Image Gallery: Channel Partners Preconference Events

Preconference events at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo are growing.

We rolled out our first Business Success Symposium, sponsored by Verizon. Cable companies held their traditional party. And Women in the Channel did the same with their semiannual mixer and program.

The night wrapped up with the First-Time Attendee Reception, sponsored by AT&T.

We have the highlights in this image gallery.

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For the first time, Channel Partners hosted a preconference Business Success Symposium, sponsored by Verizon, featuring sessions on social media marketing, SD-WAN and IoT. The Symposium, aimed at executives, technology leaders, and sales and marketing professionals, brought in big crowds.

Joe Chuisano, executive director, Verizon Business Markets, helped attendees understand what drives customers — this will allow partner businesses solve business challenges more effectively and fulfill the role of trusted adviser.

This session on SD-WAN offered a big lesson for partners: Disruptive technologies are coming along more frequently and you need a plan to add new disciplines in a repeatable and profitable way. It featured a panel of experts from SD-WAN providers.

Did you know that if you use emojis in your social-media efforts, your messages will get more attention? Or on your LinkedIn page, you shouldn’t list your job title?

Those were just a couple of the tips from Luanne Tierney, managing member and CMO of Fivesky, in a session called “New Tactics for Selling Next-Gen Tech.”

An enthusiastic Mike Schmitmann, owner, Trans4mers, reminded attendees that there has never been a better time to gain new accounts, business and market share, and there has never been a riskier time to maintain “business as usual.”

Schmidtmann’s session provided perspectives and ideas on business growth and how to accelerate it for your company.

There wasn’t a lot of elbow room at the Women in the Channel networking mixer, which continues to grow every year.

First-time attendees packed the 1923 Bourbon Bar at Mandalay Bay on Monday night for networking, food and drink at this AT&T-sponsored event.

It’s obvious based on the numbers who show up for this traditional, invitation-only event each show that more and more new attendees are flocking to the Channel Partners Conference & Expo each spring — and Channel Partners Evolution in the fall.