Hear from our leaders about the unprecedented opportunities we see ahead for Cisco and our partners. We are once again at the center of a significant market transition: the Internet of Everything. It's a massive opportunity, the biggest in the next decade with a $14.4 trillion value-at-stake. With our partners, we have the ability to build, manage, and secure end-to-end IP-based platforms to connect people, process, data, and things to capture our share of this phenomenal market transition.

With an unwavering commitment to our partners' success, we are driving channel innovation around the most important priorities to you. We will continue to be the most partner-centric organization in the IT industry, focused on building and enabling a robust partner ecosystem. We will share how we will help you accelerate profitable growth, and make it easier for you to do business with Cisco. Specifically, you will hear about new areas of investment and about our firm commitment to help you transform your business to meet the changing demands of customers to capture the enormous market opportunities in front of us.

Our leaders will speak about Cisco's Strategic Framework and the strategy that evolves the role of IT today to become the greatest business asset for tomorrow. Together, we can help our customers gain even more value from their network today as we shape the future.

We will share insights on the most interesting innovation intersections between market transitions and customer business drivers and the opportunities they present for partners. We will discuss the impact of these transitions for our customers and partners with a focus on how we go to market together. Between the data deluge, the move to the cloud, and unlocking the opportunity with the Internet of Everything, customers are looking to us to help get the full value from their IT investments.

Hear about our continued investment in technical, professional and consulting services, and programs to fuel your success. Making Cisco Services profitable, valuable and simpler is our top priority. We will speak about the investments we are making in Cisco Services, and the truly unique opportunities to leverage SmartNet analytics and network data to grow your business.

See how partners like you are even more profitable with smart services and get a sneak peak at the roadmap. Learn how a smart support practice can drive your professional services business to maximize opportunities. You will also learn why professional services are critical to helping you thrive during market transitions – and how Cisco Services can help you grow your practice to meet the evolving needs of your customers.

Partners are looking to build practices and monetize opportunities, such as cloud, mobility, social networking, and video to fuel the next wave of customer innovation. Your business practice needs to solve for key customer business requirements, including improving customer experiences, increasing employee productivity, gaining competitive advantage, and creating new services. The industry is moving toward stronger ties between software platforms and network infrastructure as a primary element in a holistic strategy to achieving these goals.

Are you ready for tomorrow? Cloud delivery of applications continues to accelerate, BYOD projects are expanding, and we are beginning the journey to the "Internet of Everything." These transitions are increasing the importance of service provider services to businesses and ecosystem partners alike. In this session we will discuss:

Join us to learn why investment in your Cisco sell-to service provider practice positions you to take full advantage of the highest growth market transitions and allows Cisco and our partners to embrace tomorrow together.

As the IT industry undergoes yet another transformation, vendors – including Cisco and our partners – are looking for ways to become more relevant to the business decision makers within existing accounts and capture new growth opportunities. We will share our strategy to engage with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and show how our partners can align to new business initiatives in key industries. Discussion will highlight the market opportunities with ISVs in our new partner ecosystem, specific investments Cisco is making in vertical solutions, and concrete examples where Cisco and our partners can differentiate by: 1) creating new cloud offers, 2) enabling click to call/chat/meet and video into their existing products, and 3) driving demand for Cisco BYOD solutions. We will keep this session interactive with conversation around your own experience with ISVs and about your requirements from Cisco to accelerate success.

Maximize returns on your investment with Cisco in the multi-billion dollar mid-sized customer market. Learn how our purpose-built offerings meet customer needs and drive demand for your value-add services, and how we are supporting and rewarding you to lead the sale with customers. We will cover our midsize portfolio, including the Meraki offerings, and highlight new mid-market sales and marketing resources available to you to achieve profitable growth.

The Cisco Partner Program is the foundation for our mutual success. It is important that we not only maintain the current momentum, but also look for opportunities to evolve to meet the future needs of the business and the market. During this interactive session, we will discuss the successes and updates to the current program, as well as new opportunities. We will share our vision and get your insights on how we shape the program to meet the customer expectations in the future.

Partners can transform their customer engagements from traditional speeds-and-feeds conversations to impactful solution discussions that support critical business imperatives. The Cisco Unified Workspace, powered by mobility and virtual desktop Smart Solutions, empowers partners to capitalize on the IT megatrends of end-user device proliferation, virtualization, and workspace productivity applications. In this session, you will:

Our goal is to give you a clear view of how to effectively build your solutions practice, and drive bigger, more profitable deals.

Within the Internet of Everything (IoE) concept, The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a substantial business opportunity to connect all machines, devices, sensors, automobiles, cameras, and other "things" to help our customers improve operations and save valuable time, money and even lives. The Internet of Things requires innovation in key technology domains, including sensors, networks, data analytics and control systems. And it requires creative thinking about applying this new technology to diverse applications, such as manufacturing, process control, smart cities, healthcare, transportation, energy and beyond. Learn more about this growth opportunity through vivid case studies and product demonstrations that highlight Cisco's investment strategy for delivering innovative IoT solutions to our partners.

The Cloud and Managed Services opportunity is significant and growing 2-3 times faster than IT spending, with a material shift in buying centers and economic models. We are making investments across all areas of the business today to ensure Cisco and you, our partners, maintain leadership together. We will share our cloud strategy, architectural roadmap, and investments in programs, sales enablement, and demand generation to help foster incremental and profitable revenues for your business.

Partners are looking for new ways to grow their business by increasing customer focus, targeting key customer needs, and offering innovative connected experiences to customers. With the rapid adoption of BYOD, increasing movement of applications and data to the cloud, and the reality of the Internet of Everything, enterprises are increasingly looking to evolve their IT operations and infrastructure. The opportunities are staggering as we look at multi-billion dollar network and security infrastructure upgrades emerging at the access, edge and core of customer networks. We will discuss how we are evolving our Borderless Networks portfolio to enable customers to connect people, clouds and "things" with greater simplicity, security and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). We will explore the strategy, and share early insights into important portfolio, solution and partnership announcements. Also, we will discuss how you can best capture these new upgrade opportunities, and share details on new partner programs to help drive your profitability and competitiveness.

The ability to unlock the potential of people working together has never been greater than with today's collaboration technologies. Grow your practice, profitability and productivity with Cisco's cross-architecture approach to collaboration anytime, anywhere, on any device. This session will focus on the continuing evolution of the Cisco Collaboration portfolio and include a demonstration that brings to life our latest technologies. Learn about exciting new programs that will help you accelerate your business.

Learn about the exciting new sales & marketing resources available in Asia, Japan & China for our premier & select certified partners. Join Gordon Mackintosh, Director of WW SMB Programs and Sabrina Lin, VP of Partner Led Sales for Asia, Japan & China as they discuss the new offerings designed specifically to meet your needs. New resources including; mobile applications, learning modules, and a revamped specialization to help you, win more customers in the small and midsize customer space. Join us and let's achieve profitable long-term growth. Together, we can.

Learn about the exciting new sales & marketing resources available in Asia, Japan & China for our premier & select certified partners. Join Gordon Mackintosh, Director of WW SMB Programs and Jim DeCarlo, Regional Manager for the US as they discuss the new offerings designed specifically to meet your needs. New resources including; mobile applications, learning modules, and a revamped specialization to help you, win more customers in the small and midsize customer space. Join us and let's achieve profitable long-term growth. Together, we can.

Discover how Authorized training can grow your business by developing talent to capture market transitions and customer wallet share with skills that transform the customer conversation. As a Cisco Channel Partner, you already know the value that partnership with Cisco can deliver. Cisco Authorized Learning Partners understand the business and training needs of Cisco Channel Partners and are the Authorized Channel of Learning for the certification and product training needed to be successful in today's solution-selling environment.

Learn about the exciting new sales & marketing resources available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and for our premier & select certified partners. Join Gordon Mackintosh, Director of WW SMB Programs and Ben Fallon Leader, SMB & Velocity Sales as they discuss the new offerings designed specifically to meet your needs. New resources including; mobile applications, learning modules, and a revamped specialization to help you, win more customers in the small and midsize customer space. Join us and let's achieve profitable long-term growth. Together, we can.

Create an engaged and connected workforce to deliver great business results. Learn about the resources and tools available to you at no cost to help you manage your talent management lifecycle.

This session will provide an overview of how Cisco and you – our partners in US, Canada and LATAM – drive success. Hear from Wendy Bahr, SVP of the Americas Partner Organization, Nick Adamo, SVP, The Americas, and Debbie Dunnam, SVP Americas Services.

Following the Americas Geo Regional session, chat live with Wendy Bahr, Senior Vice President, Americas Partner Organization about how Cisco with our partners in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, we will growth business together.

Jaime Vallés, President of Cisco APJC, will give an overview of APJC market opportunities and partner landscape, as well as share his vision and strategy for the geo. The theme of this year's APJC Geo Session is All In and speaks to both the unity and strength of the APJC geo. With every member of APJC All In, it's all systems go and the focus is on turning our strategies to success and our plans into winning performances.