Everyone meets over breakfast to kick off day 2 as Shane shares some of the latest research and insights in today's selling process. His session will dig into how you can accelerate your sales cycle and closing rates by using some smart AI tools and tactics.

As the digital-first economy accelerates even faster with Artificial Intelligence, it's the people who can best average AI who will be the big winners. Fear not AI, but the humans who can manipulate it!

In this session, Shane Gibson will share the latest playbook on how Sales and Marketing can 10X ROI with AI. This can apply to MSPs as well as their clients! MSPs may want to considering offering this educational service and training to their clients!

If you are selling or marketing anything, you will want to catch this session! Ask about bringing this powerful knowledge and skill to your entire team!

See details of all sessions in the conference e-guide!

Get ready for powerful sessions featuring select vendors and thought-leaders as they take to the stage in a brief talk-show format. These sessions will focus around core topics such as Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, insurance, Artificial Intelligence, 5G/Wireless, Business Automation, Networking, Business Automation, Compliance/Regulations and the latest in Data Protection.

We focus on what's most important the channel partners! These 15-minute sessions from PAX8, Produce8 and Sophos are engaging and bring the audience into the discussion.

Speakers will be available throughout the event to answer your questions.

What is your strategy for staying up-to-date with the latest compliance standards and government regulations? How will you categorize, manage and protect the data? What do you need to know? How do you help your customers to overcome this challenge?

We will be introducing J-SAS a Canadian-Made Compliance-as-a-Service platform! This will allow any MSP to implement a comprehensive compliance managed service with continuous automated compliance monitoring and reporting! It's what you need to leverage the growing business of compliance and regulations.

Coffee, tea, drinks and snacks are available throughout the day!

Introducing everything you need in one resource to do Cybersecurity right available to you 365 days a year!

This is truly a game-changer in Cybersecurity Managed Services! Built exclusively for MSPs, MSSPs and SOCs. Go to https://cybersecuritydefenseecosystem.com/ and watch the 12-minute video presentation to learn what this is about. Built in Canada!

The CDE resource currently features over 250 CISO-vetted solutions and 15 powerful business services available to help its members build and scale their cybersecurity business practice all year long.

We will highlight the following solutions:

1. Private-label marketplace platform for MSPs
2. Data Management and Classification
3. Marketing Automation and Public Relations
4. Compliance-as-a-Service
5. Cyber Mastermind Peer-Groups
7. Cyber Insurance
8. Pen-Testing as-a-Service and vCISO Services
9. Cyber Breach Emergency Response and Preparation

You will only find this at ChannelNEXT!

The way we communicate, the way we approach problems and the way we approach other people is based on our own past, our own interpretations and our own biases.

Are we always aware what those biases are? And can we all say with certainty that we can fully relate to the members of our team, empathize and understand completely, especially when things go wrong or we are not at our best?

We are all different in our own way, but there are certain similarities and certain behaviours which can slot us into a few categories. Understanding what those categories are and what the pros and cons of each archetype is can open lines of communication, remove conflict and almost completely eliminate misunderstanding.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if every time you were impatient to the outside world or your team, instead of taking it personally and creating conflict, they approach it rationally and critically and work towards a solution?

In this workshop, you have an opportunity with your team to establish basic characteristics of our archetypal behaviour and learn techniques that will allow you to communicate in a productive manner.

Attendees will gain practical tools to enhance team trust, support, and collaboration, ultimately driving success and innovation.

Digital transformation has become fundamental to just about every business. This year, the era of AI such as ChatGPT is everywhere and impacting just about everything we do. Cybersecurity is mission critical to every company.

Managing Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability is the key to future-proofing your manage service business.

Introducing Manuj Aggarwal,a Top Voice in AI | CIO at TetraNoodle | Your people are your best asset. We boost their value with AI & automation | Reduce costs by up to 60% | AI keynote speaker | 4x patents in AI/ML | 2x author see https://www.linkedin.com/in/manujaggarwal/

This session gives practical and pragmatic advice on how to use AI to get tangible benefits in businesses. It will show how multiple technologies like RPA, Blockchain and AI can be combined to build virtual AI employees which can mimic real employees - with a body, mind and soul.

How can you avoid making costly mistakes as you help your clients transform their business to be successful in the digital-first World. On April 26th, 1986, at 1:23:40 AM, Aleksandr Akimov, shift supervisor of reactor 4's control room at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, pressed the emergency SCRAM button to shut down an unstable nuclear reactor following a failed safety test. However, instead of the reactor shutting down, it experienced a power surge and subsequent catastrophic explosion that immediately killed 50 people, irradiated over 160,000 square kilometers, contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union, and has cost $700 Billion in ongoing remediation efforts to date.

But how could a safety system intended to halt a nuclear meltdown result in such a catastrophe? This talk will start with a crash course on nuclear energy and a cautionary tale of how innovation biases, technical and systemic deficiencies, and cultural factors culminated in to the world's worst nuclear disaster.

We will then fast-forward and explore exciting new technologies being used digital transformation initiatives, such as Cloud, IoT, and AI, and the potential novel risks they may introduce, all the while drawing parallels to the lessons learned from the Chernobyl accident.

In the final part of the presentation, we will highlight the importance of modernizing existing safety and risk management functions by introducing new assurance standards, engineering best practices and robust controls to digitally enable safer, more efficient and highly resilient businesses.

Lunch in the Expo Hall

Last lunch with networking and many prize give-aways.

A powerful new feature at ChannelNEXT!

We will host an extended Q and A town-hall MSP OPEN discussion. This is your opportunity to ask any question and get the right answers from some of the most successful channel partners in the country! What ever happens in this town hall, stays there!

You do not have to join a peer-group if you do not want to, but we would strongly encourage everyone to experience this Mastermind Peer-group for themselves.

It may be the best thing you do to improve your success and life. You can only know this for sure, after you experience it for yourself. Ask anyone about their experience and get their honest feedback. It is truly amazing!

Get together with a small group of your peers to discuss your pain points and brainstorm solutions. If you have never experienced a Mastermind peer-group before then you are in for a treat! You will be amazed how this can help you solve most of your problems. 

Vendors can also join the groups so everyone can help each other. An expert facilitator will guide everyone through the process and thought-provoking journey that is also enjoyable.

There is an option for you to join a permanent peer-group to carry on the collaboration throughout the year! To learn more https://www.channelpartneralliance.com/

We hope you gained a lot of new and valuable knowledge that will help your business, made solid partnerships with our sponsor vendors as well as connected with your peers, and of course, enjoyed yourself.

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We appreciate you attending our event!

We will be staying back for at last another day so if you are also sticking around, we hope to see you post event!

Thank you!

Your Team ChannelNEXT/TechnoPlanet