Technology Event Calendar: Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences

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Now, the Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2013...

Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2013, Q1

• Jan. 1 (Tuesday): New Year's Day
• Jan. 6-7, Storage Visions, Las Vegas
• Jan. 9-11, Tech Data TDCloud, Tampa, Fla.
• Jan 8-11: International CES, Las Vegas
• Jan 13: The VAR Guy’s alleged birthday. Cards, comments and bribes welcome.
• Jan 13-16: National Retail Federation, New York
• Jan. 14-16: Juniper Global Partner Conference, Aria Hotel, Las Vegas
• Jan. 14-16: Red Hat Partner Conference North America, San Diego, Calif.
• Jan 21: Federal Holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Jan. 22: Avnet SolutionsPath University, Newport Beach, Calif.
• Jan. 27-31: IBM Connect 2013 (Including the former Lotusphere), Orlando, Fla.
• Jan. 29-Feb. 1: Digium AsteriskWorld, Miami, Fla.
• Jan. 29-Feb. 1: Cloud4SMB, Miami, Fla.
• Jan. 30-31: Big Data Innovation Summit 2013, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
• Jan. 30-31: Business Analytics Innovation Summit, Las Vegas
• Jan. 31: MacWorld/iWorld 2013, San Francisco, Calif.
• Feb. 2-3: MVP Nation 2012, Redmond, Wash.
• Feb. 4-6: Parallels Summit, Ceasars Palace, Las Vegas
• Feb. 7-10: Kaspersky Partner Summit, Cancun, Mexico
• Feb. 18: Federal Holiday – Presidents’ Day
• Feb. 19-21: HP Global Partner Conference, Venetian, Las Vegas
• Feb. 23-25: SMB Nation Spring, Microsoft Redmond Campus
• Feb. 25-28: VMware Partner Exchange, Las Vegas
• Feb. 25-28: IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, Las Vegas
• Feb. 25-March 1: RSA Conference, San Francisco
• Feb. 25-March 1: TED 2013, Long Beach, Calif.
• Feb. 27-March 1: Channel Partners Conference & Expo, Las Vegas
• March 3-6: IBM Pulse 2012, Las Vegas
• March 3-7: HIMSS, New Orleans
• March 4-6: Shared Services & Outsourcing, Orlando, Fla.
• March 10-12: XChange Solution Provider 2013, Peabody Hotel, Orlando, Fla.
• March 12-13: CompTIA Annual Member Meeting, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago

Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2013, Q2

• April 1: The VAR Guy’s Third Annual Hawaii Luau
• April 2-5: Cloud Connect, Santa Clara, Calif.
• April 3-6: Robin Robins: IT Sales and Marketing Boot Camp, Marriott Renaissance, Nashville, Tenn.
• April 7-10: Ingram Micro Cloud Summit, Phoenix, Ariz.
• April 10-12: Tech Data Channel Link, Orlando, Fla.
• April 8-11: SugarCon 2013, Waldorf Astoria, N.Y.
• April 8-12: Microsoft Management Summit, Las Vegas
• April 14-17: Synnex Varnex Spring, Orlando, Fla.
• April 15-18: OpenStack Summit, Portland, Ore.
• April 17-19: Synnex Red White & You (Public Sector/Healthcare), Orlando, Fla.
• April 19: VARTrends East, Boston
• April 21-24: CA World, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
• April 21-24: Ingram Micro VTN Spring Invitational, Hollywood, Fla.
• April 25-26: Big Data Innovation Summit 2013, San Francisco
• April 25-26: RightScale Compute 2013, San Francisco
• April 28-May 3: IBM Impact, Las Vegas
• April 29-May 1: Kaseya Connect User Conference, Las Vegas
• April 29-May 1: Accelerate, Lenovo Partner Forum, Las Vegas
• May 6-9: EMC World, Las Vegas
• May 6: EMC Global Partner Summit (at EMC World)
• May 6-10: Interop Las Vegas
• May 6-9: HTG Summit, Dallas
• May 13-15: Brocade Americas Partner Summit, New Orleans
• May 14-16: Google I/O, San Francisco
• May 14-16: Ingram Micro Public Sector Federal Summit, National Harbor, Md.
• May 15-16: Big Data for the Healthcare Industry 2013, Philadelphia, Pa.
• May 14-16: SAP Sapphire Now, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla.
• May 20-21: Citrix Summit, Anaheim, Calif.
• May 20-22: Sophos Parner Conference, Washington, DC
• May 22-24: Citrix Synergy 2013, Anaheim, Calif.
• May 22-24: Ingram Micro SMB Spring Invitational, Hollywood, Fla.
• May 27: Federal Holiday – Memorial Day
• May 29-30: Ingram Micro Healthcare Exchange, Location TBD
• June 2-4: Autotask Community Live, Scottsdale, Ariz.
• June 3-5: LabTech Automation Nation, Orlando, Fla.
• June 3-6: Cisco Partner Summit, Boston
• June 3-6: Microsoft TechEd, New Orleans
• June 10-13: Cloud Expo, New York City
• June 10-14: Red Hat Summit, Boston
• June 11-12: IBM MSP Summit, Las Vegas
• June 17-19: Level Platforms MSP Community Summit, Las Vegas
• June 20-22: Schnizzfest 2013, Philadelphia, Pa.
• June 23-27: Cisco Live 2013, Orlando, Fla.
• June 25: VARTrends Central, Chicago

Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2013, Q3

• July 4: Federal Holiday, Independence Day
• July 4: Newly Confirmed Event: Jay McBain's wedding
• July 8-10: Asigra Cloud Backup Summit, Toronto
• July 7-11: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Houston
• July 17-19: HostingCon, Austin, Texas
• July 23: June 25: VARTrends, Boston
• July 29-31: CompTIA ChannelCon 2013 (formerly CompTIA Breakaway), Orlando
• Aug. 7-9: Tech Data TDCloud Partner Summit, Tampa, Fla.
• Aug 18-20: XChange 2013, Washington, D.C.
• Aug. 26-29: VMworld, San Francisco
• Sept. 2: Federal Holiday, Labor Day
• Sept. 16-18: Tigerpaw Software National Conference, Chicago
• Sept. 22-26: Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco
• Sept. 25-27: Ingram Micro SMB Fall Invitational, Glendale, Ariz.
• Sept. 30-Oct. 4: Interop New York
• Sept. 30-Oct. 1: McAFee Partner Summit, Las Vegas

Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2013, Q4

• Oct. 1-3: McAfee Focus, Las Vegas
• Oct. 2-5: Synnex Varnex Fall 2013, Greenville, S.C.
• Oct. 8: VARTrends West, San Francisco
• Oct. 10-12: SMB Nation Fall, Las Vegas
• Oct. 14: Federal Holiday – Columbus Day
• Oct. 20-23: Ingram Micro VTN Fall Invitational, Desert Springs, Calif.
• Oct. 23-25: N-able Summit (tentative), Scottsdale, Ariz.
• Nov. 6-9: Tech Data Fall TechSelect, Los Angeles, Calif.
• Nov. 11: Federal Holiday – Veterans Day
• Nov. 11-13: HTG Peer Group Meetings, Orlando, Fla.
• Nov. 12-14: Ingram Micro Public Sector SLED Summit, Hollywood, Fla.
• Nov. 13-15: ConnectWise IT Nation, Orlando, Fla.
• Nov. 18-22: Dreamforce, hosted by Salesforce.com, San Francisco
• Nov. 28: Federal Holiday – Thanksgiving
• Dec. 25: Federal Holiday – Christmas

Other 2013 Dates Pending

• Amazon Web Services -- AWS re:Invent 2013
• ASCII Success Summits -- throughout the year
• Avnet Technology Solutions Partner Summit (multiple events, locations)
• Cloud Channel Summit
• Dell World -- typically December
• Enterasys Partner Conference
• GFI Max Software User Conference(s) -- typically September
• Rackspace Partner Summit -- rumored to be repositioned as Rackspace World in 2013
• Sophos Partner Summit
• Symantec Partner Engage
• Synnex National Conference
• Tech Data Channel Link
• TechSelect Partner Conference
• Transform (Managed Print Services conference)
• UP Cloud Computing Conference 2013