After reviewing and evaluating the contributions of our applicants, IBM is happy to announce the 2018 IBM Champions! Almost 2,000 nominations were received and 635 IBM Champions were selected from the nominations:
- 65% are renewing their Champion title
- 35% are new Champions
- 39 countries are represented
- 9 business areas, including Data & Analytics (31%), Cloud (22%), Collaboration Solutions (15%), Power Systems (9%), Storage (7%), IBM Z (6%), Watson IoT (4%), Blockchain (2%), and Security (3%).
Congratulations to our 2018 IBM Champions from the Middleware User Community!
*The Champions below have a profile in the community. (Click here to view the full list).
@Gerald Beasley
@Beth Beese
@Harald Biedermann
@Andy Detandt
@Helen Fisher
@Catherine Foley
@joe grasso
@Wolfram Greis
@Bryan Holmes
@Stephen Hume
@Alex Ivanov
@Richard Jackson
@Bill Karounos
@Juan Carlos Ludena
@Mark Michael
@Tiago Moura
@Alexander Pawlik
@Graeme Sharp
@Michael Urwin
@Jos Verschuuren
@Emeka Boris Ama
@Doug Anderson
@remco 9CF9
@Vishwas Balakrishna
@Susan Barker
@David Beardsley
@Gerd Becker
@Hitesh bhatia
@Matteo Bisi
@Colin Breckles
@Keith Brooks
@Glen Brumbaugh
@Michele Buccarello
@Edson Carlotti
@Kenio Carvalho
@Neil Casey
@Sushant Chalke
@Samuel Chan
@Deepa Chandra
@Sandeep Chellingi
@tim clark
@David Conover
@Paul Cortellesi
@Kirsten Craft
@Arup Datta
@Kris De Bisschop
@Boudewijn Dekkema
@Luc-Michel Demey
@Ning Dong
@Michael Elleby
@barry evans
@Peter Faust
@Scott Francis
@Gary Fry
@Ankit Garg
@Markus Giacomuzzi
@Giuseppe Grasso
@David Greenstein
@Ezriel Gross
@Salem Hadim
@Dirk Haegebarth
@Magnus Halvarsson
@John Hawkins
@Bob Hayes
@John Head
@Finbarr Hennessy
@Jim Herron
@Mario Hockx
@Dennis Hoddinott
@Greg Hodgkinson
@Hermann Huebler
@Morag Hughson
@Chikako Inami
@Sharon James
@James Jancewicz
@Li Jian
@Jason Juliano
@joe jurak
@Hiroshi Kawai
@Nita Khare
@Ronda Kiser-Oakes
@PARAMJOT KOCHAR
@Michiya Kurosawa
@Roger Lacroix
@Sheryl Larsen
@Stacy Lee
@Dominic Lehr
@Daniel Lieber
@Andy Lin
@Craig Lister
@Kun Lu
@Amit Malik
@Paolo Maresca
@kazuki masuda
@Paul Matthews
@Mia McCroskey
@John McDonald
@Lee McEvoy
@Robert Mckeown
@Timothy Medlin
@Pete Meechan
@Chris Miller
@David Miller
@Dmitry Mironov
@Brett Murphy
@Robert Murphy
@Paul Murray
@Satoshi Nakamura
@Kohei Nishikawa
@Vittorio Orefice
@Joseph Amrith Raj Paturi
@Bruno Portaluri
@Suganya Rane
@guru prasad
@Ahmed Rashad
@Yuma Kajita
@Kazunori Hosoda
What do IBM Champions Do?
These individuals evangelize IBM solutions, share their knowledge, and help grow the community of professionals who are focused on IBM offerings. IBM Champions spend a considerable amount of their own time, energy, and resources on community efforts—organizing and leading user group events, answering questions in forums, contributing articles and applications, publishing podcasts, sharing instructional videos, and more. We have book authors and YouTube stars, as well as those who work behind the scenes as client, press, or analyst references. The program selects Champions annually based on individual contributions that go beyond the scope of a person's job, so that we can recognize and reward those who give so generously of their time, effort, and energy.
What do IBM Champions Receive?
As a reward, IBM Champions receive IBM Champion-branded merchandise, IBM Champion open badges, and invitations and discounts to IBM conferences. They are highlighted online and recognized at live events. In addition, they may be offered various speaking opportunities that enable them to raise their visibility and broaden their sphere of influence. They are recognized for the work they have done over the past year and supported and enabled with education and opportunities to do even more advocacy and mentoring in the next year.
Stay in touch with the IBM Champion program
If you want to know more about these IBM Champions, stay tuned at this blog for our ongoing Champions in Action series. You can also meet them in person at Think 2019 and Community Day, where more than 100 are already registered or speaking and will be at the Meet the IBM Champions Lounge throughout the week (Moscone South Lobby). In addition, our home page contains a directory which will soon let you know more about each Champion across areas. You can also keep up with the IBM Champions and their activities by following us on Twitter either by @IBMChampions or by the #IBMChampion hashtag.
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