Events / People by Hogne B. Pettersen 

Every Time I Think I’m Out, They Pull Me Back In – The Domino Elf  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 4/29/24 2:03 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I attended the Engage user group conference for the first time since 2022 this week. This time I thought I was only going down there to shoot photos and say thank you to Theo Heselmans, who after 15 years is stepping down as leader for my favorite conference.

Restyling With the Young at Engage  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 5/30/22 1:08 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Once again Theo Heselmans and his lovely wife Hilde pulled off a spectacular event. There was food, there was beer, there was a guided tour of the beautiful City Hall in Bruges, there was beer, there was the opportunity to learn, there was beer, there was the opportunity to teach, there was the opportunity to connect with more people and… oh yeah… there was beer

Let’s Connect to the Latest News  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/6/20 9:08 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Matteo Bisi

Another virtual conference is over, this time with the focus on HCL Connections. Here’s the latest about Connections 7.0 and related products and strategies! As most other user groups have had to do this year, Let’s Connect (previously Social Connections) had to go virtual. The conference took place on September 29th and 30th, and it was chock full of news from HCL regarding Connections.

What’s New in the HCL Community #2   

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 11/8/19 3:28 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Lots of exciting stuff going on in the HCL Technologies user and business partner community. Don’t believe me? Well, read this then!

What’s New in the HCL Community?  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/21/19 3:54 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

The next Engage conference is announced, IBM Connections Cloud customers still don’t know what’s going to happen and mobile templates are being made. Read about the latest here. Let’s take IBM Cloud first. As previously announced, IBM Connections Cloud (including Smart Cloud Notes and Sametime) will die in July next year.

Let’s Connect Part 2: Why Don’t the Users Listen to Us?  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 9/23/19 12:19 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Why is it so difficult to get users to adhere to our message about social collaboration, file sharing and not to use email? We discussed that at Let’s Connect. Here’s the second part of my summary. Also: You get my presentation about sexy wikis. You can read the first part of my summary from the Let’s Connect conference here.

Let’s Connect, and Avoid Misunderstandings  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 9/19/19 8:42 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Before I write my little report, I just want to get something out of the way: I did a presentation at Let’s Connect on Day 2 (Tuesday). My presentation was very well received, and I got great feedback when people came up to me later on towards the end of the conference and said nice things about it.

You Mean Notes and Domino Customers Actually Get Answers to Their Questions?!?!?  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 9/9/19 5:57 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Do you remember the days when you had lots of questions about the future of Notes/Domino, but never got any replies with any commitment? Well, those days are over! While I was still on holiday up in the north of Norway, HCL held a webinar about the future of Notes/Domino. A lot of business partners, customers, users and HCL masters where on the call.

I Became Engaged Again  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 5/20/19 9:03 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

As usual the Engage usergroup conference was a highlight. Here’s my summary and how to keep Norwegian roads safe with Domino! I’ve already written a little bit about the conference here, with links to my photo album from the event.

Stuck in Brussels  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 5/17/19 6:35 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I spent this week at the Engage conference, which this year took place in Belgium. I gave a presentation yesterday about a solution that my colleagues at iSi have made. People went “wow!” when they saw it. Which was nice, and I sent them a message telling them that they had impressed people.

This is What Happened at IBM Think 2019  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/19/19 5:17 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

This is what was presented by IBM and HCL at IBM Think in San Francisco last week. See videos, summaries and presentations here! Good old Lotusphere, which a few years back turned into the conference IBM Connect, was two years ago integrated into IBM’s huge technology conference called Think. After HCL’s purchase of the entire IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio, this year’s conference for collaboration will be the very last one IBM does.

Report From the Domino V11 Jam in Stockholm  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 1/23/19 5:17 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

A lot of worries were calmed, especially for Cloud customers and Xpages developers, during the Domino V11 Jam in Stockholm. And there were great ideas and discussions. Read all about the event here.

The Rumors About the Death of IBM Watson Workspace Were Not Exaggerated  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 1/15/19 2:20 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

After knowing about this for almost three months, I can finally go public about the rumors that have been flying among ICS customers for quite a while: IBM is giving up on IBM Watson Workspace.

It’s Business as Usual  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 12/11/18 1:58 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Just keep using your IBM Collaboration Solutions software as usual and keep up your relationship with IBM or your IBM business partner as you always have. It’s business as usual. As an IBM champion with several customers using collaborative software from IBM, as well as being the leader of the Norwegian usergroup (ISBG), I’ve been asked by many people about what the deal between IBM and HCL will mean for them as customers.

Ed Brill: – I Know Some People Want to Blame Me  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/30/18 3:07 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

While in Chicago, I met up with Ed Brill, former head of Notes/Domino and IBM Collaboration Solutions, and got him to tell his side of the story. This story was originally published on Swing Software’s blog. – My contract with IBM has some limits on things I can say, but it doesn’t stop me from sticking to the facts! As was true when I wrote Opting In, transparency matters. The words are those of Ed Brill.

Paaaartyyyyy! Domino Forever!  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/24/18 4:30 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

The superlatives and positive messages about the Norwegian user group’s (ISBG) launch of IBM/Notes Domino V10 in Norway yesterday has been pouring in all morning. As the leader of ISBG, this makes me immensely happy. And it gives bright hope for the future, and we will use this momentum when we’ve now started preparing for the spring seminar. Read on to see what happened at the launch!

Run Your Notes Apps on Your Ipad Without Any Development  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 3/28/18 10:55 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

The conference IBM Think was held in Las Vegas from March 19th to 22nd. Over 30 000 people were there, and the conference covered subjects like collaboration, IBM Connections, blockchain, cloud, encryption and artificial intelligence. As I’m an IBM Champion for ICS I was mostly interested in the portfolio of IBM Collaboration Solutions.

Social Connections in Vienna  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/27/17 5:45 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week I attended the Social Connections conference in Vienna. This conference is put together by a group of users and IBM partners, and they alternate between North-America and Europe. This was the twelfth conference, but it was my first.

The Social Bit at IBM Connect 2017  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 3/7/17 10:53 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

First of all: A huge apology for my mistake in my third blog posting from Connect 2017. In this I wrote that Domino for iSeries would not be supported in the future. This is not true! I had misunderstood and the blog posting is now corrected.

The Future of Domino is Sapho  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/24/17 1:42 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I promised a summary of the second part of the Opening General Session. And I will include it here, but this posting is mostly about the future of IBM Notes and Domino. It’s based around four separate sessions and lectures about the strategy around and development on the Notes and Domino platform.

IBM Connect 2017 #2: Cognitive Cognitive Cognitive  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/24/17 1:42 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Last year I was quoted on Twitter saying “If you hated the word social, get ready to hate the word ‘cognitive’.” Boy is that word thrown out a lot by IBM these days. Not least the opening general session at Connect 2017 here at Moscone West in San Francisco.

IBM Connect 2017 #1: Moving your Notes Applications to the Cloud   

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/22/17 4:06 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Still in the US, but in a new city, on a new date and with a lot of new things you normally don’t associate with Lotusphere, now known as IBM Connect. The city is San Francisco and the location is Moscone West, a gigantic conference center in downtown San Francisco.

The Norwegian User Group ISBG’s autumn meeting 2016 – A Report  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 12/9/16 9:01 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

The 2016 autumn meeting in the Norwegian IBM User group (ISBG) was held on November 30th at BI (Norwegian school of finance) in Oslo. Even if I wasn’t second in command for the user group I still would say this: It was a very strong and varied agenda! Here’s a summary.

ISBG Spring Conference Day 2: Becoming a Board Member  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 5/27/16 8:14 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

With a slight headache I got out of bed as late as possible (07.30) and went down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast with Christoph Adler from Panagenda and Stephanie Heit and Arshad Khalid from BCC.

ISBG Spring Conference 2016 Day 1: Green Eyes  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 5/26/16 7:27 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

The annual Norwegian IBM User Group spring conference for 2016 is now a thing of the past. I arrived home yesterday, and after having been away from home for almost fourteen days, I arrived to an empty living room where workers are still fixing my ceiling.

How I Became Engaged  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 3/28/16 6:52 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I’m currently on my last day off during the Norwegian Easter Holiday, which for most people last for 10 days. I spent parts of my holiday in the Netherlands, in Eindhoven to be exact, attending the latest conference held by Engage.

Connect 2016 Day 3: Future of Domino, Connections and Hogsmeade  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/3/16 5:19 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Woke up half past five in the morning. My internal clock is still not up to snuff. The humidity outside was unbelievable and there was so much fog that I opted for a 4 x 4 interval run on the thread mill instead of running around the lake.