Image Gallery: TBI’s BIG Event Featuring AT&T, Verizon, 8×8
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Image Gallery: TBI’s BIG Event Featuring AT&T, Verizon, 8×8
Geoff Shepstone, president of TBI, hosted the master agent’s “BIG Event” in Chicago, May 11-12, a two-day forum to educate partners on ways to capture channel opportunities.
The inaugural forum prepared partners to start conversations confidently and build business in the economy’s two fastest growing markets: finance and health care. More than 150 partners from across the country attended what the company says will be the first of many.
Janet Schijns, vice president, Global Channels at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, delivered the keynote address. Additional vertical-specialist speakers included Verizon’s Helen Donnelly, JMARK’s Thomas Douglas and 8×8’s Mike McAlpen. Industry specialists from Comcast Business, CenturyLink and AT&T also shared specific technology solutions.
Click through our image gallery to see who was there and to get some sales advice.
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TBI’s BIG Event: AT&T on Monetizing the IoT
AT&T’s Traci Grailer (channel manager, left) and Mallie Eric Preston (Global Practice Lead – IoT Solutions Group) discussed monetizing the Internet of Things and finding prospects for this exciting new technology.
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TBI’s BIG Event: President Geoff Shepstone
Geoff Shepstone, president of TBI, welcomes more than 150 selling partners from across the country to the educational forum focusing on building business and generating revenue in two of the largest and most lucrative industries: finance and health care. Both industries are spending more money on securing data, expanding cloud use and making networks more reliable and secure.
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TBI’s BIG Event: Verizon on SDN, IoT
Janet Schijns, VP, Global Channels at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, highlighted the unbelievable opportunity in the channel for software-defined networks and the Internet of Things.
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TBI’s BIG Event: Schijns and Shepstone
Schijns and Shepstone pose for a photo at the BIG event. TBI’s educational forum stressed the need to focus on customers’ business outcomes rather than technology-based sales. -
TBI’s BIG Event: Verizon, JMARK Tackle the Financial Vertical
Helen Donnelly, executive director of Strategic Messaging and Communications at Verizon (at podium), and Thomas Douglas, president and CEO at JMARK Business Solutions, discussed industry drivers in the finance landscape and how partners can frame opportunities. -
TBI’s BIG Event: Donnelly
Verizon’s Helen Donnelly during her presentation at TBI’s BIG event. -
TBI’s Big Event: Douglas
JMARK’s Thomas Douglas on stage. -
TBI’s BIG Event: Chat Time
Left to right are: Michael Onystok, TBI’s director of National Channel Sales; Pete Shah, TBI’s VP of Finance; and Zack Fowler, partner sales manager at XO Communications.
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TBI’s BIG Event: Comcast’s Cary Tengler
Cary Tengler, executive director of the Comcast Business National Partner Program, shared technology solutions.
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Image Gallery: TBI’s BIG Event Featuring AT&T, Verizon, 8×8
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