AGENDA
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Opening remarks
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Panel discussion: 2022: Work reimagined.
- In this panel, CPI’s Nima Sherpa Green and two channel leaders will discuss what the most important decisions they think all partners need to consider now.
- Infrastructure spend is booming. The latest IDC figures show cloud infrastructure spending spiked at $18.6bn in Q3 2021. How are partners ensuring that they are a part of this boom over their competition?
- How are customers changing and how will this impact the channel sales?
Speakers
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Speaking session: The Future of the IT Helpdesk
Learn how to shift from a reactive style of helpdesk to a proactive approach, how automation is supporting the scaling of IT functions, and how to manage service personalisation. During this session we will be discussing:
- How clients and ticket types have changed
- The new era of your helpdesk and the role of AI
- What you need to begin changing now to ensure the future of your IT Helpdesk
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Why add AppSec to your portfoilio RIGHT now?
This Q&A session we will cover the market growth and how Checkmarx plans to support it partners and it partner program.
Key areas of discussion will include:
- The security challenges faced by businesses in the current market
- How application security can solve these challenges
- What partners can do to help
- How partners can make the most of the opportunities available
- Checkmarx Partner Program
Sponsor
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Panel Discussion: “We need the best talent now”: Growth and access to the best talent in the world
- In this panel, CPI and two partner bosses will look through the underlying problem of this long running problem in technology, and how it has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
- Is the channel being challenged by the so called “great resignation”.
- How do EMEA companies’ intent to make sure they attract the best talent to be able to make good on their growth plans in 2022?
- And what about representation? For the first time in the channel’s history, three of the four biggest resellers in the world are now run by women.
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Some partners have spoken about how hybrid working has enabled different staff within their businesses to thrive. Is the makeup of the channel’s leadership changing?
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Panel Discussion: “It’s all about security. Security is king.”
- In this panel, CPI and two EMEA security leaders will talk through the most influential elements of hybrid work, “a secure workforce” with good habits and ransomware.
- Gartner has recently warned that ransomware attacks “should be a wake-up” for those who haven’t invested in cybersecurity in the past. How have customer interactions around security changed? And importantly, what technologies are proving to be the most beneficial for a partner to include in their portfolio?
- Getting your house in order: what to partners need to invest in themselves to make sure that they’re not in the next damaging headline about a supply chain attack?
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Closing remarks