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I’m excited to tell you about my three live webcasts in the coming week from IBM CONNECT 2014. Tune in for CONNECTING THE ECOSYSTEM: Conversations from IBM Connect 2014 with Sandy Carter. We’ll be streaming live from the CONNECT Solutions Expo on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday at the times listed below. I’ll be joined by key ecosystem luminaries for discussions on driving social adoption, proving business value through social intelligence, and creating a smarter workforce. In addition to the interviews, we’ll have summary thoughts each day on key announcements and initiatives. And, we’ll take your questions submitted through Twitter, just use #asksocialsandy on your tweets!
I really hope you’ll join us for one or all of the live webcasts.
Our schedule:
Sunday, Jan. 26: Driving social adoption, 6:30-7:00 PM (Eastern US) / 23:30-24:00 (GMT)
Monday, Jan 27: Proving business value through social intelligence, 6:45-7:15 PM (Eastern US) / 23:45-00:15 (GMT)
Tuesday, Jan 28: Creating a Smarter Workforce, 5:30-6:30 PM (Eastern US) / 22:30-23:30 (GMT)
Register today and add the shows to your calendar: http://bit.ly/1hOwoxY
I hope you join me at Connect 2014!!!
It is not to be missed!
IBM Connect 2014 is right around the corner!
One of my favorite events at IBM Connect is the App Throwdown! It’s a lively, energizing event where IBM business partners can showcase their social business applications.
The audience votes in the qualifying rounds and three companies progress to the main stage at Connect, where they will demo their integration to an audience of thousands!
I love the audience participation and interaction. It’s inspiring to see how our ecosystem partners have created innovative integrations that can deliver real value to customers. Our ecosystem is critical and the App Throwdown is a great opportunity to highlight our partner solutions to our customers and to our IBM sellers. I can’t wait to see what our partner community will develop next!
This year, I’ll be co-hosting with Nigel Beck, VP Business Development in IBM Collaboration Solutions.
Make sure to apply to participate in the App Throwdown by submitting a video link of your integration here. This year YOU could join us on the main stage!
Hope to see you there!
Connect is coming! YEA!
With Halloween behind us, it’s no surprise we’re seeing Black Friday previews online and Christmas tree displays in stores. (I’ve actually seen displays as early as September!) This abrupt change of season is a reminder that 2014 is quickly approaching, bringing more changes. But as far as I can see, the changes on the horizon look very good.
For starters, the Connect 2014 Conference, January 26 – January 30, is expanding to reflect the growing breadth of what it means to be a social business. In addition to the strategic social business content we saw last year and the Technical Program, Connect 2014 will include the Kenexa World Conference – focused on empowering HR, your workforce and your business. This addition addresses exactly what we are seeing in the marketplace; in order to be competitive, your business strategy needs to consider social, mobile, cloud, a smarter workforce, digital, smarter commerce and analytics. And even more importantly, businesses have to figure out how to integrate these game-changing technologies into a seamless customer experience.
We’re also getting an earlier look at the sessions for Connect 2014. The content team recently shared some IBM abstract submissions we can expect to see on the agenda, including IBM Sametime 9: From On-Premises to Mobile, Cloud and Beyond, Getting Beyond Theory and into Practice: Deploying Mail and Social Business in the Cloud and IBM Digital Experience Platform: Strategy and Roadmap. I’m told they will continue to release additional session titles on a regular basis. So stay tuned!
And in keeping with the theme of early holiday shopping, the conference team recently extended the early bird discount until December 13, 2013. With news like this, maybe Santa will want to start his shopping early too!