IBM CommunityFestival2021

The time has finally come for our inaugural IBM Community Festival 2021 happening over five days.

8–17 November

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. Subscribe to IBM Expert TV and join us.

Central European Time (CET, GMT+1)

12:00–16:0012 PM–4 PM

Eastern Time, U.S. (ET, GMT-5)

10:00–16:0010 AM–4 PM

Hong Kong Time (HKT, GMT+8)

08:00–11:008 AM–11 AM

Schedule

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 1

08 November

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 2

09 November

Day 3

10 November

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

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

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.

All festival long

08–17 November

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.

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.

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.

Featured Speakers

Rob Thomas

Dinesh Nirmal

Ritika Gunnar

Andrew Coward

Senior Vice President,IBM Global Markets

General Manager,IBM Automation

Vice President,
IBM Expert Labs

General Manager,Software Defined Networking

Daniel Hernandez

Seth Dobrin

Mary O’Brien

Jason McGee

General Manager, IBM Data & AI

IBM Chief AI Officer

General Manager,IBM Security

IBM Fellow, VP and CTO, IBM Cloud

Featured user groups

The Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics User Group created by industry leaders offers exclusive content, networking, early access to conferences, and covers AI products including IBM Cognos®, IBM Watson®, IBM Cloud Pak® and more.

IDUG is an independent, not-for-profit, user-run organization that provides a direct user channel that is responsible for bringing together thousands of IBM Db2® professionals from around the globe for education and world-class events. 

COMMON is the world’s largest association of IT professionals that focuses on IBM and related technologies. They serve their communities of partners and users with leadership, advocacy, independent education, certification and networking.

Maximo is a user group with a healthy membership of over 710 professionals. The user group is run by a committee of members with the aim of sharing experience, knowledge and generating discussions around the best practices for Maximo.

Business Automation

Public Sector User Group

Business Automation

CaptureUser Group

IIUG is the most influential user group representing Informix products. Members from around the world share knowledge, network and help influence IBM and other vendors through a community that enables members to be heard collectively.

The Business Automation Public Sector User Group lets organizations discuss challenges, offer guidance, and speak as one voice to help shape and influence the future of digital business automation products and strategies at IBM.

The Business Automation Capture User Group brings together worldwide users of IBM Datacap, IBM FileNet® Capture, and IBM Automation Document Processing to share wins and assist with challenges to help members gain the most value.

SHARE is an independent volunteer-run information technology association that provides education, professional networking and industry influence that works to continually shape the future of the enterprise technology ecosystem.

Friends of the community

IBM aims to be the gold standard in good tech, leading positive change in the world. Please join our friends of the community as they foster technology advancement through empowerment programs and social values of diversity, inclusion, equity and philanthropy.

This virtual event is brought to you by IBM Community.

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