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As Social Business becomes a strategic priority for more businesses, regardless of size, they are looking for the best approach to reap the business benefits. While workforce optimization, process innovation and deeper customer engagements are widely touted as popular entry points, the value lies in the quantitative outcomes. Collaboration, analytics and insight create the perfect combination to unleash the greater value and harness the energy generated by the multitude of social interactions and scores of structured and unstructured data generated daily. While the paradigm evolves from business to business down to peer to peer, simply connecting people isn't enough. True social businesses generate insights from their social data. Alistair Rennie will discuss the means to achieve better business insight with improved social listening tools, social integration with business process management, and new social business consulting services.

Speaker - Alistair Rennie, General Manager, Lotus Software and Collaboration Solutions, IBM Software Group

Alistair Rennie is General Manager, Lotus Software and Collaboration Solutions, IBM Software Group. Mr. Rennie was appointed to this position in January, 2010. As general manager, Mr. Rennie has oversight for an extensive portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. This portfolio includes Lotus Software, software that enables businesses to communicate, collaborate and increase productivity, and WebSphere Portal, software that enables organizations to design their Web experience with personalized applications. He is a member of the IBM Integration and Values team, a select group of executives who provide leadership across IBM on various business and strategic issues. Mr. Rennie is also IBM Senior State Executive for Massachusetts, providing leadership for IBM in the community statewide.

Mr. Rennie was previously Vice President, Development and Support, Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal, responsible for the strategy and development of IBM's Collaboration portfolio. He also led the worldwide technical support team dedicated to software client satisfaction. Prior to this role, Alistair led IBM Software Services for Lotus - a global organization consisting of highly skilled technical consultants working in more than 35 countries with clients to optimize value from the IBM collaboration portfolio.

Mr. Rennie joined IBM at the Toronto Software Laboratory in 1989 and has held a number of executive roles within IBM Software Group with a primary focus on the introduction of new technologies. Prior assignments include Vice President, Marketing and Channels, Lotus, and Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Pervasive Computing.

Mr. Rennie holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Much of the end-user value proposition behind “Enterprise 2.0” is an integrated, contextually-aware experience that enables people to spend less time shifting between technology silos, and more time collaborating and getting work done. While it’s certainly not easy, the technology part of the equation is pretty straightforward and well understood. What comes before and after the technology deployment, however, poses unprecedented challenges that business leaders are turning to IT and Corporate Communications departments to manage. How do organizations effectively build a vision and roadmap for their journeys to Enterprise 2.0? What success factors and metrics should they use to steer their efforts in the right direction? How do they drive adoption, change management, and effective governance throughout the experience? And, most of all, how do they ensure these initiatives translate to sustainable and measurable business value? Join Sheila Jordan, VP of IT, who is responsible for driving the technology, process, and cultural transformations behind Cisco’s Integrated Workforce Experience. She will share best practices and lessons learned in the context of six critical steps that can help organizations on their own journeys to Enterprise 2.0.

Speaker - Sheila Jordan, Vice President, Communication and Collaboration IT, Cisco

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from Central Florida State University and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.

Organizations want to innovate better, faster, and more often than in the past. How does the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 tools change the way companies think about and practice innovation? Hear from experienced practitioners, from companies such as Electronic Arts and Kraft, on what really works in an ever changing world.

If you are an innovator or a change agent in your organization, this practical discussion is for you. The session starts with a case study and moves to an in-depth discussion on making innovation succeed and building tomorrow’s enterprise. In this session you will gain hands-on, practical tips from our hugely experienced panel on how to boldly lead change and make results happen.

Speaker - Bryce Williams, Social Media Consultant - IT, Eli Lilly

Bryce is an IT Social Collaboration Consultant with Eli Lilly and Company, responsible for implementation, adoption and business consulting of social collaboration capabilities within the enterprise. Bryce has accelerated Lilly's journey toward a more transparent information culture via demonstration, an early adopter pilot, the introduction of new enterprise-wide capabilities and the integration of key business activities into open collaboration environments. Bryce has over 12 years of IT Business Consultant / Project Management experience at Lilly. He is also is a member of The 2.0 Adoption Council and The Community Backchannel. Bryce has a B.S. in Systems Analysis from Miami University and an MBA (Leadership special focus) from Butler University.

Panelist - Kevin Jones, Social Media & Network Strategist/Manager, NASA/MSFC

Kevin D. Jones came to the Enterprise 2.0 from the Performance Improvement and Learning professions. Understanding the potential of E2.0 in these fields, his focus over the last few years has been to use social and collaborative technology to increase employee performance.

He now leads the internal social media strategy for NASA's Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers. Speaking as a conference keynote and in conference sessions several times a year, he helps others understand the importance of the current culture changes and how E2.0 can be a part of their overall Performance Improvement strategy.

Always working on side projects, Kevin is also an entrepreneur. His passion is to clearly explain the complicated and to get everyone engaged.

Panelist - Michelle Lavoie, Enterprise Social Media Manager, EMC

Michelle is a ten-year employee of EMC Corporation, with many years spent in Education Services. Her most recent role as Enterprise Community Manager affords her the opportunity to serve more than 29,000 registered users of EMC’s internal social networking space, EMC|ONE. Her support ranges from education, engagement, functionality, and ongoing strategy development and implementation.

Michelle has a Master’s Degree from the State University of New York, and is an artist as well as a Mom and a grandmother.