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Technology Events Calendar and Schedule for Channel Partners
The VAR Guy has overhauled his events calendar for 2012. To see the 2012 event calendar in deep detail, please visit http://www.thevarguy.com/events. A simplified list for quick viewing also is below. 1. Suggestions and Corrections: If you would like to potentially list an event on the calendar please send email to people: Joe Panettieri, editorial director, [email protected] Please include in your email:
The VAR Guy
March 17, 2011
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The VAR Guy has overhauled his events calendar for 2012. To see the 2012 event calendar in deep detail, please visit http://www.thevarguy.com/events. A simplified list for quick viewing also is below.
1. Suggestions and Corrections: If you would like to potentially list an event on the calendar please send email to people:
Joe Panettieri, editorial director, [email protected]
Please include in your email:
Subject Line: Event Calendar
In your message: Event name, location, start date and end date, web site for more information
2. What’s Listed… And What Isn’t: The VAR Guy only lists channel-centric conferences. No road shows or executive roundtables… unless The VAR Guy is invited and seated promptly for fresh lobster.
Now, the Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2012…
Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2012, Q1
Jan 2: Federal Holiday, New Year’s Day
Jan. 11: Channel Expert Hour webcast, Your First Mobile Device Management Sales Meeting of 2012
Jan. 8-9: Storage Visions, Las Vegas — right down the road from CES…
Jan 9-13: International CES, Las Vegas — Not exactly channel, but it is the consumerization of IT
Jan 13: The VAR Guy’s alleged birthday. Cards and comments welcome.
Jan. 15-19: Lotusphere 2012, Orlando, Fla. — IBM’s backing keeps this on The VAR Guy’s radar.
Jan 15-18: National Retail Federation, New York — worth watching for channel partners going vertical.
Jan. 15-18: Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA Inspire Customer Passion, Las Vegas — watch for managed print services updates
Jan 16: Federal Holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan 16-18: Juniper Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas — The company’s first global partner conference
Jan. 25: Channel Expert Hour webcast, details soon
Jan 29-31: CA Technologies MSP Forum, Miami, Fla.
Feb. 1-3: Digium AsteriskWorld, Miami, Fla — for channel partners focused on open source IP PBX. Part of larger IT Expo event
Feb. 1-3: MSPWorld, Miami, Fla. — part of a bigger IT Expo event
Feb. 13-15: HP Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas
Feb. 13-16: VMware Partner Exchange, Las Vegas
Feb. 14-16: Parallels Summit, Orlando — always a good source for cloud partner information.
Feb. 13-16: Cloud Connect, Santa Clara, Calif.
Feb. 20: Federal Holiday – Presidents’ Day
Feb. 21-23: Avnet Technology Solutions Partner Summit with Cisco, Phoenix, Ariz.
Feb. 20-24: HIMSS, Las Vegas — The place to be for health care service providers
Feb. 21-23, Avnet and Cisco Partner Conference, Phoenix, Ariz.
Feb 27-March 2: RSA Conference, San Francisco — the big IT security blow-out
Feb. 28-29: Cisco Partner Velocity, Las Vegas
Feb. 29-March 1, ASCII Success Summit, Orlando, Fla.
March 2-3, 2012, MVP Nation 2012, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Wash.
March 4-7: IBM Pulse 2012, Las Vegas
March 6-9: XChange Solution Provider, Los Angeles — Bob, Bob and The VAR Guy at Disney Land?
March 21-22: ASCII Success Summit, Southern Calif.
March 26-29: Channel Partners Conference, Las Vegas
Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2012, Q2
April 1: The VAR Guy’s Second Annual Hawaii Luau
April 10-12: CompTIA Annual Member Meeting, Chicago
April 11-13: Tech Data Channel Link, Las Vegas, The Venetian
April 15-18: Synnex Varnex Spring Conference, New Orleans.
April 16-19: Cisco Partner Summit, San Diego
April 16-20: Microsoft Management Summit, Las Vegas
April 29-May 4: IBM Impact, Las Vegas
May 2-5: Ingram Micro VTN, Colorado Springs
May 2-4: Kaseya Connect User Conference, Las Vegas
May 2-4: TechSelect Partner Conference, Palm Springs, Calif., Grand Hyatt Indian Wells
May 7-10: HTG Summit, Dallas
May 7-11: Citrix Summit and Citrix Synergy 2012, San Francisco
May 10-13: Kaspersky Lab Partner Conference, Bahamas
May 14-16: SAP Sapphire, Orlando
May 14-16: Lenovo Accelerate Las Vegas
May 15-17: Enterasys Partner Conference, Las Vegas
May 15-17: Avnet’s HP Partner Conference, Chandler, Ariz.
May 21-23: Sophos Partner Summit, Las Vegas
May 24-25: Transform, Orlando, Fla. — organized for managed print services specialists
May 28: Federal Holiday – Memorial Day
June 4-7: Ingram Micro Cloud Summit, Scottsdale, Ariz.
June 7: CRN Power 500 (a.k.a. VARBusiness 500 and VAR500) – Will The VAR Guy make the cut?
June 10-12: Autotask Community Live, Orlando, Fla.
June 11-13: LabTech Automation Nation, Orlando, Fla.
June 12-13: Asigra Cloud Backup Summit Toronto
June 11-14: Microsoft TechEd, Orlando, Fla.
June 20-21: ASCII Success Summits, Washington, D.C.
June 26-29: Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, Boston
June 27-29: Google I/O, San Francisco
Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2012, Q3
July 4: Federal Holiday, Independence Day
July 8-12: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Toronto
July 16-18: HostingCon, Boston, Mass.
July 19-21: Schnizzfest, Philadelphia, Pa. — hosted by TruMethods, the MSP-centric coaching organization.
July 30-Aug. 2: CompTIA Breakaway 2012, Las Vegas
Aug 19-20: XChange 2012, Dallas
Aug. 27-30: VMworld, San Francisco
Sept. 3: Federal Holiday, Labor Day
Sept. 11-12, Symantec Partner Engage, Baltimore Inner Harbor Renaissance Hotel, Baltimore, Md.
Sept 19-20: ASCII Success Summit, Chicago
Sept. 17-19: HTG Sales Management Summit; HTG Channel IT Summit for Vendors
Sept. 19-21: Tech Data Channel Link, Orlando, Fla.
Sept. 26-28: Tigerpaw Software, Chicago
Sept. 26-27: GFI Max, New Orleans
Sept 30-Oct. 4: Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco — Channel partners should arrive early; Channel Chief Judson Althoff frequently holds court on Sunday.
Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2012, Q4
Oct. 3-6: Synnex National Conference, Greenville, S.C.
Oct. 3-7: Interop New York
Oct. 8: Federal Holiday – Columbus Day
Oct 17-18: ASCII Success Summits, Location TBD
October 24 – 26: N-able Partner Summit, Montreal
Oct. 23-25: McAfee Partner Summit, Las Vegas
Nov. 5: Cloud Channel Summit, Mountain View, Calif.
Nov. 6-8: HTG All, Orlando, Fla.
Nov. 6-9: Tech Data TechSelect Partner Conference, San Juan, P.R.
Nov. 8-10: IT Nation, hosted by ConnectWise, Orlando — typically includes multiple channel vendor events. Golf on Nov. 11.
Nov. 12: Federal Holiday – Veterans Day
Nov. 12-15: Synnex Varnex Fall, Location TBD, West Coast
Nov. 22: Federal Holiday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 3-5: Tech Data Digital Signage Partner Summit, Clearwater, Fla.
Dec. 25: Federal Holiday – Christmas
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