The next pre-Lotusphere event will be BLUG. The Belux Lotus User Group is proud to deliver a 2 days event on March 31st and April 1st in Antwerp, Belgium.

The speaker list is impressive and so is the agenda.

If you not have registered yet, do it right NOW –> register here

I will also do a talk about the History of Lotus Notes. Hope the IBM inquisition will not punish me for saying LOTUS 🙂

Here is the session abstract.

When Plato Left The Cave – A brief history of Lotus Notes

Jump back in time to 1974. In a Harvard dormitory, Bill Gates, future cofounder of Microsoft, is goofing off playing poker and pinball. Over in India, Steve Jobs, future cofounder of Apple, has shaved his head and is wandering around seeking enlightenment. Out in Hawaii, Steve Case, future cofounder and head of AOL Time Warner, is busy writing album reviews for his Honolulu high school newspaper. While these future billionaire CEOs of Internet-industry behemoths are busy enjoying their last teenage years, at a university town in Illinois the ‘Net’ has already arrived. Indeed: it’s in full swing!
In the following years the germ cell of Lotus Notes began to grow and to evolve to the world’s leading groupware application.
Follow the timeline from the past to present in the history of Lotus Notes / Domino.

Hope to see you there. Did I mention that this is a FREE event?