Next Tuesday, May 17th, I will be co-hosting the Los Angeles segment of IBF24, a 24-hour global online conference for lovers of all things enterprise collaboration. The event rolls virtually around the world, starting in London, and then moving to broadcast centers in New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Venlo, and finally circling back to London for its conclusion.
During the Los Angeles segment, Roie Edery, Director of Technology at IPC The Hospitalist Company (also co-founder of CelebrityWineReview.TV) and yours truly will join forces with Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, Chris McGrath, Co-Creator of ThoughtFarmer, Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice President at Cisco, and Laurel Castiglione, Senior Manager of Intranet Strategy at Pacific Gas & Electric to curate and investigate the enterprise collaboration spaces and practices of AT&T, Abbott Laboratories, Google and the All Partners Access Network (APAN), (a platform to allow collaboration between the United States Department of Defense and foreign countries, organizations and agencies).
Featured during this segment:
- Brian Solis, renowned new media thought leader, author and principal at Altimeter Group will share some of the insights from his new, revised, Engage!, a book “regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to build and measure success in the social web” as well as his thoughts on the future of enterprise collaboration.
- Adam Pisoni, CTO and Co-founder of Yammer, will join us immediately following a Yammer press event to further explain his company’s vision and product news and how it will continue to strengthen Yammer’s integration into the enterprise system landscape.
- Ross Dawson, globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author, will talk about the future of enterprise collaboration in the workplace and the types of changes we are likely to see in the years to come.
- Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk, the world’s fastest growing global employment platform, will give us a live tour of oDesk’s marketplace and online team room and also share his insights into a future of work.
- Megan Berry, Marketing Manager at Klout, will demonstrate how Klout calculates its scores and how Klout’s influence rating system is being used by businesses worldwide.
- Scott Drake and Stacy Eisner from CNBC will unveil a new offering that brings real-time data from the NYSE and NASDAQ and breaking business news headlines to the enterprise.
- Sriram Chakravarthy, Director of Product Startegy and Development at Tibco, will demonstrate how Tibbr “the first social computing tool specifically built for the workplace that allows the right information to find you” is being used in different organizations, including Tibco itself.
Over the coming days, I will post transcripts, analysis and additional detailed commentary. Join the conversation by posting comments and questions. Together we can continue the discussion, stay engaged with these experts, and further our investigation of enterprise collaboration.
