Combined Social Business Session - London #e20s - 2 July 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 third meetup supported by Kongress Media and Agile Elephant that incorporates #e20s and London Wiki Wednesdays. Because of the constraints of the venue, this event will start and finish a little earlier than usual.

This edition is sponsored by IBM - we would like to thank Jon Machtynger their CTO Collaboration Solutions for UK and Ireland for arranging the venue, the speakers and for supporting our group.

NOTE: Space will be limited this time, so book early to be sure of a place.

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

• 16:00 - Coffee/tea/biscuits and networking

• 16:30 - 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 nibbles and chat from 17:00

• Lightning talks restart at 17:30

• Unconference panel discussion - 5 volunteers from the audience will form a panel for Q&A to finish by 18:30

• 30 minutes more networking and chat.

• Ends at 19:00 sharp or when we all run out of steam - those that are still in deep discussion will be guided to a nearby hostelry.

Presenters

Chris Withers, Head of Smarter Commerce for the IBM Software Group on IBM Watson, their cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer - by understanding natural language, generating hypotheses based on evidence and learning as it goes.

Our good friend Jon Mell, Social Leader at IBM UK will give a 5 minute talk on how IBM support Wimbledon - the event will be on at the All England Club. IBM captures the score and social media reactions and then use highly trained tennis analysts to provide realtime statistics and updates to media, commentators and transmits it around the grounds and across the World to millions of mobile devices.

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