Sponsors
Category Sponsor
8x8
8x8 is a leading cloud provider of voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions for over one million users worldwide. Its technology, 8x8 X Series, helps businesses transform their customer and employee experience with one system of engagement across voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions, and one system of intelligence on a single cloud-based technology platform. By bringing the collective intelligence of the organisation to the hands of every employee, 8x8 enables business to not only meet, but exceed rapidly advancing customer expectations.
Strategic Imperatives
Strategic Imperatives is a UK market leader in SaaS billing, subscription management and provisioning solutions. Our solutions are used by over 200 of the UK’s largest communication providers to bill for a multitude of services and manage millions of lines, traditional broadband and fibre connections.
Our billing platform, Elevate, underpins our customers’ Digital Britain transformation by bridging the gap between the Channel’s traditional billing implementations and those adopted by the wider telecoms industry. Elevate is a modern, real-time, blazingly fast, integrated and extremely flexible SaaS solution that is generations ahead, completely transforming monetisation for service providers.
Meet & Greet Sponsor
8x8
8x8 is a leading cloud provider of voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions for over one million users worldwide. Its technology, 8x8 X Series, helps businesses transform their customer and employee experience with one system of engagement across voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions, and one system of intelligence on a single cloud-based technology platform. By bringing the collective intelligence of the organisation to the hands of every employee, 8x8 enables business to not only meet, but exceed rapidly advancing customer expectations.
Red Carpet Sponsor
8x8
8x8 is a leading cloud provider of voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions for over one million users worldwide. Its technology, 8x8 X Series, helps businesses transform their customer and employee experience with one system of engagement across voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions, and one system of intelligence on a single cloud-based technology platform. By bringing the collective intelligence of the organisation to the hands of every employee, 8x8 enables business to not only meet, but exceed rapidly advancing customer expectations.
Main Sponsor
Digital Wholesale Solutions
Digital Wholesale Solutions is the number one independent communications, IT and cloud services provider to the Channel. We are a true partner, committed to supporting partners in maximising opportunities through our innovative, comprehensive and value creating converged services portfolio. This includes Connectivity, Mobility, Voice Services, IP Communications, Cloud and Product Supply, all offered with flexible commercial terms to reduce credit risk. Everything we do has been designed to make life as simple as possible.
Category Sponsor
BT Wholesale
BT Wholesale is Europe’s largest wholesale telecoms provider with an unparalleled portfolio that includes data, MVNO, hosted comms, voice, IoT and managed services.
But we are more than a traditional Wholesaler. We support our Channel Partners and customers with a wide range of services spanning the phonebook, 999 voice services right through to the broadcasting community with our Media and Broadcast portfolio.
We have the best network in the UK, and we ’re the network the UK relies on. That’s why we invest £3.7 billion in it every year. We pride ourselves on supporting our channel partners to help their businesses flourish. We truly believe that in their success lies ours. Our innovative solutions provide the perfect platform for our partners’ growth, no matter the size, scale or complexity of their business. And that’s why we’re the partner of choice to support you and your customers.
CityFibre
CityFibre is the UK’s third digital infrastructure platform delivering future proof, gigabit capable, full fibre connectivity to businesses and organisations in almost 30 towns and cities throughout the UK via our network of wholesale partners.
But for us, it’s about much more than just delivering critical full fibre infrastructure. We work closely with our City Champions and Original Launch Partners to deliver our joint full fibre vision across each of our gigabit cities, connecting whole communities to drive investment and economic growth across their areas.
Our wholesale partners are integral to our business and we work together closely to deliver targeted marketing campaigns, identify new exciting market opportunities and deliver full fibre solutions. No matter where you sit in the wholesale channel ecosystem, we can support you and further your growth.
Comms 365
As an innovative, agile and responsive network services company, Comms365 enables smart cities across the UK and smart business across the world.
Comms365 works with its partners and resellers to build enhanced solutions that deliver real business benefits to global customers. By providing support, skill and experience to its partners, Comms365 has built relationships based on trust and the ability to deliver.
Comms365 works with its partners to help businesses solve complex Internet connectivity challenges including:
- Reducing downtime due to communications problems - failover and pre-Ethernet
- Providing resilience and boosting performance to existing connectivity - bonding
- Building and managing multi-site networks efficiently - SDN technology
- Employing new technology to deliver actionable data LPWAN/ M2M /IoT.
Gamma
Gamma is a leading provider of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) into the UK, Dutch, Spanish and German business markets, supplying communication solutions via our extensive network of trusted channel partners. With a range of UCaaS, Mobile and Connectivity services, Gamma provides robust and secure solutions that enable organisations to communicate, collaborate and offer a better customer experience. The combination of network investment, a digital-first approach and in-house development skills has enabled Gamma to develop a comprehensive portfolio of communications services with a significant amount of intellectual property, which has given us a heritage of disrupting the market with innovative and market-leading cloud-based services such as SIP Trunking and Hosted PBX in the UK.
Glide Business
Broadband. Build for Business. Straight from the source.
Our unique national fibre footprint is now available for you to provide the best in class broadband that your customers deserve. Using our dedicated fibre network, we are coming to the rescue of poorly connected businesses everywhere. Whether your customers are using business-grade apps, driving cost efficiencies via the cloud or connecting multiple sites, we can provide you with a solution to futureproof your customer’s needs.
Our promise of broadband built for business means that you can provide your customers a faster better solution previously unavailable that stands head and shoulders above anything else on the market.
Knight Corporate Finance
Knight Corporate Finance is a Technology and Telecoms specialist advisor, working with entrepreneurs and management teams to unlock and realise shareholder value in their businesses. Knight offer four key services to their clients:
- Strategy
- Acquisitions
- Fundraising
- Exit
Snom
Snom is an internationally celebrated manufacturer of IP phones for the business and industrial sectors. It has been a pioneer in Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and telephony since 1997, and part of the VTech Group since 2016.
Snom's IP desk, conference and DECT cordless telephones are equipped with a wide range of functions and feature high-end audio quality. The portfolio includes models that have been specially designed for challenging environments, such as healthcare and manufacturing.
Snom explicitly focuses on understanding the wishes and requirements of its customers and partners and then implementing them when developing new solutions. It has a dedicated Partner Programme with 3,000+ partners and a local presence in key markets.
Union Street
Union Street Technologies is the UK’s leading provider of billing, provisioning, and customer management solutions to communication providers (CPs) operating in the ICT channel.
Over 600 CPs use aBILLity™, our award-winning billing software, as the bedrock for their connectivity solutions. They choose aBILLity because it provides a total solution for managing the billing and provisioning process.
Union Street is committed to developing high quality solutions that are backed with outstanding training, support, consultancy and account management. This ensures that you’re able to leverage maximum value from our solutions.
Virgin Media Business
Virgin Media O2 launched on 1 June 2021, combining the UK’s largest and most reliable mobile network with a broadband network offering the fastest widely-available broadband speeds. It is a customer-first organisation that brings a range of connectivity services together in one place with a clear mission: to upgrade the nation. Virgin Media O2 is the corporate brand of the 50:50 joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica SA, and one of the UK’s largest businesses.
The company has 47 million UK connections across broadband, mobile, TV and home phone. Its own fixed network currently passes 15.4 million premises alongside a mobile network that covers 99% of the nation’s population with 4G, and 180 towns and cities with 5G services. Virgin Media O2 is committed to delivering gigabit broadband speeds across its entire network footprint by the end of 2021. At Virgin Media O2 Business (Wholesale)we can work with you to build connections that really matter, powering businesses across the UK. With a focus on true partnership, real people and commercial agility we can help you lead the revolution for the organisations you serve. We typically partner with Network Aggregators, Resellers, Mobile operators, Broadcasters and System integrators to deliver the solutions of tomorrow.
Vodafone Business
At Vodafone UK, we pride ourselves on the trusted partnerships we have with our Fixed and Mobile Partners in the Indirect Channel. We understand the joint value in treating our partners as exactly that - partners. Treating one another as equals, working collaboratively whilst providing the best capabilities, value and experience for partners and their end customers. All backed by our award-winning network, one of the largest Global Networks with extensive UK coverage and continuous investment in improving our service, network scalability and brand strength. We believe that we are better together, for all manner of Data, Internet, Voice solutions.
Voiceflex
Voiceflex is a leading channel-only communications provider supplying a comprehensive portfolio across SIP, MS Teams Direct routing, voice, data and hosted telephony, along with fraud prevention, call recording and cloud-based UC services.
Our solutions are designed to help our partners address the challenges of the modern workplace and enable them to offer a robust proposition to open new revenue streams and increase business growth.
Vonage
Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation. Vonage's Communications Services Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems. Vonage's fully programmable unified communications and contact centre applications are built from the Vonage platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or anywhere, providing enormous flexibility and ensuring business continuity.
Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in New Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, Australia and Asia.
Wavenet
Formed in 2000, Wavenet has grown through the last two decades to become a respected, multi-award-winning provider of telecoms, IT and technology solutions to thousands of businesses and enterprises across the UK.
Wavenet Wholesale provide partners with all their digital infrastructure needs. Partners of all shapes and sizes benefit from access to Wavenet’s extensive product portfolio, a dedicated Account Manager, Sales and Marketing support and the highest levels of customer services and support. Our flexible approach places our partners' competitive advantage as our primary focus, making Wavenet Wholesale the number one choice for channel.