Last year I was quoted on Twitter saying “If you hated the word social, get ready to hate the word ‘cognitive’.” Boy is that word thrown out a lot by IBM these days. Not least the opening general session at Connect 2017 here at Moscone West in San Francisco. This year the OGS was split…
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IBM Connect 2017 #1: Moving your Notes Applications to the Cloud
Still in the US, but in a new city, on a new date and with a lot of new things you normally don’t associate with Lotusphere, now known as IBM Connect. The city is San Francisco and the location is Moscone West, a gigantic conference center in downtown San Francisco. As Roxette said: – Don’t…
The Norwegian User Group ISBG’s autumn meeting 2016 – A Report
The 2016 autumn meeting in the Norwegian IBM User group (ISBG) was held on November 30th at BI (Norwegian school of finance) in Oslo. Even if I wasn’t second in command for the user group I still would say this: It was a very strong and varied agenda! Here’s a summary: Salesforce App Cloud and…
ISBG Spring Conference Day 2: Becoming a Board Member
With a slight headache I got out of bed as late as possible (07.30) and went down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast with Christoph Adler from Panagenda and Stephanie Heit and Arshad Khalid from BCC. The conference was held a five minute walk from the hotel, so I was there in good time before…
ISBG Spring Conference 2016 Day 1: Green Eyes
The annual Norwegian IBM User Group spring conference for 2016 is now a thing of the past. I arrived home yesterday, and after having been away from home for almost fourteen days, I arrived to an empty living room where workers are still fixing my ceiling. In addition, the battery on my car was flat,…
How I Became Engaged
I’m currently on my last day off during the Norwegian Easter Holiday, which for most people last for 10 days. I spent parts of my holiday in the Netherlands, in Eindhoven to be exact, attending the latest conference held by Engage. They used to be known as BLUG and it’s the user group for IBM…
Connect 2016 Day 4: A Sense of Optimism
I did not start the day with a workout. I was actually very tired and you have to keep your strength up if you are to hang on during a session with Mat Newman. So I slept as long as I could and headed off to the conference hotel. #UserBLAST 2016 Mat Newman is a…
Connect 2016 Day 3: Future of Domino, Connections and Hogsmeade
Woke up half past five in the morning. My internal clock is still not up to snuff. The humidity outside was unbelievable and there was so much fog that I opted for a 4 x 4 interval run on the thread mill instead of running around the lake. After hitting the shower and taking in…
Connect 2016 Day 2: The next Generation
The calendar says it’s winter here in Orlando, but for us this is pure summer. It’s quite simply heavenly here right now, and I’ll never get used to being cold inside, and when I go outside I have to take off my jacket. I started this day with a short run before I did several…
Connect 2016 Day 1: Jump starts and steak
Started the day with 10 km run around the lake where we live, in what in Norway would be called a cloudy but very warm and humid summer day. Even though the general opening of the conference always happens on Mondays, there are still lots of sessions to go to on Sunday as well. They…