IBM Champions

The #IBMChampion stars are constantly creating amazing content, speaking at events, and sharing their knowledge. Stay tuned at this blog, on our Twitter stream, and at the #IBMChampion hashtag for regular updates. At least once per month, I also like to try to gather some highlights from the past month (or so) and share them. Take the chance to learn about a topic of interest from the content below!

Systems

• Meet the NEW IBM Champions for Power Systems in this article at IBM Systems Magazine.
• Catch the replay of this webcast where IBM Champion Robin Tatam speaks about All Object Authority in IBM i.
• OCEAN TechCon20 for IBM i is happening in July, and each day will start with a Panel Discussion moderated by IBM Champions @charlieguarino or @MikeyPEI or @alanseiden
• SHARE Pittsburgh Best of the Best Session Winner, Dusty Rivers, shares this article on Share'd Intelligence about Preparing prior to API implementation

• Steven Wolk has been working hard to help plan the virtual version of the Long Island System User Group, to be held June 9-10.

• Some great content from Cameron Seay, including this blog post and related online discussion around introducing students to the mainframe.
• Reg Harbeck has been busy with his podcast and was also featured in this article about being the IBM Champion for Z in Canada.

Security

• IBM Champion for security Ronan Murphy appeared on the May 21 episode on The DataView Show, hosted by Lifetime IBM Champion Scott Hayes. Read more and watch the replay.
• Think Digital event included sessions from a couple of IBM Champions. These sessions are still available on demand, including the session from IBM Champion for Security Jared Fagel on "The Importance of Automation in Today's Cybersecurity".
• daruudii log on qradar https://blog.daruudii.com/syslog-format-qradar/

Data & AI

• If you missed IBM Champion Chris Penn's session on Data Science for Marketers, the replay is available.
• Champions Chiara Baldan and Diego D'Addeo presented a session about how Sogei is modernizing IBM Z data and infrastracture at the Enterprise Data and AI on IBM Z Virtual Symposium. Replays are available for their session and others at ibm.biz/feelingblue.
• Jean-Georges Perrin’s book, Spark in Action, second edition, has been published. It contains a lot of IBM bits & pieces, as should a book written by a Champion, right?
• Get the feel of a day in the life of a data scientist in this video from IBM Champion Emeka Boris Ama.

Cloud

• Dave Knight wrote this article for Wired.com about the complexity of hybrid multicloud environments, the benefits of DevOps enabled by a supporting platform such as OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks, and the positive impact such an IT architecture has on the people of IT (Operations, developers, security, etc.).
• It’s time to consider application modernization. Don’t just listen to me, listen to Joseph Amrith Raj Paturi in this blog entry.

IoT

• Bartosz Chrabski has been showing folks how to install and evaluate IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) 7.0.

More IBM Champion content, events, and ideas

• Rocket software is running a blog series introducing the world to Rocketeers who are also IBM Champions. Meet Ron Bisceglia this month.
• Did you attend Think? Sessions are still available on demandhink day 2 https://www.christopherspenn.com/2020/05/ibm-think-2020-digital-experience-day-2-review/
• Tanaka Seigo wrote about a virtual IBM Champion meetup he created for the IBM Champions in Japan.
• Roger Lacroix and Capitalware released World Clocks to let users quickly view the time and date from various time zones from around the world.
• Subhasish Sarkar has been busy publishing blogs and a set of research papers around machine learning, Quantum, and more.