NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program - 2022

The NVIDIA Virtual GPU Community Advisor (NGCA) Program provides an opportunity for participants to gain deeper insight into NVIDIA development and strategy. Awardees will be given opportunities to work closely with and influence key NVIDIA engineering and business units. Awardees will be those recognized to be best placed to influence NVIDIA strategy as being key representatives or technologists for the wider community of NVIDIA customers and also partners whose products and businesses are influenced by NVIDIA’s direction.

Benefits include:
• In-person meetings and private online meetings with NVIDIA product teams for detailed discussions on current technologies and product roadmaps
• Special incentives to attend or speak at NVIDIA GTC and other events
• Access to a private forum for discussions with NVIDIA product teams about technologies, product updates and priority technical support
• Regular NGCA member meetings with key product and development staff
• Access to demo licenses of current products and to early releases of future products
• Technical support contacts

Program
The program is built around the NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions, which include NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS), NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC), Virtual Apps (vApps), Virtual Compute Server (vCS) and NVIDIA AI Enterprise (NVAIE) for enterprise and professional 3D graphics in VDI/Cloud/Mobility/Compute (HPC/DL/ML) workloads. Although as the program grows, other product lines and graphics technologies may be added. An initial cap on program membership is 25 places.

Eligibility
The Program recognizes the contributions of individuals who have invested a significant amount of time and resources to become experts in NVIDIA products and solutions or in related technological fields and are recognized in the industry as such. All applicants must be able to demonstrate technical skills and hands-on experience of an appropriate technology. It is more important to demonstrate an understanding of the technical and market context of usage and adoption of NVIDIA technologies than silicon GPU expertise (NVIDIA has a lot of those type of experts already!).
It is expected that these trusted advisors will have also demonstrated a wealth of knowledge and have assisted NVIDIA customers by openly sharing such knowledge. These individuals will generally have consistently demonstrated their real-world knowledge by:
• Sharing insights on web sites and contributing to online discussions (e.g. NVIDIA virtual GPU forums)
• Creating or fostering active communities of NVIDIA users
• Publishing technical documentation, articles, or books
• Offering technical expertise in the field
• Speaking at IT or academic conferences
• Open Source Coding or community software development

We recognize that whilst many experts may come from communities where blogging and twitter usage is extremely common. Others may come from industries (e.g. CAD ISVs) where communication and knowledge is shared in other ways and blogging may indeed be discouraged. Candidates are free to substitute any demonstrator of appropriate communication within the area of the community they feel they are best placed to represent and advice.

Involvement Requirements
We intend to hold some face-to-face meetings, including at NVIDIA’s Santa Clara HQ (if possible). We recognize that some of those best placed to advise us may be unavailable. As such in-person attendance is neither a requirement for application nor re-appointment to the program. We intend to also organize meetings at events our staff are attending such as events from Citrix, VMware VMworld, Siggraph, AutoDesk University if the demographic of the program makes it appropriate.

This is a worldwide program and applicants from all geographies are strongly encouraged. Where feasible the program intends to hold meetings rotating over the appropriate geographies for members. Initially this is likely to include an EMEA and USA based meeting each year.

Membership of the program is awarded to the individual and based on the achievements of the individual.

Application Schedule
New candidates and current awardees will be reviewed annually. Evaluations are based on recent community contributions. To be considered for the NGCA Program you must submit an application. In terms of the Application Schedule, we are aiming for the following dates.
• February 1st 2022 – Program Details Released and Applications Open
• March 1st 2022 – Applications Close
• March 15th 2022 – Awardees Announced

Similar Enterprise and Datacenter Programs
NVIDIA have decided to instigate this program to align with our many datacenter and enterprise partners who are running similar programs. Having reviewed the benefits of this enterprise model for obtaining high-quality feedback and supporting a broad ecosystem we are keen to share in the benefits with our own community.
Potential applicants are encouraged to review similar programs
• CTP (Citrix Technology Professional)
• Influencer (HP)
• Mentor (SAP)
• MVP (Microsoft Valued Professional)
• vExpert (VMware)

We recommend you prepare your application in a word document or similar and then cut-n-paste to avoid any issues if the submission fails. We also advise candidates to retain a copy as places in the initial year may be highly-oversubscribed and we'd like strong candidates to be in a position to reapply next time.
If you have any questions on the NGCA program in general or the NGCA 2022 Application specifically, please reach out via nvidia-vgpu-community-advisor@nvidia.com​

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