By Larry Lannon

The Channel Partners Conference & Expo opens tomorrow afternoon. There are five important opportunities on Monday, March 26.

Three pre-conference workshops start at 2 p.m.:  

Then, the first of a great series of vendor presentations at this years conference will be held by TelePacific Communitions (Neopolitan I).

The day concludes with the popular Women in the Channel networking event: Driving Success Through Networking and Collaboration, co-sponsored by ACC Business, AT&T and TelePacific Communications (Neopolitan II and III).

Go here for a quick look at Mondays events, with times and locations. Go here for detailed information about each session.

Note the technology heavyweights involved Monday.

TelePacific Communications is a leading ISP and voice services provider in Nevada and California. So TelePacific is playing on its home court in its Vendor Presentation Monday afternoon.

Cisco is one of the leading global technology innovators. Cisco has a comprehensive unified communications vision. As devices and services proliferate, UC clearly becomes must more important even necessary for business-services users. UC is one of the key opportunities facing partners searching for both new ways to drive revenues and staying ahead of their customers demand curve. Both incentives are more important than ever today.

And the Women in the Channel event has grown tremendously in popularity and importance since it was first introduced in the spring Channel Partners Conference & Expo in 2011. The Women in the Channel event features business discussion and networking. (Women in the Channel is open to men as well as women, in case any male readers are wondering.)

Make sure you build these five opportunities into your schedule for Monday, March 26. You must be registered for Channel Partners, of course. You can register in a few minutes by going here.

Mondays programming is as hot as any programming during the week, and the programming for the conference as a whole is hotter than any previous Channel Partners conference   as hot as Vegas itself. Embrace the heat!

Larry Lannon is group publisher of

VIRGO
s Communications Network,
which includes

Billing & OSS World
,

Channel Partners
and

V2M
.