IBM Data Champion Program

Anyone in the Data Management community is eligible to nominate a potential Data Champion during the open nomination period. Beginning in the fall, nominations will be accepted for the 2010 Data Champion class, which will cover the following Data Management products:

• Data Studio
• DB2
• DB2 Tools
• Informix
• IBM Optim
• IMS
• InfoSphere Warehouse
• solidDB
• U2

At the close of the nomination period, a panel of IBM employees will evaluate each nominee's contributions over the past 12 to 18 months. The panel will consider the community impact, expertise and overall contributions of the nominees. IBM will judge nominees both on the quality of contributions and the level of participation across a wide variety of community activities. For example, Data Champions may have distinguished themselves as:

• forum moderators and contributors
• bloggers
• community Web site operators
• leaders of product user groups
• written contributors, such as authors of developerWorks articles, Redbooks and technical books
• speakers at events and conferences