Call for Speakers: IBM Business Partners
Be a part of IBM’s premier Information Management event by becoming a speaker at Business Development Day. This day is exclusively for IBM Business Partners. Provide the Business Partners with solutions, strategies, tools, product information and marketing resources to help them to close business in 2008 and increase their revenue going forward.
Each presentation should have the following key components:
- how the Business Partner can increase their revenue
- how the Business Partner can team with IBM, and
- why the Business Partner needs to know this information
Sessions should be no longer than 60 minutes in length and must speak to topics in which you have practical experience, expertise, best practices, or a solution to share with IBM Business Partners. Presentations should be targeted to Business Partners who may be working with the following audience:
- Consultant
- Executive
- ISV
- Marketing
- Reseller/Solution Provider
- Systems Integrator
- Value Added Distributor
Presentations are being accepted that address the following areas within Tracks. These are examples of the kind of information that should be presented to the Business Partner:
BDD Tracks and Descriptions
Leverage Information On Demand (IOD)
Expand and grow your business by delivering a comprehensive set of software, hardware and service offerings which help businesses leverage the power of their information assets.
Enterprise Data Management
Learn how your clients can benefit by building a flexible, resilient, high performance data infrastructure which optimizes performance, reduces costs and unifies information wherever it resides.
Enterprise Content Management
Discover how to help your clients access, manage, secure and deliver content, and optimize content-based business processes to reduce costs and improve productivity levels.
Trusted Business Information
Explore ways to enable your clients to take control of overflowing silos of data and content by delivering trusted information in context to people, processes, and applications
Best Practices: Tools and Resources
Gain insight on our best practices to generate more high quality leads through incentive programs, industry networks and winning campaign strategies.
Session abstracts will be accepted until May 23, 2008. Presenters will be informed of session selections by late June. Conference presentations will be due to IBM by August 29, 2008. Questions please contact: Nancy Berlin – nancyberlin@us.ibm.com.

