BlueMix Meetups

I still remember when the Technical Rockstar event was launched, and one quarter passed. We received email about the first RockStar of IBM. This triggered me; even we can give it a try. I discussed with my team mate Subha, we took the discussion up seriously with our Manager and other team members in our team. After some good amount of discussion and with management support, we finally started planning our events. I took Pavan’s help in organizing meetups for educational institutions in Bangalore, whereas Subha helped in organizing meetups outside Bangalore.

We prepared the materials and a demo for presenting BlueMix. And even before we know we have reached the start of Sept Month. We just had 1 month left for the quarter. We started planning our meetups in such a way that we could cover as many as possible, also making sure our day to day work is not effected.

Initially, the first meetup was little difficult, we were tensed. But after we completed one, then the remaining was like a piece of cake. I involved all the members of the team to join me in conducting metups. It was a very good experience, were we connected to outside world of IBM and gave them insight of IBM and BlueMix all about.

We also saw many interested students who approached us and were interested to make the final year project using BlueMix. We met various type students and technical people, educated them on the new approaches and future way of software production etc.

By end of the quarter, when results came out, I was really surprised and very happy to know that I had won the first place in Rock star event under meetups category. It was really a wonderful experience.

I was also happy to know that my co-speaker Pavan won 2^nd Prize & Subha won 3^rd Prize in Rockstar event.

I would like to thank Gaurav & Girish (Management), Pavan (co-speaker for most of the sessions), Ajit & Neha (BlueMix team), Subha (Helped us to kickoff & plan), all my team members, my wife & kid (As I conducted meetups even during weekends) for all the support they have given me. Without them this would not have been possible.

This is the list of meetups conducted by us :-

SL	College Name/BP	Date	# of Participants	Presenters
1	Nitte Meenakshi College	04/09/2014	192	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
2	SMIT, Chennai	05/09/2014	141	Subha Thangaraj
3	MAHER, Chennai	05/09/2014	87	Subha Thangaraj
4	Reva College	06/09/2014	38	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Sathish Subramanyam
5	East West College	09/09/2014	561	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
6	Shri Pillappa College	11/09/2014	99	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Virupazappa Satenahalli
7	Brindavan College	17/09/2014	224	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
8	SKSJ College	18/09/2014	70	Divya Mallya,  Subha Thangaraj & Dheeraj Kumar Krishan
9	Siddharatha College, Vijaywada	18/09/2014	221	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
10	VIT, Vellore	19/09/2014	79	Subha Thangaraj, Bibhudatta Mohapatra & Dheeraj Kumar Krishan
11	CMR College	20/09/2014	118	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan, Pavan Muralidhara & Paresh C Nayak
12	Gopalan College	22/09/2014	152	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
13	Jain College, Kanakapura	23/09/2014	114	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
14	Jyothy College, Kanakapura	26/09/2014	140	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
15	Jnana Vikas College, Bidadi	26/09/2014	187	Dheeraj Kumar Krishan & Pavan Muralidhara
16	Indira Institute of Technology	26/09/2014	180	Subha Thangaraj