The IT Channel Summit: Capitalizing on Disruptive Technologies
Monday, May 7th, 9:00am-6:00pm
How to Monetize Cloud & Mobility by Providing Business and Tech Solutions to Today’s Customers
Who: 100+ Channel Decision Makers
You’ve heard many experts offer their prognostications for how the disruptive forces of cloud and mobility will reshape the computing landscape. It’s time to move beyond a conceptual understanding of these two powerful forces, roll up your sleeves, and dig into the details of how to establish sustainable cloud and mobility practices. This summit will bring together vendors, solution providers, integrators and experts that can help you identify the opportunities in cloud and mobility that touch on a wide range of topics including security, infrastructure, services, communications, storage, virtualization and many more.
The sessions will offer insight into:
- What steps are required to fully rationalize your strategy and offerings
- How you identify the early opportunities and quick wins
- What investments have to be considered
- What relationships must be established with key providers and partners to advance your offering
- What pitfalls and trappings must be avoided
- How to talk to customers regarding your cloud and mobile capabilities
- What skills are going to be required in your business and how you go about attracting and hiring for those diverse skills
- Overall, the summit provides a blueprint for monetizing cloud and mobility services that will offer a high ROI, bolster your bottom line and drive customer satisfaction higher.
Agenda:
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | UBM Channel Introduction |
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| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Opening General Session: Cloud Integrator Forum Moderator: Ron Dupler, CEO, GreenPages Technology Solutions |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Keynote |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | General Session: Mobility Speaker: Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Industry Insight Concurrent Sessions |
| Cloud Cloud Integrator Forum |
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| Mobility Speaker: Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group |
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| 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Panel |
| 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm | General Session: Cloud Speaker: Ken Thoreson, President, Acumen Management Group |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote |
| 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm | Closing General Session: Mobility Speaker: Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst & Consultant |
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Closing Remarks/Cocktail Reception |