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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://rational-ug.org/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Conferences and Seminars</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/4.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>6.x Production</generator><item><title>IBM Innovate 2013</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/362.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:362</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12px;"&gt;Innovate 2013: The IBM Technical Summit provides the insights you need to stay ahead. Join Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-size:12px;"&gt;The Lean Startup&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;author Eric Ries, and TV producer and tech host Katie Linendoll and learn how you can:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the major trends revolutionizing system and software delivery across the DevOps lifecycle: Cloud, Mobile, Social, Big Data, Smarter products, Agility, and Analytics&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the competition, increasing customer demands, and rapidly shifting team dynamics.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;in your own career path by getting technical and business knowledge you can put to use today, straight from the source--your peers--as well as our clients, Business Partners, and team of IBM experts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With over 450 outcome-driven sessions, a cutting-edge Expo, labs, certifications and evening entertainment including a night at Disney&amp;#39;s Animal Kingdom, this five-day event promises to be&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;THE&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;technical education event of the year for software and product practitioners. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/innovate/" target="_blank"&gt;Register today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Innovate Session: Unleashing the Power of the Global Rational User Community</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/363.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:363</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Innovate Solution Center Pedestal: Community website demos, user group &amp; membership information </title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/365.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:365</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Innovate Client Connections Lounge – open to all GRUC/user group members</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/366.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:366</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Innovate Session: Corporate User Group Information / Q&amp;A</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/364.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:364</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Corporate User Group Information / Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Global Rational User Community (GRUC) brings together over 100 local and virtual Rational user groups representing some 15,000 members who share best practices, improve their Rational skills and learn about innovative new tool usage. But did you know the Community now hosts corporate user groups as well? Learn how your organization can use the Community&amp;rsquo;s robust social and sharing capabilities to get the most out of your Rational software investment through education, communications and rich content, real world content. Complete privacy, security and administrative controls are built in and all delivered at no cost to Rational clients. Come to this session for details or visit &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/4/e/add.aspx/rational-ug.org/crugs" target="_blank"&gt;rational-ug.org/crugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to initiate your corporate user group now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Presentation Outline&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What is the Global Rational User Community?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;About corporate user groups&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Key features and activities available to corporate user groups&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Privacy, security and administrative controls&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Next steps: how to set up your corporate user group&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Questions &amp;amp; answers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Speaker Profiles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/members/carson.holmes_4000_gmail.com/default.aspx"&gt;Carson Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/members/julian_4000_upmentors.com/default.aspx"&gt;Julian Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rod Baptie, President &amp;amp; Founder - Baptie &amp;amp; Co.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julie Jordan,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;Community Collaborations Manager -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rational User Community/IBM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Innovate Client Connections Lounge – open to all GRUC/user group members</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/367.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:367</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Innovate Client Connections Lounge – open to all GRUC/user group members</title><link>http://rational-ug.org/events/conferences-and-seminars/c/e/368.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">791ebe7a-010e-46b6-86b5-b0b4ea32e0ac:368</guid><dc:creator>Danny Taylor</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>