Programme

-
Registration and Breakfast
-
Opening Remarks

Tom Wright, Managing Editor, CRN 

-
Keynote: Intelligent Automation
  • Where is the ROI of automation and RPA for your organisation?
  • Are you ready for these technologies?
  • How can they present an internal opportunity for increased efficiency, and an external opportunity for business development?
-
Everything's going hybrid!
  • What opportunities are still left with customer’s cloud journeys?
  • How can you enable customers to transform through moving to the cloud?
  • How can you streamline cloud processes?
  • What are the growth opportunities with an increasing demand for hybrid cloud?
-
Vendor Showcase
-
Networking Break
-
Panel Discussion: Transforming your sales force
  • How to overcome the challenges of the transition to the recurring revenue model?
  • How does your business model need to change to keep up and stay afloat?
  • How do you create a service level agreement that is attractive and achievable?
  • How can you assist your sales team throughout the change? 
-
Internet of Things
  • Where are the big business opportunities with customers and IoT?
  • How can you incorporate IoT into your service offering?
  • How is IoT a business solution for your customer? 
-
Keeping up with customers

The adoption of cloud is driving fundamental change in the way that organisations consume and operate technology which is having a direct impact on how managed services is being delivered, both now and in the future.

In this session, Gavin Jolliffe, CEO of Xtravirt discusses:

  • What are the drivers behind shift in business focus from infrastructure to applications, agility and service levels.
  • How can managed services become more in sync with their customers evolving needs including issue prevention and continuous improvement?
  • Xtravirt will discuss how customer’s needs started changing and how they responded to that.

Gavin Jolliffe, CEO, Xtravirt

-
Vendor Showcase
-
Lunch Break
-
Keynote: TBC
-
Panel Discussions: The Future Generations: what, where, why, how?
  • What enticed these young people into the technology industry?
  • What are the biggest challenges they faced?
  • Their most and least favourite elements of their current roles.
  • How to stand out as an employer to the upcoming generation.
  • What can we do to attract more young people into the technology industry? 
-
Find Your Niche
  • Why your USP’s just aren’t unique.
  • How to find, focus, and grow your niche.
  • How did YellowBus transform from average MSP to the energy and engineering experts? 

Mike Douglass, CEO, YellowBus

-
Closing Remarks

Tom Wright, Managing Editor, CRN

Please note: programme is subject to change