Impact 2012 Programs, Tracks and Topics

The Impact 2012 Global Conference April 29 - May 4 in Las Vegas prepares Business and IT professionals with the knowledge to create better business results and succeed.

IT professionals can learn the latest technology trends and quickly build skills in WebSphere, BPM, SOA and Cloud solutions through the Technology program. Business professionals can gain insight into new business strategies and best practices, and build leadership skills through the Forbes Business Leadership Forum.

Impact 2012 also presents extensive learning opportunities in exploiting cloud computing, improving marketing performance, and increasing agility in specific industries. You can come away with the expertise to help advance your career and advance your organization's ability to improve business outcomes and grow.

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Technology Program

Impact 2012An extensive Technology Program at Impact 2012 offers over 500 sessions, including implementation success stories, lectures, workshops, hands-on labs and networking opportunities. Sharpen your BPM, SOA, WebSphere, cloud and mobile skills and earn certifications on the spot. Learn proven IT strategies that you can apply right away and build on in the future. Interact with some of the IT world's most renowned Chief Architects and engineers. Stop by the Product Technology Center to take advantage of self-paced labs and to have your questions answered by the experts. The wide selection of topics in the Technology Program ensures that Impact will have the information you need to overcome your most critical IT challenges.

Technology Tracks

  • Current Trends and Future Directions in Technology
  • Application Infrastructure
  • Application Development
  • SOA, Connectivity & Integration
  • BPM and Decision Management
  • Implementing Industry Solutions for Improved ROI

Detailed view of the Technology program track and sub-track descriptions

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Forbes Business Leadership Forum

Impact 2012The Forbes Business Leadership Forum will offer over forty sessions for business leaders who are looking to Transform, Innovate and Grow their business despite uncertainty, increasing complexity, and rapid change. Sessions will explore breakthrough information technologies (IT) that will help business achieve success through smarter operational decision making and more agile processes. Attendees will discover ways to join the Social Business Revolution by harnessing the collective power of online communities and social interaction to drive real business outcomes. Learn how mobile applications are shaping the future of the enterprise and how businesses are building Smarter Infrastructure to accelerate application delivery and manage information securely. Industry peers will reveal how they are utilizing IT for business process and operational decision management to gain a competitive edge and to increase customer centricity while reducing business and IT costs. Additionally, business leaders can attend visionary leadership sessions that will explore ways for their enterprises to surge ahead of the competition with new insights, including Cloud technologies.

Business Tracks

  • Drive Changes, Create Opportunities
  • Multiply Business Success with Breakthrough Technologies
  • Business Agility Industry Outcomes
  • Forward Thinking Leadership

Detailed view of the Business forum track descriptions and keynote speakers

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The Goo Goo Dolls Perform at Impact

This year's Impact special event gives you the chance to network, make connections and hear a special performance by the Grammy-nominated Goo Goo Dolls. This chart-topping band has received 4 Grammy nominations, charted 13 consecutive top 10 multi-format hit songs, and sold over 10 million albums. Make sure to take advantage of this opportunity to connect with clients and colleagues, and don't miss out on what is sure to be an inspired performance.

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Impact 2012Developer Unconference -- The WebSphere Unconference at Impact 2012 offers attending developers and IT professionals the opportunity to set the agenda. You will be able to submit and vote on the topics you want to discuss--online and onsite. Network with your peers, share best practices and participate in thought provoking discussions on the issues that matter to you most. Attend the Unconference and let your voice be heard.

Help set the agenda - Learn more and submit a topic that you want to present

Join the Conversation
The NEW Impact Social Playground is an exciting social hub that will bring together all the social movers and shakers. Located in the Solution Center, the Impact Social Playground will provide enhanced social networking facilities for all Attendees, Business Partners, Tweeps, Bloggers, Analysts and Media.

Network. Listen. Engage. Learn more about the Impact Social Playground and catch the social buzz!

Industry Solutions

Impact continues to bring you the best of industry expertise and stories. The Forbes Business Leadership Forum offers select sessions that explore unique success stories from the business standpoint – and results that have made all the difference. The Technology program offers an 'Implementing Industry Solutions for Improved ROI' track, presenting deep-dives on technology through the eyes of industry experts.

Learn more about the Industry solutions represented at Impact 2012

Mobile Computing

Extending enterprise applications to mobile devices is increasingly becoming a priority for all organizations. Creating a robust, scalable, secure and responsive mobile solution requires many different technologies working in concert. The IBM Mobile Platform can deliver the needed security, scalability and functionality in simple and easily implemented steps while providing cross-platform capabilities and tools for mobile application development, supporting infrastructure for mobile applications, and integrated application management for iterative development and deployment.

  • Attend sessions at Impact 2012 and visit the Solution Center to learn more!

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Impact 2012. Featured Speaker. Walter Isaacson. Don McMilan. Katie Linedoll. Jane McGonigal

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Technology Program. Developers. IT ProfessionalsExplore a rich array of tracks: Discuss the latest technology trends and quickly build skills in WebSphere, BPM, SOA and Cloud solutions.

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Goo Goo Dolls

Performing at IBM Impact - May 1, 2012

The GOO GOO DOLLS have become one of the most globally respected and influential forces in popular music history, selling more than 10 million albums worldwide.

They had an unprecedented string of 13 Number One and Top Ten multi-format hit singles including "Name," "Slide," Black Balloon," Broadway," "Here Is Gone," "Big Machine," "Sympathy," "Stay With You," "Before It's Too Late," "Jim's Theme" (Treasure Planet)," and "Better Days," which, due to its uplifting lyrical spirit, was adopted by CNN as an music bed anthem of sorts for the news channel's Hurricane Katrina recovery coverage. "Iris," from the City Of Angels soundtrack, spent nearly 12 straight months on the Billboard charts and held the Number One position for 17 consecutive weeks. By that point, sales of the soundtrack exceeded a phenomenal 10 million copies worldwide. The first single from their current album SOMETHING FOR THE REST OF IS, "Home" extended the band's record to14 top ten hits at the hot AC radio format, more than any other artist.

Between the years 1987 and 2009, the band have toured the globe countless times, performed in front of millions of fans, received numerous awards (including four Grammy Award nominations), recorded and released nine studio albums, a compilation, a live DVD, and Volume One of their Greatest Hits. Volume Two (a box set of rarities, B-sides, demos, videos, and concert performances) was released Summer of 2008. The Goo Goo Dolls, have appeared and performed on nearly every influential late-night talk show over the course of their career, including sixteen performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and nine performances on The Late Late Show with David Letterman to date.

On June 19th, 2008 at a ceremony in New York City, the band's singer and principal songwriter John Rzeznik was named that year's recipient of the Hal David Starlight Songwriter Award. Past recipients of the prestigious award include: Rob Thomas, Alicia Keys, John Mayer and John Legend.

The Goo Goo Dolls are:

  • John Rzeznik – Guitar and Vocals
  • Robby Takac – Bass and Vocals
  • Mike Malinin – Drums and Percussion

DISCOGRAPHY

  • 1987 – Goo Goo Dolls
  • 1989 – Jed
  • 1990 – Hold Me Up
  • 1993 – Superstar Car Wash
  • 1995 – A Boy Named Goo
  • 1998 – Dizzy Up the Girl
  • 2001 – What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art and Performance
  • 2002 – Gutterflower
  • 2004 – Live in Buffalo
  • 2006 – Let Love In
  • 2007 – Greatest Hits Vol. 1 – The Singles
  • 2008 – Greatest Hits Vol. 2
  • 2010 – Something for the Rest of Us

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