A growing number of leading channel companies, industry associations and publications have been added to the expanding roster of speakers, sponsors and partners participating in the second annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday November 5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Key executives from All Covered, Avnet, Centerbeam, Cloud Sherpas, Ingram Micro, Insight and Spiceworks will provide their perspectives about the fundamental challenges and exciting new opportunities created by today’s rapidly evolving Cloud marketplace. They will be joined by Kate Hunt, Director of Communities at CompTIA, the largest association of channel companies, and Joe Panettieri, Editorial Director of Nine Lives Media Brands, the leading online publication group focused on the channel industry.

These are the latest executives to confirm their participation in the Cloud Channel Summit hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace, and Rising Tide Media. The single-day, single-track, peer-to-peer executive forum and networking event will focus exclusively on how companies can create profitable channel relationships in the Cloud marketplace.

The following executives are scheduled to give keynote presentations at the Summit:

• Stacy Nethercoat, VP of Software Product Marketing at Tech Data
• Stephen Cho, Director of Software Partner Business Development for Google Enterprise
• Ron Huddleston, SVP of ISV Alliances at Salesforce.com
• Amy Anderson, Cloud Computing Partner Program Manager, IBM

The Summit will also bring together executives from Oracle, Rackspace, SAP/Sybase, VMware, AppDirect, Alteva, Aryaka, Box.net, CallidusCloud, Comcast, Coraid, Corent Technology, CorSource, DocuSign, GoodData, Informatica, Intacct, Iron Mountain, and SoftServe who will present their views about building successful partnerships in the Cloud.

Click here to see all the speakers who are presenting at the Summit and here to see the full agenda.

Register now to take advantage of our pre-conference discounts, and save $100 or more on the registration fee.

You can see the quality of this event and the positive reaction our first Cloud Channel Summit received by checking out our video highlight reel at http://vimeo.com/33541528, testimonials at http://archive2011.cloudchannelsummit.com/testimonials, and last year’s session videos at http://archive2011.cloudchannelsummit.com/agenda.

Contact me if you have questions regarding Summit speaking opportunities or about the conference agenda, and Marc Sternberg of Rising Tide Media if you’d like to investigate sponsorship opportunities.

Stay tuned for more information about the speakers, topics and other Cloud Channel Summit details via Twitter @CloudSummits.

We look forward to seeing you November 5 at the Cloud Channel Summit.