Image Gallery: Channel Partners Expo Hall

• Image Gallery: Channel Partners Expo Hall

  We’ll be the first to admit that we say this every year — but this truly is no exaggeration.

  The expo hall at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo was amazing. In part, that was due to the fact we had a record attendance of more than 5,100. But also because the exhibitors who set up shop inside brought their “A” games.

  We saw a record number of giant booths, several March Madness-themed exhibits, the new Microsoft Cloud Migration Lab and the Jive BIG Stage  — not to mention lightsabers, puppies, and yes, Dennis Rodman.

  The highlights are in this image gallery.

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• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Opening Celebration

  
  With more than 5,100 total participants at this year’s show, there was a huge crowd that poured into the expo hall at the moment it opened on Wednesday afternoon.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: AT&T

  
  The Channel Partners Expo Hall featured a record number of giant booths this year. One of those was a 40×40 space hosted by title sponsor AT&T, visible as soon as you walked in.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Verizon

  
  Verizon also went BIG, but it was this little guy – and the rest of the shelter dogs from www.adoptarescuepet.org – that drew a lot of attention at the carrier’s booth.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Vonage

  
  Vonage was one of several companies to go BIG with the March Madness theme.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Nextiva

  

  So did Nextiva, which took it another step, detouring NBA legend Dennis Rodman from another trip to North Korea. Rodman posed for photos and challenged attendees to a shootout.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Cable Zone

  
  New to the expo hall this year was the Cable Zone, a joint collaboration among the major cable companies. All had booths in one section of the show floor.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Microsoft Cloud Migration Lab

  
  Also new in the hall was the Microsoft Cloud Migration Lab, where attendees heard from speakers and various vendors who shared real-life experiences on end-user application migration and disaster recovery as a service.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: WTG

  
  WTG leased a couple of spaces in the expo hall — one for its booth, and this one to give out free head, shoulder and leg massages to its hard-working partners.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: MHO Networks

  
  We trust no one got hurt in this lightsaber duel at the MHO Networks booth.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Effortless Office

  
  Effortless Office brought in a digital artist to sketch attendees holding lightsabers — and the caricatures were done in no time flat.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: The BIG Stage Sponsored by Jive

  
  The BIG Stage sponsored by Jive lived up to its name, featuring this session on the Cisco-Powered Cloud. The stage was also home to a channel chief interview with Verizon, a UC-VoIP discussion with Jive, and Channel Partners’ Best in Show Awards.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Intelisys

  
  Not lacking for confidence, the team from Intelisys was CRUSHINGIT.

• Channel Partners Expo Hall: Exede

  
  Whether a hello or a goodbye, this friendly alien at the Exede booth might be looking ahead to Cloud Partners in August.

• Image Gallery: Channel Partners Expo Hall

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