Combined Social Business Session - London #e20s - 4 June 2014

Purpose

To provide a regular forum where we can share ideas, experiences and models for helping organisations become more social. And, in doing so, create new connections that lead to community. This will be the second meetup supported by Kongress Media and Agile Elephant that incorporates #e20s and London Wiki Wednesdays. At the meeting we hope to get group consensus on a shorter, snappier name for the meetup.

Really important

This is not a social media marketing event. We will not be talking about Facebook, Twitter etc. This is about organisational culture, structure, social collaboration and internal technologies and approaches - and yes, even business economics and ROI. We'll be discussing social business, open business, enterprise 2.0 and the future of the workplace.

Participants

We welcome people from a diverse range of backgrounds: practitioners, academics, consultants, researchers, do-ers from businesses and organisations of any size.

Principles

1. Open, because we each have a piece of the answer

2. Direction of the group driven by consensus

3. Diversity FTW

4. You create the value

5. No spam

Goals

Learning, connecting, making change happen.

Plan

• 18:00 - Coffee, beer, wine, soft drinks and networking

• 18:30 - One main 20 minute presentation

• Many 5 minute lightning talks, with 2 or 3 minutes of follow up questions from the audience - time keeping will be strict (speakers may be asked to stop mid sentence) - anyone can sign up to speak by adding a comment to the page below - provided what you speak about is related to the social business topic it can be anything you like - sales pitches are allowed, but we'll try and limit those to only a couple each session - agenda sequence will be first come first served from the comments below

• A 30 minute break for pizza, beer, wine or soft drinks and chat from 19:00

• Lightning talks restart at 19:30

• Unconference panel discussion - 5 volunteers from the audience will form a panel for Q&A to finish by 20:30

• 30 minutes more networking, chat and consuming the remaining food

• Ends at 21:00 sharp or when we all run out of steam - those that are still in deep discussion will be guided to a nearby hostelry.

Presenters

Neville Hobson (http://www.nevillehobson.com/) - the very well know communicator, blogger and podcaster (@jangles (https://twitter.com/jangles) on Twitter) - his session will be called "Foundations for evolving relationships between people and machines" covering Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies pulling together a number of trends that are changing business models and the way enterprises work.

You! - add a comment below to add your 5 minute talk - agenda sequence taken from the date/time of your post.