This morning I received a mail from IBM telling me that for the second year I was selected as one of the 96 IBM Champions. Last year I was very surprised to be selected and to be in the company of so many of the experts in the ICS/Lotus community that I for years looked up to and have been inspired by. I am extremely proud and grateful to have been selected again, and I will continue to post blog entries and code as a way to give back to the community. Many people (some of them are now fellow Champions) have been helping me in the past, and the last few years I have been trying to help others the same way.
You can read the public announcement here. Oliver Heinz, the Community Manager for the ICS Champions, also shares some details about the selection process in a blog entry.
I am looking forward to meet the other Champions (especially the 22 new ones for 2015) together with many other long-time friends at IBM ConnectED in Orlando in less than two months. See you there, I hope!
IBM Champions at IBM Connect 2014.
Photo by John Rolling, aka Greyhawk68.
Here is the list of the 2015 IBM Champions for IBM Collaborative Solutions (ICS):
| Adam Brown | Jesse Gallagher | Olaf Boerner |
| Andrea Fontana | John Dalsgaard | Oliver Busse |
| Andreas Ponte | John Head | Patrice Vialor |
| Andrew Barickman | John Jardin | Patrick Hope |
| Arshad Khalid | Julian Robichaux | Paul Calhoun |
| Benedek Menesi | Karl-Henry Martinsson | Paul Della-Nebbia |
| Bill Malchisky | Kathy Brown | Paul Withers |
| Brad Balassaitis | Kazunori Tatsuki | Per Lausten |
| Brian O’Neill | Keith Brooks | Ray Bilyk |
| Bruce Elgort | Kenio Carvalho | Rene Winkelmeyer |
| Chris Miller | Kenji Ebihara | Richard Moy |
| Christian Güdemann | Kim Greene | Rob Novak |
| Christoph Stoettner | Klaus Bild | Rudi Knegt |
| Daniel Nashed | Laks Sundararajan | Salvador Gallardo |
| Daniel Reimann | Liz Albert | Sandra Buehler |
| Daniele Grillo | Luis Garza | Sasja Beerendonk |
| David Leedy | Marcel Ribas | Satoru Abe |
| David Price | Marion Vrielink | Serdar Basegmez |
| Eric McCormick | Mark Calleran | Sharon Bellamy |
| Felix Binsack | Mark Leusink | Siggi Meyer |
| Femke Goedhart | Mark Myers | Simon Vaughan |
| Francie Tanner | Mark Roden | Sjaak Ursinus |
| Fredrik Norling | Martin Jinoch | Stefan Sucker |
| Friso van den Berg | Masahiko Miyo | Steve Pitcher |
| Gabriella Davis | Matteo Bisi | Stuart McIntyre |
| Gary Swale | Mike McGarel | Takeshi Yoshida |
| Giuseppe Grasso | Mike Ostrowski | Theo Heselmans |
| Handly Cameron | Mike Smith | Tim Clark |
| Howard Greenberg | Mikkel Heisterberg | Tim Malone |
| Jan Valdman | Mitch Cohen | Tony Holder |
| Jean-Yves Fiou | Mitsuru Katoh | Ulrich Krause |
| Jerome Deniau | Nathan Freeman | Wannes Rams |