Images: Partners Come Together at ScanSource, Intelisys Channel Connect
See how partners celebrated the first in-person Channel Connect since 2019.
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Attendees gathered on the fourth floor of the Nashville Music City Center for the keynotes.
John DeLozier, president of Intelisys and ScanSource’s modern communications unit, hosted some of the Tuesday morning conversations with executives.
Reps from five suppliers — 8×8, Lumen, Spectrum, Windstream Enterprise and Vonage — came on stage to talk to Intelisys supplier leader Paul Constantine about the value of cloud services.
Some big players in the channel joined Intelisys SVP of sales Michael Sterl (right) on stage to talk trends.
After the morning keynote sessions, the people ventured into the exhibitor hall.
Attendees gathered in the exhibitor hall where they met suppliers and ate lunch.
Partners mingled with print and imaging provider Epson.
Brad Dupee helped hold down the fort for the Telecom for Change booth.
The organization ultimately raised more than $35,000 on behalf of Prisma Health Children’s Hospital.
For the entrepreneurs that run these partner firms, time stops for no mouse.
Business professionals were making calls and attended to customer needs all thoughout the conference.
Partners attended various breakout sessions in the afternoons.
This one featured WAN aggregation providers MetTel, Granite, Nitel and SpectroTel.
Agency D&M Enterprise teamed up with Five9 and EvolveIP to share a customer case study that brought together CCaaS and virtual desktop solutions.
Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley were kind enough to join in on the action.
The Cisco team chatted with partners about its Webex offering.
Attendees dropped in on the Wildhorse Saloon for music, dancing, drinks and friendship.
The Wildhorse featured live music.
Every channel events is a reunion of sorts.
Raquel Wiley of Sangoma, Morgan Granfield of Digital Realty, Kelli McMillan of Five9 and Christine Sanni of Intelisys caught up at the reception.
It was a packed crowd.
It was a packed crowd.
SCANSOURCE/INTELISYS CHANNEL CONNECT — ScanSource resellers, Intelisys agents and hybrid partners galore gathered in Nashville this week.
ScanSource, the distributor that is pushing to converge the agent/cloud and VAR/hardware worlds, treated partners and suppliers to a week of education, training and networking. The company engaged partners on its vision for a sales model that meet no customer technology needs unmet.
Intelisys executives also shared how ScanSource is using its strong balance sheet to lend financial support to partners. The company revealed that 44 sales partners received investments in fiscal year 2022. Another 117 accepted advanced commissions.
Channel Futures was on the scene, snapping photos of the event and interviewing. For a more heady discussion of the topics ScanSource executives and partners presented this week, check out our Day 1 and Day 2 recaps.
To see pictures of Tuesday’s panelists, exhibitors and partiers, scroll through the 18 images above.
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