Agenda

We are delighted to announce that Ed Brill, Director, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus Software will be flying in from Chicago to deliver our keynote address.

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Keynote Speaker - Ed Brill Director, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus Software

Ed Brill is Director, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus software. In this position, Ed and his team are responsible for the product and market strategy for the Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino product family--market-leading collaborative software, LotusLive Notes, Lotus Symphony, Lotus Protector, and other related Lotus-branded software solutions. Brill's focus is on growing and continuing IBM's success in messaging and collaboration solutions, through working with customers, business partners, and IBM sales, marketing, and product development organizations. In his sixteen-year career at IBM, Ed Brill has held a variety of sales, marketing, and product-related leadership roles. Prior to his current position, Ed was Director, Product Management, Notes and Domino Products. In that role, Brill's responsibilities included the market launches of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 and 8.5.1, the introduction of Alloy by IBM and SAP, the release of Lotus Symphony 1.3, and the release of LotusLive Notes, an IBM cloud offering for messaging and collaboration. Before returning to product management, Brill was Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Sales for Lotus Notes and Domino. Visit Ed's blog

09.00 - 09.30	Registration and refreshments
09.30 - 11.00	Opening Session Welcome: Steve Harris (Managing Director, Polymorph) Key Note: Ed Brill - Director, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus Software
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11.15 - 12.00	Get Social... Right Now - a guide to real-time collaboration by Darren Adams, Portfolio Manager, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM. IBM's real-time collaboration solutions have come a long way since the humble chat - this session will explore the many options for extending on-line presence into a powerful way of connecting with people, supporting business activities and reaching out to collaborative communities	The future in your hands - how to modernise Domino applications - Many companies are using a huge amount of Domino applications. Often these applications are not up-to-date in terms of flexibility, usability and Web 2.0-readiness. In this session you will learn how to automatically transform existing Domino applications into modern XPages applications. Without the need of migrating data, companies will be able to make their existing Domino applications web and cloud ready. Presented by Matthias Röder, Senior Consultant, GROUP Business Software.
12.00 - 12.45	Lunch TECH LABS The tech labs (open throughout lunchtime and the afternoon coffee breaks) are your opportunity to 'challenge the techies' - there will be a number of Polymorph technical staff and IBM staff in attendance ready to anwer your questions, as well as various 'hands on' demonstrations for you. We'd be delighted to hear from you beforehand if you have something specific you want to see or know - please email us.
12.45 - 13.30	Get Social...Why NOW? Social Software...do I really need it? This is not a product pitch... instead , this session will be looking to address some myths around social software, look at why we are thinking about social software in the first place and how to get started..what business problems can social tools can help me with? Presented by IBM	LotusLive.. "A Day in the Life," Collaborating in the Cloud: Deliver scalable, security-rich email, web conferencing and collaboration solutions through a portfolio of Cloud-based services. Baiju McCubbins, IBM
13.30 - 14.15	Virtualisation: a step towards the cloud - How IBM technologies are helping businesses prepare for and embrace cloud computing. Presented by Paul Hunt, Celerity	Introduction to Desktop Virtualisation from IBM IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, is designed for mid-sized companies and removes the up front costs normally associated with VDI solutions. Delivering Windows or Linux clients to any device from old Laptops and Thin Clients, to iPads and iPhones, it cost efficiently runs your corporate desktop on any device, wherever you happen to be.
14.15 - 14.35	Tea & coffee break TECH LABS See above
14.35 - 15.20	For Developers: Simple Steps to Mobilising your apps with XPages for iPhone / iPad / Android and BlackBerry - Chris Connor, BSSIT This session will walk you through how we use the free Mobile Controls toolkit from OpenNTF to rapidly "iPhone / iPad enable" your Notes Applications with all the features that users now expect. Following a simple prescriptive process we will show you how to use XPages and OpenNTF to mobilise your applications in a few simple steps. You will leave this session armed with a step-by-step guide and a sample XPages application with working code to get you started on your way	Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5: All features great and small. - Steve Cogan, IBM A walk-through of benefits old & new - including: Notes8 side-bar (and 'art of the possible') Calendar options - including overlays from internal/external feeds & 'ghosted entries' Feeds -> why & how Out of office -> service vs agent Domino configuration tuner Storage benefits of Domino8.5 including DAOS & the new ODS in 8.5 [compression]
15.20 - 16.30	Closing session with guest speaker - our guest speaker last year was a huge success and was scored very favourably on our feedback forms - not to be missed! Xbox with Kinect prize giveaway...also not to be missed!!