Last year, Forrester estimated that organizations spent $15 BILLION per week on technologies to move to the cloud and adapt to remote work. The good news: it spurred business transformation to the cloud. The bad news: point solutions created fragmented employee and customer experiences.

Customers want an integrated communications stack across the office and the contact center to create more seamless, personalized experiences and to benefit from deep analytics, AI and other innovations. Hear from industry thought leaders on the buying trends they’re seeing in the cloud communications market and why leading organizations are choosing a platform approach.


<b>John DeLozier, SVP, Global Channel Chief, 8x8</b>

John DeLozier, SVP, Global Channel Chief, 8x8

John DeLozier’s charge at 8x8 includes overseeing the development and execution of the 8x8 partner program. John comes to 8x8 from CenturyLink, where he helped create the award-winning Channel Alliance Partner Program. His career includes co-founding and running ACT, a system integration and application development company focusing on unified communications and collaboration (UCC) and call center implementations. After selling ACT to Cross Telecom, he became Executive Vice President of that organization. Cross was sold to Arrow Electronics, where John stayed on as Global Head of Sales and was successful for many years.
<b>Renée Bergeron, <br>Senior VP & General Manager of Agent Services, AppSmart</b>

Renée Bergeron,
Senior VP & General Manager of Agent Services, AppSmart

Renée joined AppSmart with over 25 years of management experience in the technology industry. As General Manager of the Agent Services division, she is responsible for sales, marketing, service delivery, and business development.
<b>Richard Murray, Chief Operating Officer, Telarus</b>

Richard Murray, Chief Operating Officer, Telarus

Richard Murray is a well-known and respected member of the channel community, with strong ties to both telecom and cloud technologies. Under his leadership, CarrierSales became one of the largest and most respected technology brokers in the nation, including being listed on Inc5000’s fastest growing companies for both 2016 and 2017. In 2017 Murray entered an agreement with Adam Edwards and Patrick Oborn of Telarus to merge the two companies. The result is the largest privately-held master agency in the U.S.
<b>Robert DeVita, CEO and Founder, Mejeticks</b>

Robert DeVita, CEO and Founder, Mejeticks

Robert is the Founder and CEO of Mejeticks. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, holding leadership positions at AT&T, Telx (Digital Realty Trust), Cologix and 1547 Realty. Robert has served as the President of the DFW AFCOM Chapter as well as being Executive Director and Board Member of Open-IX. He is a native New Yorker who now resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and two daughters. He spends his free time coaching his girls in sports and holds various leadership advisory rolls at St. Rita Catholic School.
<b>Ted Schuman, Founder/CEO, PlanetOne</b>

Ted Schuman, Founder/CEO, PlanetOne

Ted Schuman founded PlanetOne in Scottsdale, AZ in 1992. Under his leadership, PlanetOne has grown into one of the most influential and respected go-to-market business partners in the telecom and IT industries. Ted’s “work hard, play hard” philosophy combined with his team’s relentless focus on success and partner satisfaction has led PlanetOne to be recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. magazine from 2011 – 2018.

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