gSocial 2.0

• Schedule

  Schedule
  • Schedule*
    Day 1 - Domain Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA
    6.30 pm – 9.00 pm:
                                       Welcome Reception

                                       Sponsored by Backupify and Pipeline Deals 
    
    Day 2 - Domain Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA
    7.30 am – 8.30 am:
                                       Registration and Breakfast

                                       Breakfast sponsored by Cirrus Insight
    8.30 am – 8.45 am:
                                        Welcome and Opening Remarks
    8.45 am – 9.40 am:
                                        Selling the Future:  Collaboration and Integrated Cloud Platforms

                                        David Coleman, Collaborative Strategies

                                        Rahul Bhavsar, CloudCodes
    

    9.45 am – 10.15 am:

                                        Breakout Session 1

                                        Building your Cloud Portfolio - Dina Moskowitz, SaaSMAX

                                        Chaos, Order, Alive - Paul Dandurand, PIEmatrix

    10.15 am – 10.30 am:         

                                        Break              

    10.30 am – 11.10 am:
                                        Breakout Session 2

                                        Mastering the Marketplace for VARs - David Politis, Better Cloud

                                        Navigating the Marketplace: A primer for ISVs - Ryan Huff, Cirruspath

    11.15 am to 12.00 pm:

                                       Going Up: ISV Elevator Pitches                               

    12.00 pm – 1.00 pm:
                                        Lunch

                                        Sponsored by Apptivo
    1.15 pm – 2.00 pm:
                                        Plenary Session 1

                                        Leveraging Social Media - Turning Likes and Tweets into Leads and Revenue 

                                        Gretchen DeKnikker, SocialPandas

    2.00 pm – 2.30 pm:
                                        Breakout Session 2

                                        Best Practices for Successful Marketing Events - Allen Falcon, Cumulus Global

                                        Strategies for Non-standard Migrations - Viktor Petersson, WireLoad

     2.30 pm – 3.00 pm:

                                        Plenary Session 2

                                        Cloud Readiness Assessments - Kevin Lalor, Business Intelligence 101
    3.00 pm – 3.15 pm:
                                        Break

    3.15 pm - 4.15 pm:

                                        ISV/Reseller Roundtables: Building your Cloud Portfolio 

    4.15 pm – 5.00 pm:

                                        Google Channel Chat:   A Q&A Session with the Channel Team

    5.00 pm – 5.30 pm:

                                        Closing Remarks
    
    
    
    
    
    *Schedule subject to change
    
• Logistics

  Logistics
  • Reception and Conference:
    Domain Hotel
    1085 East El Camino Real
    

    Sunnyvale, CA 94087

    T: 408-247-0800
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    Lodging:
    A block of rooms are reserved at the Domain Hotel at a special rate of $189.  They are available on a first come, first served basis.  Book early!

    
    Please click here or call 1-800-738-7477 to reserve your room. Reservation deadline is October 21, 2012.
    

    
    

    
    

    Directions:

    From San Jose Airport

    From San Francisco Airport

    
    

    
    

    Airport Shuttle:

    The Domain Hotel offers a shuttle from San Jose Airport.

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• ISVs

  ISVs
  • Why attend gSocial?

    Are you an ISV focused on extending the value of Google Apps by offering complementary solutions? Do you want a cost-effective way to meet the best Google Apps resellers?
    
    Then join the gSocial to:
    

    • Gather feedback on your product and reseller value propositions from top Google Apps resellers;
    • Meet top performing Google Apps resellers and deployment specialists and learn how they are successfully implementing Google Apps across various customer segments (and potentially identify other market opportunities);
    • Hear from other ISVs about their successful strategies for developing market demand;
    • Learn how to leverage the Google Apps Marketplace to accelerate customer adoption.

    
    

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• Resellers

  Resellers
  • Why attend gSocial?

    Are you a Google Apps Reseller looking to grow your business profitably? Then join ViWo, Cumulus Global and other leading resellers at gSocial for:
    

    • Networking with peers to understand how to build a successful business focused on Google Apps;
    • Lessons on how to successfully grow your Google Apps pipeline and upsell to your existing Google Apps customers;
    • Best practices on how to leverage partner relationships to build and scale your business on demand;
    • Presentations from established and emerging ISVs about how their solutions complement Google Apps to address customer issues;
    • Updates and guidance on the emerging market trends from other resellers and ISVs.

    
    
• Sponsors

  Sponsors

  • We are grateful to the following companies for their sponsorship of this year’s gSocial:

    
    

    GOLD SPONSORS

    Backupify provides backup, archive, and restore services for the entire Google Apps suite and Salesforce.  Backupify protects over 5,000 Google Apps domains, including 250 million documents and 1.7 billion emails. Protect your customers’ data from user errors, external threats or service failures through a partnership with Backupify.  

    
    

    
    

    

    PipelineDeals is the easiest way for your sales team to organize your sales pipeline and grow your business. Google Apps and PipelineDeals are integrated with true bi-directional sync for contacts and calendar, and easy access to contacts, notes, tasks, and deals right from one screen. PipelineDeals is only $15 per user per month.   

    
    

    SILVER SPONSORS

    

    Apptivo is a leading provider of cloud-based business applications designed to serve the end-to end needs of small and medium sized businesses. The Apptivo platform enables companies to run all of their business processes without worrying about information being scattered across many different applications and managing multiple systems.  

    
    

    ArachnoOrbit provides an enterprise-level replacement for SharePoint and Document management. In addition companies can create customized solutions utilizing the Arachno database platform running on Google's App Engine.  The Arachno database provides a rapid development and design environment enabling the accelerated deployment of solutions utilizing the Company's unique interfaces. 

    
    

     

    BetterCloud is the leading provider of cloud management tools for Google Apps. FlashPanel, its flagship product, used by over 11,000 companies and 3.5 million users worldwide, is a directory management and Google Drive security tool that ultimately accelerates the adoption of Google Apps in the enterprise. BetterCloud also powers Ask the Gooru, a free video tutorial site for Google Apps.

    
    

    
    

    

    Cirrus Insight is the #1 app for integrating Salesforce with Gmail, Google Contacts, and Google Calendar.  It's the top-rated app on the Salesforce AppExchange for connecting Salesforce with Google Apps.  Cirrus Insight has an attractive partner program for Google Apps Resellers and ISVs.  

    
    

    
    

    

    Smartsheet’s cloud-based collaborative work platform is used to organize, plan and execute a broad spectrum of projects and processes - from HR and marketing to business operations and IT. The unique melding of spreadsheet, file sharing, and work automation features has helped Smartsheet quickly become a favorite productivity tool for businesses of all sizes. 

    
    

    

    ÜberConference is audio-conferencing done right. Created by the founder of GrandCentral (now Google Voice) and a world-class team of mostly xGoogle engineers, ÜberConference is radically changing the conference calling market. ÜberConference delivers world-class telephony solutions for small and medium sized businesses with a product pipeline poised to upend the antiquated telecom market.

    
    

    
    

    

    YippieMove, from WireLoad, is all about painless email migration. With their single-user migration tool, batch migration tool, and customizable email migration portals, you can save both time and money. With their newly released API you can even integrate YippieMove directly into your workflow or product.  

    
    

    
    

    Interested in sponsoring?  Contact sponsorship@gsocialconference.com to learn more.
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