Channel Futures Launches Online Media Platform and In-Person Events to Provide News, Insights, and Analysis to Channel Partners

Today, the ICT channel community has a new home that integrates timely insights, deep industry analysis, meaningful peer engagement, and real-world business information they need to expand their companies and develop their sales tactics. Informa Tech, a market-leading B2B information provider, has announced the convergence of its information and communication technologies brands under a common roof: Channel Futures, a media and events platform. Channel Futures explores and illustrates the factors affecting today's business world through its digital media platform, webinars, industry-recognized research, and in-person events, and provides its audience with the information, advice, and tools they need to achieve business success. Channel Futures is also announcing the DEI Community Group, a forum designed to educate, support, encourage, and preserve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the IT channel industry.

Kelly Danziger and Robert “Bob” DeMarzo, two industry veterans well-known to everyone who has worked in the IT channel, are leading the relaunch of the Channel Futures media and events family. Danziger is the general manager of Informa Tech's Channel business, and DeMarzo is the vice president of content. They bring to Channel Futures an emphasis on real-world business and industry strategy, as well as personal insight and a deep passion for the channel.

Where the World Meets the Channel

Channel Futures is intended to be a destination site that eliminates information overload, enhances advertiser and sponsor interactions, and focuses on delivering a seamless user experience for its combined audiences. Solution providers (SPs), managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), cloud service providers (CSPs), value-added resellers (VARs), telecommunication master agents, subagents, and agents, as well as leading technology developer alliances and communication providers, are among others in this audience. The website integrates its strong telecommunications and cable service provider coverage with IT channel coverage to provide the ICT channel audience with a comprehensive set of news and insights. The Channel Futures website can be navigated by partner category and technologies, and sponsors can communicate with specific partners.

Channel Futures' combined assets include Channel Futures MSP 501, which lists the most prominent and fastest-growing managed service providers in the technology industry; and Channel Partners Events, which provides unprecedented in-person events such as Channel Partners Conference & Expo, The MSP Summit, and Channel Evolution Europe.

About Channel Futures

Channel Futures is a media and events platform serving companies in the IT channel industry with insights, industry analysis, peer engagement, business information, and in-person events. Our properties include Channel Futures MSP 501, recognizing the most influential and fastest-growing providers of managed services in the technology industry, Channel Futures DEI 101, honoring and celebrating those who have often been under-represented in tech channels; Channel Partners Events, delivering unparalleled in-person events, including Channel Partners Conference & Expo, The MSP Summit, and Channel Evolution Europe; and Allies of the Channel Council (ACC) and DEI Community Group, our initiatives to educate, support, promote, and sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the IT channel industry.