Episode 75, recorded on Thursday 26th October 2011.  We discuss IBM’s new CEO, Lotusphere 2012 abstracts and news, the London Social Business Breakfast earlier this week and more…

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests

Carlos Casas (twitter | blog | rockteam | leonline | aboutme) is an IBM Champion and Managing Principal of RockTeam and Lotus Education Online (LEOnline.Net). RockTeam/LEO is an award-winning IBM Advanced Partner for ICS as well as an authorized training center for IBM Software.

Handly Cameron (twitter | blog | company) is an Enterprise Software Architect at Softchoice and an IBM Champion

Simon Vaughan (twitter) Deputy IT Director at Cardiff University and IBM champion (and TWiL Virgin)

Topics

IBM announces Sam Palmisano moving to Chairman, new CEO named (IBM taps Virginia Rometty to succeed Sam Palmisano as CEO)

* Thoughts on Virginia?

* Is gender significant, or are we past that now?

* How about her background in Services and Consulting?

* How about Sam’s reign?  Positive for IBM? Continued good work of Lou Gerstner? How will he be viewed in history?

* Do we think Steve Mills stood a chance of being CEO?

* Where does IBM stand in terms of brand right now?

* Good example of succession management?

Lotusphere

* Call for abstracts open

* Slight confusion over fields on form

* Thoughts on tracks?

* Two weeks to get abstracts in (November 6th), sounds ok?

* Will you be submitting?

* Connect conference (was Social Business Symposium)

* Over in Y&B

* 2 days

* Aimed at LOB

* Will this one day be the bigger of the two conferences?

* Ed queried future of Ask the PMs, put back on agenda.

* Anything we are particularly looking forward to?

* Wishes for LS12? What would we like to change or improve?

Social Business Breakfast (IBMSBB) event in London on Wednesday

* Discussion-based breakfast briefing

* Mostly vendor neutral

* Almost no slideware

* To be run every couple of months in the City

New Connections ECM offerings announced at IOD

Tips

Darren:

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Carlos:

KM Camp Philly is on Dec 2 and I will be presenting a session on the i...