SOMESSO / Headshift Social Business Summit March 18, 2010
Agenda
Moving beyond the adoption of social tools to consider business impact and implications for organisational design
8.30 – 9.00
Coffee & Registration
9.00 – 9.20
Introduction
PART 1
9.20 – 09.50
Keynote I: How far have we come?
Musings on the impact of social tools on business to date
Jeff Dachis
Founder and CEO of Dachis Group
will be presenting his visionary thoughts at the
Social Business Summit. Jeff background includes strategic finance,
sales and marketing, and operations experience; founding, growing,
leading and managing a publicly traded Professional Services
consultancy.
09.50 – 10.20
Keynote II: Where are we going?
Thoughts on how the Socially-calibrated Business of the Future might operate
JP Rangaswami
Chief Scientist at BT
will be the second keynote speaker. JP is
an outspoken advocate of open source and using emerging and disruptive
technologies to improve information sharing, education and
collaboration.
10.20 – 10.50
Coffee Break
PART 2
10.50 – 12.30
Futures Trading
Three groups present postcards from the future of Social Business to assess where we might be headed
The presentations will be followed by a deliberative discussion, led by a moderator, to appraise these future scenarios and identify how we might get there
12.30 - 14.15
Lunch
14.15 - 15.15
The Road Ahead
Staying in the three groups, we will ask delegates to identify necessary changes and actions to move towards the future scenarios, as well as challenges we might face, in terms of people, culture and technology
15.15 - 16.00
Coffee Break
PART 3
16.00 – 17.00
State of the Nation
Reporting back from the individual sessions, we will try to build a comprehensive picture of where we are and where we think we are going
17.00 - end
Networking time and BoFs / informal discussion groups