The Cloud Channel Summit will be this Monday, November 7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. 

Here are the numbers for Monday’s executive forum:

• >175 registered attendees
• 31 speakers
• 19 partners
• 17 sponsors
• 11 sessions
• 9 hours of valuable insights
• 1 full day of practical perspectives and interesting people

Registered attendees for Monday’s Cloud Channel Summit now include business development and channel management executives from Adobe, AT&T, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Comcast, Hitachi Global Technologies, Intel Corporation, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Pitney-Bowes Software, SAP, Savvis, Symantec, VMware, and Zenith Infotech, among others.  Click here to register now and join them!

The keynote presentations during the Cloud Channel Summit will be:  

• “Making Rain in the Channel: New Opportunities in Cloud Computing” presented by Stephen Cho, director of channels and business development at Google Enterprise.
• “5 Steps to Building a Successful Channel Program in the Cloud” presented by Ron Huddleston, senior vice president of ISV alliances at Salesforce.com.
• “The Cloud Era of Channel Success: Is Your Organization Partner-Ready?” presented by Rick Nucci, CTO, and Diane Ruth, executive director of business development, at Dell Boomi.
• “Channel Opportunities to Build Your Own Cloud Solutions”, Amy Anderson, Cloud Computing Partner Program-ISV and Developer Relations at IBM

In addition, the Cloud Channel Summit will include more than 25 Cloud industry leaders who will participate in a series of executive roundtable panel sessions, focused on the following topics:

• “Real-World Cloud Success Stories”
•  “Building Effective Cloud Channels: What’s Working and What’s Not?”
•  “Selling and Supporting Cloud Services Together”
•  “Leveraging Cloud Alternatives to Meet Unique Customer Needs”
•  “Using a Cloud Ecosystem to Create New Customer Value”
•  “New Market Opportunities for Cloud Channels

The panelists include senior executives from Amazon Web Services, Agilis Solutions, AppFirst, AppDirect, Aryaka Networks, Avnet Technologies, Birst, CloudLock, Corent Technologies, Geminare, GoodData, Informatica, OpSource, Progress Software, RightScale, rPath, Safenet, Scribe Software, SoftServe, Stone Cobra, SugarCRM and Virtela, as well as CompTIA and the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA). 

The Summit is also being supported by an ecosystem of leading industry organizations dedicated to building strong channels and promoting the Cloud, including publications such as ChannelPro, Channel Tech Network, Cloudbook, Sandhill.com, Datamation, E-Commerce Times and Softletter; conference groups including Under the Radar, the World Research Group and Keynote World Media; industry associations such as the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), CompTIA, and the ASCII Group; and other companies, such as DreamSimplicity, a virtual community and marketplace directory for business applications and the industry professionals that deliver them, and Mikael Blaisdell & Associates, Inc. (MBAI), which assists a wide spectrum of clients to increase their customer retention rates and enhance per-customer profitability.

Online registration discounts end today, so click here to register now. Full-price conference registration will also be available Monday at the Computer History Museum.

Stay tuned for more information about the event via Twitter #cloudchannel11.

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