Host an Event
As an IBM Z Student Ambassador, your job is to create at least two events per semester for your campus. An event can be:
Watch Party
Workshop
Club, chapter, community or group meeting
Table at a club fair
Panel or speaker presentation
Webinar
Group event with your fellow Student Ambassadors
Check out our clubs kits below. There are designed by the IBM Z team specifically for ambassadors to use for events on your campus, new club kits are released through the year. They make your events easy, all presentations and materials that you need to make the event happen are included.
Where do I start?
1. Send the Your Big Year team a text on Whatsapp that you are working on an event and we will help you along the way!
2. Check out our resources to get you started:
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Here are a list of topic suggestions that your peers have used. We have selected a few to do for your first event:
For your first event:
Enterprise Computing
Z Day
History of Computing, IBM Z Global Student Hub, What is Enterprise Computing, IBM Z Xplore, and Responsible Computing
Z Xplore overview and walk-through different challenges
Mainframe and AI
Future of Mainframe
Other events
zSystems (now Z) and Quantum - Legacy and Future?
Cyber Security
Concepts badge
LinuxOne
Design Thinking (related to mainframe or enterprise computing)
Completing badges
VSC1 - Files - Fundamentals
Cobalt vs Java
FHE
Game Development and Enterprise Computing
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Need more support and tips?
The easiest way to learn how to plan an event is to join a group event. Speak to the team if you would like to join a group. Also, we host event planning sessions in our Leadership Meetings. Here is a video recording of an online event planning session from IBM Champion and current IBM Z Student Ambassador, Sabine Diemt: