Hi everyone,
Having visited the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas last march (go here for my blog on the event), the WPC Washington last July ( go here for blog on that event) and the Office 365 Drumbeat event in Cologne Germany (click here for blog on that event) in April, this time JCC Consultancy will do Toronto, Canada.
It is 6.00 am in the morning in Toronto and i have been awake since 3.00 am, because of a jetlag. But hey no sweat, you just get up and go to the gym in the Hyatt Regency hotel, which is right in the middle of downtown Soho and near the Rogers stadium and work out.
After the workout i got the chance to pay a visit to the 24/7 store Rabba and bought some delicious Canadian Maple Syrup.
2 hours from now that is why JCC Consultancy is in Toronto and that is to attend the Microsoft Summit Office 365. The summit is taking place in the Allstream centre building.
Tomorrow, October 9th, JCC Consultancy will attend the Office 365 training. For the agenda of the Training, please go here
Latest update on the Office 365 summit
This morning i had a breakfast meeting with Senior Channel Marketing Manager of Microsoft HQ to introduce JCC Consultancy and to talk about the Microsoft Non Managed SMB partners market in Canada.
I also met up with Olu Abikoye, Business Technology Systems & Project Delivery Analyst, Corporate Systems at Vision Critical.
After the breakfast, the keynote was kicked off by Jason Brommet, Director Partner Strategy Partners Microsoft Canada by telling that Microsoft new strategy to be a productivity and platform organization in a cloud and mobile ready world will impact the way partners are working. He also spoke about how Microsoft is going to help Microsoft partners to better transform their current business model and help them to save costs and realize more revenue and margins.
The most impressive session in my opinion was the one presented by IDC’s Channel and Alliances Research Darren Bibby. His session was called Business Partner Success in the Era of the Third Platform and showing what is really going in the market in Canada if it comes to opportunities and threats. Darren also gave some advice and tricks on how to become a succesful Cloud partner for your customers.
After all, this summit was definetely worth while for Microsoft to visit. Hopefully everyone also enjoyed the summit as I did today. For JCC Consultancy it has been a great day.
You can download the Canadian Summit presentations via this link:
So stay tuned for the update of todays Summit and follow me via this blog http://www.jcccloud.com or twitter @jeanclaudechan
Have a good one.
Jean- Claude Chan
Founder/ owner http://www.jccconsultancy.com and http://www.jcccloud.com
Agenda of the Microsoft Canada Summit October 8th
7:30 – 9:00 Executive Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 VISION KEYNOTE: ALL ATTENDEES
New World Realities – and Channel Partner Implications
We live in a mobile-first and cloud-first world. We are moving from a world where computing power was scarce to a place where it now is almost limitless.
The combination of many devices and cloud services used for generating and consuming data creates a unique opportunity for us, together. Our customers are looking for new capabilities, new solutions that enable them to be more productive, supported by a platform, that enables growth, flexibility, innovation and ultimately, offers security. Our passion, partnered with you is to enable people to thrive in a mobile-first and cloud-first world.
This new paradigm, which represents tremendous opportunity all of us, is also marked by change – in technologies, in capability, in business models and more. The keynote will set context for these new world realities – from the evolving markets we sell in, to changing customer buying behaviours to the implications for the Channel in how to sell, how to market, and implications to your business model.
9:45 – 10:30 VISION KEYNOTE: ALL ATTENDEES
Partnering for Success in the New World
10:45 – 11:45 Breakout Sessions:
11:45 – 12:30* 45min Breakout Sessions:
1:30 – 2:30 Breakout Sessions:
2:30 – 3:30 Breakout Sessions:
3:30 – 3:45 AFTERNOON BREAK
3:45 – 4:45 Breakout Sessions:
4:45 – 5:45 COCKTAIL HOUR
Thursday October 9th : Drumbeat Office 365 training with Microsoft Canada.
On Thursday October 9th JCC Consultancy will attend the Drumbeat Office 365 training with Microsoft Canada.