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October 22, 2024 – Atlanta – LB3/TC2 Conference
Maximizing Value from Your Network & IT Deals in Today’s Enterprise Market
Join the experts from LB3 and TC2 for our annual half-day Atlanta Conference on Tuesday, October 22 at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North.
Implementing sourcing strategies to keep up with the relentless pace of technology evolution and disruption poses a real challenge for most enterprises. At our upcoming conference, we will cover a series of topics that will help you develop and implement effective strategies for optimizing your company’s technology investments in the services that are on most enterprise technology roadmaps in 2024. Topics to be covered include: IT Cost Management, leveraging Broadband in your network to improve ROI, strategies for a seamless CCaaS migration, how to run a competitive RFP effectively in 2024, and also a Washington, DC regulatory briefing where we will look at the details and developments in E911 regulations for enterprises.
| TIME | SESSION |
|---|---|
| 12:00-12:30 | Registration and Lunch Buffet |
| 12:30-12:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 12:45-1:25 | Running a Competitive Procurement in 2024 RFPs and competitive procurements continue to be the best tools to secure optimal solutions, pricing, and terms for IT products and services. But in an environment of accelerated technology evolution, they can be viewed as unwieldy, time-consuming and inflexible. In this session we’ll present a range of strategies to maximize the effectiveness of your competitive sourcing processes, including RFQs vs RFPs, delivering a collaborative RFP process, and common mistakes to avoid. |
| 1:25-2:05 | The Rise of Broadband in Enterprise Networks Savvy customers are maximizing their ROI on network spend by leveraging broadband Internet service to replace costly, legacy WAN transport infrastructure at scale. In this session, we’ll cover the key commercial, technical and contractual issues that need to be considered to successfully integrate broadband services with your other WAN network technologies, as part of SD-WAN and SASE-powered Internet First network architectures. |
| 2:05-2:15 | Break |
| 2:15-2:55 | IT Cost Management Managing IT budgets against the accelerated pace of technology evolution is critical. This session will provide recommendations and best practices to help ensure that your budget aligns with changing technologies, including business case tracking for major projects and how to leverage your TEM for improved day-to-day cost and inventory management more effectively. We’ll break down a list of common IT cost management challenges and the successful solutions we have deployed. |
| 2:55-3:35 | How to Avoid the Major Pitfalls in a Complex CCaaS Contracting and Migration The long-term benefits of migrating from legacy on-prem contact center infrastructure to a cloud-based solution are clear for most organizations, but a variety of issues can derail any migration plan and wreak havoc on the post-migration deployment, budget, or run-and-maintain environment. Maximizing cloud-based platforms to enhance call center operations requires forethought and planning. In this session, we will explore some of the key issues you may not be thinking about when contracting for CCaaS as well as common obstacles to a seamless migration and transition that end users encounter. |
| 3:55-4:05 | Break |
| 4:05-4:45 | ERP Sourcing and Deployment Most large organizations today rely heavily on Enterprise Resource Planning software systems. But sourcing and deploying ERP effectively is a complicated undertaking and needs to consider a number of factors to be completed successfully. This session will look closely at the best practices for sourcing and deploying ERP solutions. |
| 4:45-5:05 | Regulatory Briefing In this brief regulatory update, we will look at the details and developments in E911 regulations for enterprises. |
| 5:05-5:25 | The Negotiation Persona Hall of Fame When you’ve been doing this for a while, you recognize certain vendor personas that regularly sit across from you at the negotiation table. Some are helpful. Some are frustrating. Some are deal closers. Some make you wonder if they chose the right career. And some are just downright amusing. We’ll end the day by sharing our favorite negotiation “types” and will invite attendees to offer up their own. |
| 5:30 | Networking Reception Join us for a drink, some food, and relaxed conversation. |
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