Our friends at BroadVision asked us to collaborate with them on an event on the afternoon of 1 July when their founder and CEO, Dr Pehong Chen is over from the USA to speak and visit customers. We decided that was a great opportunity for him, as one of the social business pioneers, to also be the main speaker at our regular, evening “first Wednesday” Social Business Session London Meetup group. BroadVision would then sponsor the event so we can hold it at one of our favourite venues – the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace – and because of that we would put on a special, more structured, TEDx style agenda. Things have come together to make, what we hope, will be a really great evening.
Start time for the event will be 18:15. For anyone that can arrive a little early, there will be a pre-event drinks reception sponsored by BroadVision at the ICA (which is actually physically underneath the British Academy, although the entrance is on The Mall) from 17:30 to which everyone is welcome, then we’ll move on “around the corner” to the British Academy at 18.15 for networking. Formal presentations will start soon after.
The theme for the evening will be future of social business and the digital enterprise. We have a great line up of speakers and topics as follows:
- Dr Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision: Reclaiming control of your business communication
- Jon Mell, Digital Leader IBM: Watson and the future of cognitive computing
- Dr Kerstin Sailer, Lecturer in Compex Buildings at UCL: Designing spaces for people
- Matt Partovi, Founding Member of responsive.org: Creating a fundamental shift in the way we work and organise in the 21st Century
- Philip Sheldrake, Managing Partner Euler Partners: Organised Self
- Anne McCrossan, Managing Partner, Visceral Business: Emergent Code Chronicles – making sense of what our future might be as digital humans
- Bjoern Negelmann, Kongress Media: European perspectives of Social Business and Enterprise Digital Summit update
- Benjamin Ellis, CEO Socialoptic: Organising chaos – techniques for leading this future enterprise
Rather than our usual panel of volunteers, all the speakers will join the Q&A session to discuss the future of the digital enterprise and what we should be focusing on to help organisations tackle the technology revolution. Our goal is to get everyone present involved, to merge ideas and minds and create a great evening of debate and discussions. Please come along, and tell your friends. Full details and to book a free space, register on the Meetup page as usual.
We would like to thank our sponsors BroadVision and Kongress Media for making this event possible, and we look forward to seeing you for some lively debate.