Hi Google Cloud Community,
We’re excited to share that later this month, Google Cloud Innovators will be recognized in the Google Cloud Community with a new verified status and avatar icon!
If you’re not yet familiar, Google Cloud Innovators is a program for developers, cloud practitioners, and anyone interested in learning more about Google Cloud, where you can join live events to learn the latest directly from Googlers, receive weekly digests of the most important Google Cloud news, and receive credits for Google Cloud Skills Boost labs and learning.
There’s also a smaller group of about 500 Innovators called Champion Innovators, who are nominated by Googlers and are technical experts in Google Cloud products and services.
Beginning on August 29th, you’ll start to see Innovators and Champion Innovators repping their new verified status and avatar icons in the Google Cloud Community - across the forums, when speaking at an event, and anywhere you can show up in the Community.
Why are we excited about this?
Stay tuned in the Google Cloud Community News & Announcements for future updates and in the meantime, check out the following resources and FAQs.
How do I become a Google Cloud Innovator?
How do I become a Google Cloud Community member?
I’m a Google Cloud Innovator, but I don’t see my avatar icon in the Google Cloud Community. What should I do?
Still not seeing your verified status after 24 business hours? Please reach out to gc-customer-community@google.com.
Special thank you from the Google Cloud Community team (@AndrewB @Willie_Turney @Roderick @shanefeely) to the Google Cloud Innovators team for their partnership! @cpercy @CrystalSmith @nmchugh @JustinH @cgwallace
I'm looking forward to this! It is an evolution to recognize all of you who contribute your knowledge and passion with the growing community of Google Cloud experts. 👏
I am excited about this update! So many Innovators and Innovator Champions are already contributing their expertise to The Google Cloud Community. The team and I are eager to welcome more and shine a spotlight on their work. Thank you to everyone who is making this community a such a valuable destination!
Great update! Big thanks to all the Innovators and Innovator Champions contributing today and in the future 🙏
I have joined the innovator program with a monthly subscription and I get free access to qwiklabs where having credit was earlier needed, however, when I visit the landing page for innovators, it always asks me to join and the button never submits. I guess it's a bug in the site.
Nice, Champion badge already visible!
Hi @Lauren_vdv !
There is a path to be a champion innovator? Or some article to read about that?
Thanks in advance!
I'm looking forward to this! It is an evolution to recognize all of you who contribute your knowledge and passion with the growing community of Google Cloud experts. 👏