UBM Channel's Solution Provider 500 Celebrates the Industry's Integration Leaders

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Channel today announced details of the Solution Provider 500 (formerly the VAR500) conference, to take place at the Westin Charlotte Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 5th-6th.  The elite, two day event was designed to connect high level executives with the top Solution Provider organizations in North America. With a focus on marketing strategies and direction, the agenda offers best practice insight through keynotes, think tanks and panel discussions from the largest and most influential solution providers.  The highly anticipated Solution Provider 500 Awards luncheon, featuring the outstanding performance of the top Solution Provider 500 firms, will conclude the conference. 

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Theresa Payton, the former White House CIO and National Cyber-Security Authority, is slated as guest speaker at the Solution Provider 500 Awards Luncheon.   Payton, the only woman to ever hold this position, has Top Secret-SCI Clearance and is one of America's most respected authorities on Internet security, net crime, fraud mitigation, and technology implementation.  As White House Chief Information Officer from 2006 to 2008, she administered the information technology enterprise for the President and 3,000 staff members.

Agenda session highlights include:

• Building a High Performance Culture: Ken Thoreson, President of Acumen Management Group, will share the top 5 focus points of successful companies and how they have built a culture of success.
• CIO Insight: Business Priorities & Strategies: Moderated by Robert C. DeMarzo, SVP Strategic Content for UBM Channel, a panel of leading CIOs will discuss business, technology and CIO strategies and how these factors impact solution and service provider partners.   The panel will help these partners deliver better value and gain a greater understanding of resources, budget and sales cycles.
• Unlocking Secrets of High-Priced Consultants: David Stelzl, author and consultant for Growing High-Tech Sales SVLC, will reveal 5 of the key skills sales will need to embrace to compete in the coming years.
• Solution Provider 500 CEO Perspective: Attendees will hear from three of the leading Solution Providers among the list of 500 regarding their business challenges, best practices and perspective on the future of the channel.

The full agenda is available at http://www.xchange-events.com/sp50012/agenda/.

"The largest and most influential solution providers lead the market when it comes to IT services and technology that drive customer success. These organizations are today's true integration innovators who put the needs of their customers' businesses first, and leverage technology to help their customers exceed sales goals, drive client satisfaction, expand internationally or accelerate new product development," said Robert C. DeMarzo, Senior Vice President of Strategic Content, UBM Channel.  "The Solution Provider 500 event celebrates these organizations and provides the platform for discussion, debate and networking, unlike anything else on the market today."

To follow the event on Twitter: @CRN  #crnSP500

Sponsors at this year's event include APC, Arrow, Avaya, CenturyLink, Comcast Business Class, Dell, Emerson, Extreme Networks, Gigamon, IBM, Logitech, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, QlikTech, Red Hat, SGI, and SunGard.  To view the sponsors list, please visit http://www.xchange-events.com/sp50012/sponsors/

About UBM Channel
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ubmchannel.

UBM plc (www.ubm.com)

UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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