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Dinner Location: Sweetbriar
Join SHI, Microsoft, HPi, and your peers to discuss practical yet transformative strategies to optimize end-user device lifecycle management during your organization’s transition to Windows 11. With the imminent transition to Windows 11, global organizations are faced with an urgent need to prepare and adapt.
This exclusive event for end-user compute IT leaders in global organizations aims to provide you with the essential strategies and knowledge to make this transition smooth and efficient. You will gain valuable insights from SHI and HPi industry experts who will discuss how to seamlessly integrate and manage your IT assets throughout their lifecycle and understand how these new technologies can improve end-user experience, drive productivity, and reduce costs.
You will gain valuable insights from SHI, Microsoft, and HPi industry experts who will discuss how to seamlessly integrate and manage your IT assets throughout their lifecycle and understand how these new technologies can improve end-user experience, drive productivity, and reduce costs.
Join us to transform your IT strategy, empower your organization with the latest technology, and make the move to Windows 11 seamless.
We hope to see you in New York City!
Discussion topics
Elevating productivity, security, and user experience
Sustainable approaches to asset recovery and device lifecycle management
Ensuring hardware assets are effectively managed
Speakers
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Dave Gruver
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Rob McGilvrey
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James “Coop” Cooper
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Event Agenda
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Arrivals, drinks and networking
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Event welcome and introductions
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Table discussions and three-course dinner
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Event wrap-up
Why Attend
Experience shared learning
Meet industry leading like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.
Benchmark with your industry peers
Discover and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed
Accelerate your projects
Accelerate In-depth face time with the world’s leading tech companies pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges.
An engaged experience
An expert host facilitates conversations, with live polling, Q&As, and gamification to ensure focused conversation
Discover next-level ideas
Ensure project success with access to industry experts and cutting edge thought leadership
De-risk new projects
Gain a range of insights from peers and technical experts who are current with emerging business trends.
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About SHI
Think of SHI as your personal technology concierge. We connect your team with the IT solutions and services you need to support your organizational growth and employee experience. Whether you’re building a modern hybrid workplace, defending against an evolving threat landscape, making the cloud work harder for you, or searching for ways to optimize your software portfolio, our friendly 6,000-person team is ready to solve what’s next for your organization. Our in-house data center integration, device configuration, and deployment and license advisory services, plus our top-tier status with vendors and flexible financing make life simpler for IT decision makers. Execute your IT vision with stress-free, scalable solutions you – and your people – will love. SHI is proud to be the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the United States.
About Microsoft
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. When we show up, we achieve more together.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of more than 220,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About HP
Our technology – a product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions – was created to inspire our vision and we are doing everything in our power across climate action, human rights, and digital equity to make it so.
We believe thoughtful ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time. And all it takes is one to change the world.
Apply to attend
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Frequently asked questions
An In-person Experience from GDS Group quite literally brings strategic value to the table. Typically, 3-hours of building meaningful connections and shared learning by meeting industry-leading, like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.
There are a couple of ways you can participate in a GDS event experience; as a partner or as an attendee. Whichever you are interested in, do get in touch
Global senior decision makers from leading industry brands attend our event experiences. Between 2020 to May 2023, 34,473 senior executives attended our event experiences. If you are interested in attending a GDS event experience, please check out our upcoming event
Our event experiences all provide all kinds of opportunities for your business. Just as every organization is different, so too are our event experiences. From smaller closed-door roundtables right up to 3-day summits, there are event experiences to suit what you want to achieve. Find out more about each of our GDS event experiences and contact us to learn even more.
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