the explosive adoption of social networking within the enterprise, challenges erupt with corporate governance and regulatory compliance requirements, such as FINRA, IIROC, FSA, and SEC. Whether it’s content moderation, monitoring, logging, archiving or measuring the success of personal marketing analytics of content posted on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, all of these areas are addressed by Actiance to help enable companies to extend their information governance policies and regulatory compliance requirements to their social media users.
Speakers:
Sarah Carter, Actiance, Inc
DATE: Monday 1/16
TIME: 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
LOCATION: Swan Mockingbird 1-2
BOF140 - Lotus Products Deployment
Have a seat and enjoy the company of other customers and IBM experts in a casual conversation about today's software deployment hurdles. Hear success stories from other Admins like yourself and from the IBM engineers in the know.
Speakers:
Jeffrey W. Mitchell, IBM
DATE: Thursday 1/19
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Macaw 2
BOF119 - An Apple a Day: The Lotus Portfolio and the OS X and iOS Platforms
Chances are you're being asked frequently to integrate Mac hardware and iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad into your infrastructure. Join fellow Apple community members to share your experiences and discuss support for Mac OS X, iOS, iPhone and iPad across the entire Lotus Portfolio - Notes, iNotes, Connections, Symphony and Traveler, and more. Talk with Lotus Software developers and let us know your needs and concerns, and learn how you can integrate Apple offerings within your business environment. It's a great opportunity to network with colleagues and share your experience with deploying and supporting the OS X and iOS platforms.
Speakers:
Sarah E. Lachance, IBM
DATE: Tuesday 1/17
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 2
BOF110 - Sametime Best Practices, Tips, Tricks and Experiences
Get connected with other Sametime customers and share your experiences and hear theirs. During this session, hear about the lessons learned, what worked well and what didn't. Bring your questions! We'll have answers!
Speakers :
Frank Altenburg, IBM
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
LOCATION: Swan Macaw 1
BOF107 - Sametime 8.5.2 has the best video capabilities ever... but where do I start?
If you’re new to video, there are a whole list of new technologies, terminologies, and requirements. Start here to learn the basics of Video collaboration with Sametime and how it is similar and different from the existing UC&C tools you already know and love. Network environments are typically the domain of IT. The video collaboration environment has traditionally been under the control of the AV team. However, as Sametime 8.5.2 has helped to unify communication and collaboration, many IT managers and IT staff members find themselves responsible for video collaboration tools that they know very little about. Learn the basics of 2-way video technologies, from H.264 to CAC, from “Hollywood Squares” to HD, from desktop to mobile to the conference room. Learn what's the difference between jitter, latency and packet loss. Learn all about what Sametime can do “out of the box” and how it can be extended to do even more, maybe even by leveraging technology your company already owns.
Speakers:
Peter Lurie, Polycom, Inc.,
DATE:Monday 1/16
TIME: 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 1
BOF103 - Information Management: Finding the balance between too much and not enough information
Today's World is filled with an ever growing amount of information to be processed. In this "noisy" environment, how do you sort through this vast amount of information and make sense out of it? How do you determine what to hone in on and what to tune out? ? And when dealing with your IT infrastructure Client crash info, server logs, SLA reports and more, how do you organize and present such information to inform your IT team to take specific actions? How do you best organize this information to persuade your management team to make purchases or agree to de-commissioning of certain hardware or software? Join Mary Beth Raven and Florian Vogler in discussion and learn how to practice meaningful information management, to make your life simpler!
Speakers:
Mary Beth Raven, Panagenda
Florian Vogler, Panagenda
DATE: Monday 1/16
TIME: 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
LOCATION: Swan Parrot 1
BOF132 - Getting Things Done with IBM Collaboration Software - Making it Personal
This community of interest will explore ways to make using IBM Collaboration and Social Software more productive by making it “personal.” . This session is designed for those who share an interest in implementing David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology in the context of IBM Collaboration and Social Software. This interactive discussion will bring together expert and novice users of IBM Software to share how they are using Social and Collaboration tools for personal information and action management.
Speakers:
Eric Mack, ICA.COM, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Toucan 1
BOF131 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Business Aspects of Portal Implementations
It is easy to know when your project is a success or a failure after it is complete. As with many endeavors, 20/20 hindsight is a powerful learning tool. However, it is much harder to know whether your current project is going to succeed or fail. Planning, Requirements Elicitation, Information Architecture are not just buzz words, they can have a great impact on the success of a Portal implementation. At this session learn from of our experiences as we guide you through two case studies: one describing a successful Portal solution and the second a less successful implementation. This discussion is intended to share what we’ve learned, highlighting various aspects of success and pitfalls to avoid.
Speakers:
Betsy Terrell, Sirius Computer Solutions.
DATE: Monday 1/16
TIME: 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
LOCATION: Swan Mockingbird 1-2
BOF129 - Moving up to XPages - A project manager's bag of tricks
You've seen all the buzz around XPages, and want to take the energy from Lotusphere back to your IT organization. Here is a session where you can share experience with other user organizations and business partners on 1) How to establish the business case for XPages migration and budget, 2) How to establish the value of a structured team producing scalable and well designed applications, 3) How do you help traditional Notes developers to scale up to XPages skills and 4) A process for developing XPages versions of your existing applications that goes beyond the traditional RAD approach.
Speakers:
Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, Maarga Systems Private Limited
DATE: Tuesday 1/17
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Osprey 1-2
BOF127 - Building a Network Toolbox
As application developers, system administrators or system architects, you don't often have the time to build your skills in areas like networking and network security. In this session, our networking expert will share the most-used wrenches from his network toolbox. From packet analysis to directory tools and security scanners, you're sure to pick up a few good ideas for your own environment.
Speakers:
Wes Morgan, IBM
DATE: Wednesday 1/18
TIME: 7:00 am – 8:00 am
LOCATION: Swan Mockingbird 1-2
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