The Women of the Channel Leadership Summit East is the meeting place for women from across the IT channel who are looking to advance organizational diversity, make unmatched connections, and empower and cultivate women leaders. Attendees benefit from best-in-class thought leadership, motivational keynotes, channel trends, stimulating workshops, interactive peer panels and energizing networking opportunities ─ all focused on navigating the workplace and helping them develop their professional, corporate and personal goals.
Miss USA, Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, President & CEO of the Service Women‘s Action Network (SWAN)
Deshauna Barber is a former Miss USA and award-winning international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur with a bold approach to inspiring and encouraging her audience. Deshauna uses her experience as an Army officer, Non-Profit CEO, former Miss USA, and STEM graduate to inspire her audience. Deshauna shows the power of perseverance and tenacity to now become a top-rated speaker that is widely sought after by Fortune 500 companies. She currently works full time as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Service Women’s Action Network, the nation’s leading 501c3 nonprofit organization advocating on behalf of all service women and women veterans in the country.
Deshauna is currently receiving her Diversity, Social Justice and Inclusion Certification at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Virginia State University and a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Services from University of Maryland University College.
As Miss USA, she spent her year-long reign advocating for our men and women in uniform by encouraging our government to provide additional support for soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The 31-year-old uses her platform to encourage us to pay close attention to the mental health of our service members after deployments and their service to our country.
Captain Barber has served her country for over 10 years and now works as cadet instructor at Howard University‘s Bison Battalion during her Army Reserve commitment. When she is not serving her country, she travels the world as a full time Motivational Speaker. She has made it her life goal to encourage, inspire and strengthen the people around her.
Deshauna has appeared on The Steve Harvey Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Fox and Friends, The Chelsea Show, Good Morning Washington, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The T.D. Jakes Show, The Nightly Show, The Source on Sirius XM, The Daily Show, Lunch Break, Live with Kelly, Good Morning America and in Glamour Magazine and Diversity Magazine.
CEO, Sisterpreneur & Body Language Expert
Sisterpreneur
Linda Clemons is the CEO of Sisterpreneur ®Inc. She is an award-winning record setting sales producer as well as one of the top sales trainers in the world in the resort/timeshare industry where clients have generated over two billion in sales. She is also a Body Language Expert, trained and certified in Analytic Interviewing and Statement Analysis ™, a process used to detect deception.
Her clients and audiences include Southwest Airlines, National Urban League, Nestle, MGM, Major League Baseball, Wells Fargo, Leo Burnett Worldwide, US Customs, FBI, Marriott, Hilton, Wyndham and Starwood. Her client list includes celebrities, executives, politicians and entrepreneurs.
Clemons has opened for, or shared the stage, with such notables as Oprah Winfrey, President Obama, Steve Wozniak; co-founder of Apple, Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Mary Jo White SEC Chair
Emmy Award-Winning Actor, Producer, and Director, Activist and Philanthropist
Actress, producer, and director Cheryl Hines is a two-time Emmy nominee for her role as Cheryl David on HBO‘s Golden Globe Award-winning series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Heralded for her humorous and passionate delivery in speaking engagements, Hines inspires audiences with conversations about finding success in a career that mainly consists of rejection, upholding “dangerous optimism” throughout her life, and shares how to reframe the mindset to take life’s twists and turns and view them as learning and turning points in order to achieve your wildest dreams. Additionally, she gives actionable insights into attacking the problems we face head on in order to move forward and how to let go of the things that don’t contribute to your happiness.
Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Founder of ScreenLifeBalance.com
Hailed in The New York Times as “the Marie Kondo of brains,” Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist, speaker, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life (Ten Speed Press), among other books. Her newest book, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again (Dial Press) has released to great acclaim and deemed “..the book everyone needs to read in 2022” by The Independent. As a speaker, consultant and workshop leader, she helps individuals and organizations create healthier personal and professional relationships with their phones (and other devices), and establish best practices to encourage creativity, productivity and mental health. In other words, she helps people scroll less, live more, and have fun.
How to Break Up With Your Phone has been published in 30 countries and featured in scores of high-profile media outlets around the world, including NPR, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Wired, Vox, Refinery29, BBC World News Service, and many others. A New York Times article about Catherine and her 30-day program titled “ Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain,” went viral, receiving more than 2 million hits in less than a week. The article remained at the #1 slot for most-popular, most-emailed and most-shared for more than four days and was the #27 most-read article published by the New York Times in all of 2019.
Catherine is also the creator and founder of Screen/Life Balance, which is dedicated to helping people learn how to scroll less and live more. Screen/Life Balance is part of Catherine’s continued mission to create evidence-backed resources to help people around the world design lives in which they control their technology, rather than the other way around—with the ultimate goal of increasing happiness, productivity, creativity, health and wellbeing.
Catherine speaks, consults, and leads workshops on how individuals and corporations can set better boundaries with — and best practices for — their devices in order to maximize creativity and productivity, improve mental health and brain function, reduce burnout, spend more time doing the things that actually matter to them...and have more fun! Her engagements can be customized based on audience size and area of interest, but they are always compelling and actionable, chock-full of what Catherine calls “science-backed self-help.”
To learn more about Catherine and her other books and journalistic work, please visit CatherinePrice.com.
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Arrow
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Aruba
Aruba
Aruba provides secure edge-to-cloud networking solutions. A leader in Wi-Fi, switching, wired and wireless LAN access and SD-WAN infrastructure.
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AWS
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Broadcom
Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves
critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.
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CDW
About CDWCDW Corporation (Nasdaq: CDW) is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs over 10,500 coworkers. For the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2021, CDW generated Net sales of approximately $20 billion. For more information about CDW, please visit www.CDW.com.
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D&H
D&H Distributing is a one-stop supplier for the channel, fulfilling industry needs as they arise either through market consolidation or the evolution of the new digital economy. An agile, strategic, 104-year-old distribution company, D&H delivers a wealth of enablement resources, multi-market expertise, and engagement opportunities focused on its partners’ success. D&H supports partners selling into the SMB and mid-market sectors with endpoints and advanced technologies designed to deliver a competitive edge. Our offerings include differentiated services in areas like cloud, XaaS, and a list of professional services such as integration support, White Glove services, HDaaS (help desk as a service) and more. Other offerings include D&H’s Cloud Marketplace transactional portal, and the “XaaS Configuration Tool” that allows MSPs to bundle and price a combination of hardware, software, and services through a self-service online tool. D&H’s “Success Path” initiative has been expanded to include a “Success Path to Security” and “Success Path to UC” series, helping to educate partners and provide best practice methodology. D&H also offers credit and subscription-based options like the DaaS program, which lets partners offer suites of devices on a monthly consumption basis, supporting the lifecycle of these computing devices and creating an always-updated environment for clients.
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Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is a technology leader and innovator, providing unparalleled solutions from the edge to core to cloud, available to our Partner’s through the Dell Technologies Partner Program. Underpinned by the 3 core tenants of, Simple, Predictable and Profitable™, the Partner Program provides world class engagement and support across the digital journey of our shared customers.
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Fortinet
For over 20 years, Fortinet has been a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our network security solutions are the most deployed, most patented, and among the most validated in the industry. Our broad, complementary portfolio of cybersecurity solutions are built from the ground up with integration and automation in mind, enabling more efficient, self-healing operations and a rapid response to known and unknown threats.
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IBM
There has never been a better time to capture the market momentum in the hybrid cloud arena. Recognizing there’s no such thing as “one-size-fits-all”, IBM is out front and leading this massive transformation. By taking advantage of the IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift to build, sell, service and deliver innovative services and solutions, IBM gives organizations the flexibility of keeping some workloads on-premise or in a private cloud, while also offering the speed and scale of the public cloud. We are firmly committed to this next chapter of cloud industry and to helping our partners grow and succeed. We offer the best mix of experts, enablement and benefits to help you get to market your way. Make sure you take advantage of all our comprehensive ecosystem has to offer. Tap into these exclusive benefits today. Let’s get started! https://www.ibm.com/partners
Intel
Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
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Lenovo
Lenovo
Lenovo is a US$50 billion Fortune Global 500 company, with 57,000 employees and operating in 180 markets around the world. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, we are developing world-changing technologies that create a more inclusive, trustworthy and sustainable digital society. By designing, engineering and building the world’s most complete portfolio of smart devices and infrastructure, we are also leading an Intelligent Transformation – to create better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around the world. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com
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Verizon
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