Tag: Sandy Carter

Using social media is a requirement in today’s business climate, so it will be one of the focuses on the 6th Webit Global Congress. Sandy Carter, the author of ‘Be Bold!’ and General Manager, IBM Ecosystems and Social Business Evangelism at IBM is one of the lectors who will discuss the topic Social media.

A recognized leader in social business, Sandy is responsible for IBM’s worldwide focus on building ecosystems around the core growth areas of social, mobile, cloud, big data and analytics. She is an award-winning author of three books, including best-selling “Get Bold”, and has received numerous social media awards: “Top 10 in Social Media" by Altimeter Group, "Top 50 Social Business Influencers" by Biz Imagined Group (UK), "Brand Leader of the Year" from the World Brand Congress, #1 Social Influencer at 2014 IBM Pulse Cloud conference, and one of the "Most Powerful Women in Technology” by CNN Magazine and Fast Company.

Sandy describes herself as a very execution focused person with innovation and creativity driving her focus areas.

The book ‘Get bold!’ offers a systematic approach to creating and implementing an effective and successful social media strategy for your business. Using the author’s “AGENDA” you can boldly take your business forward. What is that agenda?

A - Aligning your goals and culture to be ready to become more engaging and transparent.

G – “Gain Friends through Social Trust” focuses on finding your fans, friends and followers, and forming best friends from your tippers or most influential clients or outside parties.

E – Engage through experiences focuses on how a company can engage its clients and employees and dives into gaming, virtual gifting, location based, mobile, or other stellar experiences to drive that engagement.

N – Network your processes. Since this is about business, figuring out how to add social to your processes is critical.

D – Design for Reputation and Risk Management! This is the #1 areas of focus for the C level — managing the risk of having your brand online

A – Analyze your data! Social analytics are the new black!

You can learn a lot from Sandy Carter about Social and the 6th edition of Webit Global Congress is the perfect moment. Book your tickets with early bird prices now.

Internet of Things (IoT) is changing our world. We are moving to a new age of connected devices. We are living in a new connected world. Not only smart devices like smartphones and tablets are getting connected but many others in our everyday lives. They are changing industries as we know them. Automotive, Health, Energy, Connected homes? Just a few of the sectors where we are seeing lots of change. The big players Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, CISCO and many others are making alliances, acquiring new companies and creating new teams involved with IoT. Why are they doing this? Why are they spending millions of dollars ? Because IoT is hot, very hot future trend. We realise this and that is why the hot topic, Internet of Things (IoT) will be highlighted at the Global Webit Congress. IoT is the internet beyond PCs, tablets and smartphones: the internet of devices that have embedded technology to sense either their internal states or the external environment. The Internet of Things (IoT) — or machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, as it is also known — is set to boom over this decade. More things are connecting to the Internet than people. According to Cisco there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020.     According to IT research agency, International Data Corporation (IDC) the Internet of Things IoT market is expected to grow by more than $5 trillion over the next six years, According to IDC's study, the worldwide IoT install base will see a compound annual growth rate of 17.5 percent from 2013 to 2020, and will encompass billions of connected devices in the world of what IDC calls "third platform" technologies.  Expectations are that the Internet of Things (IoT) computing phase is the next industrial revolution. Want to hear more about the state of IoT and future trends and developments? Join as at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit. Key players from companies like IBM, Qualcomm,  Telemost/evercam.io, Concirrus,  and many others will be at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit discussing IoT. Sandy Carter from IBM, Ben Medlock from SwiftKey, Jason Ball from Qualcomm,  Craig Hollingworth and Andrew Yeoman from Concirrus and many other tech leaders will be there. Interested in the future of Internet of Things (IoT)? Then hurry up and get your ticket now!