Events / People by Gabriella Davis 

Engage Redux  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/6/20, 9:29 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

This week we were at Engage in the Netherlands presenting, learning and meeting up with customers and friends. Another big thank you to Theo, Hilde and Femke for all the work they put into this event, by my count of hands during the keynote around 20% of attendees were there for the first time which is fantastic.

HCLs New Licensing Model  

By Gabriella Davis | 9/17/19, 12:13 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today at Let’s Connect (previously Socal Connections) in Munich, Uffe Sorensen from HCL presented the outline of the new licensing model HCL plan to adopt from v11 of Domino onwards. HCL are looking for feedback on this as they plan to bring all other products into line as things progress.

Onboarding With HCL  

By Gabriella Davis | 8/14/19, 2:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

It’s now been several weeks since HCL took full ownership of what were the ICS (IBM Collaboration Solutions) products that include Domino, Sametime, Notes, Verse, Traveler, Portal and Connections. In those few weeks there’s been a lot of activity.

Domino Server Health – Monitoring and Managing @ Engage  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/22/19, 1:49 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

This is my session on Domino Server Health given at Engage in Brussels last week. If you’re a Domino administrator how do you decide what to monitor on your servers and how to manage them ? What are the key things to monitor? How do good practice management tools such as statistics reporting, DDM, cluster symmetry, database repair and policy settings make your work lighter and faster. Finally we’ll talk about some of the “must dos” in the day, week and month of a Domino admin.

Face/Off Domino vs Exchange On Premises @ Engage  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/22/19, 1:48 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Here is my presentation discussing how Exchange and Outlook on premises differs from Domino and Notes given at Engage in Brussels last week. I hope you find it useful, this was my first presentation pulling together my ideas from the past few years of working with Exchange on premises integration projects.

60 Admin Tips In 60 Minutes @ Engage  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/22/19, 1:48 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Here is my presentation from Engage in Brussels last week on 60 Admin Tips across Domino, Sametime and Traveler.

A Few Days In Brussels #EngageUG  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/16/19, 1:25 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I have just returned from Engage UG – Theo Heselmans’ European conference, this year held at Autoworld in Brussels. A beautiful location, even for someone who cares little for cars (but enjoys belgian beer, frites and chocolate).

A New Base – A New Hope – A New Beginning. Factory Tours Episode 2  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/28/19, 12:10 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

This week I spent time in Milan at HCL’s 2nd factory tour at their offices. It was an intense couple of days, with presentations from the development teams working on Domino, Notes, Nomad, Sametime, DQL, etc, as well as HCL executives working on building the support program, the partner program, and HCL’s client advocacy program.

Think-Ing From Far Away Pt5 – The Big Wrap Up  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/16/19, 8:26 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Our final podcast of Think-ing from far away is a wrap up of the week, announcements and thoughts in general. We were joined by Maria Nordin from ISW, Kris de Bisschop from Groupwave and Christoph Adler from Panagenda. All dosed up with coffee at 8am on the last day in San Francisco. Content from Think is already beginning to be posted.

Think-Ing From Far Away Pt4 – It’s All Connections  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/14/19, 5:13 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away is all about Connections. We have heard so much news coming out of Think already regarding Connections so we were joined by Sandra Buehler from Belsoft and Wannes Rams from Ramsit – both kindly sat on the floor in a quiet corner of the Moscone Center!.

Think-Ing From Far Away Pt3 – Community Day & Chairman’s Address  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/14/19, 5:12 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away is entirely “far away” as we welcome Andreas Ponte from Belsoft in Switzerland and Mike Smith from The Turtle Partnership to discuss the news from Community Day and the Chairman’s Address from Ginni Rometty that we all watched via live stream.

Think-Ing From Far Away Pt2 -News So Far & What’s Coming Up (Tuesday)  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/13/19, 4:43 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away features is an accidental Lifetime Champion full house with guests Paul Withers from Intec and Daniel Nashed from Nashcom alongside Julian, Theo and myself. We discuss the news so far including work Daniel has been working on providing Docker scripts that is being presented by Thomas Hampel this week and the relaunch of code snippets by OpenNTF.

Think-Ing From Far Away Pt1 – Community  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/12/19, 1:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away features guests Libby Ingrasia from IBM, Rob Novak from Snapps, John Paganetti from HCL and Femke Goedhart from panagenda alongside Julian Robichaux, Theo Heselmans and myself. We discuss the ICS Community, what community events are happening at Think and how to play along from home.

Think-ing From Far Away  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/7/19, 1:53 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

As many of you know, next week is IBM Think in San Francisco. Unfortunately I won’t be able to be there and neither will my fellow Lifetime Champions Julian Robichaux and Theo Heselmans so we wanted to do our own version of “Think” for those of us who are missing out. Starting next week we plan to record a daily 30 minute audio podcast discussing the news coming out of Think and some of the presentations and sponsors that are there.

Engage Week & Lots of News  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/24/18, 4:25 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

This week was the Engage conference held in Rotterdam – the largest and (IMO) best event Theo Heselmans has given us yet. Rotterdam is a lovely city and the water taxi that took us from the restaurant back to the boat last night turned a 5 minute ride into a James Bond chase sequence – at several points he took corners by tilting the boat almost entirely on its side (there goes Tim!) and then onto the other side (bye Mike!) before pulling a handrake turn and reversing up to the dock – worth every cent of four and a half Euro.

Path To A Perfect 10 #perfect10  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/10/18, 11:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Here’s an intro to a new blog series I am starting to hopefully take us all through preparing for v10 of the ICS products due out later this year. If you have suggestions for what you’d find useful outside of the things I mention in the video please let me know. I’ll be using the hashtag #perfect10 for this.

The Champion & Confidence Dilemma  

By Gabriella Davis | 5/8/18, 3:26 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I wanted to share today something I’ve been dealing with for a few months and inspired by shares from others. For those of you who don’t know the IBM Champion program, in short it was set up to acknowledge the work done by people who contribute to their Community outside of their regular jobs.

A Guide To Single Sign On  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/22/18, 12:01 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Single sign-on, single identity and even password synchronization—in this session, we will take you through all the options available to minimize or eradicate logins across IBM's Collaboration Solutions (ICS); whether it is a Domino web server, IHS, Notes client, Traveler, Sametime, Connections or Verse, on-premises or cloud.

Think Week – With More Than A Little Help From My Friends  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/17/18, 9:23 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM Think starts tomorrow for me in Las Vegas. So obviously here I am in a LV hotel room drinking lots of water, trying to plan the sessions I want to see, when I’m going to be free and and then sign up for several of the labs. This year as well as my technical sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, I will be moderating and contributing to several “soft skills” sessions that are not about technology but about how we work.

Champions Expertise – 2018 Technology  

By Gabriella Davis | 1/24/18, 1:29 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

IBM Champion Expertise presentations are a new initiave we are starting this month whereby Champions can provide audio presentations on a particular topic. This month is “2018 Futures and Technology” and here is my presentation on what I think is going to be big for 2018.

An Introduction to Docker from MWLUG 2017  

By Gabriella Davis | 8/12/17, 9:53 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week I attended and presented at MWLUG in Alexandria, VA. This was my third MWLUG event and the biggest so far. Lots of great and varied content, I even went to a couple of developer sessions, thanks to Richard Moy and the rest of the MWLUG team for putting on another great show.

Watson Work Services – Connect Review #4  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/15/17, 4:56 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I know it’s a bit late in the day but I have a couple more things I want to talk about post Connect and with preparations for Interconnect and trying to tie up work before I go away – well these got pushed back.

Connections Futures – IBM Connect Review #3  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/1/17, 4:18 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

We interrupt this blog to apologise. Usually I like to sanity check my statements before publishing them but 80%+ of presentations from IBM Connect are missing online. That means my notes are all I have right now.

Connect 2017 Registration – Same Name But Something Very Different  

By Gabriella Davis | 10/17/16, 1:53 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Today registration has opened for the conference known as Connect 2017. Connect in Orlando wasn’t anything more than a rename of Lotusphere but although this bears the same name it’s very far from being the same event. Connect 2017 is taking place in Moscone West in San Francisco at the end of February but that’s not the biggest change – the content, structure and even pricing is drastically different too.

It’s Cham-peen Time  

By Gabriella Davis | 10/15/16, 12:32 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

The IBM Champion program is once more open for nominations for 2017 Champions. For those of you that don’t know, the Champion program has been set up by IBM to reward and thank people who have established a voice in their community.

ICON UK & Spark Ideas  

By Gabriella Davis | 8/22/16, 5:31 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I’m very pleased to say that i’ll be speaking at Icon UK being held in London from Sept 15th – 16th at IBM South Bank. The only user group event all year I get to travel to from home..

Last week in Eindhoven…  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/30/16, 8:44 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

We were in Eindhoven last week at the Engage conference.. over 400 attendees, speakers and IBM’ers gathered for two days of learning, talking and cleaning out the hotel bar of tonic water.. I’ve been to several of the past Engage conferences and Theo always puts on a great event but this was bigger and better than ever. So why?

Connect 2016 – A Wrap Up  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/8/16, 10:29 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

As I get ready to leave Florida tomorrow I realise that I haven’t blogged since Connect began (for me) on Friday 29th. This was our 21st IBM Orlando conference and like everyone else I was prepared to see it go forever or merge with Las Vegas. That hasn’t happened and I hope after the last two years it won’t.

Say Thank You To Someone  

By Gabriella Davis | 9/28/15, 8:06 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I’ve been involved in lots of conversations recently with people wondering how to keep the “IBM Collaboration” community vibrant and alive as we face fewer and fewer meet ups in real life and more diverse technologies. I’ve been working in this Community since the mid 90s and watched it grow off the hard work and selfless contributions of people who just wanted to share ideas and knowledge with each other. Even without as many real life connections, this community thrives on people sharing their time, ideas and knowledge.

Icon UK, Upgrading Connections and Adapting To Technology  

By Gabriella Davis | 9/23/15, 5:53 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

This week I was at Icon UK at IBM’s offices on South Bank and as usual it was a great event as usual. Lots of great content, attendees, speakers and sponsors and it gave me the chance to talk to people I rarely get to see (some I hadn’t seen since January).