Judges
Category judging:
Submissions for each category will be assessed by experts from New Zealand Reseller News, IBM and an independent industry judge. A short-list of no more than four finalists will be drawn up for each category. These finalists will be announced in the 4 February 2010 edition of Reseller News.
Category winners will be selected from the short-list of finalists by the same panel of judges upon further investigation.
Supreme Winner Judging
The Supreme Winner will be selected from one of the four project-based category winners: Smart Work, New Intelligence, Dynamic Infrastructure, and Green & Beyond.
All winners will be announced at a cocktail event in Auckland on 10 March 2011. A commemorative supplement, with editorial on all winners, will feature in Reseller News on 18 March 2011.
Interview
Every customer put forward as an entry will be contacted and interviewed within 72 hours of entering. Please advise your customer to make sure of their availability. Duration of interviews will be a maximum of 30 minutes.
In addition, all finalists (business partners) will also be interviewed by a panel of judges for a maximum of 30 minutes. Interviews with finalist partners will happen in January/February 2011.
Entries and votes closed.
Editorial coverage of finalists
There will be editorial coverage of finalists in the Reseller News 4 March 2011 edition.
Announcement of winners
Winners will be announced at a cocktail evening event in Auckland on 10 March 2011, and will be announced in the Reseller News 18 March 2011 edition. Please note the IBM BP Awards cocktail evening is by invitation only.
Please contact
Tina Curley at IBM, on +64 4 462 3325 or email
ccurley@nz1.ibm.com