Spring ISI Day Tradition and Future

Following our tradition, IBM Belgium and COMMON Belgium organize an autumn iSi Day every year. It consists of System i Innovation, Recent Technical Trends and Marketing. It will be repeated this year also in September. In addition to it, since last year we have started a spring iSi day. It aims to increase networking amongst customers, business partners and IBM and simultaneously to keep you abreast of IT strategy for future. We invite you on 23 May in the Beer Museum of the Brewers' House at the prestigious Grote Markt/Grand' Place in Brussels. We have also reserved free parking at the Interparking Grand' Place. The speakers of the day will be Mr. Bart Van Den Meersche (CGM, IBM Belgium) and Mr. Stef Knaepkens (Managing Partner, Kite Consultants).


10.00-11.45 - First contact at BP/ISV/Consultant premises or IBM and COMMON reception at the Brewers' House, presentations and/or products demonstrations and networking.

11.45-12.30 - Move to the Brewers' House located at Grote Markt/Grand'Place in Brussels, transfer organized by the BP/ISV individual car or by group.
IBM and COMMON reception at the Brewers' House.
(Entry badges)

12.30 - 13.40 Welcome Appetizer & IBM Presentations Speakers :
- Bart Van Den Meersche (CGM, IBM Belgium)
IBM strategy for future,
- Stef Knaepkens* (Managing Partner, Kite Consulting)
Selective outsourcing**

13.40-15.00 Wine, beer Degustation and lunch

15.00-16.00 Beer Museum visit individual or by group according to each BP/ISV

Each attendee will receive a gift at closing. This is our way of saying Thank You.

* Stef Knaepkens is Managing Partner of Kite Consultants NV, a management consulting firm specializing in strategy implementation. He has over 20 years management and consulting experience. He assisted in a number of outsourcing and insourcing projects in Belgium and abroad. Stef holds an engineering and MBA degree.
** For many organizations, key supporting functions such as IT, HR and Finance are traditionally governed and executed by internal staff, but many organizations are faced with the limitations of this model. Fast growth, mergers, technology changes, skill shortage, high costs and investments or lacking flexibility are amongst the reasons for organizations to consider outsourcing. Outsourcing, however is no magical solution and introduces other challenges, both for organizations that receive the service and for the providers. This speech will provide an overview of the most recent management models and techniques that foster (out)sourcing success.

Clients and prospects are invited by the different BP/ISVs, for those clients who don't have a direct contact with a BP/ISV, the IBM team (Danny Van Daele) will assume a direct contact and general presentation directly at the Brewers' House premises.
Each BP/ISV has the possibility to contact his different clients and/or prospects to invite them at this event. The enrollment will be made by each BP/ISV.
For the security aspects, in the Brewers' House, a general consolidated enrollment list will be made by COMMON based on each BP/ISV enrollment lists. An entry badge will be foreseen at the Brewers' House.
COMMON Belgium will organize his website to give a link to each interested BP/ISV for enrollment purposes.
Bart Van Den Meersche and the IBM Belgium System i team support this event. A general IBM e-mailing will be sent to the all System i clients database to announce this event.