Nominations are NOW Open The nomination period for IBM Champions will run from 17 September through 22 October this year. Yes, it's a bit earlier. We are trying to ensure that newly selected IBM Champions will have the opportunity to get to Think with the Champion discount. Wan to re-nominate yourself or nominate a colleague or community member? Tell us about your activity that advocates for IBM and supports the community.   Nominate an IBM Champion Today   What is the IBM Champions program? I think most of those reading this blog... [More]

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IBM Champions are experts in the technologies they support, build with, and use. For this month's Champion Expertise presentations, we asked Champions to share a feature they love about the tech they work with. Start with Power Enterprise Pools POWER Enterprise Pools : Real example of building the cost-efficient infrastructure with HA/DR for the less money. Learn about PEP  from Dimitry Mironov - not a brand-new technology, but it's a very important one. Catch up with Cognos If you've fallen behind on the... [More]

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IBM Champion Kenio Carvalho has taken the Champion Expertise presentation challenge and created a short overview of NodeRed and Watson APIs. Kenio's presentation will get you started so you can quickly create an application that uses NodeRed and Watson APIs. You'll learn about NodeRed's flow-based programming and its architecture as well as the types of Watson APIs that are available. When you combine NodeRed and Watson APIs, you can integrate Watson with IoT applications among other applications.... [More]

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One of the things I've noticed working with the IBM Champions is that they are always so busy supporting the community! In just an hour this afternoon, I skimmed through the #ibmchampion hashtag on Twitter and in one quick look I see: Tanmay Bakshi was on stage speaking on the role of AI in the enterprise . John Jardin and Paul Withers are joining IBM and HCL for an hour-long deep dive on Node.js and Domino v10 Essentials... [More]

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Some concepts make sense to us right away, and some take longer. When I used to teach technology (or any of the other things I've taught from swimming, to writing, to project management) one of the best ways to succeed was always finding that simple key analogy that unlocked the concept. From there, all the steps and processes might take time to learn, but they were accessible, understandable. Blockchain is one of those new technology areas that has some folks head-scratchin'. And even once they get the basic concept, the different... [More]

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Apparently Think was such an amazing conference event that it has required a couple of weeks of recuperation and processing for all of us. Whew! Here are some highlights from the IBM Champions program at Think, along with a selection of content from the Champions themselves on the event. By the Numbers: IBM Champions at Think 2018 250 Champions attended ~100 sessions, including sessions at Champions & User Community Day, breakout sessions, Keynote & Innovation Talks, and Think Academy pop-up sessions 15 Champion Chats - round table... [More]

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Gab Davis and Julian Robichaux are two of our amazing Lifetime IBM Champions, and at Think 2018, they will be interviewing other IBM Champions to get news and views on what's going on, what they've learned, and what they find interesting. You can find all the podcasts here on the IBM Champion Blog as we go through the week. In this pre-conference podcast , Gab and Julian talk to me (Libby Ingrassia, the head Champion wrangler, aka worldwide program manager for the IBM Champion program). We talk about my Champion wrangling... [More]

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Welcome to the February IBM  Cham pion  Exp erti se p rese ntat ion s . 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 February is security - widely imagined. Getting Started with IBM Security First session comes from Wannes Rams, a long-time iBM Champion based in Belgium. Wannes started with Domino is now taking his first steps into security to increase his knowledge and opportunities. So his... [More]

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2018 Futures Our January Champion Expertise presentation topic was on 2018 Tech predictions, futures & Technology - what to look forward to, learn, and do in 2018. You watched Gabriella speak about c onta iner izat ion  and  virt uali zati o n . That inspired another Champion to share a late entry: Tim Clark has a call to action for you! If you are seeing the skills gap growing in your place of work, join Tim in trying to enthuse a new generation of "IT Folks" like us. View the video:... [More]

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Championing Digital Transformation After reviewing more than 1400 nominations, IBM is proud and happy to announce the 2018 class of IBM Champions. The IBM Champions program recognizes innovative thought leaders in the technical community and rewards these contributors by amplifying their voice and increasing their sphere of influence. An IBM Champion is an IT professional, business leader, developer, and educator who influences and mentors others to help them innovate and transform digitally with IBM software, solutions, and services. From the... [More]

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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... [More]

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IBM Champions are experts and advocates. They innovate with IBM and open source technologies to help their organizations and customers. They support the community with content, mentoring, and other contributions. Each year, IBMers, Champions, and the community nominate the best mentors, speakers, community leaders, experts, and innovators to become IBM Champions. The Champions in Action series will help you learn what the IBM Champions have done in 2017 and understand the value of the program. IBM Champion Julian Robichaux Julian Robichaux is a... [More]

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No matter how we try to plumb the depths of our IBM Champions' expertise, we keep finding Champions know more, are learning more, and are teaching on more topics than we could possibly imagine. Topics range through the full host of IBM products and offerings, to strategy, to open technology, data, security, collaboration, servers, serverless, cognitive, cloud, security, blockchain... the list goes on and on. In fact, the only thing that's missing sometimes is the opportunity to share and absorb that knowledge—for Champions to... [More]

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IBM Champions are experts and advocates. They innovate with IBM and open source technologies to help their organizations and customers. They support the community with content, mentoring, and other contributions. Each year, IBMers, Champions, and the community nominate the best mentors, speakers, community leaders, experts, and innovators to become IBM Champions. The Champions in Action series will help you learn what the IBM Champions have done in 2017 and understand the value of the program. IBM Champion Aaron Bartell IBM Champion and... [More]

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