UBM Channel's Midsize Enterprise Summit East to Address Strategic IT Decision-Making

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Channel announced the conference highlights of this year's Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) East. Focused on enabling strategic IT decision-making, the event will take place April 29th through May 2nd at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, Louisiana. During the event, IT executives will have an opportunity to learn about the latest midmarket research from featured guest, Gartner; network with peers; and meet with technology providers to understand how the latest innovations can help transform their business in today's dynamic marketplace. To learn more about the event visit www.xchange-events.com/mese12.

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Attendees at Midsize Enterprise Summit 2012 will hear from industry experts and practitioners discussing the best ways to restructure IT re-investment strategies. Keynote presentations, roundtable networking and vendor education opportunities provide IT executives with the content to solve daily challenges, validate future plans and set the stage for maximizing business capacity and competitive advantage while maintaining tight control over IT spending.

Event highlights include:

• Keynote presentations from distinguished Gartner analysts
• The popular CIO Bootcamp led by Niel Nickolaisen, CIO, Author, and a Founder of Accelinnova
• A new Emotional Intelligence Workshop helping executives to translate emotional IQ into successful leadership skills
• Demonstrations of new products, services, and solutions through the Solutions Pavilion, three minute Quick Fire presentations, and interactive Boardroom appointments
• Peer Exchange Roundtables designed to bring IT executives together with their peers to discuss viable solutions to common IT challenges
• Midsize Enterprise Summit XCellence Awards

To follow the event in Twitter: http://twitter.com/itexecxchange, hashtag #mes12

"The midmarket has its own unique set of issues, trends and solutions," said Robert C. DeMarzo, Senior Vice President of Strategic Content, UBM Channel. "The business-intensive format at MES East ensures attendees have ample opportunity to learn from industry analysts, share best practices with their peers and understand how the latest technology innovations can enable better business."

The full agenda is available at www.xchange-events.com/mese12.

Platinum sponsors include Commvault, HP|Intel, IBM, MexicoIT, Microsoft, and Shoretel. For a complete list of sponsors, please visit http://www.xchange-events.com/mese12/sponsors.

About UBM Channel
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ubmchannel.

UBM plc (www.ubm.com)  
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

Press Contact:
Betzi-Lynn Hanc, Marketing Manager
UBM Channel
508.416.1182
betzi.hanc@ubm.com

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