Meike Escherich
Principal Analyst, Analyst Co-Chair, Gartner

The Mobile PC market in EMEA is forecasted to grow by 24 Percent in 2008. Every second PC sold will be a Mobile PC. If this is your market you will need to know the following things:

• What is the current size and growth forecast for the Mobile PC hardware market in EMEA?
• What are the needs and concerns of IT managers and users related to Mobile client computing?
• What forces are shaping the structure of Mobile PC hardware markets?
• What are the best success strategies for 2008 and 2009?

We will also look at changes in emerging markets, how high volume markets breed standardization, the reality of employee-owned work PCs and the future of Portable Personalities. Marketplace changes can be seen as threats or as opportunities. This presentation will help Systembuilders and ChannelPartners to understand what you can do, to grow WITH instead of AGAINST the market over the next few years.

Federica Troni
Principal Reseach Analyst, Gartner

Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in the IT industry today. This session will look at what virtualization is and how it will evolve, how customers are it using it today and will to deploy it in the future, and what channel players can do to position themselves to drive revenue and profits from it.

Tiffani Bova
Research Director & Analyst Chair, Gartner

Not only has the IT market become a solutions market, but it is also seeing the introduction of technologies and trends that will change the way IT is delivered in the future. What do these trends mean to your business? What should you do today to be ready for tomorrow? In this presentation, you'll hear first hand from a Gartner analyst market trends and predictions which will help you shape the future of your focus and key changes in the channel over the next 5 years.

Rakesh Kumar
Vice President, Gartner

Over the last 18 months, the IT world has gone Green! Or so the marketing literature would have us believe. At the same time, data centers have hit the headlines with issues around power, cooling and floor space capacity. Over the next few years, the significance and pivotal role of large data centers will grow and will force many organizations to invest in new sites. We look at how Green these new data centers can and should be.

Bob Snyder
Editor-in-Chief, The Distribution Channel Ltd.

This afternoon anchor session is sure to give you the critical industry framework you need to take home.
From Android to The Big Switch to Ultra Mobile Devices to Computing in the Cloud…Bob Snyder will unfold the panorama that is our I.T. industry today. A channel specialist, Bob has a way of encapsulating complicated trends so we can understand the impact and implications of vendor battlegrounds, changing product strategies and shifting markets. Always informative, always enjoyable…Bob promises to add industry insight to your morning coffee and stir in a little humor as he shows us what the I.T. industry sees when it looks at itself in the mirror.

Robert Faletra
CEO, Everything Channel

Robert Faletra is a recognized authority on business technology trends. A professional journalist for more than 20 years, he joined Everything Channel in 1989, and was named CEO in February 2008. Faletra will examine the current major trends impacting the business technology channel globally and explore how different types of Solution Providers are conducting business and what it all means to the channel ecosystem of vendors, distributors, and suppliers. Join this interactive session where ‘Faletra’ answers your questions and offers his unique insight, perspective and opinion.