EVENTS  Channel Live 2019 
 Channel Live will be providing a cutting-edge seminar programme aimed at a Channel only audience. Channel Live  
 prides itself on catering to channels far and wide with engaging content and high level speakers.   
 Register to attend online for free. 
 Seminar Programme Announced 
 Day 1 – 11th September - THEATRE 1 
 Time Topic Host / Presenter Panellist 
 10:30-11:00 IDC - The partner of the future Stuart Wilson, Channels & Alliances - IDC 
 11:15-11:45 
 A sustainable way to transform your  
 business into an MSP 
 Steve Osler, CEO - Wildix 
 12:00-12:30 The collision of UC and CC 
 Gregg Widdowson, Customer Experience Solution Sales  
 Leader, UK&I - Avaya 
 12:45-13:15 
 Customers vs employees, building your  
 digital trust profile 
 Adam Simon, Global Managing Director - CONTEXTworld TBC 
 13:30-14:00 Winning in Cloud Security and AI Holly Steele, Security Sales Leader - IBM 
 14:15-14:45 
 SD-WAN - the next big opportunity in  
 connectivity?  
 Ian Hunter 
 Seminar  
 sponsor 
 Anthony Senter, MD of SDWANsolutions, Simon Leather, Head of  
 New Product Development, TalkTalk Business, Wayne Mason,  
 Sales Director, Advanced Networking – EMEA at Nuvias.   
 Steve Harrington, MD of EMEA - Masergy 
 15:00-15:30 Digital Britain - Addressing the fibre build out Itret Latif, CEO - FCS 
 Catherine Colloms, Director for Corporate Affairs & Brand -  
 Openreach, Mark Weller, MD - nextgenaccess, Guy Miller, Fibre  
 for Everyone - TalkTalk Business,  Nick Powell, Sales Director  
 - Sky Business Comms 
 15:45-16:15 
 Establishing your value in a changing  
 channel 
 Alan Mackie, Chief Marketing and Product Officer -  
 Gamma 
 Day 1 – 11th September - THEATRE 2 
 Time Topic Host / Presenter Panellist 
 10:30-11:00 Adopting Multicloud - market trends Jez Back, Founder & MD - Erebus Technology Consulting 
 11:15-11:45 Addressing the skills shortage in telecoms Crissi Williams, CEO - ITP 
 Nigel Linge, Professor of Telecommunications - University of  
 Salford, Dave Davis, Technical Director - VT iDirect 
 12:00-12:30 
 What happens when you let your partners  
 define success? 
 Marcus Cauchi, Sandler Training  
 12:45-13:15 
 Keeping up with Customer Experience in  
 the contact centre 
 Ian Hunter 
 Stuart Dorman, CIO - Sabio, Sam Hodgetts, Director - FCP,  
 Martin Taylor, CEO - Content Guru 
 13:30-14:00 Building value with AI in the Channel 
 David Fearne, Global Practice Director for AI and Data  
 Intelligence - Arrow Electronics 
 14:15-14:45 Teams - building value around Microsoft Lucy Green, MD - Larato 
 Conor McCann, General Manager - Electronic Frontier,  
 Charles Rickett MD - V12, Mark Ashford, MD - Macom Consulting,   
 Adrian Sunderland, CTO - Jola 
 15:00-15:30 
 Delivering quality of experience with SDWAN  
 as applications move to the Cloud 
 George Just, VP Global SD-WAN Sales - Oracle 
 15:45-16:15 
 The importance of developing IP –  the  
 journey to DX 
 Adam Simon, Global Managing Director - CONTEXTworld Stuart Dorman, CIO - Sabio 
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