Earlier this week I received the email I’ve been looking forward to!
Dear Nico,
I’m happy to report that your 2022 Veeam Vanguard Renewal Nomination has been approved, congratulations! Through 2021, we hope you have enjoyed the Veeam Vanguard Program despite it has been still a different experience than we used to have before Covid times. We are happy to extend to you an invitation to the 2022 Vanguard class hopefully enabling us to host more events with an in-person element in the hybrid format, that will most probably become a new standard nowadays and meet you also in other than online way.
This will be my second year as a Vanguard and I’m forever grateful for the possibilities it provided to me.
Some of the highlights:
- Access to test/beta version of software to run in the home-lab. I get to play with features that are yet to be released to the public.
- Friday Vanguard calls, where a bunch of us join a meeting and talk about whatever comes to mind. Might be work, current news, weather, Internet in West Virginia, or family.
- I was able to participate at VeeamOn update being interviewed in a very awesome TV Set as a customer of Veeam. It was a great experience and something I had never done.
- Veeam Summit; While I was not able to go to Prague for the summit in 2021 due to concerns for Covid, I’m hopeful I’ll be able to attend this year.
- Not gonna’ lie, the swag is top notch!
- Slack channel for Vanguards, which is a great resource for laughter and to tip into the “Hive Mind”
If you are curious about the current list of Vanguards, it can be found here.
