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You submit an idea and any supporting material to the What if_ team

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The What if_ team reviews and curates your ideas for a Voltron event

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IBM Cloud product teams sign up to work on relevant ideas during the event

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The event output is fed back into products and collected on the What if_ site

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Curated ideas

What if we took a more modern, innovative approach to our UI, unconstrained by todays patterns and components and focused on what the user needs in that moment?

Big idea
Animated layouts
What if_ idea no.
0212
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if we could focus on the little things, so our users could focus on the big things?

Big idea
Predictive behavior
What if_ idea no.
0201
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if migrating third party accounts to IBM Cloud could be simple and secure?

Big idea
Seamless account migration
What if_ idea no.
0202
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if instead of buying individual services, users could deploy complete solutions?

Big idea
Complete solutions
What if_ idea no.
0203
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if users could construct, manage and monitor their architecture?

Big idea
Topology gamification
What if_ idea no.
0204
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if we could be a platform for collaboration for our users?

Big idea
Team collaboration
What if_ idea no.
0205
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if users could project manage directly from the platform using the existing third party tools they know and love?

Big idea
Project management
What if_ idea no.
0206
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if we could partner with our users to help them through processing in real time?

Big idea
Real time help
What if_ idea no.
0207
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if we could maximize our users' savings by working with our competitors to offer the very best and most cost effective solution?

Big idea
Cost optimization
What if_ idea no.
0208
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if decisions were based on selections that use renewable/sustainable resources?

Big idea
Carbon optimization
What if_ idea no.
0209
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if users could turn their extra compute resources into extra income?

Big idea
Compute optimization
What if_ idea no.
0210
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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What if security threats could become non-existent for our users?

Big idea
Preventative security
What if_ idea no.
0211
Date submitted
02 Jan 2021
Date curated
02 Jan 2021
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