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GSE Management Summit, 10-11 October 2011, Madrid ES
A diploma was presented to Fred Stefan, the Grand Prize winner of the 1st GSE Academic Award for Excellence. Left to right, Ms. Kathy Pfeiffer, IBM Academic Initiative System z Program Manager, Mr. Fred Stefan, and Mr. Tom Lund, GSE President	This year's GSE Management Summit took place on 10-11 October in Madrid with a high number of participants from the Spanish Region. The conference was opened by the GSE President, Mr. Tom Lund, Mrs. Angel Moreu, Director of Mainframe Business, IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel, and Prof. Dr. Felix Garcia-Merayo, Region Manager Spain, GUIDE SHARE EUROPE. With this event entitled “Business Advantage with Smarter Computing and Social Media”, GSE built upon last year’s highly successful presentations on Cloud Computing, and made available to the participants IBM’s “Smarter Computing”, introducing the next era of IT in tackling Big Data, optimizing systems and even more advances in Cloud Computing. GSE also took time to focus on social media, a phenomenon which has proved not only to be a means of contact, but also an accepted channel for communicating and marketing business. The Grand Prize winner of the 1st GSE Academic Award for Excellence, Fred Stefan, a student studying for his doctorate at the Universiy of Leipzig, was invited to Madrid to present his winning project "Lightweight And Minimally-Invasive Concepts For Smarter Integration".
GUIDE Executive Club, 11-12 April 2011, Rome IT
	With an ever-watchful eye on IT trends, and a hearty congratulations from our organisation GUIDE SHARE EUROPE (GSE) to IBM as the company celebrates its fantastic and historically paramount Centennial, the GUIDE Executive Club was pleased to present the theme “Future Business Needs – How to React”. This 1,5-day event offers the participants invaluable information and advice centred around the Information Agenda approach. Fellow business executives, decision makers and expert speakers from GSE, IBM, Gartner and customers joined this prized opportunity to share their experience and expertise, to meet colleagues and discuss issues directly with participants. Mr. Giovanni Linzi, General Manager Sales, IBM Italy, was the IBM keynote speaker. The GSE President, Tom Lund, congratulated IBM on its centennial at the opening. the Conference Dinner was held at the Restaurant L'Olimpo in the Hotel Bernini Bristol, offering a panoramic view of Rome.
Euroepan Operations Technical Conference (EOTC), 04-08 April 2011, Böblingen DE
The European Operations Technical Conference was held in Böblingen from 4-8 April 2011. A total of 115 attendees participated in this event, although 80 seats were available. Much information was exchanged during the presentations, the workshops, the breaks and also during the evening social events. The overall feedback and satisfaction index surpassed those of last year's event, with event content even more target-oriented. Next year's EOTC is planned for 7-11 May.