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CONFERENCES
The channel services group has
declared its 2017 Member Conference
a huge success and set the bar even
higher for 2018. Sponsors, suppliers
and members provided positive
feedback on the successful two-day
event, which took place Thursday 15
and Friday 16 June at Heathrow.
The group welcomed more than 400
members and representatives of supplier
partners to the Park Inn by Radisson to
hear leading industry figures and special
guest speaker, B.J Cunningham, and to hold
one-to-one meeting with their contacts.
Phenomenal success
According to Derek Jones, Managing
Director of Synaxon UK, the latter feature
was particularly successful. He said: “The
2017 Conference was a phenomenal
success and the Conversation Starter
meetings were spectacularly popular. The
feedback from our sponsors and members
on those sessions has been stunning. A
lot of our partners and members made
important contacts and did a great deal of
useful business over the two days.”
John Carter, Managing Director of
DMSL, which was at the event promoting
its new channel programme aimed at
recruiting partners for BT, agreed. “It was a
great event. BT were very impressed by the
quality and opportunities to engage with
Synaxon Partners. Many resellers engaged
with our new Broadband and Phones
Programme. We even had orders for BT
mobile phones being placed on the day by
resellers,” he said.
Over 750 formal meetings were staged
and many more informal gatherings also
took place during the networking phases
of the programme.
Members benefit
Members also benefited. Personal
Computer Clinic (PCC), was one of six
companies to be presented with a Synaxon
Recognition award at the Gala Dinner,
which was sponsored by Ingram Micro, on
the first evening of the conference.
PCC Director Keith Williams said: “It
was really productive. I certainly made a
lot of new contacts and took away some
new ideas. I think everyone who was there
had a good time and was inspired by
the positive energy and dynamism of the
whole event and the Synaxon community.”
Des Auld, Managing Director of
Logiplex Solutions received the Special
Recognition Award having been an active
member and supporter of Synaxon since
the group was established in the UK more
than eight years ago. Auld is an industry
veteran of more than 35 years and is
retiring at the end of the year.
Keynote presentations
Other major sponsors for this year’s
conference included Autotask, BT in
association with DMSL, Sage, and Terra.
Speakers from all four companies delivered
keynotes.
The day’s presentations finished with
a rousing and inspiring talk on what it
takes to make a business successful by B.J.
Cunningham, entrepreneur and founder of
the iconoclastic Death Cigarettes brand.
Jones said: “I want to thank all the
sponsors, suppliers and members who
supported this year’s event. The 2017
Conference was a huge hit and we’re
thrilled for our 45 sponsors and suppliers,
but even more delighted for the members
who got so much out of it. Coming on top
of the many other benefits they receive;
the conference is the icing on the cake and
I’d urge all members to come and join us
next year.”
The date and location for the next
year’s event has not yet been set, but Jones
wants to make it even better. “This year set
the bar even higher, but we want to carry
on making the conference even better and
more useful for everyone involved. It has
now unquestionably become one of the
channel’s major networking events of the
year. Everyone who came this year wants
to come again in 2018 – and to get more
involved and engaged with Synaxon UK.
By the time we start preparing for the next
conference, Synaxon UK will be bigger,
stronger and even more of a positive
influence on the UK channel.”
Designed for resellers
Prior to the conference, the channel
services group announced it had signed a
members’ exclusive distributor agreement
for Autotask Endpoint Backup (AEB)
providing members with a simple and
cost-effective way to provide file back-
up with unlimited storage to customers
and thus safeguard against the threat of
ransomware and other malware attacks.
AEB is designed specifically for resellers,
and fully integrates with Autotask’s
professional services automation and
remote monitoring and management
Synaxon says the conference is now firmly established in the channel calendar
and that next year’s event will be even bigger and better
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