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Channels Forum announces impressive, independent agenda
- Over 300 attendees confirmed, some places still available
Reading, UK - Tuesday, 7 August 2007
For immediate release
Canalys today announced the final agenda for its forthcoming
Channels Forum, which will be held in Monaco from 4 to 6 September
2007. Four prestigious independent keynotes have been arranged,
along with a plethora of panel sessions. The main conference will
begin with a keynote presentation by Don Tapscott, author of
the best-selling book Wikinomics. Don will be telling the channels
about the impact the Web 2.0 revolution will have on them, and their
customers. Later, Pierluigi Collina, the most famous soccer
referee in the world, will transfer his renowned man-management
skills, humour and enthusiasm from the football pitch to the
entrepreneurs in the room.
Timo Mäkelä will bring both a moral and commercial
dimension to the event, as he looks at the impact the technology
industry is having on the environment. In his role as Director,
Sustainable Development and Integration for the European Commission,
Timo is actively involved in helping and persuading technology
companies to take their environmental responsibilities seriously.
Steve Brazier, Canalys President and CEO, will fill the final
keynote slot, where he will tell the audience how they should expect
channels to develop over the next three years. Crucially, the
audience will learn where they should invest, as well as the hype
elements they should avoid.
Alan Cardy, VP, Business Development at Canalys, added, ‘The
agenda has been designed to mix big-hitting keynotes with
interactivity and dialogue. We are delighted that we have been able
to arrange three prestigious panel sessions for the plenary event.
Our first panel will allow the leading vendors to tell the channel
where they are heading, and what they expect from their partners.
The executives who have most influence over the destiny of the money
in the channels’ pocket will be speaking. The panellists include
representatives from Cisco, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, Intel, Microsoft
and Nokia.’
The two other panel sessions will be equally powerful. The
world’s leading distributors will be taking the stage to address
where they see their businesses heading, and what trends they see
among their most important customers. The event attendees are all
being surveyed beforehand so they can suggest questions and make
sure their most important issues are covered.
The majority of attendees at the event will be mid-market
resellers from across EMEA. Too often in the past they have attended
events where they have been preached at, rather than listened to.
This event is different, as it is giving them their own platform to
describe what they see, and want, from the industry. So the reseller
panel will bring a reality check to the whole event, as selected
resellers have the chance to comment on the sessions that went
before them. The managing directors of Caperio, Softcat, Elmec and
Avit Systems have been chosen to represent the resellers’ point of
view in a session hosted by Alastair Edwards, Senior Analyst at
Canalys specialising in channels.
Another element on the agenda will be provided by the three
Platinum sponsors, Cisco, HP and Microsoft, each of which will each
be running interactive breakout sessions to update resellers on
their channel strategies, opportunities and programmes. Canalys will
be hosting further breakout sessions where speakers will be covering
industry hot topics: enterprise mobility, unified communications and
Web 2.0.
Steve Brazier added, ‘We think we have assembled a wonderful
agenda. But, as everyone knows, the most valuable part of the event
is the opportunity to develop new relationships, and renew old ones.
To facilitate this, all registered delegates have access to our
innovative ‘one-to-one meeting tool’ that allows them to set up
meetings in advance with other attendees. There will be
opportunities for plenty of informal meetings too, and we are all
looking forward to a fun gala dinner in the Salle des Etoiles.’
He continued, ‘We are delighted that so many have already signed
up for this event. But it is not too late, as there are more places
available.’ Visit
www.canalyschannelsforum.com or call Rita Chaher on +44 (0) 118
984 0539 to register for the Canalys Channels Forum in Monaco.
About Canalys
Canalys specialises in delivering high quality market data,
analysis and advice to the world’s leading technology vendors. It is
recognised as a key provider of continuous advisory services and
confidential custom projects for marketing managers and strategists
within blue-chip IT, telecoms, navigation and consumer electronics companies. It
has unrivalled expertise in European routes to market for all kinds
of high technology products and services in the consumer, SMB and
large enterprise segments, and provides worldwide market data and
trends analysis.
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