Exclusive Webinar: Experts discuss as-a-service IT and the partner opportunity

Join us for a special conversation about as-a-service IT. Our panel of experts will explore what it is, what is driving this trend and why channel partners are critical to growth and adoption.

May 5, 2021
8:00 - 8:45 am Pacific | 5:00 - 5:45 pm CET


Agenda

  • Panel introduction
  • What is as-a-service IT and what are the drivers?
  • What are the pressing customer demands today and how are these evolving?
  • What is the opportunity for partners?
  • What did Cisco just launch and what is the partner experience?
  • What don't we know yet about as-a-service: "what's the future?"
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Jeff Marusak

Event moderator bio:
Jeff Marusak, Sr. Manager, Partner Managed & aaS Sales at Cisco. Jeff will moderate the panel discussion.


Alastair-Edwards

Event speaker bio:
Alastair Edwards is a Chief Analyst at Canalys and heads the company’s industry-leading Channels Analysis service, providing clients with expert advice on channel trends and strategies. Over the last decade he has worked with many of the largest global technology vendors, supporting the development of their go-to-market models for hardware, software and services. His expertise spans all areas of the channel, and most recently his research has focused on the changing role of partners in new ‘as-a-service’ models. He leads many of Canalys’ strategic consulting projects and is a regular presenter at industry events around the world.


Kent Christensen

Event speaker bio:
Kent Christensen, Practice Director at Insight Cloud + Data Center Transformation, leads the virtualization and cloud infrastructure practice, directing the selection and adoption of virtualization technologies and services. He also consults with organizations on storage consolidation and virtualization/cloud strategies and technologies. He has previous experience directing the intelligent fabric virtualization strategy and appliance-based virtualization solutions, and was a software engineer at various storage manufacturers.



Jeffrey den Oudsten

Event speaker bio:
Jeffrey den Oudsten is Solutions Director /CTO-Office lead at Conscia Netherlands and part of the CTO-Office of the Conscia Group, that is represented in 6 European countries. With his team of Business Leads and Solutions Consultants, Jeff is responsible for Conscia’s solutions and services in the areas of networking, datacenter & cloud, collaboration and security. As part of the CTO-Office, Jeff leads the business development on the portfolio and go-to-market of Conscia Netherlands, and supports these developments on a European level. Jeff has over 20 years experience in the ICT market and in helping organizations in their digital transformation.