XChange SP: The Secret Sauce Of Business-Driven IT

The event will bring together not only today's leading solution providers but serve as home to the single largest gathering of vendor channel executives ever assembled.

The burning issue these channel leaders will discuss, debate and dissect until all hours of the night is the future of the channel.

The XChange Solution Provider Conference, March 9-12, certainly arrives at a critical juncture in the transformation of the solution provider business model accompanied by fundamental changes reshaping the VAR-vendor partner structure. In addition to those seismic shifts, solution providers are coming to grips with new buyers of IT who reside outside corporate IT departments. Those new and influential buyers have been empowered by Software-as-a-Service, cloud and mobile technology solutions they can acquire as a service to help them achieve their business goals.

That is the reason behind the event's theme this year, "Driving Business Forward with IT." The theme and surrounding discussion are designed to put into focus the channel's impact and influence on customer innovation through the technology and business solutions they sell to customers. The XChange Advisory Board was the driving force behind the theme and selection of speakers, who will focus on how solution providers can help customers achieve positive business outcomes.

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This year's event is bringing together dozens of speakers, including leading analysts, vendor executives, technology visionaries and progressive solution providers. For the first time at XChange, CRN's editorial team will conduct a closed-door channel chief round table to gain insight into the indirect sales strategy of today's most influential and fastest-growing vendors.

The conference kicks off on Saturday, March 9, with the Cloud Integrators Forum and wraps up three days later with CRN's Channel Champions Awards Reception. In between, the early 800 attendees will engage with their peers, attend closed-door boardrooms and hear keynote presentations from a wide variety of industry experts.

This year's event features presentations from the following:

1.	Robert Faletra, CEO, UBM Tech Channel

2.	Wendy Bahr, SVP, Global and Strategic Partners, Cisco

3.	Stephen Baker, VP of Industry Analysis, NPD

4.	Ira Bell, COO, Nimbo

5.	Renée Bergeron, VP, Managed Services & Cloud Computing, Ingram Micro

6.	Tiffani Bova, VP, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

7.	Scott Brown, SVP, Chief Economist, Raymond James & Associates

8.	Ginger Clay, Team Member, 4-Profit

9.	Kelley Damore, SVP, Editorial Director, UBM Tech Channel

10.	Jeff Davis, SVP of Sales, D&H Distributing

11.	Robert DeMarzo, SVP, Strategic Content, UBM Tech Channel

12.	Bill Donohue, VP, Business Partner Sales, North America, IBM

13.	Ron Dupler, CEO, GreenPages

14.	Scott Goemmel, Team Member, 4-Profit

15.	Lincoln Haven, VP, Partner Marketing Services, UBM Tech Channel

16.	Michele Hayes, Sr. Director, Global Partner Program, Riverbed

17.	Linda Hofflander, Director, Vertical Marketing, Samsung Electronics America

18.	Rick Jordan, Director, Sales & Strategic Alliances (North America), Tenet Computer Group

19.	Larry Kesslin, Partner, 4-Profit

20.	Kenny Li, Partner, Cloud Spectator

21.	Donald Lopes, Director, Cloud Services, Synnex

22.	Keith Lubner, Founder, C3

23.	Jeremy MacBean, Director, Business Development, IT Weapons

24.	Eric Martorano, Senior Director, U.S. SMB Channel Group, Microsoft

25.	Phil Mogavero, VP & Regional CTO, PCM

26.	Stacy Nethercoat, VP, Software Product Marketing, Tech Data

27.	Rauline Ochs, SVP, IPED

28.	Joe Pucciarelli, Lead Analyst, IDC

29.	Dave Rice, CEO, TrueCloud

30.	Kristin Rogers, Principal, KMR@work

31.	David Rose, Product Designer, Serial Entrepreneur, MIT Media Lab Researcher

32.	Don Ryan, VP, Fuld & Company

33.	Meredith Scheraldi, Senior Manager, Channel Marketing, Symantec

34.	Ken Thoreson, President, Acumen Management Group

35.	Luanne Tierney, VP, Worldwide Partner Marketing, Juniper Networks

36.	Dave Uhler, National Solutions Director of Research & Development, Slalom Consulting