Microsoft Profile (2005-Present): http://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2006/03/15/stephen-ibaraki.aspx

CIPS Founding Fellows Profile (Board Director, Vice-President, Chairman & President, Advisor to OEC--2005-Present):
http://www.cips.ca/?q=stephen-ibaraki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Information_Processing_Society

Founding Chair Global Board, Global IT Community Association, currently Board Director and Advisor as past chair (2008-Present):
http://itpro.community.officelive.com/BoardMembers.aspx

Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Profile (2006-Present):
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=BF2FCE10-19AF-45A0-A2F5-F57F666C4280

The Mark News Author Profile (2008-Present):
http://www.themarknews.com/authors/479-stephen-ibaraki

NPA Founding Fellows Profile (Vice-Chair, Publisher, Managing Editor, Director Certification Board, Chair College of Distinguished Fellows, Chair Editorial Board, Board Director--2004-Present):
http://www.npanet.org/public/leaders/stephen_ibaraki.cfm

Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, I.S.P., MVP, DF/NPA, CNP, 'uniquely' holds more than 50 national and international awards and recognitions. For his outstanding lifetime contributions to information communication technology, a small sampling of Ibaraki's elections include: founding CIPS Fellow (FCIPS); founding NPA Distinguished Fellow (DFNPA); Canadian IT Hall of Fame (CIPS); Global Hall of Fame (as DFNPA); ICT Industry's only recipient of the Computing Canada IT Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award; after a worldwide search, inaugural recipient of the Global Lifetime Career Achievement Award for Professionalism (NPA, Network World, Network Computing, Novell, Microsoft, Interop Conferences, Networld+Interop); inaugural recipient of the IT Hero Award (Federal Government Industry Canada, Information Technology Association); National Gary Hadford Award for Professional Achievement (CIPS); National All-Star Team Award (DataTech); multiple teaching, writing, speaking awards/recognitions; ...[see Career Summary for more]

Stephen also is a government legislated IS Professional (I.S.P.), Certified Network Professional (CNP), and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) who serves internationally with more than 60 concurrent roles and board positions. His first experiences with technology began in 1965 when he built his first analog computer and then quickly moving to digital technology, and software. He also is a retired educator in technology and business.

Stephen Ibaraki has written articles, papers, and reports on technology distributed worldwide; spoken at regional, national, and international conferences; been interviewed as an IT expert for the press and for Internet broadcasts with live questions and answers taken from users around the globe.

STEPHEN IBARAKI INTERVIEWS

Stephen Ibaraki articles/interviews/reviews are targeted to IT professionals, and enterprises worldwide and have appeared in many publications.

Stephen Ibaraki Interviews/reviews are also published by the Industry-Canada chartered non-profit Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), the non-profit Network Professional Association (NPA), Culminis, and Pearson Publishing. There are regular interviews with the world's leading experts.

• See CIPS interviews

  • Stephen Ibaraki Interviews Listing
  • CIPS Bookshelves

• See NPA interviews

  • NPA Bookshelves

• See Culminis interviews

• ACM Bulletin: An interview with ACM President Dame Wendy Hall. Listen to the interview and see Selected excerpts.

• See sample CIPS Brochure   (pdf format)

• See some Other Sites featuring Stephen Ibaraki Interviews with leading Business and IT Professionals

BLOGS

• Stephen Ibaraki is cohost of IT Managers Connection (IMC) blog which provides dynamic commentaries, (see Grant Buckler's articles "Beauty and the blog" in itbusiness.ca and "Corporations enter a new frontier" - Page 1 and Page 2 in Computing Canada), text and audio interviews (podcasts), etc.
• Partial listing of Stephen's postings on IT Managers Connection. See IT Managers Connections Blog to see his up-to-date postings.
• Computing Canada (CC) partners with Stephen Ibaraki, I.S.P., DF/NPA, CNP, MVP. Computing Canada's new editorial feature, Blogged Down, features Stephen Ibaraki's upcoming interviews in the Canadian IT Managers forum (CIM). For a listing of featured interviews, see listing: Computing Canada (CC) "Blogged Down" Editorials
• Stephen Ibaraki's exclusive podcast interview with Sean O'Driscoll about Social Media, Communities, and Influencers.
• CIPS CONNECTIONS - Recent IMC postings in CIPS CONNECTIONS
• For more information see Stephen Ibaraki Blogs section

RECENT NEWS

• April, 2010: Stephen Ibaraki is invited to join the People to People Mission in Understanding to Brazil which gives the the opportunity to further the mission of peace and global awareness that President Dwight D. Eisenhower envisioned when he founded People to People International.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is the chair of the ACM ISEF committee and chief awards judge for the ACM at the 2010 ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair).
  
  
• Access some of Stephen Ibaraki Interviews Podcasts on iTUNES by searching on Stephen Ibaraki
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is appointed of the Advisory Board of Neil Squire Society.
  
  
• In January 2010, Stephen Ibaraki is awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award (MVP) Windows Live: "MVPs are technology’s best and brightest, and we are honored to welcome Stephen as one of them."
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is a member of panel of experts to select the Canadian Business 2009 All-Star Execs
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is a keynote speaker at the Career Education Society CES 32nd Annual Fall Conference - November 26 & 27, 2009. (Link to Keynote and newsletter).
  
  
• Stephen is the featured keynote at all the 2009 Academy Academic Conferences from April into June 2009 in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal receiving a 100% satisfaction rating.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is a judge for the 2009 Ignite IT Awards 2009.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki received the Gold Award, User Group Community, "for your support of User Group Communities Worldwide" (MS Technical Audience Global Marketing, (2008-2009)
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki received the User Group Community Award, "for your support of User Group Communities Worldwide and your contributions to UGSS (User Group Support Services)" (MS Technical Audience Global Marketing, (2007-2008)
  
  
• Chief Business Development Officer, Director, Advisor to the UN-founded IFIP IP3 - global professionalism/certification (2009)
  http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2008/04/23/professionalizing-the-profession.aspx
  
  
• Senior 3rd party advisor and industry analyst to MS Canada (2009):
  http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/
  
  
• Editor to MS Technet/YouShapeIT (2009) with a targeted audience of 26 million:
  https://www.microsoft.com/youshapeit/technet/Home/2009-01/
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki awarded as a Most valuable Professional (MVP): Windows Live R&D (2009)
  
  
• Culminis Hall of Fame (2009): world's largest IT organization, an alliance of 1200 IT associations and User Groups representing nearly 3 million IT professionals
  
  
• Judge Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ACM: 2009/2010): hosted and sponsored by Intel, the world's largest international science and engineering fair:
  http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/
  
  
• May, 2009: Stephen Ibaraki is invited to China for high-level professional discussions for the People to People Citizen Ambassador Program's Electrical, Electronic, and Computing Engineering Delegation to China. As noted in the invitation, "As a Citizen Ambassador, you will represent your profession while continuing in the tradition of high-level professionals who have helped shape, over the past 50 years international dialogue within your profession. Founded in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a vehicle to expand international relations beyond the structure of governmental agencies, People to People International is a nonpolitical, private-sector organization dedicated to promoting international peace and understanding. This history has secured for today's People to People delegates unmatched access to the professionals of China, as well as expertise on meaningful explorations of the region's history and culture. Face-to-face meetings and interactions with Chinese counterparts yields immediate professional applications and personal insights for delegates and their counterparts as well as produce long-term collaborations." The Honorary Chairmen are each successive US President since this globally unique and celebrated program was founded by President Eisenhower.
  
  
• Keynote Deans of IT Summit to the entire national educational community - 100% survey satisfaction rating--providing bursaries, students awards, software, resources, speakers, curriculum, industry insights, government and industry connections, mentoring to schools, faculty, students (February 2009)
  
  
• McKinsey Advisor, Stephen Ibaraki’s Predications Selected for "Happy About: Knowing What to Expect in 2009". Happy About Book series. The 11th annual edition of the top-ranking, best-selling book series which provides predictions on the global economy, business, and technology. The accuracy rate is 85% for the last two years. Top global senior executive leaders from all sectors are specially invited to make predictions for the annual Happy About book series whose readership include 10,000 CEOs worldwide. From this elite group of thousands, 50 are chosen for their predictions.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, I.S.P., Chairman of the Board for Culminis, spoke at the CIPS Saskatchewan December 2008 luncheon Presentations in Regina and Saskatoon. Topic: The Current State of IT and CIPS. See presentations for Regina and Saskatoon.
  
  
• On October 25th Stephen was invited to attend the awards ceremony that coincided with the 50th anniversary of ASTTBC, http://www.asttbc.org/, the association of technology professionals, and the national AGM of the CCTT (Canadian Council of Technologists and Technicians). With the awards ceremony in Vancouver BC, Premier Campbell was the invited keynote and Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, the guest speaker. In attendance were academic leaders, and business and technology leaders from across the country including one or more members of the federal government. Minister Coell and Vancouver Mayor, Sam Sullivan, provided noteworthy speeches at the awards ceremony highlighting the good work and significant contributions of technology professionals.
  Stephen had the unexpected and surprising honour to receive "The Advanced Technology Award for Leadership in Information Technology" for his lifetime body of work and he felt honored to receive a congratulatory note from Carole James, leader of the official opposition, and these comments from Premier Gordon Campbell. "Congratulations on being honoured for your Advanced Technology Award…you have distinguished yourself in your field of endeavour promoting pioneering efforts in technology and this award will recognize your considerable contributions with respect to the applications and adaptations of advanced technology to new uses. I commend you for your many achievements and thank you for your commitment to industry excellence. On behalf of the Province of British Columbia, please accept my warmest congratulations on this special occasion."
  Stephen is an industry Fellow, Distinguished Fellow, with more than 40 awards/recognitions including 7 Lifetime Achievement recognitions (http://www.cips.ca/?q=stephen-ibaraki) for his outstanding contributions to society, business, industry, academia, governments, media, internationally, and the wider community. During the awards ceremony, highlights of Stephen's work included: building his first computer at 10 years of age; keynoting this year's National Council of IT Deans Summit in Toronto increasing enrolments in technology; keynoting to the House of Commons/Senate IT and business leaders; his recognized top blogger status this year by Computer World; his top Most Valuable Professional (MVP) recognition as a global independent expert from Microsoft ; authoring books; co-founding and having leadership in organizations connecting IT professionals to support charities; his work, in being a catalyst for agility and innovation with the Canadian Information Processing Society and in supporting the industry; being a lifelong driver for innovation and impactful international contribution. See Vancouver Sun
  
  
• October, 2008, Canadian Stephen Ibaraki became the first Chairman of the Global Board for Culminis [now Global IT Community Association (GITGA)]. Representing over 1110 member organizations and over 2.7 million IT and business professionals in more than 90 countries, Culminis is the world's largest international organization devoted to the development and growth of the IT community by providing no-charge services to support and connect user groups, associations, and student IT organizations. Culminis stands committed to the free exchange of resources, ultimately elevating the status of the IT Professional both in their industry and in the community.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki article in the October, 2008 issue of the Canadian Government Executive Magazine, entitled "The Future of IT: BAITing the right skill sets"
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki accepts opening keynote at the National Council Deans of IT Summit February 5-6, 2009. As noted by the National Council Chairman David O'leary, Academic Dean and CIO at Northwest College in BC “On behalf of the Deans of IT National Council I would like to offer confirmation of your keynoting at our gathering in Toronto Fen 5 and 6, 2009. Words cannot express the gratitude we feel for your generosity. The Committee was absolutely over the moon with your willingness to consider our invitation…We are definitely seeing an increase in enrolments across Canada and your work last year was a definite contribution to this turn around…we also know that you are much in demand and can make a lot of $$$ assisting those with deeper pockets.”
  
  
• Building on the Top 2 MVP Professional Standing in 2007, Ibaraki's Two Blogs Ranked in Top 6 worldwide in 2008 Global MVP Summit. Stephen Ibaraki, in 2007 due to his outstanding contributions, was profiled with Microsoft Chairman Gates, at the 2007 Global MVP Summit. He was in the Top 2 (out of more than 100 million IT workers and 4000 MVPs); concurrently profiled in the Microsoft Inside Track Publication and in the MVP Press Room for the Global Summit. The only non-US resident.
  
  Not to be outdone, for 2008, Ibaraki's two blogs were amongst the Top 6 blogs worldwide, profiled with Microsoft CE) Steve Balmer, in the MVP Press Room for the 2008 Global MVP Summit. MVP's or Most Valuable Professionals are "technology's best and brightest", and a "steller group of individuals from around the world." From more than 100 million IT professionals, a select few are recognized as globle independent experts or MVPs and recognized for their outstanding contributions.
  
  Ibaraki's two blogs are the IT Manager Connection, which is ranked in the top 10% of technet blog properties worldwide; and ChinaValue, which is ranked No. 1 in China as the premier social media platform for professionals. Stephen is the only MVP to have 2 blogs highlighted and from an estimated 400,000,000 blogs.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is invited to the Microsoft IT Advisory Council June 2008.
  
  
• May 2008, Stephen Ibaraki transitioned from president to past-president of CIPS and will serve on the executive committee of the CIPS national board.
  - See CIPS Annual Report (2007-2008)
  
  
• Due to Stephen Ibaraki's international leadership in business and technology, he was an invited keynote to the Strategic Architecture Forum, hosted by Microsoft, attended by architects the every sector including key global partners. (See Architect Sessions Recordings online)
  - CSAF is Microsoft Canada's premier event for Architects and is "by invitation only" - an exclusive opportunity to learn about the latest technologies and best practices from Microsoft representatives, industry professionals, and your peers......This event is ideal for senior decision makers in Canada who need to stay abreast of the rapidly changing Information Technology field and apply this knowledge to their organization's strategic direction.
  
  
• Stephen's acknowledged international leadership in business and technology, his MVP status, and his advisory role to the UN-Founded International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3), Stephen was invited to present 3 times on the IFIP IP3 Global Certification and Professionalism program being launched in 2009. The presentation is best captured in this blog from an attendee....
  "....Stephen facilitated an Open Space discussion and made formal presentations to MVP’s and those attending the UG Management Summit. Stephen is not only an extraordinary blogger but an equally impressive and effective presenter. His message went across loud and clear and generated a huge amount of interest. So much so that he was inundated with requests to pretty much speak to the “world...."
  For more information see: http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2008/04/23/professionalizing-the-profession.aspx
  
  
• Stephen is selected as a “Top 10” blogger by Computer World due to his influential blogs and co-hosting of the IT Manager Connection blog. This is the first time that bloggers have been recognized for their outstanding contributions by Computer World, the world’s largest computing publication. (His special selection was noted this blog:
  http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2008/04/17/best-canadian-technology-bloggers.aspx and in this Article.)
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, MVP, was a member of the Executive Judging Panel, to select the Canadian Business  All-Star Executives of 2008.
  Debi Andrus, Haskayne School of Business
  Craigg Ballance, The CIO Summit / E-finity Group
  Doug Cooper, Intel Canada
  Michael Denham, Accenture Canada
  Mary Lou Maher, KPMG Canada
  Tom McDowell, Oliver Wyman–Delta Organization & Leadership
  Al Rosen and Mark Rosen, Rosen & Associates
  Michael Stern, Michael Stern Associates
  
  
• Due to Stephen's recognized global expertise in business and technology, he was specially invited to be the opening keynote for the ACCC National Council of IT Deans summit in March, 2008 and then stay for 2 days of meetings. The ACCC represents all colleges and institutes with about 25 to 30% being degree granting. Other speakers on the agenda included from: ICTC, HRSDC, Cisco, ACCC Director, Deans of IT from across country, MS (2 speakers: President, and Director). Stephen's opening keynote supported a context for the following 2 days of meetings and presentations. As noted from the ACCC: "Thank you for accepting our invitation to give a keynote address at ACCC's National Council of Information Technology Deans (NCITD) meeting scheduled to take place at Microsoft Canada Co....The main theme of this meeting will focus on the challenges in recruitment and enrollment in ICT programs. We would be interested to hear your views on the current state of IT and how colleges and institutes might do to address the skills shortages in this industry." (See letter.)
  
  
• Announced by Microsoft: Jan 1, 2008: Ibaraki Awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Recognition for 2008.    Quoted from Microsoft: “technology's best and brightest," and a "stellar group of individuals from around the world.” From more than 30 million IT professionals, a select few are recognized as global independent experts and recognized for their outstanding contributions.
  https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=BF2FCE10-19AF-45A0-A2F5-F57F666C4280
  
  
• McKinsey Advisor, Ibaraki’s Predications Selected for "Happy About: Knowing What to Expect in 2008".
  Happy About Book series. The 10th annual edition of the top-ranking, best-selling book series which provides predictions on the global economy, business, and technology. The accuracy rate is 85% for the last two years. Top global senior executive leaders from all sectors are specially invited to make predictions for the annual Happy About book series whose readership include 10,000 CEOs worldwide. From this elite group of thousands, 50 are chosen for their predictions. Stephen Ibaraki, Fellow, Distinguished Fellow, and Microsoft MVP, is selected again—his predictions have been chosen each year that he has contributed. Consistently, Stephen's predictions appear under several separate trends, and he is uniquely the most quoted amongst the chosen 50.
  http://www.happyabout.info/economy.php
  
  
• Ibaraki Specially Invited as Senior Judge for 2008 MSDN Code Awards: the program is targeted to the Professional Developer and is the largest of it’s kind. It’s a special community awards program that recognizes contributions of Developers & Development teams for their technical excellence, outstanding contributions in the community, business savvy or all round passion for the art of Development. Due to Stephen Ibaraki's leading top-ranking role in the industry, he is invited to be on the select panel of judges. The awards program begins in November 2007 and ends in May 2008.
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/codeawards/default.aspx
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, MVP, was a member of the Executive Judging Panel, to select the Canadian Business  All-Star Executives of 2007.
  CEO: Tony Franceschini, Stantec Inc.
  CFO: Bob McFarlane, Telus Corp.
  COO: D. Scott Patterson, FirstService Corp.
  Sales: Tim Hockey, TD Bank Financial Group
  CIO: Rick Green, CHC Helicopter Corp.
  Most Innovative: Steve Bolliger, Vincor Canada
  
  
• 2007 CIPS Updates from CIPS President, Stephen Ibaraki:
  Fall/Winter 2007 CIPS Update 1
  Fall/Winter 2007 CIPS Update 2
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki joins two other industry experts on November 15, 2007 as part of an Ignite your Career Webcast series. Topic: Industry Insight for the IT Pro. (See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/events/bb819576.aspx). See the November 15, 2007 event.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki joins two other industry experts on October 2, 2007 as part of an Ignite your Career Webcast series. Topic: Becoming your own boss. (See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/community/bb738057.aspx).
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki is the President of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) for 2007-2008. Then in May 2008, Stephen Ibaraki will transition to past-president serving on the executive committee of the CIPS national board.
  
  
• "Stephen Ibaraki, Executive Board Director, ChinaValue.net (No.1 China-based professional community) 15,000+ writer/researchers; top 50 university partners; top 100+ magazine alliances; strategic partner, CCTV (1 billion viewers); top 10 portals content provider; 200,000 professional members; 10 million audience; 1 million pageviews/day; real time intelligence on business, investments, finance, economics, technology, law, education, industry, government, media; first and largest professional business blogs, wikis, and "digging" tied to vertical search engine, on 21 industry sectors; -- http://www.chinavalue.net/index.html"
  - Hu Yong, Executive Board Director; Editor-in-Chief; Senior Executive Vice President of Media Strategy for ChinaValue.net
  
  
• March 28, 2007 issue of Tri-City News, article by Sarah Payne about Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, ISP, CIPS vice-president, entitled "PM tech leader wins honour"
  
      "A technology expert living in Port Moody has been handpicked from 3,800 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) for his contributions to the industry and volunteer efforts in the community.
      Microsoft chooses the MVPs from over 100 million information, communication and technology (ICT) workers around the world. Stephen Ibaraki was one of the 3,800 chosen from over 90 countries to form the global body of top-ranking experts in more than 90 technologies.
      Ibaraki was also honoured as an MVP in 2006 but this was the first year that Microsoft went the extra step of highlighting five outstanding ICT professionals at the week-long MVP Global Summit held in Seattle earlier this month.... [see more] ....."
  
  
• The Daily Courier; Tuesday, April 24, 207; Section Business Page B7; Byline Steve MacNaull; "…Similar to sports, MVPs are technology's best and brightest";  Extracts:
  
  "To determine who makes its annual international MVP list, software colossus Microsoft considers all 200 million computer professionals worldwide. So it's pretty amazing to be named one of the 3,800 MVPs, and even more astounding to make the super list of only five."
  "Microsoft doesn't publicize an exact criteria for picking its MVPs and super list. What is known is that Microsoft employees aren't eligible, but anyone else in the world working in the computer and information technology realms is. MVPs, which stands for most valuable professionals, are technology's best and brightest."
  "The job took him to Vancouver, where he eventually became a technology professor... Through his teaching career of 25 years, Ibaraki found time to volunteer and found ways that computer professionals and technology can help charities. For instance, he's involved with ITvolunteering.org, an organization that links computer volunteers with charities. He has won various accolades from the Network Professional Association's Career Achievement Award to the Computing Canada IT Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award…and is the incoming president of the 6,000-member Canadian Information Processing Society."
  
  
• The CIPS session at the Massive Technology Show, being held at the Convention & Exhbition Centre in Vancouver BC in March 28, 2007, features CIPS Vice-president, Stephen Ibaraki . Stephen shares his insight "IT as a Strategic Asset."
  
  
• March 16, 2007 issue of Computing Canada (also see), Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, ISP, CIPS vice-president, article entitled "The community should unite for security"
  
  
• From an estimated 200 million ICT workers, 3800 are nominated to be Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals or MVPs through a lengthy vetting process. MVPs are an independent global body of experts in more than 90 technologies and 90+ countries specially chosen for their outstanding technical and community contributions. From the 3800, Stephen Ibaraki was amongst five specially chosen and who were uniquely profiled for the 2007 MVP Global Summit held in March 2007 and featured in the Microsoft MVP Global Summit News Release which includes Microsoft Chairman Gates, Vice-President Kaplan, and Senior Director/GM of MVP Global, O'Driscoll.
  The link to the news release: see see  2007 MVP Global Summit
  Stephen also appeared in an interview for InsideTrack which goes out to 80,000 Microsoft employees.
  
  
• Due to Stephen Ibaraki's multiple award-winning international leadership profile in business, industry, government, media, research, and education, Stephen was invited to be the leadoff speaker in the IT Executive Alignment Tour 07 from Microsoft Technet running February through March 2007.
  "Session 1 - Industry view: IT as a Strategic Asset
  Stephen Ibaraki will provide the introduction to the day, setting the context for the remainder of the discussion. He’ll talk about aligning IT to the business goals."
  http://www.microsoft.com/canada/technet/alignment/



• February 2007, Stephen Ibaraki is taking on the role as Vice-Chair for the NPA together with his roles as an international Board Director, Chair for the Distinguished Fellows Council, Managing Editor and co-publisher for the NPA Journal, and a Board Director on the Accreditation/Certification Council.



• Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, I.S.P., DFNPA, MVP, CNP, is invited to the SecTor Conference Advisory Committee:
  
  "SecTor is very fortunate to have an impressive group of leading security and industry professionals on our Advisory Committee. These individuals play a critical role bringing the world's best speakers and minds to the Toronto stage for the benefit of all in attendance. If networking and being plug into the Security Community are priorities for you, then we highly recommended introducing yourself to these folks."
  http://www.sector.ca/advisory_committee.htm
  
  "Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings to Canada the world's brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today. Unique to central Canada, SecTor provides an unmatched opportunity for IT Professionals to collaborate with their peers and learn from their mentors. Held at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre in downtown Toronto, SecTor runs two full days, November 20th and 21st. The event features Key Notes from North America's most respected and trusted experts. Speakers are true security professionals with depth of understanding on topics that matter. SecTor is a must attend event for every IT Professional."
  http://www.sector.ca/default.htm



• Stephen Ibaraki, received official notice from Microsoft in January 2007, of his Most Valuable Professional (MVP) re-Awarding for 2007. MVPs are similar to CIPS Fellows who are awarded for their outstanding contributions to information technology and the industry (Stephen is also a CIPS Fellow and NPA Distinguished Fellow) with the addition: MVPs are chosen from 90 countries and the estimated pool of 200 million IT professionals worldwide; MVPs can not be Microsoft employees but are independent experts; MVPs must demonstrate continuing outstanding contributions to be re-awarded. Stephen was the first in Canada to be awarded in his category in 2006. As an MVP, Stephen has received an invitation to attend the MVP World Summit in March 2007 which Stephen will be attending. To find out more about Stephen's MVP status, go to the Microsoft MVP profile site at:
  https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=bf2fce10-19af-45a0-a2f5-f57f666c4280
  
  
• December, 2006: The 9th annual edition of the widely regarded "Happy About Knowing What to Expect" book series which provides predictions on the global economy, business, and technology. The accuracy rate is 85% for the last two years. Top global leaders from all sectors are invited to make predictions for the annual Happy About book series whose readership include 10,000 CEOs worldwide. From this elite group of thousands, 50 are chosen for their predictions. As an acknowledged international expert in business and IT, Stephen has been again been asked for annual predictions from noted business and IT authority, and publisher, Mitchell Levy. His predictions appear under three separate trends. His predictions rank at the top.



• In the November 28, 2006, John Boufford, CIPS president and Stephen Ibaraki, CIPS vice-president, were quoted in an article by Peter Thompson in the Globe & Mail's Technology Quarterly entitled, "Can we close the gap?".
  
  
• "CANADIAN ALL-STAR EXECUTIVES.” October 9th-22nd 2006: Canadian Business, the 5th Annual THE BOSS ISSUE, Canada’s All-Star Execs, The 6 Best Managers in the Country. Stephen Ibaraki, MVP, FCIPS, is invited to the All-Star Executive Panel as a senior judge to select the best Canadian Business Executives for the All-Star Executive issue of Canadian Business. Over a long and exhaustive period of three months as judge, Stephen researches and reviews the business measures that define the winning all-star senior business executives. Stephen is the first MVP invited to serve on the distinguished All-Star Executive Panel:
  - The Cover
  - The All-Star Judging Panel
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki serves on the Board of Directors and on the executive committee as Chief Strategy Officer of ChinaValue (www.chinavalue.net). Stephen authored the business plan for ChinaValue which holds No. 1 ranking in the world's fastest growing economy of 2.2 trillion dollars, 9.9% growth, 120 million internet users and slated as the world's largest by 2010 with more than 200 million, 400 million cell phones (bigger than the next 3 countries combined), and predicted to be the world’s largest economy within 20 years. In two years [as of September 2006] with sixty 3rd party indicators of its No.1 position, Chinavalue is the No.1 Professional Content 2.0 Corporation and Professional Community in China with 10,000 writers/researchers and growing; the largest professional blogs and Web 2.0 professional-ranked community generating 100,000 research articles on business, finance, economics, investments, technology and 21 sectors of industry; the first and largest business + industry wikis [group edited encyclopedias]; 10 million readers who are in the "professional" ranks in China and rapidly growing; relationships with 1000 magazines and the top web sites (ranked in the top 10 worldwide); a strategic advisory role and media partnership with CCTV (China Central Television with 1 Billion viewers); a role with the masters programs of the top universities in China;... ChinaValue's executive team include the top leaders in business and media in China and its influence and extensive relationships hits the top ranks of business, education, media, technology, and industry. ChinaValue's focus is business and industry content and professional community or Knowledge + Talent.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, together with Mark Relph and Barnaby Jeans (Microsoft Canada); Kate Gregory (Gregory Consulting); Barry Gervin (Objectsharp Consulting); are judges for the MSDN Canada Code Awards
  MSDN Canada Code Awards is a program targeted at the broad Professional Developer audience in Canada. The concept was designed to deliver a comuunity award program that recognizes contributions of Developers & Development teams for their technical excellence, outstanding contributions in the community, business savvy or all round passion for the art of Development....
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki wrote an article in November, 2006 issue of Computing Canada entitled, "IT Skills Shortage Needs to be Addressed". (See page 2 for continuation of article.). Stephen is also quoted in the article by Peter Thompson, CEO of RIS entitled, "Retiring Boomer about to leave a big hole in the market for skilled legacy system workers". For other articles see Articles section.
  
  
• In the August 21, 2006 issue of the National Post, John Boufford, CIPS president and Stephen Ibaraki, CIPS vice-president, were quoted in an article entitled, "Crossing Guards of the Information Highway". Stephen Ibaraki was also quoted in another article entitled, "Software Makes the Grade"
  
  
• May 28, 2006, Stephen Ibaraki was elected by acclamation as Vice-President of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). In May 2007, Stephen Ibaraki will automatically transition to President of CIPS and in May 2008, Stephen Ibaraki will transition to past-president serving on the executive committee of the CIPS national board. See CIPS Connections
  
  
• In May 2006, Stephen Ibaraki is elected as a “founding” CIPS Fellow “granted only to a select number of individuals from the IT community—those who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of Information Technology…" Fellows can "now use the designation FCIPS." Fellows can be of any nationality or residency. The inaugural council of Fellows will make recommendations for future Fellows. See CIPS new membership and CIPS Fellow Members.
  See Culminis.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, I.S.P., CIPS National Board Director, was appointed to the Federal Government Computers for Success Board.
  
  
• Distinguished Fellow and Microsoft MVP, Stephen Ibaraki, was keynote speaker at the CIPS Professional Development Day in Vancouver, BC, on February, 2006. (see speakers and schedule).
  
  
• Computing Canada (CC) partners with Stephen Ibaraki, I.S.P., DF/NPA, CNP, MVP. Computing Canada's new editorial feature, Blogged Down, features Stephen Ibaraki's upcoming interviews in the Canadian IT Managers forum (CIM). Stephen Ibaraki's first featured interview is with Roger Sessions, founder and CEO, ObjectWatch Inc. For a listing of featured interviews, see:  Computing Canada (CC) "Blogged Down" Editorials
  
  
• 3 Top Honors for CIPS Board Member, Stephen Ibaraki: Lifetime Achievement Award; the Most Valuable Professional Award; and the Distinguished Fellow Award.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, received official notice (certificate and letter) from Microsoft in January 2006, of his Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. "MVPs are awarded for their demonstrated technical expertise, willingness to help others and commitment to technical communities...MVPs are technology's best and brightest," and a "stellar group of individuals from around the world who have demonstrated a willingness to reach out, share their technical expertise with others and help individuals maximize their use of technology."
  
  
• On December 16th, 2005, Computing Canada (CC) "formally broke the story" that Stephen Ibaraki is the recipient of the "2005 IT Leadership: Lifetime Achievement Award."
  
  

  Patricia MacInnis, Editor, Computing Canada: "Stephen Ibaraki is the kind of person who runs directly into the fire, knowing there will be some good coming from the experience. During the course of his career as consultant, mentor, teacher and writer, CC’s Lifetime Achievement honoree often worked 20 hours a day, seven days a week to advance the agenda of Canada’s high-tech industry."
  
  The IT Leadership Awards represent the highest of honours for the business technology industry with an estimated size of 500,000 to 800,000 professionals from business, industry, government, media, and education.
  
  The CC awards in association with CIPS "... were created to recognize the achievements of IT professionals whose ideas and works have made a positive impact on their organizations...we continue to hear stories of outstanding leadership, teamwork and overall excellence... Computing Canada’s IT Leadership Awards are the first of their kind, recognizing outstanding achievements at the individual and team level... [from CIPS:] recognizing excellence within the industry ..."
  
  Computing Canada is the No.1 bi-weekly newspaper whose broad audience also includes almost
  "...40,000 IT managers and decisions-makers in corporate Canada. Established in 1975, it is Canada's longest-standing business technology publication and is considered the best source of news and analysis on technology issues that matter to medium and large Canadian businesses...Computing Canada has the largest editorial team of any Canadian publication in its category, reporting and investigating on news, topics and concerns that affect the management of information systems departments in business, government and educational organizations..."

• In November, 2005, Stephen was interviewed for the iQ publication from Cisco where he speaks about best practices for attracting, hiring and retaining IT professionals. Also see article.
  
  
• Stephen Ibaraki, initiates and now manages the Culminis MS Exchange Support Network portal for the international Network Professional Association as a member benefit. The NPA Vancouver CESN portal contains technical and product resources for Microsoft Exchange.



• CIPS Director Stephen Ibaraki I.S.P., DF/NPA, CNP, MVP has been invited as a conference advisor and panel moderator (serving if scheduling permits) for the upcoming WowGao WorldExpo IT conferences:
  • Wireless & Mobile Expo & conference
    June 7 & 8, 2006
    National Trade Centre, Toronto, Canada
  • Government & Health Technologies Conference & Expo
    March 8 & 9, 2006
    Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Canada
  • e-Financial World Expo
    Date: T.B.A.
    Location: T.B.A.



• Because of the value, service, and community outreach provided to IT Leaders, Stephen accepted an invitation to co-host a web log with Microsoft serving a world-IT view for IT managers with a launch date of December 2005. The web log provides dynamic commentaries, text and audio interviews (podcasts), with video and web casts planned for the future.
  See http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/



• Stephen is serving on the Advisory Board for the Prithvi Institute, a registered and established NGO working at the grass-roots level in India for the empowerment of people, and rural economic development in 300 villages. In addition Stephen is providing funding support for this important group and the iGEN executive lead by CTO Derek Wallace is contributing web expertise.



• Stephen Ibaraki is invited to be a moderator for a panel discussion at the June 2006 WorldExpo Wireless and Mobile Expo & Conference. Moreover he has been invited to serve on the conference committee collaborate with and to provide counsel regarding the latest IT issue, give special input and professional advice on many aspects of the planning. As an honorary advisor he will receive a special acknowledgement of his input on the event website and show guide.



• As an acknowledged international expert in business and IT, Stephen has been asked for annual predictions from noted business and IT authority, and publisher, Mitchell Levy.  See article on 2006 Trends.  In 2003, Stephen contributed predictions, out of which two were selected from an elite group of top-ranking global experts. In 2005, Stephen contributed 3 detailed and in-depth predictions, of which all three were selected for publication in the book. The books are available through Amazon.com and other book channels.



• In 2005, Stephen Ibaraki was recognized by the International Network Professional Association (NPA) to be a "Distinguished Fellow", due to his significant contributions to the IT industry and work as an outstanding, prominent, and distinguished professional in the networking industry sector (encompassing the internet, mobile computing, telecommunications, security, networking, business continuity/disaster recovery, interoperability, privacy/identity, …). Stephen is an invited founding member to the international College of Distinguished Fellows and is now serving as a Director on the NPA Distinguished Fellows Board.



• In 2005, Stephen Ibaraki was the first professional awarded the "new and updated" CNP (Certified Network Professional) designation from the NPA.



• In 2005, Stephen Ibaraki's work was cited alongside Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and the current director of the World Web Consortium (W3C), in a paper on the Semantic Web by the Boeing Phantom Works for the W3C.



• July, 2005, Stephen Ibaraki appointed to Editorial Board of CaC Publications and he will also contribute as a writer.



• Stephen Ibaraki was appointed as Director-at-large by acclamation to the national board of the Canadian Information Society (CIPS), May 2005.



• January 2005, Stephen Ibaraki was elected to a four year term on the board of directors of Network Professional Association (NPA)



• Culminis article - IT Hero Recognition:  iGen and NPA



• Special Paper entitled, "Web Services and the Enterprise Environment" by Stephen Ibaraki, appears in the July, 2004 issue of MQ Update Journal, published by Xephon in the UK and read by enterprises worldwide.



• Network Professional Association presented the Awards for Professionalism 2004 at Networld+Interop, Las Vegas

 

• Stephen Ibaraki was appointed to Society of Industry Leaders, Vista Research Group from invitation by group, January, 2004.

 

• Stephen Ibaraki was appointed to the board of directors of the Network Professional Association (voice of the global networking sector and profession), December 15, 2003 (announcement January, 2004).
• Stephen Ibaraki was appointed to Membership in Council of Advisors, Gerson Lehrman Group from invitation by group, November, 2003.

 

• Last conference: Stephen Ibaraki at Comdex Las Vegas 2003 November 18, 2003 where he presented on Building Business Models for Web Services