Best Of Breed Virtual 2022

The exclusive Best of Breed (BoB) Virtual Conference is designed to meet the evolving needs of the IT channel’s largest, fastest-growing, and most progressive solution provider organizations and the top technology vendors and distributors. Each event in the invitation-only BoB Virtual Series will bring together 50+ attendees from CRN’s elite solution provider lists ─ Solution Provider 500, Tech Elite 250 and Fast Growth 150 ─ to connect and engage in a strategic, highly focused 2 ½ hour online format.

The virtual event will feature what you have come to expect from our BoB conferences, including: empowering CEO interviews, SP 500 solution provider spotlights, economic and market trend sessions, and peer-to-peer networking.

Get all of CRN's coverage of the event here and follow along on Twitter at #BOB22.

SPRING 2022

Workflow Automation, Digital Transformation Driving Opportunities For Pegasystems Partners
As part of the XChange Best Of Breed Virtual 2022 conference this week, Pegasystems product and channel executives detailed the capabilities of the company’s low-code development and business process platform and how partners can use it to develop a range of high-value solutions and services.

Diversity In The Channel: No Longer Just A Compliance Play
Beyond achieving compliance, new research from The Channel Company finds that channel organizations are starting to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion to attract new talent and to stay in-tune with new end customer and employee requirements.

Insight CEO: ‘Digital Transformation Will Continue To Accelerate’
‘It’s not just about getting a client to the cloud or working at the edge. It’s all about where you can go from there to profoundly change what you do,’ says Joyce Mullen, president and CEO of Insight.

New Era Of ‘Organized Gangs’ Are Infiltrating Software To Take Down MSPs: ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins
‘Today, we are not defending against schoolyard bullies,’ says ThreatLocker co-founder and CEO Danny Jenkins. ‘We are not defending against enthusiasts that just want to write malware for fun. We are trying to defend ourselves against organized gangs…We are fighting sophisticated businesses.’

Thomas Kurian: Why Google Cloud Bests AWS, Azure In The Channel
CEO Thomas Kurian talks to CRN about why channel partners should place their bets on Google Cloud versus the cloud competition along with his goal of attaching partners to 100 percent of customer engagements.

Google Cloud To ‘Attach Partners To 100 Percent’ Of Customer Engagements
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian tells CRN his channel goal to attach 100 percent of customer engagements to a partner, while also touting “zero channel conflict” in the sales field.