Event Registration

Location: Masters Ballroom Foyer

Networking Breakfast

Location: Masters Ballroom D

Vendor Panel

This panel presents an interactive discussion with leading vendors to convey their value proposition and growth opportunities.

Moderator: Robert DeMarzo, Senior Vice President, Strategic Content, Everything Channel Panelists: Tracy Collins, Director – North America Channel Sales & Marketing – Liebert & Avocent Products, Emerson Network Power; Alison Ryan, VP Channel Sales, SGI; David Faircloth, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, System Networking, IBM Systems & Technology Group

Location: Masters Ballroom E

Allison Ryan VP SGI	David Faircloth VP WW Sales & System Networking IBM System
Sponsored by

World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs

Technology executives, especially CIOs, have gained in prominence in recent years. The best of them look beyond their department and realize they can be drivers of strategic change by virtue of their unique perch in the corporate structure. Whereas in the past IT departments were straightforward order-takers from their business counterparts, today IT operates as the central nervous system of corporations. The career path from CIO to CEO has emerged.

Peter High has spent the past decade as the president of Metis Strategy, LLC advising IT executives at Fortune 500 companies, and has distilled principles that the best of them follow and is the author of "World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs." High has delivered keynote addresses in venues in the U.S., Canada, India and China, always focused on providing practical knowledge that attendees can put into practice in their companies immediately.

Location: Masters Ballroom E

Peter High
President
Metis Strategy

Networking Break

Location: Masters Ballroom Foyer

Sponsored by

View from the Top: Today's Best Performing VAR 500 Organizations. What Makes Them Great. An interactive panel.

Moderator: Robert DeMarzo, Senior Vice President, Strategic Content, Everything Channel
Panelists: Chris Pyle, President & CEO, Champion Solutions
Group Terrence Flood, President & CEO, Logicalis
Daniel Adamany, President, Ahead
David Uhler, National Director - Research &
Development/Managing Director, Slalom Mobility

VAR500 Awards Luncheon

Guest Speaker: Coach Phillip Fulmer

Champions are made and not born -- and no one knows that more than future Hall of Fame football coach Phillip Fulmer. Fulmer, whose .745 winning percentage ranks in the top five in modern college football history; coached 18 All Americans and 92 NFL draft picks, including NFL MVP and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning.

A conference champion player himself in the football-mad Southeastern Conference, Fulmer brought Tennessee's football program back to glory as a head coach, winning the school's first national championship in 41 years. Fulmer won two SEC titles as a head coach and led his squad to win or share the SEC East title seven times.

Location: Masters Ballroom E

Philip Fulmer, Sr.
Partner
Northshore Management