- 2010 -
Stephen Ibaraki, DFNPA, CNP, FCIPS, ISP, ITCP/IP3P,
MVP was invited to join
the NPA and the board of the NPA in 2004
after being the inaugural
recipient of the Award for Professionalism,
Career Achievement Award. The award is a partnership of the NPA,
Interop Conferences (world's largest interoperability conferences),
Pearson Publishing (world's largest educational publisher), Network Computing (CMP), Network World
(IDG), Global IT Community Association (GITCA,
world's largest computing alliance),
Microsoft, Novell, ...and others since 2002. Stephen received
this inaugural global industry’s highest honour in
2002
after an extensive and lengthy worldwide search for the best
leveraging the reach of award partners Networld+Interop
Conferences, Network Computing and Network World publications (the
premier and largest publications in the industry sector), and others.
As noted in the award citation: "Canadian Stephen Ibaraki
took home the highest honor as the recipient of the Best
Networking Professional – Career Achievement Award.
Ibaraki is chairman of iGEN Knowledge Solutions Inc. and senior
faculty/head of research for Advanced Professional Programs at
Capilano College. As a distinguished writer and speaker with a
career stretching over 35 years, Ibaraki has won numerous awards,
including the prestigious Gary Hadford Professional Achievement
Award, the highest of international IT awards, presented to him by
the Canadian Information Processing Society." "Presiding
over this year's NPA Awards for Professionalism were judges Jim
Belasco, chairman, NPA board of directors; Chris Setz, president,
NPA advisory board; Fritz Nelson, publisher, Network Computing
Magazine; and John Gallant, editorial director , Network World
Magazine."
The award story was picked up
internationally by the press. For example:
North Shore News (British Columbia), June 16, 2002
Sunday, NEWS; Pg. 28. Here's an extract from the story:
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The Network Professional
Association (NPA) recently presented its 2002
Career Achievement
Award for Best Networking Professional
...[Stephen]
Ibaraki is chairman and chief architect of iGEN Knowledge
Solutions Inc. and senior faculty for the college. As a
distinguished writer and speaker with a career stretching over
35 years, Ibaraki has won numerous awards, including the
prestigious Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award,
presented to him by the Canadian Information Processing Society.
The awards program, which recognized individual excellence in
the networking profession across several categories, commenced
during an awards presentation ceremony at Networld and Interop,
Las Vegas on May 8, 2002. The program was co-sponsored by
Networld and Interop and Network World magazine, with support
from Network Computing, a CMP Media LLC publication.
"It is an honor for the NPA to recognize outstanding
professionals such as Stephen
Ibaraki, ISP, who,
like so many in our industry, works diligently to develop
networks that keep mission-critical business systems up and
running 24 hours a day," stated Jim Belasco, chairman of the NPA
board.
The Best Networking Professional -- Career Achievement
Award honours a networking professional who has demonstrated the
highest level of professionalism and work ethic in the industry,
and who has demonstrated a lifetime of outstanding achievements
in the network computing industry. This individual serves as a
role model in the network computing community and may be
considered by peers as an industry luminary. The individual's
ethical standards and years of experience are much in evidence
in this award.
Ibaraki, the inaugural recipient of this lifetime
achievement award, contributes his international expertise to
many organizations including writing regularly for the Canadian
Information Processing Society, News from National publication
(www.cips.ca), Xephon professional journals published from
England (www.xephon. com), and contributes to the HiTech Career
Journal (www.brassring.com).
Ibaraki's company, www.igeninc.com, is the world's
leading company in database design, developing solutions that
enable interoperation with legacy systems, and in developing
cost-effective .NET implementations. Ibaraki's makes many
worldwide Internet broadcasts with Smartforce, the world's
largest e-learning/e-services company.
The Canadian Information Processing Society, host for the
2002 World Computing Congress, presented Ibaraki with the
prestigious Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award, the
highest of IT awards. He was also inducted into the IT Hall of
Fame, included in Lexington's Who's Who for international career
achievement, presented the IT Hero Award by ITAC and Industry
Canada and the All Star team award by EDS/SystemHouse-Datatech,
and named a Top Writer by the Western Magazine Foundation.
Ibaraki has been awarded commendations for excellence
from hundreds of organizations since 1973. From more than five
million professionals, he was profiled globally by Microsoft for
his leading role in the IT industry in addition to serving as a
certification exam author.
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Stephen Ibaraki was awarded as a
founding distinguished fellow in
2005.
As noted in the citation: "These
professionals have been "uniquely" singled out for special
distinction out of an estimated 50 million IT workers in
business, government, education, and media in more than 100
countries. They are in the Global Hall of Fame for the
industry."
Beginning in
January 2005, Stephen served a
4-year term as Vice-Chair and in 2005 to January 2010 served as
publisher and managing editor of the
NPA Journal
and as chair of the editorial board.
In 2005, Ibaraki was invited to present at the Networld+Interop
Conference Las Vegas on strategic planning at the AGM of the
NPA. From 2005 to 2010, Stephen also served as chair of the
college of distinguished fellows. Stephen
continues to serve as a director on the editorial board of the NPA
Journal, director on the certification council, director on the
college of distinguished fellows, judge for the
International Awards for Professionalism and board director of the NPA.
His interviews with industry leaders appear on the NPA
web site
and in every issue of the NPA Journal.
Work outside the
NPA
Working with technology since 1965, he is a
multiple Hall of Fame Inductee
and multiple Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. As the most
awarded industry analyst, a few of his more than 100 international
recognitions, roles, awards for a lifetime of outstanding
contributions are
profiled by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS),
where he is a founding fellow.
According to the CIPS citation: "The
Fellow Membership is awarded to professionals in the Information
Technology (IT) sector who have made an outstanding contribution
to the advancement of the profession or industry in Canada.
The Fellow is the highest class of membership offered by
CIPS and can only be obtained with approval from the CIPS
National Board of Directors. Only Fellow Members can nominate an
individual for a Fellow Membership." (CIPS is the official
representative for Canada to the UN-Founded International
Federation for Information Processing [IFIP], the UNESCO
consultative body for IT.) Ibaraki also served
as Chairman of the National Board and Chairman of CIPS in 2007
and 2008. During his Presidency, CIPS celebrated its 50th
anniversary and received this
special message from the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen
Harper: "I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone
marking the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Information
Processing Society (CIPS), the professional association for
information technology (IT) practitioners in Canada. This
special milestone offers a wonderful opportunity to reflect upon
past achievements, while setting goals for the future. Since
1958, CIPS has represented its membership on important issues
affecting the IT industry and profession. The association has
promoted high ideals of competence and ethical practices through
certification, accreditation programs, and professional
development. I would like to commend CIPS members for carrying
out their responsibilities with integrity, expertise and
professionalism. You may take pride in having earned the
privilege of joining an organization that ensures its members
merit the confidence and trust of those who engage professional
IT services. Your efforts have made positive and lasting
contributions to Canada’s economic growth and competitiveness.
On behalf of the Government of Canada, please accept my best
wishes for a memorable anniversary and continued success in the
future.
The Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P. Ottawa, 2008"
Upon receiving his lifetime
Advanced Technology Award
in 2008, the leader of the opposition,
Carole James provided her congratulations by noting, "I am
pleased that you are being recognized for you advancements in
technology."
Premier Gordon Campbell provided this message
to Stephen Ibaraki: “Congratulations
on being honoured for your Advanced Technology Award...you have distinguished yourself in your
field of endeavour by promoting pioneer 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.
Sincerely,
Gordon Campbell
Premier"
In 2009, in recognition of
Stephen Ibaraki's influence, experience, lifetime achievements,
global leadership roles, he was invited to be an ambassador for the
People-to-People program founded by President Eisenhower and
chaired by successive Presidents. "I have long believed, as
have many before me, that peaceful relations between nations
requires understanding and mutual respect between individuals."
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Founder of People to People International
As a widely recognized IT and business
professional, StephenIbaraki was named Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
for “technology’s best and brightest” by Microsoft in Windows Live
Research and Development in 2009 (the only one globally) and he
has received the MVP award in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010
including an inaugural top 5 spotlight at the global MVP summit in
2007 and an inaugural two of the top 7 blogger positions (the only
one worldwide) for 2 different blog platforms at the global MVP
summit in 2008. Due to his unique MVP standing, in 2008-2009,
Stephen was invited to take on the Chief Editor role for Microsoft
YouShapeIT/Technet where he featured interviews with MVPs for
their roles as top-ranking authorities. Moreover, due to his
reputation, he is a featured
keynote speaker in the EU, U.S., and Canada.
He is also a multiple award-winning past senior educator (business
and technology), academic program head (business, technology,
research); multi-company founder/entrepreneur; and
official
3rd-party senior industry advisor/analyst to Microsoft Canada and
Microsoft Redmond.
Stephen Ibaraki's writing endeavours have led him to become: a
top-ranked blogger as co-host of the
IT Manager Connection Blog, the largest online IT management
community; chief editor or publisher of IT journals including
Microsoft's YouShapeIT; publisher and managing editor of the
Network Professional Association's (NPA) Journal, where he also
serves as NPA past vice-chair and current board director,
certification board director, past chair and
current editorial board director, and
past chair and current college of distinguished fellows director. Writing since the
1970s’, his weekly podcasts interviews with top scientists,
futurists, business leaders, technologists have an audience reach
of more than 60 million in over 100 countries.
Stephen Ibaraki plays an important role in many national and
international boards including: July 2010
appointment as chairman of the international Board of Directors
following a January 2010 board appointment to the Vine
Group, an international investment and merchant banking, venture
capital, strategic advisory group; founding chairman (2008/9) of
the global board of the Global IT Community Association (GITCA)
the world's largest alliance of IT organizations representing
several million business and IT members, where he still serves as
board director and advisor (2009-present) while immediate past chairman;
founding chairman of the iGEN Knowledge Solutions board (an international
business solutions, strategic advisory and product development
group); past national board director, vice-president, chairman,
and president (2005-2008) of the National Board of CIPS (Canadian
Information Processing Society), where he is currently advisor
(2008-present) to the Office of the Executive Council (OEC) as
past president; founder
Global Industry Council and member director (Stephen Ibaraki
nominated all founding member directors-2010), senior vice-president of strategic
relations (2010-present), chief business development officer, business plan
co-leader/author (2009) and invited international consultant to
the UN-founded IFIP IP3 initiative (2007-present); business plan
author and chief strategy and alliance officer (2005-present) for
ChinaValue, holding the number one position in professional social
network services, professional social media, and business
intelligence/market research in Asia, reaching out to over 60
million business and IT professionals; board director for Computer
for Success; and much more.
He is also an active member of the IT community:
a judge at the MSDN Code Awards and Ignite Awards and invited
expert to the Ignite Your Career Webcasts; member of the IEEE-CS;
invited member of the ACM (Professions Board
PD [professional development] committee, 2010 chair Intel ISEF
committee and 2010 chief ACM special awards judge at the world's
largest, International Science and Engineering Fair or ISEF);
invited member Microsoft Global IT Advisory Council; invited
member Gerson Lehrman Group (past Gerson Lehrman Scholar, a
distinction for the top advisors in industry worldwide); invited
member GuidePoint Global (formerly Society of Industry Leaders
Vista Research Group (unit of Standard & Poor); past member
2006/7/8 Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).
Because of his invaluable experience, he is a sought out advisor
or panelist for McKinsey, the renowned business strategy group.
In 2010,
Ibaraki was appointed Senior Vice-President Strategic Relations for
the UN-founded International Federation for Information
Processing's (IFIP) International Professional Practice
Partnership (IP3) which implemented a
global certification and
professionalism program in 2009.
Ibaraki was the opening
keynote in 2008 and 2009 for the National Council of IT Deans,
where his opening keynote at their summit in the past two years
has garnered a unique 100 per cent response rating
and increase in enrolment numbers by following Stephen's
recommendations. The results and impact are measured in this
letter to Stephen Ibaraki from the Chair of the National Council
of IT Deans.
Stephen was the opening
keynote for the non-profit Cisco Academy
Academic Conferences, where his opening keynotes throughout the
year received a unique 100% rating. The results
and impact are measured in this
letter to Stephen Ibaraki from the manager of the Academy
program.
A few of Stephen's
additional contributions include: keynote at the
Strategic
Architecture Forum for architects from every sector, with a 97.5%
rating; the Prithvi Institute, India where he serves on their
advisory board; past five years on the
All-Star advisory panel for
Canadian Business Magazine's annual All-Star Executive search
awarding the top executives in the best performing corporations;
advisory committee SeCTor, North America’s largest security
conference focused on the black arts; 2010 appointment to the
advisory board of the
Neil Squire Society, the leading
organization innovating technologies and services for people with
disabilities; and various fortune 500 corporations.
