Video: Everything Channel Events Launches its 2009 Line Up with the Success of XChange Solution Provider

Event Connected Solution Providers and Technology Vendors to Build Relationships and Strategize Growth

PRNewswire-FirstCall
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
Mar 16, 2009

Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced the successful launch of the 2009 Everything Channel Events. The 14th annual XChange Solution Provider conference took place March 8-11, 2009 at the Sheraton New Orleans. XChange Solution Provider brought together more than 225 pre-qualified executive-level technology sellers with over 75 industry leading Channel vendors to meet, build relationships and strategize growth in turbulent times.

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  Event highlights included:
  --  General Session: Growth?!? Real Answers for Solution Providers in 2009
      by Ryan Morris, Practice Director, Worldwide Channel Development &
      Education, Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED),
      Everything Channel
  --  Keynote Address: Channelnomics: Understanding Macro Economic Trends
      and their Impact on the IT Channel by Robert Faletra, CEO, Everything
      Channel and Economist, Douglas Holtz-Eakin
  --  General Session: Accelerating the Sales Cycle and Driving Revenue in
      Today's Market by Toni Clayton Hine, Vice President/Managing Director,
      IPED, Everything Channel
  --  Vendor Keynote: Microsoft
  --  World Premier: Dell, HP and IBM
  --  Tech Symposium: CA, Symantec, Oracle & Panasonic
  --  CRN Channel Champions Awards Gala
  --  XChange Xcellence Awards

On March 7, Everything Channel partnered with the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to help rebuild New Orleans. The Channel @ Work Home Build brought together over 100 members of the technology community and Everything Channel employees to build houses. The homes built by the New Orleans area Habitat for Humanity help families empower themselves to transform their own lives.

"XChange Solution Provider continued its long tradition of exploring and highlighting the most critical market dynamics while providing the Channel community with an opportunity to establish their plans and create partnerships for profitable growth," said Nancy Hammervik, Vice President/ Managing Director, Everything Channel Events. "In addition to the four day conference program, we had the privilege of bringing the technology channel together to partner with the New Orleans area Habitat for Humanity to help rebuild New Orleans. It was an inspiring experience for all of us."

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 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.

  Press Contact:
  Allison Cohen
  Everything Channel
  accohen@everythingchannel.com
  (516) 562-7870

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SOURCE: Everything Channel

CONTACT: Allison Cohen of Everything Channel, +1-516-562-7870,
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