
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.
Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel
354 Queenstown Rd, Nine Elms, London
9:30 am, 10th November, 2022













Patrick Schwarz
Key Account ManagerTime | Event | Speaker |
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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 |
Time | Event |
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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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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.
THE CMS TEAM



Nick McCall
Product Sales Manager - Quantum, Scale Computing, Fujitsu, Infortrend, Infinidat and Unitrends













Daniel Pell
Commercial Manager
Mike Stephens
Head of Enterprise Software


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