Welcome to the launch of the IBM Champion Expertise presentations. As a reminder, our idea is to have one or more great presentations and surrounding content to showcase the expertise of our IBM Champions on a particular topic each month. Our topic for January is “2018 Futures and Technology.”

Launching the Champion Expertise Presentations

Since this is the first month, Gab Davis, one of our Lifetime IBM Champions, is kicking off the presentations with this session on containerization and virtualization, a topic she thinks you'll need to be better-versed on as 2018 goes on.

You'll learn a bit about the topic at a high level and then some admin-specific considerations around storage, security, and backups. What a great introduction not only to the topic but also to this new feature being launched by the IBM Champion community.

Watch Gab's short session on Containerization vs Virtualization.

More on 2018 Futures

We encourage those Champions (and our readers!) who aren't creating a presentation on a particular topic to get into the conversation by adding blogs and comments. Karl-Henry Martinsson shares some of his thoughts on the topic in his blog, including thoughts on the near future of Docker and IoT.

You may see some additional blogs or sessions added as the month goes on. Do you prefer to see sessions all month or that we gather them up for a one-day blitz? We'd love to have your feedback (comment below)!

February is Security Month

Our IBM Champion Expertise Presentations in February will be on Security. Tune in here by mid-February for a preview of what sessions to expect and then we'll make them live around 20 February.