Welcome to the Future
Channel Partners Online and Channel Futures are ushering in a new era for the channel community.
- Signature stories. Each week our editors will be bringing our readers what we call “signature stories” based on their areas of coverage. These articles will go deeper than the news of the moment to analyze the ramifications by asking the tough questions. You will see these stories around our focus of cloud, communications and security.
- It has been and continues to be a hot topic for partners who are morphing their operations to play on both the communications and technology sides of the business. Not every partner will have a converged model, but we realize this movement is part of the channel’s future. So having one destination for these stories and insight makes more sense than ever before.
- Events coverage. Our Channel Partners Conference & Expo is the industry’s largest cross-channel event. With growing numbers of MSPs joining our core audience of agents and master agents, it makes sense to highlight our agendas and speaker coverage on one site going forward.
- Digital events. We are expanding the number of digital events which educate audience members on the industry’s hottest technology topics. Our Channel Futures website will now make it easier for our combined audience to have access to those webinars either live or on-demand.
- A platform for your voice. We realize that the industry thrives on different points of view, so we welcome content from our audience members and subject-matter experts who want to impart their wisdom on the most-pressing issues of the day. This will also enable us to further extend our website as a community platform where peer perspectives can be shared with ongoing commentary.
- Diversity, equity and inclusion. DE&I is one of the most important leadership issues of the day, spanning every channel organization. It’s a key area of focus for our editorial coverage, with our stories tailored to deliver actionable information. Business leaders can use this insight to build high-performance teams made up of diverse individuals and have equitable compensation plans in place.
So welcome to the future. We hope you are excited as we are about the new Channel Futures website. Launching one website for the entire channel was truly a team effort. We would like to recognize our entire editorial team, the Informa developers and designers and our marketing staff for all their hard work. Special thanks to Buffy Naylor and Traci Verbaarschott who worked tirelessly with our audience and customers to make this a smooth transition.
Let us know what you think by emailing me at [email protected] or reach out to our editorial director, Craig Galbraith, at [email protected].
Bobby DeMarzo is vice president of content for Informa Tech Channels.
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Bravo, Bobby and team!!! If there was any one move you could make that would contribute most to promoting convergence of the IT and telecom channels, this is it. I look forward to seeing everything presented in the context of BOTH channels to promote better understanding and appreciation of each other. Long overdue and exciting!!!