Experts together everywhere

For this festival, we will be taking over IBM Expert TV. Subscribe to IBM Expert TV and gather with our IBM Community of over 250,000 IBM users that brings together a global network of the world’s foremost technologists. 

This five-day festival will have days dedicated to user groups, the IBM Loyalty program, IBM experts, and our Cloud Without Compromise program with an opening keynote presentation by Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President of IBM Global Markets. We couldn’t be more excited to bring you the very best that the IBM Community has to offer.

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Schedule

Day 1: 08 November - User Group Day #1
This time, users take the stage. We are uniting over a dozen IBM user groups on IBM Expert TV with five conference tracks featuring expert advice, lessons, demos, keynotes, feedback sessions and more. Get an in-depth look at the IBM technologies you use every day, start a conversation, ask questions, or find new user groups to connect with and grow your skills.

Day 2: 09 November - IBM Expert Day
Tap into the IBM innovation pipeline of technology experts, distinguished engineers, and others to gain digital innovation skills and tools needed to automate at scale, predict outcomes, secure your business, modernize for agility, and create the architecture needed for a digital advantage.

Day 3: 10 November - IBM Innovation Day
See how other companies have used IBM technology to transform their business, discover their company’s true potential and rethink possibilities for the future. Hear from entrepreneurial thought leaders who are turning innovative ideas into real business outcomes that will change the world. Get ready to rethink innovation with us.

Day 4: 16 November  - User Group Day #2
Once again, our users will take the stage. We are uniting over a dozen IBM user groups on IBM Expert TV with five conference tracks featuring expert advice, lessons, demos, keynotes, feedback sessions and more. Get an in-depth look at the IBM technologies you use every day, start a conversation, ask questions, or find new user groups to connect with and grow your skills.

Day 5: 17 November - Cloud Without Compromise
When setting up your technical strategy, stop choosing between agility or security, openness or privacy, replatforming or refactoring. You don’t have to compromise.

Join IBM experts, customers, and partners and build your schedule with over 20 sessions covering application modernization, hybrid cloud and DevSecOps.

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All festival long: 08–17 November

IBM Champions
Throughout the event, our IBM Champions—the top experts and advocates across IBM products and offerings—will be available to help you make the best decisions regarding IBM products. These customers, partners, and academics will share their authentic experiences through multiple sessions and activities teaching everything they know to make your business strategy a winning one.

Fast track to IBM Cloud Advocate certification
The IBM Center for Cloud Training is offering a self-paced IBM Cloud Advocate certification. Prepare with our online reviews of courses, supplemented with our study guides, flashcards, and sample exam questions. Whether you want to learn more about cloud computing or plan to use this certification to explore potential career paths, you can pick up the cloud training you need with IBM.

Beats, Bees, and Balancing Poses
Take a break with us and check out some of the hidden talent in our IBM Community. Be in the first IBM dance off with DJ Rich Girl on the 1s and 2s. Enjoy the magical world of beekeeping with Marius Ciortea. Or get your stretch on with Yoga for Geeks. You can’t go wrong.

 

Join us live in three different geographies

This isn’t your normal festival. What makes it different? We've arranged our festival so that it will be live in three different regions. You won't be watching recordings from Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney; you'll be participating along with everyone else no matter where you are. We are experts together everywhere.

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