Nominations Open for 2018 Red Hat Innovation Awards
September 11 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Awards program recognizes Red Hat customers for
their innovative and creative use of Red Hat technologies; Award
recipients to be honored at Red Hat Summit 2018
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that it is accepting nominations
for the 2018 Red Hat Innovation Awards.
Since 2007, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have recognized Red
Hat's global customers for the transformative projects and
outstanding results they have experienced with Red Hat's open
source solutions. Open source has helped transform technology and
the Red Hat Innovation Awards showcase its transformative impact in
organizations around the world.
Nominations should showcase successful open source IT
implementation and projects that made a difference in organizations
using open source. Entries for the Innovation Awards will be judged
in five areas:
- Impact: Assessing the impact the
project had on the organization and various lines of business,
including the return on investment benefits such as increased
agility, automation, scalability, productivity, and cost and
time-savings.
- Transformation: Analyzing the
organization’s IT transformation and modernization as a result of
the project.
- Open source: Evaluating how the
organization is embracing an agile mode of IT, using open source
technology, methodology, open source values and initiatives to
create a culture that supports collaboration, diversity, and
meritocracy.
- Difference: Measuring how the
organization’s change and transformation has made a difference in
the lives of the users, communities, and even the society it
supports.
- Uniqueness: Judging the
uniqueness and distinct vision for the project showing innovation
and originality that hasn’t been seen or heard of before.
Submissions will be accepted until Nov. 8, 2017, and will be
evaluated by a panel of business and open source technology experts
including Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager,
OpenShift; Swapnil Bhartiya, journalist; Marco Bill-Peter, vice
president, Customer Experience and Engagement; Dietmar Fauser, vice
president, Architecture, Quality and Governance, Amadeus; Sean
Michael Kerner, senior editor, eWeek; Christopher Rommel, executive
vice president, IoT and Embedded Technology, VDC Research; and
Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist, Office of
Technology, Red Hat.
A total of five winners will be chosen. From those five winners,
the 2018 Red Hat Innovator of the Year will be selected by the
community through online voting, and will be announced during an
awards ceremony at the 2018 Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, May
8-10, 2018. In addition, up to five honorable mention submissions
may be recognized by the judges.
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Awards
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and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and
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a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source
communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies
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future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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