The 2012 Angelbeat 60-city tour has already produced great results for IT vendors, who have participated in the first 20 events. See feedback below and click here to watch the Intel YouTube testimonial. Reply to Angelbeat CEO Ron Gerber at rgerber@angelbeat.com, or VP Marketing Amanda Buckler at abuckler@angelbeat.com, or call 516-277-2057 for more information.Angelbeat’s mission is to match IT vendors and resellers/integrators with pre-qualified end users through an integrated program of face-to-face events in 60 US cities, webinars and email campaigns. We are a proven and cost-effective lead generation vehicle. Angelbeat’s live events and online lead generation programs (leveraging our 250K email database) appeal to vendors who offer cloud, virtualization, storage, backup, infrastructure, security, compliance, network, wireless, voip, desktop products and solutions.
Specific topics covered at each 1/2 day event help attendees understand the changes occurring within and interdependency between their data center/server/NOC and network/client device/end point infrastructure. These might include:
1) Build Your Private/Public Cloud & Storage Platform,
2) Secure your Virtual Infrastructure and Social Networking/Web 2.0 Apps,
3) Support Tablets, Smartphones and Laptops on 802.11n/4G High-Speed Wireless Networks.
4) Many other related topics suggested by Sponsors
As a frame of reference, it is best to view Angelbeat as a focused/regional version of the InterOp tradeshow or Gartner global forums, which also cover multiple/related topics and like Angelbeat offer the highest quality experience for both attendee & vendor.
To complement multi-subject, “regular” Angelbeat live seminars there are email campaigns and webinars (leveraging our 250K email database of pre-qualified, senior, end user IT professionals) and single-topic workshops on cloud/virtual security, comparison of laptop/tablet/phone platforms and social networks at work.
Pre-qualified IT professionals (generally from medium-to-large employers in a given city across all vertical markets) are recruited through focused email and telemarketing campaigns. Typical attendee titles are “Network Administrator”, “Enterprise Architect”, “IT Director”, “Director Data Center/NOC Operations”, “Systems Analyst”, “Director Hardware Standards”, “Chief Information Security Officer”, “Server/Storage Administrator”, “Systems Manager”, “Telecommunications Director”, etc. CIO’s are aware of Angelbeat events and some do attend but in most cases send their senior technical staff/decision-makers to attend. Sponsors are encouraged to embrace the seminars and invite your customers & prospects to attend, thereby helping to ensure that the audience demographics precisely meets your specific objectives.
Here is vendor feedback followed by a listing of shows by quarter, with exact dates determine approximately 3-4 months in advance:
Avaya: “I attend many IT events and shows each year in Las Vegas and by far this has been one of the best. I got more leads from this show than the last ten I have attended.”
McAfee: “Very well done event, we greatly appreciate it. I expect to see a lot of business. We received 12 solid leads out of 150 Atlanta attendees …that’s almost a 10% hit rate, better than I’ve seen in years.”
Trend Micro: “You have done a great job. The seminar was very informative. The most interesting presentation was Trend Micro on solutions for internal/private clouds. VP IT Security Bank of America.”
Netfast (Systems Integrator): “My engineers were blown away with the attendees and how well organized the event was. We will definitely be participating at more AngelBeat events in the future.”
Veeam: “After being impressed with their presentation and talking with rep, we are going to further explore options with the guys at Veeam to see how they might help us with backup strategies and solutions for our virtualfarm. Storage Admin, Cascade Utilities.”
Google: “I’m interested in Google’s security in the cloud. CISO, City of Cincinnati”
Comcast: “I truly believe you cater to the exact audience we want to talk with about our Metro Ethernet fiber services.”
Amazon:“With global locations we are looking to communicate more effectively and video is increasingly popular. Adobe Flash is highly configurable and with Amazon’s Cloud/Web Services could be a solution for us. We would like to discuss this in more detail. Director of Architecture, Tiffany.”
Maas360: “Please call me to discuss mobile device management concerns we have which can be fixed using Maas360. IT Systems Manager, NDex.”
Exinda: “During Q1, Exinda (WAN optimization) participated in all ten Angelbeat events. One quarter later, Exinda has already measured a 12.1x ROI on its investment.”
Listed below is Angelbeat’s schedule through year-end, followed by locations already covered in 2012 that will re-occur in the same timeframe in 2013:
June 19: Pittsburgh
June 20: Indianapolis
June 21: San Francisco
June 22: Phoenix
July 30: Cleveland
July 31: Detroit
Aug 1: Chicago Downtown
Aug 2: Milwaukee
Aug 3: Minneapolis
Mid-August
From August 7th to the 9th, and then from August 14th to the 16th, there will be three events per week, one set in the Midwest and one on the West Coast. Please check back with Angelbeat when the exact dates are finalized.
Seattle
Portland
Salt Lake
Louisville
Cincinnati
Columbus
September, tentatively planned for week of September 10th
Kansas City
Des Moines
Omaha
Austin
Denver
October
Providence
St. Louis
October 16: Las Vegas
November, tentatively planned for week of November 12th
Baton Rouge
Jackson
Houston
San Antonio
El Paso
November 30: Hawaii
December
San Diego
Orange County
LA
Chicago O’Hare
Memphis
Nashville
Knoxville
Feb 6: Fort Lauderdale
Feb 7: Tampa
Feb 8: Orlando
Feb 9: Jacksonville
Feb 10: Little Rock
Feb 13: Dallas
Feb 14: Oklahoma City
Feb 15: Tulsa
Feb 16: Atlanta
Feb 17: Birmingham
March 12: Hartford
March 13: Philadelphia
March 14: Columbia
March 15: Charlotte
March 16: Raleigh
April 23: Boston
April 24: Parsippany
April 25: NYC
April 26: Stamford, CT
April 27: Long Island
May 14: Baltimore
May 16: Richmond
May 17: DC
