The Domino Chick

YellowSpace and SpeedGeeking

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

As I'm sure many Lotusphere attendees (really, anyone who has attended a conference) know, a lot happens outside of the formal conference sessions and panels. Hallway discussions and ad-hoc brainstorming sessions are some of the many things that make attending a conference so beneficial. Just walking around Lotusphere, you hear speakers chatting with each other about session ideas for next year, customers giving a developer feedback that, in some cases, might end up as a new feature in a product, and, if this were a cartoon, light bulbs popping up over everyone's heads.

Which is why the folks behind Lotusphere decided to create YellowSpace, an "unconference" within the conference. This takes some of those informal discussions and brainstorming sessions and creates new ways to do them. Some of the ideas will be familiar, like Birds of a Feather Sessions, where you can get together with experts and peers to discuss topics of interest. Some will be new, like Boomerang sessions, where IBM Lotus developers and experts listen to what you have to say about our products, and SpeedGeeking, a fast-paced, crazy event where you move from table to table, chatting with experts on a 5-minute stopwatch.

I'm particularly looking forward to SpeedGeeking, because I think it'll be a fantastic, hectic, and fun way for people to get access to the experts. Come check it out tonight at the Grand Harbor South Ballroom in the Yacht & Beach from 5:45 - 7 PM. And be sure to check out the many other YellowSpace goodies, like the Lotus Blogging Community BoF tomorrow at 7 am.

Permanent Link | Comments: Read (0)

Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 06:14:00 AM