We're had such a great, busy week at IBM InterConnect. From 100 IBM Champions delivering 50 IBM Champion-led sessions to our Meet an IBM Champion desk, the IBM Champions were busy all week at InterConnect. Many thanks to all the work our IBM Champions did at the conference - it was so great being with you there. One way you can catch what they've done is by reviewing sessions on IBMGo and by watching their interviews with theCUBE, a few of which I've embedded below. IBM Champions on theCUBE Jamie Alexander  ... [More]

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We have over 100 IBM Champions at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas this week, giving over 50 sessions and ready to answer your questions at the Meet the IBM Champions desk (Bayside foyer, level 1). Come by to meet these IBM Champions at the desk and look for their sessions (marked with a star in the InterConnect Today daily newspaper). The schedule for Champions to be at the desk is below - come meet these folks to talk about Cloud, Cognitive, Collaboration, Power, Analytics, Big Data, Mobile, Security, and more! Champions, we have comfy chairs -... [More]

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After reviewing and evaluating the contributions of our applicants, IBM is happy to announce the 2017 IBM Champions for Analytics! We have a total of 198 Champions, with 45 new and 153 returning Champions. These amazing Champions join the 124 IBM Champions for Cloud , the 41 IBM Champions for Power , and the 123 IBM Champions for ICS  already named. Look for their profiles on developerWorks and (soon) stories about them here, so you can get to know these amazing and talented... [More]

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After reviewing and evaluating the contributions of our applicants, IBM is happy to announce the 2017 IBM Champions for Power! We have a total of 41 Champions, with 14 new and 27 returning Champions. These amazing Champions join the 124 IBM Champions for Cloud , and the 123 IBM Champions for ICS  already named; look for the announcement for IBM Champions for Analytics to follow shortly. Congratulations to our 2017 IBM Champions for Power! Babatunde Akanni Liam Allan Torbjorn Appehl Aaron Bartell... [More]

After reviewing and evaluating the contributions of our applicants, IBM is happy to announce the 2017 IBM Champions for Cloud! We have a total of 124 Champions for Cloud, with 53 new Champions, and 71 returning Champions (including the new IBM Champions for Cloud named in summer 2016). These amazing Champions join the 123 IBM Champions for ICS already named . Look for announcements for IBM Champions for Analytics and Power to follow soon! Congratulations to our 2017 IBM Champions for Cloud!... [More]

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As we look forward to 2017, I would like to look back for a moment to thank all of you for your support for and contributions to the IBM community. There are so many of us who work with the IBM Champions and the larger community, including retired Champions, Champion nominees, working-my-way-up to being a Champion folks, and all of us who work with Champions, rely on Champions, learn from Champions... To all of you, I say: thank you for your work, your enthusiasm, your nominations, your thoughtfulness, your persistence. And as we look forward:... [More]

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IBM Champions in ICS Congratulations to the IBM Champion class of 2017 for IBM Collaboration Solutions . There are 123 Champions in the group, including 44 new champions, and 79 returning champions, with two Lifetime IBM Champions. Please take a moment to meet the Champions via Amanda's announcement . What about ME? For those in other areas (Cloud, Analytics, Power, etc.), look for rolling announcements about your IBM Champion status between now and mid-January. All 2017 Champions should be announced before the end of January 2017. Upcoming... [More]

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Ok, friends. You asked for it. Some of you begged. I have secured agreement to keep the IBM Champion nominations for 2017 open for a little bit longer. THANK you for nearly 1000 nominations that are already completed and IN the system. We appreciate the nominators, the nominees, and the time and energy you've put into both the year's work and the nomination process. The teams are already starting the review work. Let's be clear about our reasoning... We are not extending nominations due to low turnout. We are extending nominations... [More]

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We've gotten a lot of great nominations this cycle for IBM Champions and we are so excited to read them and select next year's Champions. But before we do that... do we know YOUR story? You can read and hear about the value of the program from a whole slew of our great Champions, but in the last year, I've learned this: The value of the IBM Champions is in your stories. The value of the IBM Champions is increased with each new story we hear. The value of the IBM Champions can only be realized as we hear more about YOU. Does that... [More]

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Busy at WoW What a busy - and great - week at World of Watson last week. IBM Champions were front and center at the general session keynotes, had a couple of networking events, including one sponsored by our friends at CloudOne, and gave lots of sessions. Champions led the way on packing meals (7 boxes, over 1500 meals in one hour) and then some of them stopped by to give us a few updates on the value they find in being IBM Champions and what they were doing at WoW. Look for the videos in our Twitter stream if you missed... [More]

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IBM Champion Kurt Struyf is an IBM Champion for Analytics. He works for customers across Europe filling the roles of database administrator, database architect, or system administrator and volunteering in the DB2 community in his spare time. He is one of nearly 500 2016 IBM Champions — get to know them in this "Meet an IBM Champion" series. Want to become an IBM Champion? Nominations open through Nov. 14. Name : Kurt Struyf Title : Senior Consultant Company : Lone-Star Connect... [More]

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We have two really big things going on at once right now: IBM World of Watson conference (and leading up to the Watson Developer Conference - don't forget that Champions are invited, just ask me for the registration code) AND IBM Champion nominations . So last week, we took some time to talk to IBM Champion Dusty Rivers. Our podcast talks about how Dusty became an IBM Champion as well as his sessions at #ibmwow and what he wants to learn at the conference. Dusty also gave some tips on IBM Champion... [More]

We're all at World of Watson in Las Vegas this week to "Unleash the power of data, analytics and cognitive." IBM Champions are well represented with 100+ IBM Champions in attendance and 60 sessions being delivered by IBM Champion speakers. We recently wrote a blog about the show on the main developerWorks blog - check it out and then join us for our session at 1 pm Monday! If you're here at the show, stop by to meet IBM Champions at any session indicated in... [More]

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IBM Champion Randy Wilson is an IBM Champion for Analytics. He leads a team of DBAs at an insurance company, delivering high database performance across multiple business units. At this week's World of Watson conference , Randy thinks we should all keep an eye on future trends and learn about the updated toolsets that IBM offers. He is one of nearly 500 2016 IBM Champions — get to know them in this "Meet an IBM Champion" series. Want to become an IBM Champion?... [More]

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