This year will be my second year attending CompTia’s ChannelCon. I can remember my first ChannelCon like it was yesterday. I had just joined Vembu and was getting up to speed on on everything IT, and although I was nervous to be attending my first tech trade show, CompTia helped train me to be knowledgeable in marketing in the channel. I was able to take a three day long course on channel marketing that gave me a robust foundation on vendor positioning. It was a gold mine.
Aside from the courses I took, I met with a lot of really interesting women in technology who were able to give me really good perspectives on their positions and careers choices and how they were able to make an impact in their lives and communities. Needless to say, I am absolutely excited to be able to attend CompTia ChannelCon this year as a representative for Vembu and look forward to meeting more people, this time with a little more confidence.
If you have not yet been able to attend CompTia ChannelCon, there are many reasons why you should consider it. Aside from the vendor fair where you will find companies from across the nation exhibiting their latest technologies, CompTia offers certification courses and meetup groups where you are able to network with like minded peers in IT. You can earn well regarded business credentials and executive certificates on-site, and collaborate with the IT channel’s most impressive leaders. Last year I was able to network with AT&T and IBM, just to name a few.
CompTia also offers hands on workshop sessions where you can work in groups to problem solve. I found these sessions to be fun and beneficial. Not only were they a great way to get to know other people, they were a great learning tool when it came to trying to solve problems taking different real-world approaches. I found the session leaders to be well qualified and prepared.
This year at ChannelCon I am very excited because we are just about to release our latest version of Vembu BDR, version 3.5, which features a robust set of disaster recovery tools including failover and failback replication with IP remapping, high performance WAN acceleration and first ever agentless Hyper-V replication.
You can join a webinar on BDR by clicking here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com
I am also looking forward to two speaking sessions this year at ChannelCon’s Minds In Motion, and I hope you will join me, they are:
Vendor Summit Opening Keynote with Tiffani Bova
Gain insights on macro trends in technology, and how they’re being consumed. We’ll discuss their impact to the channel, and how the partner base has evolved based on today’s technology trends. We’ll dive into an overview on the three types of partners – traditional reseller, hybrid, and born-in-the-cloud.
Looking into the Crystal Ball
Where is the channel headed, and how will you capitalize on It? We’ll discuss a wide range of topics on the future of the industry, and hear about what’s keeping vendors up at night. Topics may include how do we see the allocation of your IT budget among hardware and next gen software, who’s getting venture capital funding and will they disrupt the market, and who are your new competitors.
Details about attending Comptia ChannelCon can be found here: http://www.comptia.org/channelcon
