IBM Impact Conference Kickoff

IBM’s Impact conference, focused on Websphere software, kicked off on Monday in Las Vegas. Highlights:

Opening general session kicked off with a great talk by Walter Isaacson who shared some great stories of Steve Jobs from his book
Twitter hashtag is #ibmimpact

Press release: IBM releases New Foundation for Mobile Computing. A big focus of the conference is mobility and the new IBM Worklight product. IBM VP Bob Sutor has a great overview of the product on his blog
Official website
Official blog
8,500 attendees

My role at the conference:

Participating in analyst briefings
Working on the showcase floor at the IBM booth
Delivering a presentation on the showcase floor and assisting with two breakout presentations on mobile

I’ll share a recap of the conference when it wraps up later this week.