Sponsors 2022
Main Sponsor
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.
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.
Comms 365
As an innovative, agile and responsive Network Services Company, Comms365 works with its partners to solve simple or complex Internet connectivity challenges.
By providing skills, experience and exceptional support, Comms365 enables partners and resellers to build enhanced solutions, delivering real business benefits to global customers, including:
- Eliminating downtime with seamless Failover
- Overcoming issues arising from delayed installations using instant pre-Ethernet 4G and 5G
- Providing resilience and boosting connectivity performance through advanced Bonding and QoS
- Building and managing secure multi-site networks with SDN and MPLS
- Delivering actionable IoT data via LoRaWAN/ NB-IoT/ LTE-M/ M2M
Partners can offer services from across the portfolio, both as resale and wholesale and as Managed Services
EPOS Audio UK
Established upon the former successful joint venture between audio specialist Sennheiser and the world-leading hearing technology group Demant, EPOS designs, manufactures and sells pioneering high-end audio and video solutions for businesses and professionals around the world. As pioneers within audio solutions, we have defined a variety of objectives that we hold close to our core – such as authentic reliability and high-level professionalism. Being trailblazers within the industry we strive for a holistic, superior performance which delivers state-of-the-art technology across all segments. Crafted with advanced engineering and pioneering technologies, EPOS offers uncompromised audio and video connectivity that enable business professionals to better communicate and collaborate – anytime, anywhere and on any device.
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.
ITS Technology Group
ITS is rapidly expanding our Faster Britain gigabit capable network across the UK. Experts in business connectivity services, ITS utilise the latest design and XGS-PON technology, allowing us to flex from 100Mbps to 40Gbps.
Partner relationships are at the heart of ITS, we make it easy for partners to add connectivity solutions to their portfolio. Our portal, or easily integrated API, provides immediate service options for any postcode in the country.
ITS offers major operator capabilities with the personal touch: highly competitive products, commercially flexible pricing, super-fast install, technical design & specialist support and expert account management come as standard for those who partner with us.
Layer Systems
One platform to accelerate your business
As the leading CRM provider for telecoms & IT companies in the UK, Layer Systems supports digital transformation journeys with a blend of industry-specific software and professional services, delivering a unique proposition to the channel.
Whether you're looking to grow your business, consolidate disparate systems or implement process automation, The Layer will simplify the process through six business-critical modules:
- Prospect Management
- Sales Management
- Customer Experience Management
- Stock & Order Processing
- Finance & Reporting
- Marketing Management
We also offer the flexibility to work with other third-party software applications and providers using our integration partners, API, and more to extend The Layer where required.
Lease Group
Lease Group is an innovative equipment and technology finance company based in Hove, UK. We empower over 850 ICT Suppliers, Distributors and Manufacturers to sell their products and services via a fast, branded and flexible leasing solution. In addition to first-class support, our market-leading, white-labelled Partner Portal makes ICT equipment finance run like clockwork, serving the channel with instant credit decisions, real-time order tracking and same-day invoice payment.
Mark Allen Foundation
Mark Allen Foundation partners with YoungMinds and Stop The Traffik to support their amazing work improving quality of life for young people in the UK and internationally.
The Foundation was established by Mark Allen Group to enable its employees to coordinate and amplify their fundraising efforts. It also aims to raise significant funds for these two charities through its portfolio of client events.
The Foundation’s dedicated committee of staff selected these two charities to fulfil a remit from colleagues across the company to focus support on the care and development of children, and people suffering with mental health issues. The direct and measurable impact we could make was also taken into consideration.
NFON
Business Communications from NFON, with Cloudya, enable a user to connect from anywhere, by phone, video or conferencing. Additional, intelligent integrations that improve productivity, collaboration and user and customer experience include integrations with Microsoft Teams, call recording & monitoring, SIP and Contact Center Hub, a feature-rich and fully scalable omni-channel cloud customer contact solution.
Nice CXOne
A platform that thinks smarter. And works harder.
Only CXone delivers CXi: frictionless experiences across the entire customer journey for the contact center – and beyond.
NTA
NTA is a powerhouse within the hosted telephony industry. Our unique approach to customer relations and innovative business solutions have been transforming businesses and their profit margins for 20 years. Here at NTA, we strive to be more than just a hosted telephony provider. We focus on supporting and aiding our partner's businesses in a behind-the-scenes, fully white labelled approach. We provide unparalleled customer support through our in-house technical, development, sales, training, and marketing teams. Focusing on all areas of business growth, we leave no stone unturned.
Pragma
Pragma Group is a channel only service provider helping technology resellers drive growth and opportunity with SME and mid-market customers.
Within Pragma Group, we have:
Pragma delivering feature-rich UCaaS propositions on the market-leading Ericsson-LG iPECS platform.
Candio delivering white-label digital services to help resellers drive recurring revenue and deliver digital transformation to their end-users.
As a channel-only service provider, Pragma is totally focused on providing resellers with great UCaaS and telephony technology propositions and supporting them to win in the market. Ericsson-LG technology offers both cloud and IP-PBX platforms that help resellers tailor solutions for all types of users and businesses.
Candio provides simple digital services that can be white-labelled for our partners. These services are subscription-based and deliver high impact solutions to simple problems for end-users, such as helping them be found, chosen and trusted online. These services provide huge value for end-users and allow resellers to build high margin recurring revenues.
PRD Technologies
At PRD Technologies Ltd our expert technological team solve billing and data processing challenges for telecoms, cloud solution providers and other sectors.
Intelligent Billing is an award-winning feature-rich billing solution, which enables us to innovate in ways that help businesses work more efficiently for today and tomorrow.
Our ongoing objective is to ensure we continually empower our customers to rapidly adapt in an ever-changing, complex and volatile landscape, taking advantage of new market opportunities as soon as they arise.
Southern Communications Group
SCG encompasses 2 Circles Communications Ltd, New Star Networks and Hello Telecom. Our Wholesale and Partner Programme has developed into one of the most empowering and supportive channel propositions in the market.
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford
With a constantly evolving suite of products and services, you can be sure that you will always have a leading-edge proposition to take to the marketplace.
SCG is committed to bringing the best Cloud, Mobile and Connectivity solutions to the Channel.
Virsae
Businesses and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) use Virsae’s service management platform (VSM) to keep their unified communications and contact center environments performing at their best.
Combining big data, machine learning, AI-powered diagnostics, and automation, VSM empowers partners and customers with unrivaled interaction insight to optimize customer and employee experience, resolve technology issues faster, manage costs, and reinforce security and compliance.
With thousands of customer sites around the globe, and billions of interactions powering Virsae insights, VSM’s data-to-action model brings new clarity to service management for enterprise communications, contact center and Work From Home (WFH) hybrid environments.
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. Supporting each other to equally win, 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.
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.
Pre-dinner Drinks Sponsor
TalkTalk Wholesale Services
TalkTalk Wholesale Services is the largest provider of wholesale broadband in the UK, serving the needs of businesses and consumers nationwide and working with over 650 partners. Our wholesale channels are at the heart of everything we do – they represent 80% of our business. We remain focused on being a fibre first provider and deliver a full range of business-grade communications products and services, including Connectivity and Networking, Hosted Solutions, Voice and IP telephone systems. It’s our mission to democratise fibre, to level the playing field for UK businesses and customers, enabling them to achieve their every ambition.
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.
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BT Wholesale
BT Wholesale prides itself on supporting channel partners to help their businesses flourish. The company truly believes that in its partners’ success lies its own. That’s why BT Wholesale launched the new partner programme, Partner Plus, to transform relationships with partners and make it easier for them to work together.
The Partner Plus programme provides industry leading marketing support and training, together with early access to products and promotions. It was built with partners, for partners, to help them better serve their customers and ultimately, grow their businesses.
BT Wholesale has the best UK network and is the network the UK relies on. That’s why it invests £3.7 billion in it every year. With a diverse product portfolio and innovative solutions, BT Wholesale is all set to help its partners boldly transform to an all-IP world.
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Channel Live
Taking place at the NEC, Birmingham, over 30-31 March 2022, Channel Live is the UK’s only trade specific exhibition and conference exclusively for the ICT channel. The event is free to attend and is entirely focused on the needs of resellers, MSPs and Channel partners. New for 2022 is a completely revamped conference programme featuring three dedicated streams covering topics from across the industry, themed around Business, Technology and People.
By partnering with key players in specific market sectors, Channel Live attracts an unrivalled mix of exhibitors and visitors from all corners of the ICT Channel – can you afford not to be there?