NI Community Impact Award Winner
Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing the star again.
Well, I won another award from NI! I was a little shocked. The last time I won an award, NI told me about it ahead of time. This time there was no notice. I was sitting at a table next to a Newark rep (they also won a couple awards). He asked what I did. I told him I was a Consultant. When they started announcing the Consultant awards, he asked me if I was going to win something. I said, "Nah, they would have told me." Well, I was wrong. When they announced my name, we both looked at each other and laughed.
This is different than the last award I won. The award I won this year is the Community Impact Award, which is apparently a new award for this year. I'm honored to be the first recipient. The award I won two years ago was the Consultant Impact Award, which this year went to Joerg from Hampelsoft - very well deserved. Steve Watts was one of the runner-ups. "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride" as Steve put it. It'll be his year eventually. Hopefully, it will be Malcolm Myers' year soon as well. He also does a lot, yet he tends to fly under the radar. There are also several other consultants doing awesome things as well, like Casey May, Erich Schlieper, Enrique Noe Arias, and a few others who also deserve some recognition. I'd love to see them up on that stage some day as well (hopefully someone from NI is reading this).
NI Press Release
NI gave me a press release to put out, so I'll copy that here so you can read all the nice flowery things they have to say about me.
SAS Workshops, a LabVIEW-based consultancy, is thrilled to announce the recent recognition of Sam Taggart of SAS Workshops at the annual NI Connect 2025 conference, where Sam was awarded the 2025 Community Award. This award recognizes the top NI partner across the globe who has helped to create and grow the NI Community of advocates for NI products and the NI brand.
“Sam hosts many events pulling in NI Consultants from around the world discussing NI technology and ways to grow our businesses together. Sam creates cool new forums such as the Denver Test Forum and hosts a podcast called The LabVIEW Experiment. Sam also shows up on campus to advocate for NI where he teaches hands-on LabVIEW training at universities. Big thanks to Sam for being a fearless leader in creating the new communities for future NI engineers. of the future”said Joshua Landau, Global Partner Program Director at NI during the 2025 Partner Day keynote address at NI Connect.
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