Cloud and Managed Services Online Summit 2020

Dec 2nd, 2020

Online

COMPLETELY ONLINE DECEMBER 2ND: Join a diverse group of integrators and solution providers for a full day of online education, best practices, and training on offering profitable IT services.

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Event Details

The Managed IT Service Provider (MSP) Online Summit has the proven best practices, practical instruction, and specific recommendations you need to create, sell, deliver, and profit from managed IT and security services. We bring it all to you in a flexible, totally online format that’s a perfect fit for your busy schedule. Join ChannelPro and IoT Playbook editors as we host integrators and solution providers for a full day of online education, best practices, and training.

Who should attend?
Any IT integrator, solution provider, and MSP who wants to grow their IT services business.

Sessions begin at 10:30am ET.

Sessions & Networking

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December 2nd

Session: Secrets of Cloud Security

Protecting SaaS and IaaS workloads in multiple clouds is more difficult, more in demand, and more lucrative than on-premises security. Join a panel of expert cloud security solution providers for a look at the tools and techniques you need to turn cloud security from headache to opportunity.

Presenters:

Michael O'Hara, Michael Cocanower, Angela Davis Dogan

Session: Six Questions for the Cloud Services Superstar

Our guest speaker is crushing it in cloud services right now. What makes them tick? Find out in this Q&A exploration of a cloud solution provider’s professional best practices and personal thoughts on food, sports, travel, or whatever else ChannelPro’s editors ask about.

Presenters:

Steve Hall

Session: Peer to Peer: Service Delivery Samurai

In these two one-on-one interviews, ChannelPro’s Colleen Frye interviews leading-edge managed services providers on the tactics they employ to keep customers happy, systems operational, and administrative costs low.

Presenters:

Angel Rojas, Amy Babinchak

Session: Six Questions for the Managed Services Superstar

Time to take another visit inside the mind of a top-tier channel pro. This time it’s an MSP growing consistently at double-digit rates. Find out what they do that you should too in this unpredictable, rapid-fire Q&A with the ChannelPro editorial team.

Presenters:

Peter Melby

Session: The Masked Managed Services Consultant

Three masked contestants want the crown for best operational efficiency guru. Who will win? Our audience decides!

Presenters:

Rayanne Buchianico, Erick Simpson, Allen Edwards

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Agenda

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Wednesday, December 2nd
Time	Activity
3:30pm to 4:30pm	Expo Hall: Sponsor Booths and Resource Pages open - please visit!
4:30pm to 4:35pm	Opening Remarks
4:35pm to 5:15pm	Session: Secrets of Cloud Security
5:15pm to 5:35pm	Diamond Sponsor Interview: Dell Expert Network: Cloud-Like and Cloud Ready: Leveraging Both for Value
5:35pm to 6:05pm	Session: Six Questions for the Cloud Services Superstar
6:05pm to 6:15pm	Emerald Sponsor Presentation: Webroot
6:15pm to 6:35pm	Diamond Sponsor Interview: Datto: Protecting Against Ransomware: The Need for Education and Investment
6:35pm to 6:45pm	Emerald Sponsor Presentation: bvoip
6:45pm to 7:25pm	Session: Peer to Peer: Service Delivery Samurai
7:25pm to 7:35pm	Emerald Sponsor Presentation: ELO Digital Office
7:35pm to 7:45pm	Emerald Sponsor Presentation: Cytracom
7:45pm to 8:15pm	Session: Six Questions for the Managed Services Superstar
8:15pm to 8:25pm	Diamond Sponsor Presentation: Dell Expert Network
8:25pm to 8:35pm	Diamond Sponsor Presentation: Datto
8:35pm to 9:05pm	Session: The Masked Managed Services Consultant
9:05pm to 9:15pm	Emerald Sponsor Presentation: Sophos
9:15pm to 9:20pm	Closing Remarks
9:20pm to 10:20pm	Expo Hall: Sponsor Booths and Resource Pages

Presenters

Session Speakers

Steve Hall

Steve has over twenty years of experience in technology consulting in the small business arena with a specialization in cloud and information protection. As a college junior, he started a business with a vision of being able to provide affordable solutions and services to other small businesses that would enable them to better compete with the... 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

Peter Melby

Peter Melby is the CEO of Denver-based MSP, Greystone Technology, a six-time Inc. 5000 honoree and a six-time Top Workplace winner. Peter has been named one of Colorado's Top 25 CEOs, 40 Under 40, and a ChannelPro 20/20 visionary. His leadership at Greystone has led to 17 consecutive years of growth and consistent recognition for market innovation... more

Michael O'Hara

Michael O'Hara is owner and principal consultant of MEDSEC Privacy Consulting. He has spent 30 years in the information security and technology industry. As a CISSP, Michael is a thought leader and has made it his life’s mission to spread awareness about cyberthreats to business and laypeople alike. Michael embodies the concept of threat x... more

Michael Cocanower

Michael Cocanower is the founder and president of itSynergy, based in Phoenix, Ariz., for over 25 years. itSynergy focuses exclusively on providing strategic technology management for small and midsized organizations on a fixed monthly fee. Michael is a Certified Ethical Hacker, a certification he utilizes daily to counsel customers on the world... more

Erick Simpson

Erick Simpson built and sold one of the very first MSPs in the industry and co-founded MSP University, where he grew and coached a channel of 30,000 IT solution providers through their MSP transformation. He is the creator of the MSP Mastered® Methodology for business performance improvement that has been licensed by numerous IT channel... more

Angela Davis Dogan

Angela is a Doctoral Student in Information Technology and Founder & CEO of Davis Dogan Advisory Services where her expertise in the management and implementation of Enterprise and Third-Party Risk Management Programs is guiding enterprises and public sector organizations. Angela has spent the last 16 years enabling leading financial services... more

Angel Rojas

Angel Rojas is president and CEO of DataCorps. He is a passionate technology enthusiast obsessed with eliminating the hassle, waste, and headaches of all things digital for businesses in the greater Tampa Bay, Fla., area. DataCorps dedicates itself to piloting the support and maintenance of business computer networks. While working at... more

Amy Babinchak

Amy Babinchak is the owner of three IT related businesses: Harbor Computer Services, Third Tier, and Sell My MSP and has been working in small and medium business IT field for more than 20 years. She values technology for what it does for people and the success it brings to business. She has also been a Microsoft MVP for 11 years, received... 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

Travis Simmons

Travis Simmons is an accomplished channel sales executive offering revenue-growing solutions to MSPs since 2004.  Since joining Sophos in 2012 Travis has held many MSP-focused roles but currently works exclusively with their MSP Connect program, which leverages the entire cloud-managed security portfolio in line with the way MSPs do business.

Robert Hartman

Robert Hartman is a product marketing consultant at Dell Technologies, supporting the Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio for cloud. A seasoned professional technology marketer with a computer engineering degree, he has always had a fascination with technology and how it can add value to people, businesses and ongoing trends to improve productivity and... more

Michael DePalma

Michael DePalma is director of business development at Datto. He joined the business development team in February 2016. As a former Datto channel sales executive, Michael worked with existing Datto partners both on a broader scale, through facilitating marketing plans and webinars, and on a client-specific scale, through vetting individual... more

Greg Luebke

Greg Luebke, MSP channel account manager, has been with Webroot for three years helping managed service providers grow their businesses with solutions that allow them to have the peace of mind that their customers are protected. Prior to Webroot, he was on the network side selling for Juniper Networks. A native of Colorado, he loves to spend time... more

George Bardissi

George Bardissi is CEO of two companies, an MSP based out of Philadelphia, Pa., and the channel-only firm that work with other MSPs around the world in the cloud communications space. Having started his MSP in 2000, George matured through the IT and managed services business from break/fix to project to multitier to pure-play MSP. That 17-year... more

David Prather

An information management expert (IGP, CIP), David leads enterprise content management (ECM) and content services platform (CSP) initiatives for Ovitas, a premier ELO USA Business Partner.  David is passionate about driving organizational efficiency by enabling MSPs to help their customers automate document management, records management, AP,... more

Dave Goldie

Dave Goldie (Goldie) is vice president of channel for Gradient MSP and channel champion for the MSP world. He’s worked in the channel for six years, valiantly helping MSPs scale their businesses and improve their practices.   Dave lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his family. When he’s not working in the channel, he enjoys spending... more

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Cloud and Managed Services Online Summit 2020

Check out our sponsors for this event.

Main Group

Sessions & Networking

December 2nd

Session: Secrets of Cloud Security

Session: Six Questions for the Cloud Services Superstar

Session: Peer to Peer: Service Delivery Samurai

Session: Six Questions for the Managed Services Superstar

Session: The Masked Managed Services Consultant

Diamond

Emerald

Session Speakers

Sponsor Speakers