Channel Futures Leadership Summit Day 1: Women's Leadership Summit Highlights

CHANNEL FUTURES LEADERSHIP SUMMIT — Work-life balance, confidence, female empowerment and exerting influence were among the leading topics at the Women's Leadership Summit, which headlined day one at the Channel Futures Leadership Summit on Monday.

The second annual event is bringing together nearly 2,000 partners, vendors, distributors and analysts to Miami Beach.

The Women's Leadership Summit began with a panel of women who made up the 2023 Channel Futures Channel Influencer list. Other sessions included a keynote presentation from entrepreneur Gilli Aliotti, a top consultant and tech industry exec; a panel featuring women channel leaders from Check Point Software and Vonage on improving your growth mindset; and a group of leaders discussing how to break traditional boundaries to build lasting success.

The day wrapped with the Alliance of Channel Women's ACW Connect Live event, a tradition on the first day of Channel Futures/Channel Partners events.

Women's Leadership Summit: ACW Awards

At ACW Connect Live, the organization handed out its annual fall awards. The LEAD awards for exceptional female channel leaders went to Intelisys' Traci Hali, ChannelWise's Kathryn Rose and Comcast Business' Holly Hunt. The organization also doled out ACT awards for outstanding volunteers. Those winners were Ntirety's Vicki Patten, One Ring Networks' Madison Beedy, RapidScale's Summer Figone and Lumen's Alexie Teferi.

See our slideshow above for highlights from the Women's Leadership Summit at the Channel Futures Leadership Summit.