Images: Eaton 2022 Partner Conference
More than 120 partners attended the event.
April 27, 2022
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Hervé Tardy is vice president of marketing and strategy, critical power and digital infrastructure division, Eaton. He spoke to a general session audience and tackled many topics regarding Eaton’s growth.
One area was edge computing.
“We’re getting into the industrial age of edge computing. We see more hyperscalers being deployed to fuel the growth in as-a-service for edge computing,” he said.
Donna St-Denis is channel marketing manager at Eaton. She told the audience that with an Eaton Visa debit card, partners can now earn cash rewards for selling Eaton products.
Craig Watkins (pictured left) is product manager, IT enclosures at Eaton.
“Give us seven to 10 days and we can build a custom configuration,” Watkins told the partner audience during his conference presentation.
Watkins worked for Tripp Lite prior to Eaton’s acquisition of the company. There he developed a custom IT enclosure fitted with filters for the U.S. Postal Service that is now being adopted by other companies.
Eaton conference attendees, including partners and employees, sat in on two days of conference sessions. Topics ranged from how to increase revenue with Eaton’s expanded solution offering to an explanation of Brightlayer, the company’s software suite.
Eaton’s conference marketing campaign focused on themes related to the future and to power generation, including this prominently displayed advertisement.
Miles Cox is chief operating officer at Volta, a Kentucky-based managed IT, infrastructure and cybersecurity firm that partners with Eaton. The company has been an Eaton partner for more than seven years. Cox attended this year’s partner conference.
There were more than 180 conference attendees. About 120 of those were partners.
Conference participants pose before the Eaton curtain of logos.
David Posner is product line manager at Eaton. During his conference session, Posner spoke to partners about the fact that the average desktop has more than $700 of opportunity for cables/connectivity.
Patricia Matwijec is commercial marketing manager at Eaton. She told partners that the company is expanding its portfolio to capture lithium ion opportunities across the power range.
Adolfo Morales is alliances manager at Eaton. He spoke to partners about Eaton’s ongoing alliances, which include companies like Cisco, Dell, HP and VMware.
Attendees ended the partner conference with a Hawaiian-themed beach party.
Attendees ended the partner conference with a Hawaiian-themed beach party.
The pandemic forced power management company Eaton to delay its partner conference by two years. But this week the company was able to hold its “Powering a Brighter Future” partner conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
If the numbers are any indication, the conference was a success. The company was able to host several dozen more partners than in years past. Conference attendees caught demonstrations of new products and listened to sessions about everything from its channel marketing program to its Brightlayer digital foundation. It was also a time for partners to gather information about Eaton’s recent acquisition of Tripp Lite. Most partners Channel Futures spoke to said Tripp Lite’s portfolio complements Eaton’s well.
To learn more about the 2022 Eaton channel partner conference, view the slideshow above.
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