Agenda:
Tuesday 24th January 2023
12:30 - Registration & Lunch
13:30 - Network Group Welcome / Business NG Members Only
14:00 - Inspire Partner Workshops
Pia - New vendor launch! Pia is an Intelligent Automation-as-a-Service Platform for MSP and Internal IT Service Desks
Pax8 - Hear from two existing Network Group members on their experience of partnering with Pax8
Threatlocker - Join Threatlocker for a demonstration on just how modern-day hacking tools are being used to gain access to your environment.
15:00 - Coffee & Networking
15:30 - Inspire Partner Workshops
Datto - Unlocking business growth with Kaseya & Datto
Ingram Micro -
Quickpass Cybersecurity - New vendor launch! Privileged Access Management Built for MSPs.
18:00 - Activity & Dinner
Wednesday 25th January 2023
08:30 - Registration
09:00 - Network Group Welcome / Business NG Members Only
09:30 - State of the Nation: Hear from Julian Thompson, Senior Director, Sales & Advanced Solutions at Ingram Micro, as he provides updates and insights on the market for the year ahead.
10:00 - Accelerate Partner Table Hops: Our fast-paced ‘speed-pitches’ provide an exciting and effective way to hear the latest updates from some of our key vendor Partners. We’ll send you into small groups where you’ll meet and hear from different vendors on rotation including Uptime Solutions (NEW vendor launch), Terra Computer, OpenText (AppRiver), Inbay, Egnyte, N-Able, Sophos, and ConnectWise.
10:45 - Coffee & Networking
11.:10 - Accelerate Partner Table Hops: Our fast-paced ‘speed-pitches’ provide an exciting and effective way to hear the latest updates from some of our key vendor Partners. We’ll send you into small groups where you’ll meet and hear from different vendors on rotation including Uptime Solutions (NEW vendor launch), Terra Computer, OpenText (AppRiver), Inbay, Egnyte, N-Able, Sophos, and ConnectWise.
12:00 - Panel Session: Outlook for 2023: For a lot of businesses, the past three years have been about just putting one foot in front of the other to keep going. As a lengthy period of stagflation becomes a genuine possibility in the UK, it looks like 2023 will continue to keep business owners on their toes.
13:00 - Lunch & Networking
14:00 - Breakout Sessions:
Option 1a – ‘Market Insights for Business FTTP’ – hear from Giganet who’ll provide an update on what the forecasts are over the coming years, how the landscape is changing from copper & ethernet based connectivity to full fibre, the investment coming into the UK and what it will do for the economy
Option 2a - 'How to increase your MSPs margins through Microsoft 365 utilisation’ with Inforcer
Option 3a – Finance Track: How to add over 100k profit without finding new clients or products. Guided workshop providing education intro on Gross Margin and how to structure Chart of Accounts properly to properly measure it.
Option 1b – Telco Update/Discussion: Join Steven Lightfoot, from Network Group Member company Next Generation IT, to learn how they approach selling comms as an IT business.
Option 2b – Security Track: Join Chris and Mostyn as they bust a few myths about Cyber Essentials and share the common reasons they see organisations fail CE & CE+. They’ll also tackle the elephant in the room, “IT Admin Permissions”, before opening the floor for you to challenge them about anything CE related.
15:00 - Keynote Speaker: Martine Wright: The Power of 7
Martine Wright MBE , 7/7’s most injured survivor lost both legs in the Circle line bombing during the 2005 terrorist attacks on the London underground, yet she considers herself a lucky woman with a whole new life of opportunities. Hear about her remarkable fight for recovery and rehabilitation, and how she developed and adopted the ‘Power of 7’ to provide resilience, positivity, structure and new purpose into her much-changed world. In these challenging times her story of positivity and resilience is ever more powerful.
16:00 - Coffee & Close
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