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The UK Partner Forum is CMS Distribution's largest annual B2B channel event, providing the perfect networking opportunity to meet with leading software and hardware vendors, discover new tech and solutions, create commercial opportunities and expand your network.

This highly-recognised industry event will be held at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel, London on 10th November 2022, followed by the prestigious CRN Channel Awards.

Location

Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel
354 Queenstown Rd, Nine Elms, London

Date Time :

9:30 am, 10th November, 2022

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SPEAKERS

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Frank Salmon

Chief Executive Officer & Founder CMS Distribution
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Huw Jones

Chief Business Officer CMS Distribution
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John Fitzgerald

Chief Information Officer CMS Distribution
Julian Hubble

Julian Hubble

Sales Director DrayTek
Marc Lucas

Marc Lucas

Channel Sales Engineer Commvault
Anthony Parry

Anthony Parry

Partner Account Director Arcserve
Joe Rollins

Joe Rollins

Business Development Analyst Synology
Jeff Briggs

Jeff Briggs

Head of Sales, Storage Division Toshiba
Megan OShea

Megan O'Shea

Channel Account Sr. Specialist, EMEA AT&T Cybersecurity
Charles Damerell

Charles Damerell

Senior Director, UKI Sales SolarWinds
Simon Mead

Simon Mead

Director, Ecosystems, UK Red Hat
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Patrick Schwarz

Key Account Manager

AGENDA

Time Event Speaker
9:30 Registration
10:00 Open and Welcome
10:05 CMS Story with Frank Salmon Frank Salmon
10:25 Diary of a CIO John Fitzgerald
10:35 10 mins break
10:45 Insights with... Red Hat Simon Mead & Per Angerman
10:55 Insights with... SolarWinds Charles Damerell
11:05 Insights with... Commvault Marc Lucas
11:15 Insights with... Arcserve Tony Parry
11:25 Insights with... AT&T Cybersecurity Megan O’Shea
11:35 Panel Session OPSWAT – Anique Sayed & Global Relay – Max Canham
11:55 10 min break
12:05 Insights with... DrayTek Julian Hubble
12:20 Insights with... Toshiba Jeff Briggs
12:30 Insights with... Synology Joe Rollins
12:40 Insights with... DJI Enterprise Patrick Schwarz
12:50 Panel Session Infinidat - Gareth Beanland, Fujitsu - Amy Lishman & StarBoard - Michelle Bulbring
13:10 Lunch
14:00 121 Meeting - Session #1
14:15 121 Meeting - Session #2
14:30 121 Meeting - Session #3
14:45 121 Meeting - Session #4
15:00 121 Meeting - Session #5
15:15 121 Meeting - Session #6
15:30 15 mins break
15:45 121 Meeting - Session #7
16:00 121 Meeting - Session #8
16:15 121 Meeting - Session #9
16:30 121 Meeting - Session #10
16:45 121 Meeting - Session #11
17:00 121 Meeting - Session #12
17:30 Partner Forum Closes
18:30 Networking Drinks Pestana Bar

Floor Plan

Partner Forum- Floor Plan

HEADLINE SPONSOR

AGENDA

Time Event
09:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome & Housekeeping: Huw Jones
10:10
10:20 Guest Speaker: New Tech
10:30 Guest Speaker: Solution
10:40 Industry speaker - enterprise
11:00 Headline Sponsor speaker
11:20 15 min break
11:35 Keynote Speaker
11:45 Keynote Speaker
11:55 Keynote Speaker
12:05 Keynote Speaker
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Keynote Speaker
13:25 Keynote Speaker
13:35 Keynote Speaker
13:35 Keynote Speaker
13:45 Keynote Speaker
13:55 15 min break
14:10 121 - Session #1
14:30 121 - Session #2
14:50 121 - Session #3
15:10 121 - Session #4
15:30 121 - Session #5
15:50 121 - Session #6
16:10 121 - Session #7
16:30 121 - Session #8
16:50 121 - Session #9
17:10 121 - Session #10
17:30 Clearance & Room key collection
18:00 Networking drinks
19:00 CRN Awards

Coming to market in 1999, DrayTek UK has seen fast and steady growth to become a leading, award-winning, manufacturer of business-class broadband and networking solutions. Today, we offer a complete range of network equipment for Internet connectivity, Wi-Fi, and switching along with remote management tools designed to help customers roll out, troubleshoot and manage small to very large DrayTek networks. DrayTek's business philosophy focuses on both high functionality and high reliability with affordability as a key pillar in our proposition.

We are running two live demo sessions at the Partner Forum on VigorACS3 Network Management, reserve your seat now. 

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EXHIBITORS

iiyama

iiyama is one of the world's leading manufacturers of computer monitors. Efficiency, performance, reliability, and user comfort are all key to the development of iiyama products.

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Commvault

Commvault liberates business and IT professionals to do amazing things with their data by ensuring the fundamental integrity of their business. Its industry-leading Intelligent Data Services Platform empowers these professionals to store, protect, optimize, and use their data, wherever it lives. 

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Arcserve

Arcserve, a global top 5 data protection vendor and unified data resilience platform provider, offers the broadest set of best-in-class solutions to manage, protect, and recover all data workloads, from SMB to enterprise and regardless of location or complexity.

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Synology

With a blend of pioneering expertise and considerable experience, Synology is committed to transforming the way businesses manage their data with solutions that are elegantly simple, secure, and reliable.

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Toshiba

Toshiba is a world leader and innovator in pioneering high technology, a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products.

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AT&T Cybersecurity

At AT&T Cybersecurity, we understand that customers rely on your expertise to deliver world-class security solutions specifically designed to help protect their unique business. We also know that vetting new vendors, especially security vendors is a critical component to delivering those outcomes. 

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SolarWinds

SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT operations management software, offering worldwide organisations the power to monitor, analyse and manage the performance of their IT environments, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid models.

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Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, Cloud, Container and Automation technologies.

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Quantum Evolve

Quantum helps customers to capture, create and share digital content, with the fastest performance for high-resolution video, images and industrial IoT.

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StarBoard

StarBoard has been recognized for over 15 years as a global leader in Interactive Technology. StarBoard is factory owned ensuring early release of new interactive innovations to market.

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Quantum

Quantum technology, software, and services provide the solutions that today's organisations need to make video and other unstructured data smarter – so their data works for them and not the other way around. 

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Scale Computing

Scale Computing was founded to fulfil a need for organizations hindered by complexity, time, and resources that traditional virtualized IT environments demand. Today, Scale Computing delivers IT infrastructure solutions for edge computing, virtualization, and hyper-converged solutions to customers worldwide.

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OpenText Security Solutions

In an era of continuous cyber threats, OpenText Security Solutions help organizations of every size achieve cyber resilience with our security and data protection solutions. With a united front of best practices paired with layered solutions, we allow small, medium and large businesses to maintain uptime all the time.

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Barracuda

More than 200,000 global customers trust Barracuda to safeguard their employees, data, and applications from a wide range of threats. Barracuda provides easy, comprehensive and affordable solutions for email protection, application and cloud security, network security and data protection. We are continually innovating to deliver tomorrow’s security technology, today.

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Fujitsu

Headquartered in Japan, Fujitsu is a global leader in technology and business solutions that transform organisations and the world around us. We have a long heritage of bringing innovation and expertise, continuously working to contribute to the growth of society and our customers.

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Skurio

The Skurio Digital Risk Protection (DRP) platform continuously monitors the Dark Web, hacker forums, and paste and bin sites looking for threats to your business, or leaks of your data. Skurio DRP combines continuous 24/7 monitoring with real-time alert notifications, allowing you to quickly triage and investigate any new threats, vulnerabilities, or data breaches, to minimise the impact of any incidents.

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ESET

ESET is a leading global digital security company. "We are dedicated to protecting the progress that technology enables."  Privately owned, ESET is still run by the same engineers who started the company three decades ago.  Maintaining our independence allows us to focus on our primary goal – protecting customers and businesses towards a better future. 

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OPSWAT

OPSWAT is a global leader in IT, OT and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity solutions and Deep Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR), protecting the world’s mission-critical organizations from malware and zero-day attacks.

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Infortrend

Infortrend is a pure-play Enterprise Data Storage solution provider, delivering comprehensive solutions with the highest quality products and services since 1993, aiming to solve your customers’ storage challenges.

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Salicru

Founded in 1965, its main business is the development, manufacture and marketing of high-quality products designed to protect industrial, professional and household systems from potential disturbances from the mains power supply. 

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Digitate

Digitate is a leading software provider bringing agility, assurance, and resiliency to IT and business operations. ignio, an award-winning AIOps software, reimagines enterprise IT, and business landscape with its unique and innovative closed-loop approach that combines context, insights, and intelligent automation to autonomously resolve and prevent issues.

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Infinidat

Infinidat is the most innovative enterprise storage company at scale today delivering a fully automated and autonomous set-it-and-forget-it approach with unprecedented 100% availability, unmatched real-world application performance, and a substantially lower total cost of ownership with significant savings in CAPEX and OPEX. 

 

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DJI Enterprise

DJI is an innovative manufacturer of drones, gimbals and robotics for a wide range of applications, from toys for kids and flying cameras for photographers, to educational solutions and professional filmmaking kit.

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Unitrends

Unitrends introduces backup appliances and cloud data protection that leverage cutting edge technology to automate manual tasks, eliminate management complexity, and deliver tested hardware and software resilience.

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QNAP

Focusing on storage, networking and smart video innovations, QNAP has introduced a revolutionary Cloud NAS solution that joins their cutting-edge subscription-based software and diversified service channel ecosystem.

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Satechi

Over the years, Satechi have evolved as a brand significantly, and their product line has expanded to meet the growing needs of their customers. The brand now offers award-winning Type-C hubs and adapters, as well as a variety of charging accessories, computer peripherals, and smart home products.

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Nanoleaf

With innovation that aims to create an impact on the most personal level, Nanoleaf products help to improve the way we live inside our homes, how we utilise our workspaces, and how we choose to enjoy our free time.

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Insta360

Insta360 champions the boldest, craziest, wildest of ideas and puts them into action. When other people say, “That’s impossible”, Insta360 says “Let’s do it”. From a cliff dive to a cinematic production, Insta360 cameras help you capture the magic in every moment.

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Zens

Zens is an innovative company, focusing on the development and production of wireless charging products that make life easier.

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EVE

Eve builds beautiful connected home products that set superior standards of comfort, safety and control. Products that turn everyday experiences into fulfilling moments that last.

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Twelve South

Twelve South focus on providing the highest quality products and develop surprising new ways to protect and personalise Apple hardware.

There are a lot of choices when it comes to Apple accessories, so Twelve South pride themselves on paying attention to the little nuances and millimetres, which take their products to the next level.

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FLOOR PLAN

MEETINGS

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CMS Distribution is dedicated to connecting people to technology. Whether you're speaking to a Vendor, Reseller or the CMS Team, we aim to support and facilitate.

If you would like to book a follow-up meeting with anyone from the CMS Team, you can book directly into their calendars using the direct links in the next section. This feature will become available on the morning of the 10th November.

The 121 schedule will be ready to download soon. Please check back at a later date.

DOWNLOAD 121 SCHEDULE

THE CMS TEAM

Deborah Iddison

Deborah Iddison

Components Product Sales Manager - Draytek
Kelly Hays

Kelly Hays

Enterprise Software Partner Manager - Commvault
Nick McCall

Nick McCall

Product Sales Manager - Quantum, Scale Computing, Fujitsu, Infortrend, Infinidat and Unitrends
Ashley Hewitt

Ashley Hewitt

Vendor Management Team Leader - Synology
Chris Watson

Chris Watson

Software Product Sales Manager - Red Hat
Gareth Reynolds

Gareth Reynolds

Storage Sales Manager - Toshiba and QNAP
Nathaniel Alaster

Nathaniel Alabaster

AV & Digital Signage BDM - iiyama, Salicru and Starboard
Mitchell Ellis

Mitchell Ellis

Product Sales Manager - SolarWinds
Colm Hennessy

Colm Hennessy

Product Sales Manager – DJI Enterprise
Laura King

Laura Smith-King

Lead Commercial Marketing Manager
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Ed Bateman

Product Sales Manager - Barracuda
Ricky Sparrowhawk

Ricky Sparrowhawk

Product Sales Manager - Quantum Evolve, OPSWAT and Digitate
Simon Page

Simon Page

Product Sales Manager - OpenText
Enrique Piedrafita

Enrique Piedrafita

European Product Sales Manager - EVE and Nanoleaf
Regan Ring

Regan Ring

Product Sales Manager - Zens
Jordan Druce

Jordan Druce

Business Development Manager EMEA-Satechi and Insta360
Daniel Pell

Daniel Pell

Commercial Manager
Mike Stephens

Mike Stephens

Head of Enterprise Software
Wendy Hagan

Wendy Hagan

Head of Corporate Brand & Communications
Chris Corse

Chris Corse

Business Director-EMEA
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Leadership Team

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Frank Salmon

Chief Executive Officer & Founder
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Huw Jones

Chief Business Officer
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John Fitzgerald

Chief Information Officer

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