Session abstract notifications for the IBM Connect 2013 conference were sent out yesterday (the conference previously known as Lotusphere). I submitted two session abstracts with Bruce Elgort and I am proud to say that we had one of the session abstracts accepted!

Bruce and I will be speaking about “How We Built CollaborationToday.info in a Matter of Weeks” on the new Spotlight on IBM Business Partners track.

This is the session abstract:

In this session, we will show you how we developed a great-looking, user-driven community news site called “Collaboration Today”. We will walk you through how we developed the site’s user experience and architecture. We will dive into how we made the app scalable, quick and accessible on all mobile devices and web browsers using responsive design. Best of all, this app is built with open-source components and is itself an open-source app available for you to download and use today. We will show you how other apps can utilize and present the content from Collaboration Today using the app’s API.

The session focuses on the Collaboration Today news site that was released by OpenNTF in September 2012 and recently released as open source too.

This will be my first appearance as speaker at Lotusphere and IBM Connect. I am really looking forward to it! See you there 🙂