PULSE

PULSE

Pulse Comes to You - more of these events coming in 2010!

Pulse 2010, February 21-24 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NV USA

Pulse 2010 - The Premier Service Management Event - Optimizing the World's Infrastructure
Discover the power of service management in an informative, content-rich environment. Attend Pulse 2010 and learn how integrated service management can help you leverage a dynamic infrastructure and overcome today's business and technical challenges.

A valuable opportunity you don't want to miss:

• Attend high-quality general sessions and breakouts.
• Hear first-hand experiences and learn best practices from IBM clients.
• See innovative demonstrations from IBM and business partners at the extended Solution Expo.
• Network with over 5000 of your peers in targeted education sessions, multi-use lounges, community receptions, and product user groups.
• Meet top strategic and technical talent.
• Gain insight into product roadmaps and the latest ideas in service management.
• Develop new skills with self-paced, technical, hands-on labs.
• Validate your product expertise with easy access to a wide variety of certification tests.
• Supplement your knowledge with post-conference education.
• Enjoy motivational speakers and entertainment

Register for the premier Service Management event
User Community savings of $400 with special promo code until February 18. 2010, you pay: $1595. When registering don't forget to identify yourself as a Tivoli User Community member when asked!

Register today!

Full agenda can be viewed here.

Agenda

Sunday, February 21
10:30 am - 6:00 pm	Hands on Labs
11:30 am - 5:45 pm	Business Partner Summit
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	User Group Sessions
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	International Connection Reception
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Business Partner Reception
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Pulse Expo Welcome Reception & Ribbon Cutting
Monday, February 22
6:30 am - 7:45 am	Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am	General Session
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Track kick-off Sessions
10:30 am - 6:00 pm	Hands-on Labs
11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch
12:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Expo Open
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Breakout Sessions
Tuesday, February 23
6:30 am - 7:45 am	Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am	General Session
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Breakout Sessions
10:30 am - 6:00 pm	Hands-on Labs
11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Expo Open
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Breakout Sessions
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Women's Networking Reception
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Pulse Palooza
Wednesday, February 24
6:30 am - 7:45 am	Breakfast
8:00 am - 12:00 pm	Breakout Sessions
8:30 am - 6:00 pm	Hands-on Labs & Certification
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Expo Open
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Breakout Sessions
Thursday, February 25
8:30 am - 12:00 pm	Certification Testing
8:30 am - 3:00 pm	Post Conference Asset Management Seminars (additional fees apply)
8:30 am - 3:00 pm	Hands-on Labs
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Post Conference Education Workshops (additional fees apply)
Friday, February 26
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Post Conference Education Workshops (additional fees apply)

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User Community at Pulse

1) Come visit the User Community Networking Area in the EXPO Solution Center as we provide an environment for:
• Updating your User Community profile
• Joining the User Community
• Learning how to use and leverage social media tools
• Sharing your thoughts with the community through video, podcast and/or upload pictures


2) Use the Agenda builder and sign up for the special BoF session scheduled on Monday, February 22 at 6:00pm where a few of the Global Tivoli User Group (GTUG) council members will be guests on a panel about the "Good, Bad and the Ugly of being a Tivoli customers"

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Call for Papers/Agenda Builder
The Call for Papers is now CLOSED. The good news is over 300 clients submitted an abstract to be a speaker at Pulse 2010!

The Agenda builder is now LIVE - build an agenda to justify the need to attend Pulse today!

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Results from Pulse 2009

Thank you to the 1000+ user community members who attended Pulse!

Here are some 2009 highlights:

• 60 Labs - OUTSTANDING - the best part of the conference
• Meet the Experts - available during EXPO hours - "they answered my questions and if they didn't worked to get the answers"
• 200 client presentations - couldn't beat the best practices and networking in the sessions
• User Community Networking Area - 24 people signed up to be a member of this community, 2 new user groups will start this year, people connected with other people
• Certification Testing - good offering and very busy

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Videos and Photos from Pulse 2009

Video
• YouTube
• Flickr

Photos
• Pulse 2009 Photo Gallery

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Join the Pulse conference community on IBM.com today!

• Ask questions to IBM or the larger community
• Manage Pulse contacts,
• Providing feedback on Pulse 2008
• Stay up to date and contribute to planning for Pulse 2009
• Have fun viewing and sharing photos, videos, and stories with the community

To get started with the PULSE community on IBM.com click on this link and scroll to the bottom:
https://www-951.ibm.com/blogs/tiffany/entry/instructions_for_joining_communities_and_using_social_bookmarks

The New Frontier - join IBM.com's social communities! At Pulse, IBM also kicked off the beginnings of three other new communities with the same capabilities where the community can share questions, news, standards, and best practices and asks questions of IBM, Business Partners, and the larger community.

• Service management community: More of a focus on solutions that work across multiple IBM and Business Partner solutions, the Service Management field, and analyst reports.
• Tivoli community: More of a focus on Tivoli products and Tivoli-identified community stakeholders such as User Groups, Business Partners, IBM Tivoli teams
• Tivoli research volunteers group: A group where the community agrees to receive invitations to participate in research opportunities on prototypes for new Tivoli product designs, improving messaging, communications, and more.

All these IBM communities can be found here

HELPFUL HINT: To get started with any one of these communities on ibm.com click on this link and scroll to the bottom.