D&H Distributing recently announced the dates and topics for its first trade show of 2014, being held at the Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry, CA. This event will take place from 11:00 am – 9:00 pm on this Thursday, March 27, 2014, with an expected 500 resellers in attendance, as well as 60 vendors.
“2014 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the industry,” said Mary Campbell, vice president of marketing at D&H. “In addition to upgrades relative to the XP support deadline, VARs also face potential sales gains in lucrative areas such as education, as programs like the administration’s ‘ConnectED’ and Microsoft’s Shape the Future lead districts to seek new technology compliances. Our West Coast Show will provide the tools VARs need to become versed in these areas, and will spotlight high quality, affordable and branded technologies to fulfill these initiatives. This may be the first time this year that resellers are presented with such a broad forum of networking technologies, at a juncture when they face many opportunities.”
This show is complimentary for all D&H resellers, who can get registration information from their D&H representative. There will be seven main sessions, presented by HP, Intel, Cisco, SMB Nation and Microsoft. Here’s a full agenda for this Thursday’s event:
11:00 a.m. Registration opens
12:00 p.m. “Lunch & Learn” session: Big K-12 School Hardware Opportunities
ASUS
1:00 p.m. 2 in 1’s: Tablets and More
Intel
2:00 p.m. Goodbye XP: Meet the New Windows 8.1 Devices
Microsoft
3:00 p.m. Replace Your Cisco Base: Grow Your Business by Upgrading Your Customers’ Networks
Cisco
4:00 p.m. Exhibits open
4:30 p.m. HPs Best in Class Business PCs – Carry Less, Do More
HP
5:30 p.m. Lenovo ThinkServer and Storage Solutions; Grow with Lenovo and D&H in 2014
Lenovo
6:30 p.m. Capitalizing on XP Migration and IT Disruptions in 2014
SMB Nation
8:30 p.m. Door prizes
9:00 p.m. Exhibits close
Attendees are also encouraged to check out the “Chrome Zone” in the event’s Exhibit Hall, where they will be able to test Chromebook models from Acer, Lenovo, Samsung, and others.
