Highlights from Lotusphere 2012

Here is a list of some of the highlights from my Lotusphere 2012:

• Meeting for the first time in person people from my online “social circles” (you know who you are).
• Seeing lots of first time Lotusphere attendees.
• Broad based adoption of XPages.
• Co-presenting with IBM’s Charlie Hill and Phil Riande.
• Co-presenting with IBM’s Niklas Heidloff.
• The Great Geek Challenge (our team actually won a round).
• Having a full-house at the OpenNTF BoF.
• Meeting so many OpenNTF fans at the OpenNTF pedestal in the Product Showcase and throughout the show.
• Participating in GBS College Day.
• Winning a Kindle Fire from GBS.
• Knowing how to finally read the ICS “tea leaves”.
• Seeing IBM Connections move front and center of the ICS product portfolio.
• Participating in “Team Social” spearheaded by Joyce Davis and Colleen Burns.
• SpeedGeeking was a blast. I also used this as an opportunity to gauge both Taking Notes podcast listenership as well as OpenNTF awareness. I was very pleased that 75% of the participants listened to Taking Notes and 95% knew about OpenNTF (humbled).
• The Blogger Golf Open (I scored 44).
• Seeing and hearing about OpenNTF everywhere.
• Seeing Twitter being used in many sessions including the Ask the Product Managers and Ask the Developers sesssoins for people not in attendance to ask questions.
• Ed Brill and Brent Peters moderating the Ask the Product Managers and Ask the Developers session respectively.
• Seeing Elguji Software highlighted in the Opening General Session for their XPages app dev work as well as for being named a Finalist in the 2012 ICS Awards.
• Knowing that success in the ICS world is getting outside “the bubble” and the Planet Lotus “What’s Hot”.
• Participating in several ICS Executive briefings (mostly app dev related).