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BigIdeas Chicago 2011 offered a wide variety of session topics,
all focused on helping your company grow sales and streamline processes. Whether you are an experienced BigMachines user, a new user, or have never used BigMachines at all, there were a variety of interesting sessions tailored for various needs.

If you are a business user, an executive or a BigMachines administrator, you found presentations, panel discussions, and roundtables where you could learn best practices to help your business sell more and sell faster. The full conference agenda from 2011 is listed below:

Sunday October 23
5:00 - 6:00 PM
BigMachines Yellow Belt Certification Testing
6:00 - 10:00 PM
Welcome Reception & Cocktail Party at Swissotel
Dinner, Drinks & DJ
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
Monday October 24
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Opening Keynote - Driving Customer Success with BigMachines 12
David Bonnette, President of BigMachines And Special Guests
10:00 - 10:30 AM
60-Second Selling
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
11:00 AM - NOON
Outthink the Competition
"Outthinkers" are entrepreneurs and corporate managers with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and during such revolutions, outthinkers beat traditionalists. Learn how to outthink your competition.

Speaker: Kaihan Krippendorff, journalist (Fast Company, Business Week, Harvard Business Review), author, strategist, and former consultant with McKinsey & Co.
NOON - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Meet & Greet Kaihan Krippendorff
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
1:30 - 2:20PM
Solution Showcase
Solution Showcase
Customer Spotlight
BigMachines 12 Hands-on Training

HOW TO LEVERAGE CLOUD INTEGRATION TO TURBOCHARGE BIGMACHINES

Presentation will include overview and value proposition of WebSphere Cast Iron for BigMachines, and customer case studies.

SOCIAL SELLING: RISING ABOVE THE NOISE TO GET AN INSIDE EDGE

Social media is changing how customers interact with enterprises and how they buy. Customer's social media conversations with peers are creating Big Data. For marketing and sales reps, making sense of all of this data is overwhelming. Learn from an InsideView customer who is driving marketing and sales performance using social selling.

BOOST YOUR CHANNEL ROI

Best practices for implementing BigMachines across all your sales channels. Learn how to implement discount management and drive better results with your channel partners, VARs and distributors. Hear from Enterasys about using BigMachines and Channelinsight to deliver channel sales success.

IMPLEMENTING THE NEW CONFIGURATION PAGES (FOR BEGINNERS)

2:30 - 3:20 PM

WHAT IS YOUR BIGIDEA?

Join us for a product roadmap and brainstorming discussion moderated by the BigMachines Product Management Team.

NEXT STEPS FOR BIGMACHINES CUSTOMERS

Now that BigMachines is running, what's next? What should I add? When should I upgrade? Participate in discussions to learn how to plan a roadmap to rollout additional features.

FROM QUOTES TO COMP

Automation is allowing companies to sell more with less work. Software can motivate sales teams by providing real-time insight into commissions, reduce errors by calculating compensation, and standardize sales quotes. Learn how to best use these tools to move sales with Acme Packet's Tony Murphy, as he shares his experience with automation and seamless integration - including BigMachines and Xactly.

IMPLEMENTING THE NEW CONFIGURATION PAGES
(FOR ADVANCED USERS)

3:30 - 4:20 PM

SCALING BIGMACHINES FOR THE ENTERPRISE

How to achieve optimum performance of BigMachines in the enterprise. Learn what really works and what to avoid.

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF OPTIMIZING PRICE IN CONFIGURED PRODUCTS: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE METRICS

Many companies who sell configured products hear time and time again that they can't optimize price because every product is unique. By using the right metrics, however, any configured products company can improve price.

MANAGING RENEWALS & ADD-ONS

Learn how Ipswitch, a leading IT software company, uses BigMachines to offer asset-based renewals, upgrades and add-ons, in addition to providing a superior user experience for both external customers and internal sales teams.

WHATS NEW IN THE BIGMACHINES DOCUMENT ENGINE

4:30 - 5:15 PM
BigMachines Development and Innovation Roadmap
Tim Handorf, VP Product Management, BigMachines
5:15 - 6:45 PM
Cocktail Reception
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
Join the Blues Walk
depart from Swissotel at 6:45 for a short walk or trolley ride to House of Blues Chicago

7:00 - 11:00 PM
BigIdeas Sweet Home Chicago
Celebrating Customer Success at  House of Blues Chicago with dinner, drinks, and dancing, featuring a live performance by Chicago’s own Blooze Brothers band

Tuesday October 25
7:00 - 8:00 AM
BigMachines Yellow Belt Certification Testing
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Breakfast
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Third Annual Customer Innovation Awards
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Why Downturns Break Sales Orgs (And What To Do About It)
Historically, S&P 500 companies have missed their numbers 81% of the time! Ironically, today's sales teams may be stumbling due to strategies that contributed to past success. Insightful sales leaders understand that sales organizations built during boom times often break when the economy stalls. More importantly, they know how to retool their teams to achieve sustained growth. These leaders teach three important lessons that allow sales to deliver strong results, even when times are tough.

Speaker: Justin Shriber, Regional Vice President, Oracle SaaS Applications Group
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Selling Enterprise + Social Enterprise = LIKE
CPQ has always been a key way to getting the most out of Salesforce and powering your sales process. Now, your employees, customer and even products are more social than ever. Learn from customers' successes how BigMachines plus the full suite of salesforce.com applications and a Social Enterprise approach can improve your sales results - and your bottom line - fast!

Peter Gaylord, Director of Product Marketing, Sales Cloud, salesforce.com
11:30 - NOON
Managing Your Growing Network of Cloud Apps
How can you make everyone happy and secure -- IT, end-users, business executives -- while running many of your apps on the cloud, including BigMachines, salesforce.com, WebEx, DocuSign & more...

Speaker: Frederic Kerrest, President & Co-Founder, Okta
NOON - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations
1:30 - 2:20 PM
Solution Showcase
Solution Showcase
Customer Spotlight
BigMachines 12 Hands-on Training

TECHNICAL BEST PRACTICES

Learn technical best practices from the BigMachines Center of Excellence Team for items that are commonly requested by BigMachines customers. Don't reinvent the wheel - learn from our collective expertise and experience.

HOW TO EXTEND ACTIVE DIRECTORY TO BIGMACHINES & SALESFORCE.COM

This hands on session will show step-by-step integration of Active Directory to BigMachines and salesforce.com for single sign-on, automated-user management and multi-factor authentication

EXPANDING INTO THE ECOMMERCE SALES CHANNEL

You can buy just about anything on the web. What about YOUR products or services? Quincy Compressor will share their experiences about using BigMachines to deliver an eCommerce platform that offers self-service directly to their customers.

MIGRATION MANAGEMENT IN BIGMACHINES 12

2:30 - 3:20 PM

CUSTOMER SUPPORT LIFECYCLE

Learn how BigMachines supports customers long after the purchase and implementation including auto-upgrades, enhanced hosting, online Support Center, and more. Using salesforce.com as a delivery platform, BigMachines provides 24/7 customer access.

WIN MORE...MAKE MORE: DISCOVER THE SECRET TO PRICE OPTIMIZATION

In today's highly complex market, how you price your offerings can be a distinct competitive advantage... or disadvantage. Learn how scientific segmentation can help you group unique products and services together according to their similarities and also uncover the market's willingness-to-pay, giving you the advantage you need to outperform the competition.

DRIVING ADOPTION WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION

To get the greatest value from BigMachines software, it must be widely adopted within your organization. Hear about adoption best practices from Brocade and Quincy Compressor. Learn how these companies have increased productivity by promoting use of BigMachines throughout their organizations.

WHAT'S NEW IN CONFIGURATION RULES

3:30 - 4:20 PM

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Back by popular demand! Learn tips to improve the user experience and develop a sexy BigMachines interface based on proven design and UX principles.

ANAYLZE THIS! GAINING VALUABLE INSIGHTS FROM REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

Learn how to get full visibility into your sales processes and channels. With better information, you can improve quote management, forecasting, and product management.

KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL BIGMACHINES IMPLEMENTATION

Based on more than 10 years of experience, we have developed the BigMachines Implementation Framework to help you achieve success quickly. Hear from TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) who recently implemented BigMachines as they share best practices to help you achieve your implementation goals quickly and efficiently.

USING BIGMACHINES 12 COMMERCE RULES

4:30 - 5:30 PM
Closing Keynote
Future Roadmap Summary Based on Conference Input
David Bonnette, President, BigMachines
Tim Handorf, VP of Product Management, BigMachines

Blue Belt Training Classes will be held downtown Chicago following BigIdeas on Wednesday, October 26 and Thursday, October 27. Learn more about Training