verb: engage; 3rd person present: engages; past tense: engaged; past participle: engaged; gerund or present participle: engaging
1. occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention).
"he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans and engage Sutton's attention"
synonyms: capture, catch, arrest, grab, seize, draw, attract, gain, win, captivate, hold, grip, engross, absorb, occupy
"the tasks must engage the children's interest"
involve someone in (a conversation or discussion).
"they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation"
2. participate or become involved in.
"organizations engage in a variety of activities"
synonyms: participate in, take part in, join in, become involved in, go in for, partake in/of, occupy oneself with, throw oneself into; share in, play a part in, play a role in, be a participant in, be associated with, have a hand in, be a party to, enter into, undertake, embark on, set about, launch into
"they like to engage in active sports"
establish a meaningful contact or connection with.
"the teams needed to engage with local communities"
Adm02. Be a Domino Detective: Tackling Your Toughest Performance Issues
Wednesday, March 23 | 13:30 - 14:30 | C. Jupiter
Become a Domino performance investigator. This session will teach you industry best practices for Domino performance optimization. Learn how to take abstract symptoms like “Notes is slow” and break it down to a resolvable problem. See the methodology and tricks involved to find the true culprit using tools such as semaphore timeouts, memory dumps and server monitoring. Understand what impact running with obsolete tuning parameters can have on your environment. You will learn the best tips to implement along with do’s and don’ts for ensuring your Domino environment will perform optimally.
Kim Greene (Kim Greene Consulting, Inc.) @iSeriesDomino
Adm07. The Health Check Extravaganza for Social and Collaboration Environments
Thursday, March 24 | 14:45 - 15:30 | E. Pluto
Are you concerned about your infrastructure being configured correctly? Do you have problems happen that you don’t know how to prevent? Do you think your servers might have room for improvement? Wonder no more. This session will show you what you need to be looking at to ensure your server environment is running as cleanly and efficiently as possible. You will learn what you need to be looking for in your server configuration, problems found at numerous customer environments and what steps should be taken to remedy the various situations covered in this session. Be preventative, not reactive! Performing a health check is one of the most economical ways to ensure your social and collaboration environments are running properly.
Kim Greene (Kim Greene Consulting, Inc.) @iSeriesDomino
Luis Guirigay (IBM) @lguiriga
Adm09. IBM Connections - Managing Growth and Expansion
Wednesday, March 23 | 13:30 - 14:30 | D. Saturn
You are lucky, your Connections platform is experiencing rapid growth - now what? How to you determine when you have grown to where you need to build out the service? How do you grow WebSphere or the File Service Space? How do you add additional Web Servers or is it better to add a proxy server? Learn how to judge and decide what you need to change - and how to then implement it.
Victor Toal (ToalSystems) @thetoal
Adm10. Enrich your IBM Connections profiles by extending the profiles data model
Thursday, March 24 | 13:30 - 14:30 | D. Saturn
The profiles application is the core of your Connections deployment, it gives insight into the most valuable asset of your company: the people. The profiles service federates information from different source systems into one single reference. To enrich this important part of Connections we can extend the default Profiles data model and tailor it to your company's needs. By doing this, Profiles will become the" place to go" to access people information in your company: a place available to all employees wherever they work, resulting in a higher ROI for your Connections deployment.
Wannes Rams (Ramsit)
Stefano Pogliani (IBM) @stefanopog
Bus01. How the Dutch Tax Office put a fire under Connections Activities
Wednesday, March 23 | 11:45 - 12:30 | B. Neptune
Hear how a Dutchman and an Australian on opposite sides of the world had the same idea at the same time to revolutionize Connections Activities. Improve Productivity Thru Clever Design, bringing a more intuitive visual interface to Activities to help users get work done.
Adam Brown (ISW) @adambrownaus
Robert van den Breemen (Dutch Tax Office) @rvbreemen
Bus06. IBM Connections: Mastering a Rollout for up to 600 kingdoms and 12 000 Users (University of Zurich)
Thursday, March 24 | 14:45 - 15:30 | B. Neptune
Learn how the University of Zurich is mastering the rollout of IBM Connections throughout the organization. They faced challenges regarding one solution that should fit all the different needs in a highly decentralized educational environment. Learn what was done wrong first, what we learned and what worked out in the end.
Com01. Boost Your IBM Domino Server Security with BCC DominoProtect
Wednesday, March 23 | 14:45 - 15:30 | B. Neptune
Whether you are a pro or just getting your teeth into the world of Domino administration, we've collected five common pitfalls (and their remedies) in Domino security that everyone should be aware of! In this session we will not only look at why is it important to protect your server ID but also how to protect it while still allowing unattended server restarts! We will also see how to secure the ID Vault with BCC DominoProtect to prevent malicious access. Perhaps you would like to open up your Domino server for web access? We'll look at what to keep in mind and how to do it easily. In addition we will also discuss how to prevent misuse of the Full Access Administration feature and how to track, prevent and rollback any unauthorised changes in real time - all with easy configuration steps using BCC DominoProtect.
Arshad Khalid (BCC) @arshad101
Dev06. OAuth 2.0 for developers – the technology you need but never really learned
Wednesday, March 23 | 16:00 - 17:00 | E. Pluto
OAuth 2.0 has become the defacto way to authenticate to IBM Connections and cloud services such as IBM Connections Cloud, Google and SalesForce and is *the* way to bridge systems. Despite being very powerful surprisingly few IBM Connections developers actually know of it or enough about it. OAuth 2.0 has been in IBM Connections for many releases and allows other services or API programs to impersonate users – and hence work as the user – without the user relinquishing control of their credentials. It’s very powerful stuff. This session acts as a primer on OAuth 2.0 for developers and administrators teaching you the ropes as well as teaching developers how to start utilizing OAuth 2.0 for IBM Connections on-premises as well as for IBM Connections Cloud. If you are developing for IBM Connections this is for you. Be warned – there will be code…
Mikkel Heisterberg (OnTime) @lekkim
Dev08. "Marty, You're Just Not Thinking Fourth Dimensionally": Troubleshooting XPages
Thursday, March 24 | 13:30 - 14:30 | C. Jupiter
When XPages code doesn't work as expected, often it's because the expectation was wrong. With the various phases of the XPages lifecycle, validation, the various event handler settings, embedding Server-Side JavaScript within Client-Side JavaScript or scoped variables, understanding what's really there when your code wants it is key troubleshooting XPages. This session will help you think fourth dimensionally to better pre-empt the outcomes and troubleshoot when things don't work out like you expect. You'll realise whether or not the bridge over Clayton...Shonash Ravine will be there to ensure your XPages make it Back to the Future.
Paul Withers (Intec Systems Ltd) @paulswithers
Dev10. Eclipse Plug-ins in Notes 101, and then some
Wednesday, March 23 | 17:15 - 18:00 | A. Foyer
At the beginning of time, Notes Development was built largely on Forms and Views. While Forms and Views are still the foundation for the modern Notes application, a new kid came on the block a few years ago. One of the most powerful development tools to make its way into Notes development is Eclipse. However, the journey from Forms and Views to Eclipse applications is a rocky one filled with pitfalls and gotchas. To try to demystify the development and installation of an Eclipse Plug-in for Domino, I will provide a sample application start to finish done using Eclipse and Domino.
Teresa Deane (BCC) @teresa_deane
Rnd17. To cloud or not to cloud...that is the question!
Join us for a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of moving to the cloud. We will also talk about some options to migrate your Domino over to the cloud.
Olaf Boerner (BCC) @olafboerner
Teresa Deane (BCC) @teresa_deane
Sp1. Keynote and Opening General Session
Wednesday, March 23 | 09:00 - 11:15 | Auditorium
The intertwining technology trends of analytics, cloud, mobile and social are forever altering the way employees engage with one another, and with partners and customers. Join Inhi Cho as she discusses how IBM is transforming enterprise social and email solutions to help leading companies get ahead and take advantage of these trends. See how business communications can be taken to the next level with stronger analytics, integration with public social media, user-centric design, rapid cloud delivery and innovation, and broad ecosystem support. Also see some of our latest innovations come to life with onstage demos of our latest capabilities in IBM Verse, IBM Connections, Project Toscana and more.
We close up with Warp-Speed Sponsoring!
Inhi Cho Suh (IBM) @inhicho
Suzanne Livingston (IBM) @suzielivingston
Christopher Crummey (IBM) @ccrummey
Sarah Gibbons (IBM) @segibb
Sp2. Social Cognition
Wednesday, March 23 | 12:45 - 13:30 | A. Foyer
There is a great deal of talk and positioning around Cognitive Computing. IBM is actually defining the market with Watson and related analytic solutions. So how does that intersect with social business and new ways to work? During this session we'll look as some of the work in this area and share some ideas about these very related topics.
Louis Richardson (IBM) @inter_vivos
Str04. Engaging your next workforce in the collaborative era.
Thursday, March 24 | 14:45 - 15:30 | A. Foyer
Themes covered in the talk would include: How the future of work will be around collaboration, culture and coaching Millennial myths and getting away from the stereotype How Millennials use and drive adoption of collaboration tools in the workplace How Millennials want to be mentored and managed and what it means for those at Engage Empowering Millennials with collaboration tools How IBM's Millennials disrupt and drive transformation with its own Millennial Corps What developers and users of IBM's collaboration tools need to be aware of with Millennials How Millennials are changing the culture of organisations
Andrew Grill (IBM) @andrewgrill
Str08. IBM Connections - What's New and Roadmap
Wednesday, March 23 | 17:15 - 18:00 | C. Jupiter
With the release of IBM Connections 5.5 and the continuous development of IBM Connections Cloud, new features are being released at a steady pace. Let us give you an overview of the most recent and relevant updates as well as an insight into what we are working on for the upcoming releases in 2016!
René Schimmer (IBM)
Str09. Is your company culture ready for collaborative business and which road to take?
Wednesday, March 23 | 13:30 - 14:30 | E. Pluto
Do you know what your employees need to collaborate effectively? How do you ask the right questions for needs rather than functionality? Do you know the perceived company culture? Your company culture is the start point for your social business journey. Where do you stand now? Where do you need to go? What are the primary focus areas that would work for you? What approach is right for you? Through our specific developed survey held among all employees at your organization you get a better understanding of the perceived company culture and a better way to asses the collaboration need and current status of collaboration practices. From there on we plan your social business journey. We pick one of four specific flavors from Silverside’s 3G adoption approach to set the course that is right for you. We will demonstrate our social business culture test with findings from a customer, representing their company culture as a person, and the path forward to becoming a social business in the adoption approach suited to this culture.
Sasja Beerendonk (Silverside) @sbeerendonk
Roland Driesen (Silverside) @rolanddriesen
I have been to numerous events over the years and this was be far the best one I can remember. The structure, venue and content was great.
Wonderful event, one of the best I have been to. Focused on IBM Notes/Domino and Connections. Just what I want.
Theo (and team) did it again ! A very professional conference, with a great value for me as a Customer!
My first Engage, and despite the long travel distance for me, hopefully not the last.
It's a privilege to be able to attend Engage and this year was, most probably, one of the very best out there!!
Awesome event, for sure an organizational masterpiece. Excellent! It's hard to believe the Engage staff is not organizing conferences as principal job ;-)
It was the best event I attended so far. And I attend about 5-8 each year!
2nd time for me attending Engage, but it was incredible again! 2 days packed with extremely informational content, a great venue and a great community!
We did more business and collected more leads during Engage 2017 in Antwerp, than at IBM Connect in San Francisco.
As a first-timer I didn't really know what to expect. The organization of the event positively surprised me!
A premiere event that rivals anything produced by any other organization. Great job...AGAIN!!!
It's a treat to always keep coming back for more! Well done, once again, and look forward to the 10th edition next year!
It is mind boggling to see two people create an event that rivals those put on by larger vendors with dozens of resources.
And huge thanks to Theo and the others for giving me my first international speaking engagement!
Theo is a legend, Theo has style. And he is putting together the best event in this space, year after year.
Engage was my first UG as a speaker and it has developed into arguably the premier user group for ICS in Europe.
Yet again a brilliantly done event. One that is used as the yard-stick by which all other user group events are measured.
Theo and Hilde did it again: Engage was bigger than last year, venue was impressive and the event most successful.
It was a pleasure, due to the efforts of Theo his team, the sponsors, the location and the participants. Much appreciated!
I was extremely impressed on all levels. Thank you to Theo Heselmans for the opportunity to speak at this event!
I’ve been to several of the past Engage conferences and Theo always puts on a great event but this was better than ever.
What can one say about this Engage, Eindhoven, NL. It is in fact THE European user group meeting,...
Theo Heselmans has raised the bar yet again as to what can be achieved with organizing an IBM User Group event.