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I have been placing the registration links for the user groups at ibm.biz/ibmscaleug for events throughout the year. Currently, we have the Italy, ISC user group links and US San Jose Silicon Valley Labs (SVL) links live.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;"><a href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=455a5726-431d-4a43-a544-019d96d46d19&CommunityKey=64bee33a-49c0-4158-9ce7-6012673e77e3&Home=%2fhigherlogic%2focapi%2foc%2fevents%2fcommunityEventsList%2fgetEventsList" class="link-title" data-outlook-id="c64207ad-f0c7-4f17-b2bb-4d0cbd5bfb40" style="color: rgb(15, 98, 254); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><u>Milan
- IBM Storage Scale User Group Event, May 25 Milan, Italy</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;"><a href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=56b44936-75f6-442b-a391-019e1f03c2fb&CommunityKey=64bee33a-49c0-4158-9ce7-6012673e77e3&Home=%2fhigherlogic%2focapi%2foc%2fevents%2fcommunityEventsList%2fgetEventsList" class="link-title" data-outlook-id="8e7a4c36-0770-444f-abf5-6ff8ccaca796" style="color: rgb(15, 98, 254); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><u>Hamburg
ISC - IBM Storage Scale User Group Event, June 23rd</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;"><a href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=eb80cca7-111d-4246-8bcc-019e1f0b5702&CommunityKey=64bee33a-49c0-4158-9ce7-6012673e77e3&Home=%2fhigherlogic%2focapi%2foc%2fevents%2fcommunityEventsList%2fgetEventsList" class="link-title" data-outlook-id="0474c3f0-982a-4c0b-94be-a3699aa590e5" style="color: rgb(15, 98, 254); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><u>San
Jose - 2026 West Coast IBM Data and AI Scale Storage New User Seminar</u></a></span></div>
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Jose - 2026 West Coast IBM Storage Scale User Group Event</u></a></span></div>
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