The New PartnerWorld, Now Called BPLC: Issues and Housekeeping

What we used to know as PartnerWorld is now the Business Partner Leadership Conference or BPLC.  It is roughly half the show as TPTB are concentrating on the relationships that we can mutually nurture at a conference event.  On the side, PW turned out to be a week long extraction from work that took huge chunks of time to plan for on both the partner and IBM side, so file this in the realm of more reasonable.

Why this year is important is that Sam Palmisano will be there to keynote.  It doesn’t happen every year and it is always interesting to hear what he has to say.  We haven’t had our weekly 1:1 update for him to give me his speaking points so I can’t blog them yet.  I’ll be giving him my usual advice on running the company when we meet over coffee as always.

What is happening ?  First the housekeeping:

The tag is IBMbplc08

The Twitter hashtag is #IBMbplc08

Next, the order of events.  Today is the Express Advantage analyst call.  Thursday is the BPLC announcement call for analysts.  You should have received an invite for both.

There has been an unusual amount of interest in Live blogging the Keynote events, so I’ll be doing that.

The event starts on the 29th mid-day, running through the 2nd of May at Lunch.  The emphasis will be the executives meeting with the partners rather than a trade show atmosphere.  Get business done!

So look for updates as I blog and twitter my way through the show.