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 |
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5:00 - 6:00 PM | BigMachines Yellow Belt Certification Testing
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6:00 - 10:00 PM | Welcome Reception & Cocktail Party at Swissotel Dinner, Drinks & DJ Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations |
Monday October 24 |
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7:30 - 8:30 AM
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8:30 - 10:00 AM | Opening Keynote - Driving Customer Success with BigMachines 12 David Bonnette, President of BigMachines And Special Guests |
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10:00 - 10:30 AM | 60-Second Selling
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10:30 - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations |
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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. |
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NOON - 1:30 PM |
Lunch Meet & Greet Kaihan Krippendorff Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations |
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1:30 - 2:20PM |
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2:30 - 3:20 PM |
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3:30 - 4:20 PM |
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4:30 - 5:15 PM |
BigMachines Development and Innovation Roadmap Tim Handorf, VP Product Management, BigMachines |
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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 |
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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 |
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Tuesday October 25 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM | BigMachines Yellow Belt Certification Testing
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8:00 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast Sponsor Expo & BigMachines Resource Stations |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Third Annual Customer Innovation Awards
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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 |
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10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Coffee Break
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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 |
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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 |
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1:30 - 2:20 PM |
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2:30 - 3:20 PM |
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3:30 - 4:20 PM |
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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 |
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