The Dell Power To Do More IT summit was a full house buzzing with customers, channel partners and industry experts.
Kevin Peesker, President of Dell Canada gave a keynote outlining his vision on democratizing technology with the help of alliances formed with tech giants such as Microsoft, Intel and others.
Rich Horwath, a strategy expert and New York Times best selling author spoke about how strategy problems were the number one cause of business problems among major bankruptcy issues among corporations in the USA and other parts of the world.
The highlight of the day was Kevin Peeskers chat with the CEO of ScreenScape, a digital signage innovator which enables businesses to lower costs and improve ease of use for digital signage with the help of a simple plug and play USB drive. Peesker thinks this could be the next big tech innovation coming out of Canada.
Other talks during the event were focused around mobility, big data and IT infrastructure. Take a look at some of the most engaging tweets from the event.
Maker Bot #3dprinter at #DellPTDM pic.twitter.com/xMZKy6IOOY
— IT World Canada (@itworldca) April 9, 2015
Mark Hemphill, CEO of ScreenScape talks about how he innovated #digital signage. #DellPTDM pic.twitter.com/QAwOnAcB6H
— IT World Canada (@itworldca) April 9, 2015
Overheard at #DellPTDM – 87% of businesses have experienced a security breach over the last year.
— DellSmbCA (@DellSmbCA) April 9, 2015
Here`s my first blog from Dell Power To Do More event in Toronto about what it means for Dell being private http://t.co/spTwVI1PAI #DellPTDM
— Paolo Del Nibletto (@PaoloCDN) April 9, 2015
Hosting our Canadian customers & partners at #Dellptdm – w/ client & enterprise gurus, Kirk Schell & @ArmughanAA pic.twitter.com/4P9zfTr9cK
— Kevin Peesker (@KevinPeesker) April 9, 2015
Digital disruption demands action…how will your company stay ahead of your customer needs? #DellPTDM @ArmughanAA pic.twitter.com/Y9lIz3SWTL
— Sabrina Locock (@SabrinaatDell) April 9, 2015
Dell`s Armughan Ahmad says partnerships with Intel, Nutanix, VMware leads to democratizing virtualization with hyper converged #DellPTDM
— Paolo Del Nibletto (@PaoloCDN) April 9, 2015
Adoption of #cloud and several other technologies are far quicker in the US than in Canada. ~ John K. #DellPTDM
— IT World Canada (@itworldca) April 9, 2015
RT @itworldca: “70% of poor business performance is #strategy related” #DellPTDM
— Desere Cowin (@DeZCowin) April 9, 2015
The #1 reason for bankruptcy is a failure in strategy not in the execution of strategy. Don't become complacent or too comfortable #DellPTDM
— Sabrina Locock (@SabrinaatDell) April 9, 2015
56% of Canadians in the West are concerned over the economy while people in Ontario are more optimistic says @KevinAtDell #DellPTDM
— Paolo Del Nibletto (@PaoloCDN) April 9, 2015
Richard from The Brick talking about their mobile Win8 aps solution that help them drive incremental rev$ #DellPTDM pic.twitter.com/bMfuqqELQb
— Michel Lagace (@Michel_Lagace) April 9, 2015
Mark Hemphill has opened my eyes. #DellPTDM #digitalsignage #Dellversify
— Shawn Ifill (@ShawnIfill25) April 9, 2015
@KevinAtDell behind the scenes w/keynote customers, Mark@screenscape & Richard from the Brick #DellPTDM @hempdaddy73 pic.twitter.com/eryYFnAr8h
— Taha Hashmi (@TahaAtDell) April 9, 2015
RT @SelinAtDell: Matt Trotter at #DellPTDM says biz growth & innovation will come from these for all size orgs. pic.twitter.com/j0w59Mn5SW
— DellSmbCA (@DellSmbCA) April 9, 2015
RT @csylvester: A 20% revenue increase in women-owned businesses would add $2 billion to the Canadian economy. #DellPTDM
— Computer Dealer News (@CompDealerNews) April 9, 2015
End to end #mobility in a single slide. http://t.co/yhCJNfrPTM #DellPTDM
— Computer Dealer News (@CompDealerNews) April 9, 2015
#DellPTDM Mobile security. Why encrypt an entire hard drive when with Dell you can simply encrypt just the data files?
— Adam Hadley (@AdamHadley1) April 9, 2015
RT @itworldca: Top 3 things to mind in #mobility. #DellPTDM pic.twitter.com/VJoGR7HTL8
— DellSmbCA (@DellSmbCA) April 9, 2015
An issue for Canadian is the confidence gap. Females feel they do not have the start up skills but is it real or perception #DellPTDM
— Paolo Del Nibletto (@PaoloCDN) April 9, 2015
Glen Campbell astounds and entertains attendees at his Big Data presentation at #DellPTDM pic.twitter.com/dmHgMoWnLY
— Merv Mascarenhas (@mervmasc) April 9, 2015
Canada's strengths: initiatives to support working families; educated & well-connected female pop.; favourable startup policies. #DellPTDM
— Erin Bury (@erinbury) April 9, 2015
Not all data is equally important to an organization. That determines recovery time priorities. #DellPTDM
— IT World Canada (@itworldca) April 9, 2015
RT @CompDealerNews: “Snapshots don’t replace backups. “ http://t.co/1c6RAJwhZ4 #DellPTDM
— IT World Canada (@itworldca) April 9, 2015