Images: Enterprise Connect Expo Hall Featuring RingCentral, Vonage, Cisco, Verizon, More
We also have pictures of booths featuring Twilio, VMware, Granite, Oracle and more.
March 24, 2022
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“We love to make connections with companies that want to work with us and know the direction the market is heading.”
– Scott Trichon, director, solutions engineering, RingCentral
“This event is not just about customers; it’s an ecosystem event.”
– Guillaume Calot, global VP, Vonage
“We’d like to provide additional insight on what cloud providers can do.”
– Greg Ossinac, senior product expert, Nice
“We hope to get as much visibility as possible with this event and show the technical integration our product has with the other vendors.”
– Juan Rodriguez, technical marketing engineer, Cisco
“We want people to know the importance of cybersecurity when the world is now working from anywhere.”
– Heather Hartland, marketing director, ThreatLocker
“There are tons of partners here and it’s good to know our relationship post-COVID is strong.”
– Kara Bakarich, senior event marketing manager, Twilio
“I’m here to see how people have gone through digital transformations. I want to see how companies succeed from a cultural perspective.”
– Harold Jackson, senior director, global analyst relations, Slack
“People are looking for a better experience when they go back to work. They want a seamless experience… we want people to know our BlueJeans Meeting Solution is imbedded into Google Glass, leveraging 5G to offer top quality.”
– Jamie Schertzer, managing partner, product sales, BlueJeans by Verizon
Amy Lyn Anderson, global account manager, VMware (pictured right), and Rakesh Sharma Devendernath, a systems engineer for the company (pictured left), said they hoped attendees learned the security value in VMware SASE.
“We’re here to get our brand out there and make as many introductions as we can.”
– John DelPadre, national account manager, Granite
“It’s great to come to this show because founders can finally connect in person.”
– Emmy Marinova, demand marketing manager, Edify Labs
“I enjoy it because I love talking to people and solving new problems. I also enjoy getting out of the house.”
– Bracken Fields, co-founder and CTO, Edify Labs
“We’re a startup. We’re a little unknown. We want people to know we’re here.”
– Brenda Waterhouse, global head of engagement, Cloudscene
Rachelle Platis, field marketing specialist, Google (pictured left), said she had basic desires for the conference.
“We want a lot of leads. We want to meet with people.”
“We’re opening ourselves to the American market.”
– Claudia Fernandez, country manager, U.S., for Paris-based Lemon Learning.
“We’re getting feedback from people. We’re trying to build a global infrastructure that any communications application can be built on.”
– Mclain Roth, VP of business development, Telnyx
Theta Lake announced at Enterprise Connect it has garnered $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by Battery Ventures. The funding round also includes investments from existing investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Neotribe Ventures and Cisco Investments. New investments from RingCentral Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Zoom are also in the mix.
“We power most people’s stack in communications today. We’re here to show what Sinch is all about for personal communication.”
– Jonathan Bean, chief marketing officer, Sinch
“We hope to build long-lasting relationships. It’s our first time to this conference but we’ll be back.”
– Jared Blistein, VP of marketing, Level AI
“Overall, engagement and networking are important. Having face-to-face connection is very critical.”
– Teresa Almodovar Ramirez, senior marketing manager, Oracle
“We hope to attend as many speaker sessions as we can to learn more about the trends in the industry and where other tech companies are going.”
– Alex Lustig, pre sales solutions consultant, Observe.ai
“It’s our first time here. We walked into this with no expectations.”
– Kim Walker, regional marketing manager, Zendesk
(Zendesk representatives were assisting attendees when photo was taken.)
“It’s our first time here. We walked into this with no expectations.”
– Kim Walker, regional marketing manager, Zendesk
(Zendesk representatives were assisting attendees when photo was taken.)
ENTERPRISE CONNECT — Enterprise Connect is wrapping up its first conference in two years at the Gaylord Palms resort in Orlando. It was difficult to tell that the pandemic had had a suboptimal effect on the companies showcasing their products in the conference expo hall. RingCentral, Vonage, Cisco, Verizon and more were there in full force.
The renewed enthusiasm of attendees easily masked any challenges they may have faced in the last few years. Channel Futures polled employees of the companies showcasing their goods and services to see what they hoped to accomplish at this year’s conference. Some said it was quite simply a chance to finally mingle. Others wanted to learn about the trends in unified communications. And a few said it gave them the opportunity to assess the rapid pace of digital transformation within the industry.
Whatever the reason, people appeared thrilled to finally communicate face to face. To get a glimpse of the range of reactions from company representatives, click on the slideshow above.
Enterprise Connect is part of the Informa Tech portfolio of live events and digital platforms. it is operated by Informa, the parent company of Channel Futures.
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