<p>The IBM Connect 2014 conference is coming up next month January 26-30 in Orlando, Florida. For many years this conference was known as Lotusphere, but that changed last year shortly after IBM dropped the Lotus brand. Although the name of the event has changed, the emphasis remains the same. This is all about collaborative software, with a big dose of social media, plus mobile and cloud computing.</p><p>Less publicized but still a significant portion of the event is geared toward Notes/Domino development skills, certification testing, and product roadmap insights that include the business partners as well as IBM.</p><p>Traditionally, Lotusphere was known as a technical love fest, and it continues to offer hundreds of technical sessions that focus on creating new applications, updating existing applications, delivering a mobile experience, and including perspectives of on premise and in the cloud. Domino and Domino Designer 9.x education will concentrate on features for building Web and mobile applications with XPages, improvements for making applications social, and an examination of new APIs.</p><p>But in recent years the education at this conference has broadened the educational opportunities to include business-oriented best practices and business value topics. The speaker list still features the top IBM developers and researches, but also includes business process experts and strategists. The agenda includes 10 educational tracks featuring topics such as: social business, smarter workforce, application development, and infrastructure. A full session preview is available online.</p><p><a href="http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh121613-story09.html">Keep reading...</a></p>