Tuesday
Tuesday 6 March11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Linking Social, Mobile and the Cloud
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal, Real Story Group
Richard Edwards, Principle Analyst, Ovum
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Possibly the most buzzword compliant session at the Expo, this particular discussion will focus on the practicalities that enterprises face. Employees are bringing requirements and expectation levels to the workplace that are based on their experiences in the consumer world. They want to use their own devices, and cannot understand why they can't collaborate, search and connect to business applications whilst on the move. Delivering on such expectations is difficult, and the panelists from analysts firms Real Story Group and Ovum, will engage in a spirited discussion around what they are hearing from their customers, what is working, what is not and what is the prognosis for IT directors under pressure. This should prove to be a particularly informative and essential session to attend.
Tuesday 6 March12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Sogeti and IBM "Socialise" Sharepoint
Flavien Boucher, Global Lead IBM Collaboration, Sogeti, IBM
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During the session we will explain the Sogeti Teampark social platform implementation, which involved 16 countries and 20000 employees.We will also share with you our mistakes and successes along this journey.Most importantly we will be transparent and answer all your questions, even the non-politically correct ones.
Tuesday 6 March1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
How to buy Social Workplace Technology
Jarrod Gingras, Analyst, Real Story Group
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal, Real Story Group
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Most technology procurement today is led by business and IT managers, rather than seasoned and trained procurement professionals. This sessions provides you with insight drawn from many years helping major organizations around the world buy the right business technology, at the right price in a timely manner. We will give you a step by step practical guide to this process from gathering initial requirements, through the practicalities of issuing tenders/rfp's to closing the deal.
Tuesday 6 March3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Graham Oakes, Independent consultant
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal, Real Story Group
Will McInnes, Founder and Managing Director of NixonMcInnes
Christoph Schmaltz, Consultant at Dachis Group
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For those of you unfamiliar with this format, the concept is simple. Audience members bring their toughest, thorniest, most intractable social workplace technology conundrum or project challenge to the session. A team of experienced consultants will compete to offer you the best advice in 2 minutes or less. The twist, though, is that we'll use noise-canceling headphones to make sure the consultants cannot hear the answers that the other consultants give. So we'll hear clever, insightful, likely controversial, and sometimes entertaining answers to your questions.