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Rob Scott from UC Today news is joined by Jason Moss, VP of Corporate Development and Alliances, Q-SYS and Shannon MacKay, General Manager, WW Smart Collaboration Business Group, Lenovo.

Q-SYS has partnered with Lenovo to offer bundled room compute solutions with Q-SYS audio, video, and control. This collaboration aims to expand the reach of both companies in the UC market by providing a complete offering for customers looking to deploy high-impact spaces. The partnership aims to tap into the rising demand for high-impact spaces in the collaboration market.

The collaboration will be available through Q-SYS channels and partners, providing customers with a top-to-bottom offering that makes it easier to adopt and deploy dynamic and scalable meeting spaces for a smarter collaboration experience. “The high-impact space market is driving the collaboration space and we foresee the market rising to 11.3 million spaces by 2025 with the potential for nearly $140 billion in revenue,” concludes Rob Arnold, Industry Director, Information & Communications Technology, Frost & Sullivan.

UC Today's Tom Wright hosts Dstny Automate's Mark Herbert and Ribbon's Greg Zweig.

In this session, we discuss the following:

• The UCaaS voice integration platform developed in partnership with Dstny Automate and Ribbon
• Why Dstny Automate and Ribbon have partnered
• How the platform helps Service Providers address the rising need of BYOC

UC Today's Tom Wright hosts Tim Jalland, IT Consultant and Solution Manager, VOSS and Jamie Litherland, Chief Operating Officer, VOSS.

In this session, we discuss the biggest challenges associated with cloud migration and how to overcome them.

In this interview, Rob Scott from UC Today speaks to Mark Bunnell, COO, Nuwave about how SYNTHESIS is powering big wins for carriers offering services into UC platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

They discuss:

• Why adding voice into Microsoft Teams and Zoom continues to be a top priority for carriers
• How SYNTHESIS helps carriers save money
• Why fast enablement is playing a big factor in a carrier's decision to choose SYNTHESIS
• The key signals carriers should be looking for in their business

UC Today's David Dungay hosts Mark Bunnell, Chief Operating Officer, Nuwave.

In this session, we discuss the following:

• How Nuwave's Operator Connect enablement is unique in the context of the global marketplace
• How Nuwave's partners are benefiting from what the company has developed for Operator Connect
• The steps that need to be taken for a partner to get involved

UC Today's Tom Wright hosts Erin Romeo, VP of Global Alliances, AudioCodes.

In this session, we discuss the following:

• How Teams might fit into Microsoft's wider vision for the hybrid workplace
• Has the hybrid workplace replaced the idea of the digital workplace?
• Most organisations have invested in technology for voice, so should they run Teams in parallel with that technology, or is it better to integrate the legacy communications infrastructure with a cloud platform like Teams?

UC Today's David Dungay hosts Paul Sparta, CEO, Vbrick.

In this session we discuss the following:

• How can embedding video into different parts of the workflow benefit businesses?
• What is Microsoft's eCDN and why should businesses consider the service/ how does Vbrick offer value at the 'deep end' where Microsoft can't?
• Top tips for businesses that are looking to optimise video workflow?

At this year’s Channel Partners Conference and Expo 2023, David Dungay, Editor in Chief from UC Today interviewed Alan Maserak, CEO at Avaya on their recent emergence from Chapter 11 on May 1st and the road ahead for its employees, partners and customers.

In the session, Alan explains:

• Chapter 11 update and debt restructuring
• Avaya’s tough decisions 
• Financial and investment strategy - people, products, brand and distribution
• Product roadmap and go-to-market; Avaya Experience Platform, on-premise, hybrid and public cloud products and migration strategies “Innovation without Disruption”
• Avaya’s relationship with RingCentral and the future of Avaya Cloud Office (public UCaaS)
• Channel partner conversations at Channel Partners Conference and Expo 2023 event - modernizing and monetizing Avaya customers
• Growth ambitions and new board of directors 
• Will Avaya eventually sell or IPO?
• Outgoing message to customers, partners and employees

In this episode of The Latest Big News, hosts Rob Scott and David Dungay welcome some of the industry’s top analysts to talk about the latest news in the industry.

The panellists discuss a variety of hot topics in the UCaaS space, including:

• Microsoft Decoupling Teams from Office365
• Creating Employee Engagement with Meetings
• Security in the Hybrid Workplace

Our panel features the following UC experts:

• Evan Kirstel, Social Media Strategist, BCStrategies
• Dan Root, Senior Analyst, Wainhouse
• Melissa Swartz, Cloud Phone Expert, Swartz Consulting
• Sean Spradling, Senior Analyst, Wainhouse

UC Today's David Dungay hosts Thomas Laboulle, CEO, Toku.

In this session, we discuss the following:

• What is Toku's current assessment of the enterprise market and its need for ‘Digital Optimisation’?
• Why is an end-to-end approach necessary for enterprises?
• How should enterprises approach this task of tying their existing tech to new investments to get a seamless CX experience?
• What does Toku offer from a support perspective for companies ‘optimising’?