Everything Channel's XChange Solution Provider Brings Vendors and Solution Providers Together to Strategize Growth in Turbulent TimesChannel @ Work Home Build Partners with the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity; Event Presents CRN Channel Champions Awards and XChange XCellence AwardsPRNewswire-FirstCall Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced that the 14th annual XChange Solution Provider conference will take place March 8-11, 2009, Sheraton New Orleans. XChange Solution Provider brings together more than 225 pre-qualified executive-level technology sellers with approximately 75 industry leading Channel vendors to meet, build relationships and strategize growth in turbulent times. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090226/NY75999LOGO) Event highlights include: -- General Session: Growth?!? Real Answers for Solution Providers in 2009 by Ryan Morris, Practice Director, Worldwide Channel Development & Education, Everything Channel's Institute for Partner Education & Development -- General Session: CIO Panel moderated by Robert DeMarzo, Senior Vice President/Editorial Director, Everything Channel. CIO Panelists include: Ross Bagley, Consolidated Systems, Inc.; Ronald L. Caruana, Hillsborough Community College; Tom Dunnigan, South Carolina Student Loan; and Steve Kraus, Olan Mills -- Keynote Address: Channelnomics: Understanding Macro Economic Trends and their Impact on the IT Channel led by Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Robert Faletra, Chief Executive Officer, Everything Channel -- Vendor Keynote: Microsoft -- World Premier: Dell, HP and IBM -- Tech Symposium: CA, Stratus Technologies, Symantec & Oracle The 2009 CRN Channel Champions event will take place on March 10 at XChange Solution Provider. Celebrating its 19th year, CRN Channel Champions is one of the largest and broadest-based technology sellers market study in the industry and measures overall technology sellers perceptions of vendor products and services, creating a premier resource used by VARs and technology integrators throughout the industry to evaluate vendors and their programs. This year's event will feature a formal dinner and entertainment from comedian, Gary Gulman. CRN Channel Champions is supported by Cisco and Toshiba Additionally, XChange Solution Provider will host the XChange Xcellence Awards which measures overall business and technology integrator perceptions of vendor products and services during the conference. XChange attendees evaluate and score each vendor's presentation, message and presence during the conference. The results are tabulated on-site and awards are presented during a luncheon presentation at the conclusion of the conference. In addition, Everything Channel is partnering with the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity during the upcoming conference. Everything Channel's XChange Events brand hosted its first event in New Orleans in 1995, making the city a second home to Everything Channel. The Channel @ Work Home Build will bring together members of the Channel community, XChange Solution Provider sponsors and Everything Channel employees, to help rebuild New Orleans on March 7. XChange attendees interested in volunteering, visit: http://www.everythingchannelevents.com/files/Habitat_For_Humanity/HH_EC.html. "We are very excited to return to New Orleans to begin a new year of XChange events and to also volunteer our time to help rebuild the city," said Nancy Hammervik, Vice President/ Managing Director, Everything Channel Events. "XChange Solution Provider is an excellent opportunity for the Channel community to come together to meet, network and learn. We have a spectacular conference line up which will provide vendors and Solution Providers with a great opportunity to create partnerships for profitable growth." Everything Channel is the leading producer of face-to-face events that build technology partnerships and alliances between Vendors, Distributors and senior-level Decision-Makers within the Retail, End User and IT Channel markets. Everything Channel's IT Channel events deliver new markets, customers and revenue opportunities for Solution Providers and Vendors. These events offer numerous recruiting, training, education and networking opportunities during three and four-day events filled with keynotes, lectures, debates and discussions revolving around critical Channel issues and trends. For additional information on Everything Channel XChange Solution Provider, contact Allison Cohen at accohen@everythingchannel.com or visit http://www.everythingchannelevents.com/xsp09. Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com) Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results. About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com) United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the US include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion. Contact Allison Cohen Everything Channel (516) 562-7870 accohen@everythingchannel.com First Call Analyst: PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com SOURCE: Everything Channel CONTACT: Allison Cohen of Everything Channel, +1-516-562-7870, Web Site: http://www.channelweb.com/ |