FL -- Lotusphere 2003 (Common Sessions w/Rudy Giuliani, Ronan Tynan):
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- Description of Pictures: Events here include the opening session with Rudy Giuliani, Al Zollar (the previous Lotus software division head, who symbolically handed the Lotus ball over to his replacement), Ambuj Goyal. The blonde woman is Jeanette Horan, Lotus' vice president of products.
Also included is the closing session with Irish Tenors member Ronan Tynan.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- LSCS_030127_019.JPG: The opening session began with a performance by The Bounce
- LSCS_030127_028.JPG: The Bounce handed it off to Al Zollar, who had been General Manager of Lotus Software until about a month before the conference. He is now General Manager of the IBM eServer iSeries.
- LSCS_030127_052.JPG: Al Zollar handed the ball off to Ambuj Goyal who's the new General Manager of Lotus Software. Ambuj is a big advocate of open standards, which apparently means he'll push Lotus toward J2EE.
- LSCS_030127_065.JPG: Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York City during the September 11 attacks
- LSCS_030127_141.JPG: Rudy Guliani @ Lotusphere
- LSCS_030127_174.JPG: Bryan Simmons, Vice President of Marketing for Lotus Software
- LSCS_030127_184.JPG: A successful demo by Alan Lepofsky, Offerings Manager, Messaging Solutions Team.
- LSCS_030127_190.JPG: Heidi Votaw, Senior Manager for Lotus Software
- LSCS_030127_193.JPG: Roy Bowen, Manager for Lotus Software
- LSCS_030127_202.JPG: Jeanette Horan, Lotus' vice president of products
- LSCS_030130_012.JPG: Bryan Simmons, who resolved a question people's minds when he announced the schedule for Lotusphere for next year. Before this time, there had been some concern that Lotusphere was dead. While attendance had peaked at 10,000 two or three years ago, it's plummeted during the Bush economic collapse. It's said that attendance this year was up from last year but was still only 5,000 or 6,000.
- LSCS_030130_025.JPG: Bryan Simmons with Jeanette Horan, Lotus VP of products
- LSCS_030130_124.JPG: Ronan Tynan, a member of the Irish Tenors. While the music wasn't what I expected for a Lotus event, he was a joy to listen to and his message about communication and cooperation was good.
- Wikipedia Description: Lotusphere
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lotusphere is an annual conference hosted by Lotus Software (now one of IBM's five software brands).
Except for the first conference, which took place in December 1993, Lotusphere is held in late January. It starts with a reception party on Sunday night, and continuing on through the closing session on Thursday afternoon. The conference uses the conference rooms in the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin hotels. Most years have also used the additional conference rooms shared by Disney's Yacht and Beach Clubs.
In addition to the annual conference in Florida, there is also an annual Lotusphere Europe conference.
Agenda:
The typical agenda starts with an opening general session on Monday, followed by breakout sessions through the rest of the morning and afternoon where different presentations occur simultaneously in different conference rooms, allowing attendees to choose which one they want to go to. Each breakout session is typically an hour long, with pauses in the schedule to allow attendees to mingle and walk to their next choice of breakout session. Tuesday and Wednesday also have six or seven of these breakout sessions throughout the day.
Thursday is the last day of the conference, with a few breakout sessions in the morning, then a large "Ask the Developers" session where attendees are allowed to ask questions directly to a panel of IBM/Lotus employees involved in making the software. The last event of the conference is a closing session.
The opening and closing sessions typically have a form of entertainment and a guest speaker, as well as executives and key employees sharing news and demonstrations of what's happening in the near future.
Breakout Sessions:
In 2008, there were 197 different presentations scheduled during the breakout sessions, scheduled across 18 slots, giving attendees an average of eleven choices per session slot. Each breakout session lasts about an hour. Breakouts are split into several categories called "tracks". Common tracks are
1) Futures and Innovations
Glimpses of technologies and innovations coming out of IBM and Lotus Research Labs.
2) Application Development
Presentations on custom application development, ranging from paper prototyping to application development techniques specific to Lotus software products.
3) Planning and Managing Your Collaboration Infrastructure
Information for administrators and decision makers on architecture, features and capabilities, deployment, and system management.
4) Best Practices
Tips and tricks for developers, administrators, usually technical and tactical.
In addition to these four tracks, there is sometimes a fifth track with a title and content around "Customer References" or "Sponsor Sessions". There are also "Hands-on" and "JumpStart" sessions.
Hands-on
These are hands-on classes lasting 1¾ hours, taking place in rooms set up in a classroom style with tables and computers. Attendance is limited such that there are one to two attendees per computer.
JumpStart
JumpStart sessions are offered during the day on Sunday, usually lasting about 1½ hours, giving an in-depth presentation on a topic.
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