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Hi. I am Larry Paise. I am the Worldwide Program Director for the Rational Accelerated Value Program (AVP).
I would like to welcome you to this year's Innovate, the IBM technical summit.
This is my first year hosting the Accelerated Value Program portion of the event.
I am looking forward to welcoming over 100 of you, our Accelerated Value Program customers, to the event this year.
I am really excited because I think we have a great conference planned for you.
This year for the first time,
we are bring together what we call the Integrated Services Delivery (ISD) zone.
The ISD zone will bring together the Rational Consulting Cafe, the
the Support Safe, and the Accelerated Value Program Red Carpet Lounge
into one, integrated experience. You will be able to find the ISD zone on the second floor in "Asia 5", in the same place that you
found the Red Carpet Lounge in past years. Now, the three portions will be together. The conference will start for you
on Sunday evening at 5 PM with our exclusive AVP welcome reception. Wendy Toh, the vice president for Client Success will be hosting
with Jin Zhang, the directory of Client Programs, and myself on hand to welcome all of you. We expect to have a number of our Rational brand
executives dropping by so that you will be able to mingle with them, have conversations, grab a beverage, have a good time, and get ready for a
great week. As always,
we have the Red Carpet lounge opening at 8 AM each day.
Stop by. This is your area to relax during the day, take a break between sessions, grab a beverage or snack.
Our AVP staff will be on hand to act as concierges.
We will be there to answer questions, talk to you about your program, how things are going, get your feedback, and see what we can do to
generally improve everything about our program. Your satisfaction is very important to us.
This year leading up to the conference, we polled many of you, asking you about the exclusive technical sessions and what you
wanted to hear most. I am very pleased to announce that we have seven great sessions lined up for you that are exclusive to AVP
customers. If you have not yet received your invitation for these sessions, stop by the Red Carpet Lounge. We will be happy to give you an
agenda and make sure you are setup to get into these sessions. Since this is my first full year as the Rational AVP leader, I have not yet met
many of you. I am looking forward to seeing you face-to-face. I thought I would take a few minutes this morning to do this video blog
because we have not yet met. We will be seeking your feedback on the program with a client feedback initiative we have undertaken.
It will only take a few minutes and it will be a very friendly conversation. I hope you will engage us, allow us to get your feedback,
collect that, and factor that into our future plans.
I am looking forward to hosting you in the Red Carpet Lounge throughout the conference.
I will see you in Orlando. Thank you for listening.