IBM 101
This company was originally known as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
What is IBM?
This organization represents state CIOs across the U.S.
What is NASCIO?
This branch of the U.S. government is responsible for enforcing federal laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This is the nickname we coined for the Pub/Fed Marketing team.
What is the A-Team?
This number of nights are referenced in “The 12 Days of Christmas.”
What is 12?
True or False: IBM invented the floppy disk.
What is True?
This level of government includes cities, counties, and municipalities.
What is local government?
This agency is responsible for collecting federal taxes.
What is the IRS?
IBM’s required approval process for meals, entertainment, or gifts provided to public or federal attendees.
What is CTEBA?
This country is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition.
What is Germany?
This graphic designer created the iconic striped IBM logo.
Who is Paul Rand?
This term refers to the process of purchasing goods and services in government.
What is procurement?
This cabinet-level department is responsible for disaster response and emergency management.
What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
We ran out of swag at this event.
Trick Question: What is every single one?
This holiday movie features Kevin McCallister.
What is Home Alone?
Founded in this year, IBM has been around for over a century.
What is 1911?
This government agency oversees public health at the federal level in the U.S.
What is HHS? (or CDC)
IBM works with federal agencies to modernize these older software and hardware systems.
What are legacy systems?
This question is most likely to appear in Angela's slack/email.
What is "Can we fund this?"
This festive drink is also known as “milk punch.”
What is eggnog?
IBM recently acquired this Data Streaming platform for $11 billion.
What is Confluent?
This field focuses on the research, development, and regulation of medicines and vaccines.
What are life sciences?
This IBM platform allows federal clients to manage and analyze large-scale data for AI and analytics.
What is watsonx.data?
The dollar-value threshold at IBM events that triggers approval when hosting government-related attendees.
What is the clip level?
This holiday ballet premiered in 1892 and features the Sugar Plum Fairy.
What is The Nutcracker?