Everything Channel's XChange Solution Provider Conference Focused on How to Reboot for 2K10

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything Channel, a UBM company, today announced that the 15th annual XChange Solution Provider conference will take place March 8-11, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.  XChange Solution Provider brings together more than 225 pre-qualified executive-level technology solution providers with approximately 75 industry leading Channel vendors to meet, build relationships and strategize for growth.  The focus of the event is how to reboot for the coming year.

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Nancy Hammervik, Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Everything Channel Events, said, "We are very excited to kick off our first event of 2010.  XChange Solution Provider will help attendees become more focused, incorporate new solutions into their offerings and delete bad business practices and partnerships from their businesses.  We have an outstanding line up of speakers and event offerings that will provide Solution Providers and technology vendors with the opportunity to learn, build relationships and continue to drive technology sales through the channel."

Event highlights include:

• The Cloud Computing Bootcamp: "Cloudy with a Chance of Margins" comprehensive half-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp on the hottest and most pressing issues facing IT integrators and their vendor partners.  Featured speakers include Tiffani Bova, VP, Research Gartner, IT Channel Programs & Sales Strategies WW, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKStrategies, Bobby Napiltonia, Cloud Computing Expert, Doug Ford, President & CEO, I.T. Pros and John Ross, CTO, GreenPages Technology Solutions.

• The 2010 CRN Channel Champions and XChange XCellence Awards events will take place on March 10.  Celebrating its 20th year, CRN Channel Champions is one of the largest and broadest-based technology solution provider market studies in the industry and measures overall technology sellers perceptions of vendor products and services.  The XChange XCellence Awards measure overall business and technology solution provider perceptions of vendor products and services during the conference.  

• New to XChange Solution Provider this year, Everything Channel will offer a Premium Executive Content Track on Thursday, March 11.  These sessions will feature exclusive research, expert instructors and peer interaction in a workshop setting designed to enhance business practices and bolster management skills. The courses offer compelling executive content designed exclusively for individuals who are managing solution provider organizations and developing strategies based on proven techniques.  To register for the Premium Executive Content Track, please contact Tracy Fischer at 516-562-5337 or [email protected].

• As part of the event, Everything Channel is partnering with L.A. Works, a nonprofit, volunteer action center that creates and implements hands-on community service projects throughout the greater Los Angeles area.  The Channel@Work: Technology Makeover School Edition program will bring together 50 members of the technology community and Everything Channel employees to update the Dayton Heights Elementary School's computer lab, library and faculty lounge as well as beautify other areas of the school.

Everything Channel is the leading producer of face-to-face events that build technology partnerships and alliances between vendors, distributors and senior-level decision-makers within the Channel and the IT executive.  Everything Channel's events deliver new markets, customers and revenue opportunities for Solution Providers and vendors. These events offer numerous recruiting, training, education and networking opportunities during three and four-day events filled with keynotes, lectures, debates and discussions revolving around critical Channel issues and trends.

For additional information on Everything Channel XChange Solution Provider, contact Allison Cohen at [email protected] or visit http://everythingchannelevents.com/xsp10.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter @XChangeEvents while onsite at the event!

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company.  Through its "Complete Technology Channel Solution," Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales.  From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database.  Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

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