The BVoIP team are packing their bags and excited to be heading to London for IT Nation Europe 4/18-4/20. This is the second annual IT Nation conference for the EMEA region, with last year being held in London as well.
Events (the FUN stuff):
The event really kicks off at the Welcome Reception Wednesday Night from 17:00 - 20:00. Grab a drink or two, mingle with other IT & MSPs, and check out the sponsoring vendors. (see below we have a list of our favorites!)
If you haven't already heard, directly after the Welcome Reception there is a multi-vendor party, Wednesday Night from 8:30pm - 11:30pm. Don't wait to register and then jump into the festivities and enjoy some pints on "the house". Feel free to spread the word this one is a MUST! Register HERE.
Thursday evening from 17:45 to 19:45 there is a Happy Hour in the Solutions Pavilion (same as the Welcome Reception) which is another chance to mingle and check out the vendor areas.
Thursday night, Immediately after the Happy Hour is the IT Nation Europe Gala from 20:00 - 23:00. Enjoy the evening networking while the awards are announced.
Speakers & Breakouts (getting into the good stuff):
Arnie Bellini -Keynote - Thursday 08:00 - 09:00
CEO, ConnectWise
It wouldn't be an IT Nation event without ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini. Make sure not to miss the keynote so that you can get the agenda straight from the man at the top.
Arnie is also holding a breakout session called:
Leading The Way To Business Success
Round 8 | Friday, 20 April | 15:15 - 16:15 | Waterloo/Tower
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Kevin Gaskell -Keynote - Friday 09:00 - 10:00
Leader, Businessman, Strategist, Adventurer, Author
Kevin Gaskell built his career in the construction, chemical and automotive industries. He was appointed Managing Director of Porsche GB at the age of 32. In 5 years his team rebuilt the brand and turned a business close to bankruptcy into the UK’s most profitable car company.
He moved to BMW as UK Managing Director where he led the company to 4 years of record growth and a 500% increase in profitability. He was recognised as one of the ‘top 40 leaders under 40’ in the UK.
In 2000 he left BMW to found a dotcom, epyx Limited. Quickly becoming the market leader for automotive e-commerce, the company was sold to a private investor in 2008.
From 2001 – 2007 he was also CEO of EurotaxGlass’s in Switzerland where his team integrated 30 businesses to create a world leader in electronic automotive data before leading a €500 million sale of the company.
He now acts as Chairman to a number of growing companies, one of which, Achilles Limited, was recognised as the UK’s best private equity investment performance of the year. Another was listed as the 7th most innovative company in the world.
He has played international cricket but now relaxes by playing in a rock band. He celebrated his 40th birthday climbing on Mount Everest. With his son he has walked to both the North and South Poles and climbed some of the world’s highest mountains to raise funds for cancer research.
Nigel Houlden
Head of Technology Policy, Information Commissioner's Office
Nigel Houlden is the Head of Technology Policy. His department develops policy positions and products in relation to information technology and information security issues. Nigel is the ICO’s lead technological advisor and key liaison with the ICO’s technology stakeholders.
Nigel is holding a breakout session called:
European GDPR Explained for Technology Solution Providers
Round 1 | Thursday, 19 April | 11:00 - 12:00 | Waterloo/Tower
Greg Lalle
VP, International Sales & Strategy, ConnectWise
Gregg has worked in the technology arena for over two decades and has been with ConnectWise since 2010. During his tenure here, he has been integral in developing and growing three different routes to market into thriving multi-million dollar lines of businesses. Over the last few years, he has been focused exclusively on the establishment and growth of ConnectWise's International Business. During this time, he has overseen the opening of our offices in London and Sydney and currently manages a global staff nearing 100 colleagues.
Greg will be holding a breakout session called:
The State of Managed Service Provision: Research Results
Round 7 | Friday, 20 April | 14:00 - 15:00 | Meeting Room A
Todd McQuilkin
Chief Executive Officer, Air-IT
Air-IT moved over to ConnectWise in 2012 and the move has taken Air-IT to new levels of efficiency, quality, and profitability.
Drawing on 25 years of experience building a high-growth MSP, Todd McQuilkin knows the key to getting the most from ConnectWise is to embrace it fully. With the visibility ConnectWise brings you, you’re able to fine-tune all aspects of service provision.
When Todd isn’t helping other MSPs succeed with his real-life techniques, he focuses on a passion for sports.
Todd is holding a breakout session called:
The Golden Keys to Strategy – An Introduction to Sun Tzu “The Art of War
Round 4 | Thursday, 19 April | 16:00 - 17:00 | St. James/Regent's
Tracy Pound
Managing Director, MaximITy & CompTIA Faculty
Tracy Pound, founder and managing director of MaximITy, a technology training, consultancy and project management company based in Tamworth, England has more than three decades of experience in the technology industry, starting out as a programmer before moving into consultancy, training and project management roles. She has successfully deployed large scale IT infrastructures – including hardware, software and services – into many industries, including financial services, construction and general manufacturing, with projects ranging from £10k to in excess of £1.4M.
Tracy was appointed to CompTIA's Board of Directors and was recognized as CompTIA Member of the Year for 2017. She was also voted one of the top 50 women in technology in a survey by PCR, the UK trade magazine for the computer and IT industry and was awarded their ultimate accolade; Woman of the Year 2016.
A published author, Tracy has also appeared on TV, most notably being featured with eminent UK inventor Sir Clive Sinclair.
In April 2000 Tracy launched her own business, MaximITy with the philosophy that IT should help facilitate business not hinder and to translate business needs into technology solutions for businesses of all sizes. Tracy is a member of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting.
Tracy is also passionate about helping others succeed in tech, mentoring companies under CompTIA’s mentorship programme as well as speaking at events and places of education about tech and the future workforce, especially to encourage young people and women to explore tech careers.
Specialties: Bespoke training on MS products, change management, risk management, PRINCE 2, project management, tendering, supplier selection, performance monitoring, process mapping. Sage and ACT! implementation.
Tracey will be holding a breakout called:
CompTIA Industry Outlook 2018
Round 5 | Friday, 20 April | 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room B
Austen Clark
Managing Director, Clark Integration Technologies
Austen is the Managing Director of Clark Integrated Technologies, based in the UK. With 20 years of experience in the IT industry and a leader in the MSP community, he regularly takes speaking opportunities to share lessons learned with other Business Owners and Entrepreneurs through his engagement of Peer communities. He has built up a wealth of experience in Leadership and Development through his participation with HTG since 2010 and the ConnectWise community since 2008. He regularly writes and provides media comment on the state of the Cyber Security landscape in the UK and promoting ‘Trust’ in developing Cyber Security awareness within the Business Community.
An Assessor in CE / IASME certification and GDPR compliance he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to developing SME Security Policies and Compliance for the future EU regulations.
Austen is holding a breakout session called:
Coming – May 2018 the EU GDPR Regulation You Do Not Want to Ignore
Round 4 | Thursday, 19 April | 16:00 - 17:00 | Waterloo/Tower
and if you want even more GDPR info you may want to go to
Panel: GDPR
Round 3 | Thursday, 19 April | 14:45 - 15:45 | St. James/Regent's
Brad Schow
Chief Operating Officer, HTG Peer Groups
Brad Schow is part of a team of coaches and consultants serving the IT industry. Prior to joining the HTG Peer Groups staff, he spent 20 years helping grow a solutions and managed service provider. His path of technician, service leader, operations leader, president and partner give him a unique perspective that allows him to relate to a broad spectrum of business challenges. Brad’s company was a member of HTG for many years. He credits much of the success to the peer group experience and the relationships that grew out of HTG. He loves investing in people, thinking ahead, building teams, and helping others find success.
Brad is holding a breakout session called:
Getting Your Business Unstuck: Ownership
Round 8 | Friday, 20 April | 15:15 - 16:15 | Meeting Room A
Paul Lloyd
Sales Manager As A Service, Non Satis
Over 25 years winning business in the IT sector, Paul Lloyd has become a well-respected sales and marketing professional, specialising in managing teams to deliver well thought-out, effective sales strategies.
He helped to take a business from start-up to over 100 staff and £80m revenue. Since then, Paul has worked as an Interim Sales Director to a number of household names in the cloud and security markets, responsible for revenues up to £100m a year.
Recognised on the prestigious CRN A-List 2017, Paul is an engaging speaker and a member of the Association of Public Speakers. He regularly gives workshops on the subject of sales and marketing for small businesses.
Paul’s wealth of experience and deep knowledge of the latest sales methods and social media marketing techniques have helped organisations grow by over 30% a year on average. Through Non Satis, he'll work with you to define your sales proposition, develop your sales process, recruit and performance manage your sales team, select and implement CRM systems, create growth plans and new propositions, and build your sales campaigns.
Paul is holding a breakout session called:
Round 5 | Friday, 20 April | 10:30 - 11:30 | Waterloo/Tower
Gareth Johns
Managing Director, Business Computer Solutions
Gareth Johns is a successful goal-oriented entrepreneur; a statement which means a lot to him. He spent the first 25 years of his self-employed life without fully realising that people running businesses are not all entrepreneurs. Some are just technicians in their industry, who happen to have employed a few people along the way.
Gareth has been a keen supporter of the ConnectWise user groups since 2009 and has spoken previously at both IT Nation and IT Nation Europe on topics around ownership and developing leaders.
Joining HTG in 2015 provided Gareth with a new passion to grow his business, work smarter, improve culture, develop a leadership team and make time bound plans to exit in June 2018.
Gareth is holding a breakout session called:
Vendors & Friends of BVoIP who are exhibiting @ IT Nation Europe (in no particular order):
Webroot –Booth 23
Webroot protects your clients against sophisticated threats—no matter how or where users connect. Designed with MSPs, resellers, and distributors in mind, the Webroot® Channel Edge® Program offers competitive margins, recurring revenue, lower operational costs, and proven next-generation security for endpoint, mobile, and web.
IT Glue – Booth 18
How many times have you heard some complaint about documentation or lack thereof? If you want to finally find an answer to the elusive "missing piece to the puzzle" then go no further than IT Glue. Hint, BVoIP uses IT Glue and IT Glue uses BVoIP. Make sure to stop by and say hi to Dave Goldy & the #gluegrew
BrightGauge – Booth 11
Dashboards, Reporting, Reporting, Reporting, and more Reporting! This is an awesome platform that lets you pull data from multiple sources and create true business intelligence.
Rapid Fire Tools –Booth 7
Rapid Fire Tools has been around for some time. They pride themselves in an automated way to speed up customer report, infrastructure analysis, HIPPA compliance reports, and more. Do you struggle to generate polished reports for your prospects and clients? This might be for you! Make sure to stop by and ask for Mark.
Auvik –Booth 21
Auvik's infrastructure-focused RMM (remote monitoring and management) helps you grow your network services profitably. Delivering unprecedented insight into client networks and automating complex and time-consuming infrastructure tasks, Auvik’s cloud-based software is the ideal complement to your existing endpoint management.
The BoVIP is exciting to see you in London. Enjoy the show and make sure to get your game plan together before you go. Make sure to network! That is the best part of these types of events.
