Ingram Micro's VentureTech Network Hosts Fall Invitational in Boston
October 22 2012 - 8:00AM
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Building on its success, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today
welcomed more than 700 attendees to its 2012 "Partner. Prosper.
Repeat." Fall North American VentureTech Network (VTN) Invitational
in Boston, Mass., Oct. 21 - 23.
Throughout the exclusive event, Ingram Micro will announce
several key community happenings including the addition of four new
VTN council members, the launch of the VTN member portal and the
introduction of two new member special interest groups (SIGs),
Marketing and Cloud, which will operate alongside of VTN's five
Mastermind groups.
Ingram Micro will also provide details on the joint fundraising
efforts the VTN community, Ingram Micro associates and vendor
partner NetEnrich have accomplished and announce plans to build a
new home next month in Joplin, Mo., as part of the Habitat for
Humanity efforts underway in the tornado-ravaged community.
"The VTN community represents more than 300 of the IT industry's
most successful and progressive channel partners," says John Fago,
senior director of channel marketing, Ingram Micro North America.
"With a 'pay-it-forward' attitude and relentless focus on growth
and partnership, the VTN community is a leading advocate for
channel partners in North America. The benefits of membership are
clear, as the VTN community boasts double digit year-over-year
growth rates, significantly outpacing the IT market."
New SIGs and Member Portal Encourage Stronger
Partner Engagement Introduced at the Spring Invitational,
Ingram Micro is formally progressing its SIG initiative and
bringing together members with similar expertise to share best
practices, challenges and insights. Takeaways from Ingram Micro's
SIGs are shared across the entire community and with VTN's
manufacturers to drive greater engagement and deliver stronger
results around select areas of the business, including sales
management, cloud and marketing.
The highly anticipated VTN member portal allows partners to
search for, identify and connect with one another based on
specialty, certifications and geographical areas. Designed in
collaboration with the VTN membership, the new portal is a
game-changer for the VTN community according to Alan McDonald, VTN
U.S. president and president of All Connected.
"The member portal, along with our SIGs and Mastermind groups,
further enable VTN members to really understand and benefit from
the subject matter expertise, industry knowledge and technical
skill available to them within the community," says McDonald. "The
VTN community will grow stronger as a result of these collaborative
efforts and reach a new level of engagement and member-to-member
partnership that will continue to build."
VTN Announces Event Speakers and Musical Guest
Sublime with Rome The 2012 Fall VTN Invitational keynote
speaker is renowned marketing and leadership strategist David
Meerman Scott. Other event speakers and guests include several
members of Ingram Micro's North American leadership team, as well
as industry influencers Robert Faletra, CEO of UBM Media; Tiffani
Bova, vice president of research, Gartner; and Paul Dippell, CEO of
Services Leadership, Inc.
Executives from Ingram Micro VTN's platinum sponsors Cisco, HP,
IBM, Lenovo and Microsoft will also take center stage. The event
will conclude with an awards ceremony and a private concert
featuring Sublime with Rome.
"The success, comradery and trust among the VTN membership
remains unrivaled and continues to grow stronger each and every
day," concludes Fago. "We have scheduled a powerful, high-impact
event in Boston that will build on the success of 2012 and give our
members an edge as they prepare for further growth in 2013."
Activity surrounding the Ingram Micro 2012 Fall VTN Invitational
can be viewed on the community's Twitter feed at
www.twitter.com/VTNcommunity or by following the hashtag #VTN2012.
Photos and commentary will also be available on the VTN community's
Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/venturetechnetwork.
For more information on VTN, solution providers and
manufacturers should contact their Ingram Micro sales or marketing
representative and visit www.im-vtn.com.
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http://www.ingrammicro.com/.
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About Ingram Micro Ingram Micro is the
world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global
leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and
logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain,
Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for
vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced
logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial
services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is
the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries
on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of
IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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