ChannelPro SMB Forum 2022: Midwest (Chicago)

May 4th, 2022 to May 5th, 2022

Hyatt Regency Schaumburg/Chicago

This event will send you home with actionable strategies for making more money and spending less, straight from some of the channel’s leading MSPs and resellers. You can’t afford to miss it!

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Main Group

Event Details

Sessions & Networking

May 4th

Trend Micro Workshop

Trend Micro provides a suite of security solutions tailored specifically for managed service providers (MSP). Learn how you can transform your business as you increase value to your customers. This workshop will run the day before the ChannelPro SMB Forum on May 4th at the hotel from 1-4pm.

Pre-Game with Dell Expert Network

ChannelPro and Dell Expert Network have partnered to offer a sales and marketing workshop, which also includes a Dell Solutions showcase of their latest technology! This workshop will run the day before the ChannelPro SMB Forum on May 4th at the hotel from 5 - 7pm. There will be a $1,000 cash giveaway at the event!

Cocktail Reception

Welcome Cocktail Reception from 7-9pm CT at the hotel. This is a great time to unwind and meet folks prior to the main day event.

May 5th

Breakfast, Registration, and Networking Time

Doors open at 7:30am CT with a nice breakfast. Sessions begin at 8:00am CT.

The Security Slam

This is no poetry competition, channel pros. Listen to three cybersecurity service providers tell true-life stories of incredible hacks, unforgiveable customer errors, and high-stakes incident responses, and then learn how to apply their experiences to protecting your clients more effectively.

Presenters:

Jayson Ferron, James Carroll, Lawrence Cruciana, Zach Hill

Peer to Peer: Winning with Microsoft Azure

There’s big money to be made in Microsoft’s public cloud platform—if you know what to offer and where to begin. See how channel pros like you are profiting from Azure-based solutions today.

Presenters:

Vince Tinnirello, Stephen Monk

Luncheon and Sponsor Showcase

Visit the sponsors in their booths to learn more about their products and solutions!

The Employee Recruitment Dating Game

In the current hiring climate, finding the love of your IT life is tougher than ever. Do you have what it takes to find, woo, and win the best tech talent out there? See how three of your peers handle real-world employee interview challenges in this Sixties-style game show.

Presenters:

Charles Henson, Seana Fippin, Joanna Mirov

Social Media Sales Strategy

Social media platforms can be powerful lead generation tools. In this hands-on workshop, led by experts from channel legend Janet Schijn’s JS Group, you’ll learn proven, practical techniques used by social selling masters, and get free access to an extensive series of online follow-up lessons.

Presenters:

Barbara Goworowski, Vladimir Krause Halabi

Managed Services Strategy Survivor

Who gets voted off the island? It’s up to you! Hear three of the industry’s top managed services consultants field tough questions about the M&A strategy, product strategy, and growth strategy today’s MSPs need to survive in a changing market. Then pick the sole survivor!

Presenters:

Shawn Walsh , Rayanne Buchianico, Allen Edwards

Closing Remarks, Awards, and Prize Giveaways!

Post-Event Cocktail Reception, Sponsored by Rick Jordan

Titanium

Diamond

Platinum

Sapphire

Premier Gold

Gold

Silver

Pre-Day

Lunch

Cocktail Reception Host

Post-Event Cocktail Reception

Media Partner

Location Info

1800 E Golf Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60173

Hyatt Regency Schaumburg/Chicago
1800 East Golf Road
Schaumburg, IL 60173

The Hyatt Regency Schaumburg/Chicago offers modern upscale accommodations just 15 minutes from O’Hare Airport, 30 minutes from downtown Chicago, and minutes from Schaumburg business offices. Stay at the best upscale hotel in Schaumburg near Woodfield Mall.

Agenda

Wednesday, May 4th
Time	Activity
1:00pm to 4:00pm	Trend Micro Workshop
5:00pm to 7:00pm	Pre-Game with Dell Expert Network
7:00pm to 9:00pm	Cocktail Reception

Thursday, May 5th
Time	Activity
7:30am to 8:00am	Breakfast, Registration, and Networking Time
8:00am to 8:15am	Opening Remarks and Peer Introductions
8:15am to 8:55am	The Security Slam
8:55am to 9:20am	Dell Expert Network Titanium Sponsor Presentation
9:20am to 9:30am	Cytracom Gold Sponsor Presentation
9:30am to 9:40am	Sophos Gold Sponsor Presentation
9:40am to 9:50am	Connectwise Gold Sponsor Presentation
9:50am to 10:20am	Peer to Peer: Winning with Microsoft Azure
10:20am to 10:35am	Kaseya Platinum Sponsor Presentation
10:35am to 10:45am	Ingram Micro Gold Sponsor Presentation
10:45am to 10:55am	PC Matic Gold Sponsor Presentation
10:55am to 11:05am	CaaB Gold Sponsor Presentation
11:05am to 11:15am	ThreatLocker Gold Sponsor Presentation
11:15am to 11:25am	Break
11:25am to 11:40am	Fortinet Platinum Sponsor Presentation
11:40am to 11:55am	Huntress Premier Gold Sponsor Presentation
11:55am to 12:05pm	Rick Jordan Gold Sponsor Presentation
12:05pm to 12:15pm	Trend Micro Gold Sponsor Presentation
12:15pm to 12:50pm	Silver Sponsor Speed Presentations
12:50pm to 1:00pm	Gradient MSP Diamond Sponsor Presentation
1:00pm to 2:30pm	Luncheon and Sponsor Showcase
2:30pm to 3:10pm	The Employee Recruitment Dating Game
3:10pm to 3:30pm	Datto Sapphire Sponsor Presentation
3:30pm to 3:40pm	Aparavi Gold Sponsor Presentation
3:40pm to 3:50pm	ConnectMeVoice Gold Sponsor Presentation
3:50pm to 4:00pm	Carbonite/Webroot Gold Sponsor Presentation
4:00pm to 4:50pm	Social Media Sales Strategy
4:50pm to 5:00pm	Axcient Gold Sponsor Presentation
5:00pm to 5:10pm	Egnyte Gold Sponsor Presentation
5:10pm to 5:20pm	The Wiser Agency Gold Sponsor Presentation
5:20pm to 5:30pm	Break and Award Voting
5:30pm to 6:10pm	Managed Services Strategy Survivor
6:10pm to 6:15pm	Closing Remarks, Awards, and Prize Giveaways!
6:15pm to 7:15pm	Post-Event Cocktail Reception, Sponsored by Rick Jordan

Presenters

Session Speakers

Zach Hill

Zach Hill, brand manager at TCM Security, wears many hats, from marketing to penetration testing. Brad has over 20 years of experience in the world of technology, from web development and internet marketing to system administration and cybersecurity. Zach is also host of the popular YouTube channel IT Career Questions, where he has helped millions... more

Vladimir Krause Halabi

Vladimir Krause Halabi is the co-director of social media of JS Group. While completing his undergraduate and receiving a B.A. of Psychology from Montclair State University, he worked his way through school as a manager of a nationwide convenience store firm where he learned firsthand how social influence drives consumer preference and buying... more

Vince Tinnirello

Vince Tinnirello is the CEO of Anchor Network Solutions, a Denver-based managed IT service provider, founded in 2002. He is the immediate past Chair of the CompTIA Managed Services Community, co-author of The Business Owner's Essential Guide to IT and All Things Digital Version 2.0, and very passionate about the IT Services industry and the... more

Stephen Monk

Stephen Monk is CEO of Noverus Innovations, an IT consulting and managed services company he founded in 2011 in Roseville, Calif. Drawing from over 20 years in the technology industry, Stephen is involved in every aspect of the company’s operations as the strategist and leading-edge visionary, ensuring that Noverus’ mission is accomplished.... more

Shawn Walsh

Shawn Walsh is the former CEO of an MSP business that he grew to locations in four states. He exited after being acquired by a national IT services company. Now as the CEO of Encore Strategic Shawn teaches business owners how to increase profitability, grow, and exit their businesses.Shawn holds a BS in Management from Franklin Pierce University,... more

Seana Fippin

Seana Fippin is founder and CEO of Red Box Business Solutions, a women-owned business. Red Box Business Solutions is a concierge-level managed service provider, exceeding the technical needs of San Francisco Bay Area businesses. Seana began her career in management at a leading ISP and web hosting company in the Silicon Valley, where she gained... more

Rayanne Buchianico

Rayanne Buchianico is owner and CEO of ABC Solutions in Clearwater, Fla. Rayanne has devoted her career to the technology industry. With over 20 years of working in and around technology, she built many companies to support IT professionals across the globe. As the owner of ABC Solutions, she developed processes for MSPs to focus on profitability... more

Lawrence Cruciana

Lawrence Cruciana, CISSP, CISM, CMMC-RP, is the founder and president of Corporate Information Technologies (CIT). He leads CIT’s cybersecurity business practice, focusing on identifying and mitigating information-centric risk in upper-SMB and midmarket organizations. With over 20 years of information technology (IT) experience in regulated... more

Joanna Mirov

Joanna Mirov began her career in the healthcare industry, working for successful women entrepreneurs. She later moved into IT as a technical recruiter, where she recognized the importance of hiring the right people for the right job. Joanna took the knowledge and confidence she built from these positions to launch her own company,... more

Jayson Ferron

Jayson Ferron is CISO/CEO of Interactive Security Training LLC. Jay is a multi-certified information security subject matter expert with more than 40 years of professional experience, which includes security and compliance, integration and transformation initiatives, IS management process, and operational metrics definition and documentation.... more

James Carroll

James Carroll is a penetration tester and co-founder of Hacket Cyber. James has extensive experience in breaking security defenses and locating sensitive information inside corporate networks, and exfiltrating that data in ways that are hard for normal security defenses to recognize. James has worked with Fortune 100 organizations, professional... more

Charles Henson

Charles Henson is the owner of Nashville Computer, the premier cybersecurity and IT services firm in Music City. He was cast in the Amazon Prime movie Cyber Crime. He is an international best-selling author of MSSP Playbook and is often featured in industry publications as the unofficial spokesman when an industry leader is needed for the story... more

Barbara Goworowski

As COO, Barbara Goworowski ensures the JS Group delivers the ultimate client experience: clients that are delighted with the work we do. In addition, Barbara is the queen of all things marketing—marketing to channel partners, and through channel partners, is her idea of fun! From identifying the right target to crafting a unique message platform... more

Allen Edwards

Allen Edwards is president of Eureka Process, which he started with a view to benefit clients through immersion in their daily process and activity. Allen brings his breadth of technical and leadership knowledge to the table, along with proven EOS® implementation skills to guide his clients and their teams through fostering the development of the... more

Sponsor Speakers

Walter Meek

Walter Meek is partner diversity manager at PC Matic. Walter is a customer-focused professional with 20-plus years' experience in information technology consulting, with a focus on delivering solutions to clients. He has a technical background in networking, wired and wireless infrastructure, and cybersecurity consulting with an emphasis on AWL (... more

Tim Coach

Tim Coach, channel chief for PIA, is passionate about MSPs, helping them take their business to the next level. Tim has worked in all facets of the channel, from the client to the MSP to the vendor, from help desk to MSP executive, to channel chief. For the past few decades, Tim has been in IT, and for over the past decade has been a consultant... more

Tanner Rhoades

Tanner Rhoades is a senior solutions development specialist with Ingram Micro, focused on developing SMB community partners. He has been with Ingram Micro for over two years and has a successful sales/leadership background of eight-plus years and counting. In addition, Tanner is a mentor within Ingram Micro’s internal Onboarding Peer Coach (OPC)... more

Salim Usuff

Salim Usuff is a product specialist with Cytracom focused on educating partners on how to better protect and connect their clients’ modern workforce. Salim has worked with MSPs across the globe to improve operational efficiencies while enabling MSPs to capture additional revenue streams. He has over 15 years of A/V and IT hardware and software... more

Ryan Post

Ryan Post is a data expert at Aparavi, where he helps customers and service providers understand their unstructured data so they can make decisions on how it should be handled. Ryan has been in the IT industry for over 12 years. Not only is he a subject matter expert in understanding unstructured data, but he also has extensive experience in the... more

Ryan Bowman

Ryan Bowman is the director of solutions engineering at ThreatLocker, an Orlando, Fla.-based cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security. Ryan is an IT and security professional with 20-plus years of experience as an MSP and IT services provider. He is dedicated to assisting partners in understanding the zero-trust architecture and... more

Ron Schmid

Ron Schmid is a sales engineer for Kaseya VSA and Traverse and loves talking, demoing, and arguing technology with people.Originally from Israel, Ron moved to Miami from San Francisco. He studied computer system engineering and worked as an application and sales engineer in the semiconductor industry before changing fields to SaaS a few years ago... more

Rob Rae

As senior vice president of business development at Datto, Rob Rae's role is to oversee various aspects of Datto's programs including events, marketing development funds, vendor management, and partner advisory board, all with the goal of helping our partners grow. With over 25 years’ experience in B2B markets, Rob has extensive knowledge of... more

Rick Jordan

Rick Jordan is a highly regarded and nationally recognized voice on cybersecurity, business ethics, and entrepreneurship. He has spoken at Nasdaq, Harvard Clubs of NYC & Boston, Mercedes, Coca Cola, and West Point. Rick has been featured on Cheddar, Bloomberg, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX.Rick is the Founder & CEO of ReachOut Technology (an MSP... more

Mor Mordchaev

Mor Mordchaev is a technology enthusiast who is always looking to cultivate new relationships and grow business together! As the channel partner director for CaaB (Cloud as-a Business), Mor gets to do what he enjoys most: helping MSP business owners acclimate and align their business with the latest cloud technology in order to better serve... more

Matthew Picarazzi

Matt Picarazzi is an account executive with Huntress who lives in Trumbull, Conn. Before working at Huntress, Matt spent time in sales at both Datto and Inbay Ltd. For years, he's helped SMBs gain the appropriate tools they need to successfully run their businesses and now specializes in helping them improve their cybersecurity tools.

Karen Guarino

Karen Guarino serves as MSP channel account executive for Americas at Sophos, a next-generation cybersecurity leader in network and endpoint security products and services. Karen has worked for over 17 years helping educate partners on how to sell security services, including endpoint, firewall, email, and more. Karen has been helping drive MRR,... more

Justin Thomas

As a pre-sales engineer with over 20 years of industry experience, Justin Thomas has worked within MSPs, architecting the infrastructures of SMBs and managing the support and partnership relationships with their clients and vendors. He is an expert in assisting in the evaluation of solutions to meet the needs of MSPs and SMBs alike. Using his... more

Eric Townsend

Eric Townsend is Americas SMB and MSP marketing director for Intel. To compete in the new digital economy, businesses often need to make significant shifts in their business operations and technical infrastructure to deliver on their ever-changing business goals. Many businesses are in the midst of their own digital transformation and are... more

Eric Anthony

Eric Anthony is the director of channel community and enablement at Egnyte. Since the age of 15, Eric has been helping people with IT, from setting up PCs for friends to owning his own break/fix and managed services companies. He spent four years in C-level management positions between his break/fix and MSP ventures. In 2013, he joined the vendor... more

Emma Laipple

Emma Laipple is a senior solutions development specialist with Ingram Micro focused on the growth and development of our SMB partners. In her position, Emma’s goal is fostering relationships with our resellers to ensure they are utilizing Ingram Micro’s entire value-add portfolio. Emma comes to the SMB space after spending three years working with... more

Darius Goodall

Darius Goodall is senior director of marketing with oversight of Fortinet’s SMB business. Darius is a veteran of the network industry, with more than 27 years of experience in security, networking, marketing, and business development. Prior to joining Fortinet, he served as senior director of product marketing at Barracuda Networks, head of... more

Cristina Tapiero

Cristina Tapiero is MSP channel account manager at Trend Micro. She has the privilege of working with Trend Micro’s new MSP partners on enablement. Cristina loves working with channel partners as it brings her a sense of joy to see them flourish. She enjoys learning about all things cybersecurity and in turn sharing the knowledge with others. As... more

Chris Wiser

Chris Wiser is founder and CEO of The Wiser Agency, a sales and marketing coaching firm focusing on the managed service and IT service provider industry with a specific focus on our main product called 7 Figure MSP™. We teach MSPs and ITSPs how to sell and market their businesses using cybersecurity as a baseline component.

Charlie Tomeo

As chief revenue officer for Axcient, Charlie Tomeoleads the development, strategy, and execution of sales for the cloud backup and data protection product portfolios. He leverages an innovative approach to the channel through a network of market-leading partners and managed service providers with a keen focus on being easy to do business with and... more

Carnegie Wise

Carnegie Wise is a customer accounts manager for ConnectMeVoice and a new speaker at channel events. For the past six years, Carnegie has devoted his time to his passion for helping small- to medium-size business owners grow their companies. Carnegie got his start in the channel in 2018 with Mailprotector, shortly after the release of their... more

Andrew Lemonda

A native of New York, Andrew Lemonda joined ConnectWise in February 2021 as a leader of account management. Prior to ConnectWise, Andrew spent 15 years working for CA Technologies and Broadcom holding several different roles in the service provider route-to-market. Andrew enjoys leading his team with a focus on implementing strategies that enable... more

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ChannelPro SMB Forum 2022: Midwest (Chicago)

Check out our sponsors for this event.

Main Group

Sessions & Networking

May 4th

Trend Micro Workshop

Pre-Game with Dell Expert Network

Cocktail Reception

May 5th

Breakfast, Registration, and Networking Time

The Security Slam

Peer to Peer: Winning with Microsoft Azure

Luncheon and Sponsor Showcase

The Employee Recruitment Dating Game

Social Media Sales Strategy

Managed Services Strategy Survivor

Closing Remarks, Awards, and Prize Giveaways!

Post-Event Cocktail Reception, Sponsored by Rick Jordan

Titanium

Diamond

Platinum

Sapphire

Premier Gold

Gold

Silver

Pre-Day

Lunch

Cocktail Reception Host

Post-Event Cocktail Reception

Media Partner

Session Speakers

Sponsor Speakers