Save the date! Pulse 2013, February 23 - 26, MGM Grand - Las vegas, Nevada.

Call for Speakers is now closed.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a speaker proposal for Pulse 2013. We're currently reviewing submissions and will notify applicants by mid-December.

If you haven't submitted a speaker proposal, register by December 31, 2012 to take advantage of our early bird rate and save $500.

Learn more and register

Speaker Benefits

Clients who present a breakout session at Pulse receive:

  • One full conference pass ($1995 value)*
  • Networking opportunities with over 8,000 industry experts, press and analysts
  • Your company's name in the Pulse Program Guide and a description of your presentation and speaker details on the Pulse SmartSite Agenda Builder
  • Personalized presentation techniques coaching from a speaker trainer, if desired
  • Use of the exclusive Client Speaker VIP Lounge

Clients who present an Expo theater at Pulse receive:

  • One full conference pass ($1995 value)*
  • Networking opportunities with over 8,000 industry experts, press and analysts
  • Your company's name in the Pulse Program Guide and a description of your presentation and speaker details on the Pulse SmartSite Agenda Builder

Business Partners who present a breakout session at Pulse receive:

  • One full conference pass ($1995 value)*
  • Personalized presentation techniques coaching from a speaker trainer, if desired
  • Networking opportunities with over 8,000 industry experts, press and analysts
  • Your company's name in the Pulse Program Guide and a description of your presentation and speaker details on the Pulse SmartSite Agenda Builder
  • Use of the exclusive Client Speaker VIP Lounge

Business Partners who present an Expo Theater at Pulse receive:

  • Networking opportunities with over 8,000 industry experts, press and analysts
  • Your company's name in the Pulse Program Guide and a description of your presentation and speaker details on the Pulse SmartSite Agenda Builder

Content Guidelines

Proposals should include a title and a 100-word abstract that outlines a unique organizational experience based on, but not limited to, one of the following scenarios:

  • Cloud deployment and management: share your journey with cloud and discuss techniques for deploying, managing and securing your cloud environment
  • Asset Management: how has your organization achieved greater efficiency in asset management by managing traditional IT, physical, and emerging smart assets
  • Service availability and performance; advancements in increasing service availability and quality including visibility of services and the networks, systems and applications supporting them
  • Service provider networks and services; how you leveraged IBM solutions to deploy and manage new next generation services (4G, cloud)
  • Stories about innovation and transformation; including smart buildings, smart grid, smart healthcare; and how IBM helped your organization deliver new types of products and services
  • Service delivery: Discuss how IBM solutions helped you achieve greater levels of collaboration across development and operations; how automation has helped you achieve greater levels of agility
  • Security, risk and compliance; how your organization has improved its security, risk or compliance posture with automated threat, identity, access and security controls
  • Industry-specific implementations that explore how your organization implemented an industry-tailored service architecture and how this played a role in innovation and/or service delivery
  • Virtualization: discuss your solutions for provisioning, scheduling, storage and optimization of hybrid, virtualized environments and their impact on efficiency and cost-savings
  • Big Data: discuss how you have used analytics to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content to make your business more agile, to answer questions that were previously beyond your reach, and to achieve real business results

Helpful Hints

  • Describe your session fully. Include a description of your business objectives, how you used IBM solutions to address them, and any lessons learned. A clear sense of your presentation's focus helps us evaluate your proposal and will draw more attendees to your session if you are selected.
  • Be original and timely. Pulse attendees are eager to hear the latest advancements and appreciate your unique perspective.
  • Remember that your goal is to educate, not sell. Our attendees appreciate the educational value of Pulse. Stay neutral and focus on the educational value of your presentation.

Business Justification

To help justify travel expenses to your company, complete the Pulse Business Justification letter and share it with your .management. We encourage you to submit your proposal to present even if you haven't received travel expense approval. Submitting a proposal does not obligate you to attend Pulse.

Call for Speakers Timeline

November 16, 2012 Call for Speakers Closes
Mid-December 2012 Approved Speakers Notified
January 20, 2013 Presentations Due

* Client Speaker and Business Partner Speaker Conference Registration Waiver In exchange for your participation as a speaker, client and Business Partner speakers who are selected to deliver a conference breakout session may be eligible to receive a conference registration waiver valued at up to USD $1995. (Read terms and conditions)

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Breakout session

Breakout sessions provide deep dives into the wide variety of technical and business topics covered at Pulse. Organized by stream, track and sometimes subtrack, breakout sessions feature talks by thought leaders, industry analysts, IBM Business Partners and technical experts to maximize the value of education at Pulse.

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Expo theater

Expo theaters include 25-minute sessions that will showcase key solutions from IBM and IBM Business Partners to further enhance your Pulse education. Sessions run every half-hour during the Solution Expo hours.

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Terms and conditions

  • A conference registration waiver will be offered to the speaker if IBM determines, after legal review of applicable laws, that it is appropriate.
  • Government employees are strongly encouraged to submit proposals for presentation at Pulse. However, because some government regulations prohibit direct or indirect offers to and the acceptance of gifts to the Government Owned Entity clients employees or their families, government employees may not be eligible to receive a free pass to Pulse.
  • Speakers must deliver their session at the conference to be eligible for the waiver. This waiver is given to the speaker and not aligned with the session. For example, if a client is speaking in two sessions, the single waiver covers both sessions. Speakers in the following session types qualify for the waiver: General session, Breakout session, Birds-of-a-Feather session, Panel session, Round Table session, User Group session. Expo Theater session (* exception: Business Partner speakers who can use the waiver included in their sponsorship package toward the expo theatre speaking session).
  • The waiver is not transferable.
  • We will inform the speaker about the waiver status and any other documentation that may be required.
  • The conference registration waiver allows admission to all conference meals, education sessions, Solution Expo, networking events and programs Sunday evening through Wednesday.
  • No other travel or living expense reimbursement will be offered.
  • Only one waiver per company per session is available for a non-IBM speaker. If both a client and a Business Partner are speaking in a session, both speakers will receive the waiver.