Stephen Ibaraki, ISP Educator-Professional Achievement Award Recipient-Chief Architect Capilano College-CIPS/NPA-iGeninc.com

Participating in the following:

Tuesday, 11/18/2003 - 11:30am–12:30pm
Building Business Models for Web Services

Stephen Ibaraki, ISP, is an award-winning educator, researcher, writer, speaker, industry analyst, and IT professional who has been working with computing technology for more than 35 years. The NPA, the global voice of the networking industry, in cooperation with Networld+Interop Las Vegas, Network World magazine, and Network Computing magazine, awarded Stephen Ibaraki the inaugural 2002 Career Achievement Award, the highest award for outstanding achievements and professionalism in the industry. In 2001, the non-profit Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), presented Stephen with the prestigious Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award, the highest of IT awards, for his "integrity and expertise," and "outstanding achievements in fields related to information processing," and "for his knowledge, skill and experience to the IT industry as a writer, researcher, consultant, and advisor to the media." Concurrently, he was inducted into the IT Hall of Fame for his outstanding contributions to information processing and the IT industry. In addition, Stephen is a CIPS expert for media requests in more than 50 areas of information technology and his interviews with distinguished international business and IT professionals and world-renowned experts appear bi-weekly in CIPS Connection. Other awards and recognitions include: - The "IT Hero Award" for "the adoption of new technology to solve problems…vision, courage, and tenacity to introduce a new innovation" presented by Industry Canada and the Information Technology Association of Canada, representing the top 1300 corporations in computing, telecommunications, software, services, and electronic content. - The "All Star Team Award" for overall IT excellence presented by Datatech Systems, at that time, the largest IT outsourcing, field service, mini/micro OEM, and research company. - Selection as one of the top writers in science and technology by the Western Magazine Foundation. - Multiple teaching awards and commendations for IT excellence. - And multiple selections as a finalist for Career Achievement Awards from a variety of prestigious organizations. Too numerous to list, Stephen has been profiled and interviewed as an international IT expert for his work by top newspapers, magazines, organizations and corporations, and he has served as a certification exam author. In addition, he has authored research consultancy reports, and articles distributed to more than 10,000 enterprises worldwide. Due to his unique expertise and international reputation, Stephen has received requests to present worldwide such as at the prestigious, biennial 2002 World Computing Congress which had representation from all major research institutions and IT federations from more than 60 countries. He led all ten briefings over two days in London at an international conference for enterprises sponsored by Xephon (founded in 1980), the leading European technical and marketing research organization, consultancy report and professional journal publishing group serving more than 10,000 enterprises in over 80 countries. As an independent international IT expert, researcher, educator, and chairman/chief architect of igeninc.com, Stephen is featured in more than 17, up to hour-long, publicly-available (now archived) webcasts, many with live Q&A for Skillsoft (formerly called Smartforce), the world's largest e-learning company with 2500 enterprise clients, and 4.5 million users. The worldwide broadcasts cover the gamut of leading-edge technology designs and implementations. Stephen can be reached at StephenIbaraki.com, sibaraki@cips.ca, 604 812 5717