After 5 years, more than 3600 participants, 150 speakers, 50 stories told by the very same voice of those implementing them, we are here again working hard to make this conference even better and to keep it grow steadily as the leading European event on Social Business.

Save two dates for this 5th edition, June 4th and 5th, in Italy again to double top-quality content, networking opportunities and, why not, italian fun together with global pioneers and the most advanced projects in the areas of Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM and Collaborative Innovation.

While the number of local and international speakers will grow significantly in the next few weeks, at the Marriott hotel in Milan you will sure meet the thought leaders that are proving how companies can reap measurable business benefits leveraging collaboration with the entire company’s ecosystem of employees, clients, partners and suppliers.

Among the many confirmed speakers for the first time at a Social Business event in Italy:

• John Hagel - Co-Chairman at the Center for the Edge of Deloitte & Touche, author of the Shift Index and of The Power of Pull among the most profound resources to understand where business will be heading in the next decade or so.
• Frank Eliason - SVP Social Media at CitiGroup also named Mr.@YourService, the man who guided @Comcastcares reinventing through social channels, in less than 3 years, the Customer service at one of the largest provider in the USA
• Steve Denning - Independent management consultant and author of The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management where he describes how to rethink the future and inner working of organizations through a totally new mental model for managers
• Ray Wang - CEO and Principal Analyst at the Constellation Research Group. Former co-founder at Altimeter and VP at Forrester Research. Ray is one of the global authorities regarding the application of new technologies and business models to the strategy and role of senior managers in large organizations
• John Stepper - MD Collaboration and Social Media at Deutsche Bank or the manager who is changing the work behavior of 100K colleagues in a bank fonded in 1870 through collaboration and communities of practice with saving in the million of dollars. Other than being a reference for the banking world, his blog is a constant inspiration for those managers willing to humanize and make more profitable their organizations
• Ram Menon - President Social Computing at Tibco Software, one of the largest companies devoted to enterprise application integration now looking forward to help their clients not just to make their systems communicate with each other but especially to enable a social integration between human beings, communities and enterprise business processes
• Rawn Shah - Social Business Strategist at IBM, blogger on the Connected Business at Forbes.com and author of 7 books included the recent Social Networking for Business

Well, the list is much longer that this. Among the first hand experiences, Deutsche Bank will be joined by:

• British Telecom regarding Social CRM with Bian Salins (Head of Social Media Innovation in Customer Service)
• Alcatel Lucent regarding collaborative intranets with Jerome Colombe (Head of Web Governance)
• Pernod Ricard regarding an engagement, participation and cultural change journey guided by Judith Matharan (Internal Communication and Digital Manager)

Among the european and american experts that will multiply the value of our agenda, you cannot miss:

• Mark Tamis and Esteban Kolsky, thought leaders in the Social CRM area
• Sameer Patel social business thinkers and manage, now Global VP Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software at SAP
• Luis Suarez that shouldn’t need any introduction but that, through his evangelization mission and his Thinking out the Inbox experiment, proved how to work more efficiently thanks to social platforms to nearly 300K colleagues in IBM
• Oscar Berg among the most interesting emerging voices in Europe when you think knowledge management, organizational evolution and intranets

While we wait for the agenda and other friends to gradually join us, starting from today registrations are open. Again this year you will be able to follow a good piece of the content (Keynotes, Open Conference and Expo Pavillion) for free by registering online while we still have space left.

For those that instead don’t want to miss any conversation including the most relevant international success stories, vertical discussion panels, the vision of leading global thinkers… this year we have a surprise!

For 10 days only, you can get access to any content over two days of conference (coffee break and lunch included) at the crazy price of 200 Euros. We are paying also for VAT!

Don’t miss this unique opportunity and Register now!

After the first 10 days, this special offer will be over but please stay in touch with us to be informed about other opportunities and updates through this blog and our Twitter account @socialbizforum.

We are looking forward to meet all of you in June!