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Cisco SMB Solutions SE/AM 2 day bootcamp

Wednesday 13^th & Thursday 14^th March 2019, Cisco Bedfont Lakes

Who should attend
This two day course, will be focused for SE and AM partners.

Course Objectives - SE
This intensive classroom-based course will help attendees understand Cisco's vision, what Cisco sells, the Cisco Architectures and how best to plan, design and deploy Cisco solution portfolio.

Attendees will learn about Cisco’s on-premises and cloud-managed products and solutions, including Connect (Switching, Routing and Wireless); Cisco Meraki portfolio; Secure (Cisco Security including a focus on Threat Defense with Cisco Umbrella); Collaborate (Cisco Collaboration including Webex, Webex Teams and Cisco Business Edition); and Compute (Cisco Data-Center and Cloud).

Finally, attendees will review the requirements of the SMBSE exam, including an exam practice.

Course Content
This instructor-led course provides partner engineers and solution architects with the introductory information they need to effectively plan, design and deploy Cisco's SMB products and solutions

Course Objectives - AM
This class will help you understand Cisco's vision, what Cisco sells, it's channel routes to market and Cisco ONE, a new way to sell. It covers in some detail the general concepts of business outcome led selling and Cisco's approach to it, how to sell in the technology cycle, customer value proposition and the value chain and stakeholder management.

On the architecture and solutions side you will learn about Cisco's Enterprise and Digital Network Architecture (DNA) which includes but is not limited to Routing, Switching, Wireless and Mobility and Digitization. We will also discuss Cisco's Security architecture covering Cisco's approach to Security, The threat centric security model, network security, visibility, enforcement, management and more. We talk about Cisco Data Center and Cloud architectures including Cisco's Unified Data Center, Unified Fabric, Converged Infrastructures, Cloud and Multi-Cloud.

You will also learn about Cisco's Collaboration solutions around its Architecture, platform, end points, webex solutions, Conferencing and On-prem, Cloud and Hyrbid Cloud.

You will become Introduction to Cisco Sales certified if you pass the required exam.

Registration Password: CISCO

Ingram Micro Presents: Securing Your Wireless Solution

Monday 18th March 2019 @ 11am-12pm

Webex

Join the Ingram Micro and Cisco team to learn how Meraki APs now integrate with Cisco Umbrella, the industry’s first Secure Internet Gateway, to protect wireless clients from malicious online threats.

Cisco Meraki MR

100% cloud-managed wireless access points for faster deployment, simplified administration, and richer visibility.

Cisco Umbrella

100% cloud-delivered secure internet gateway that provides the first line of defence against threats on the internet.

During the session we will help you to understand how to deploy Umbrella across your Meraki network with just a few clicks. In minutes, your users will be protected against threats such as malware, ransomware, & C2 call-backs with no added latency.

Ingram Micro Presents: Secure Data Centre with Cisco StealthWatch

Thursday 21st March 2019 @ 11am-12pm, Webex

Join the Ingram Micro and Cisco team to learn how Cisco StealthWatch can offer you a Secure Data Centre.

StealthWatch is a single, agentless solution that allows visibility across the extended network, including endpoints, branch, data centre, and cloud. And with Encrypted Traffic Analytics, Cisco Stealthwatch is the only product that can detect malware in encrypted traffic and ensure policy compliance, without decryption.

Ingram Micro & Cisco One Channel Community - Neurodiversity and the workplace

Wednesday 20th March 2019, Petersham Nurseries, Petersham Road, Richmond, TW10 7AB

We are excited to be able to share the second event in our One Channel Community series taking a look at Neurodiversity and the workplace.

We are lining up some great speakers to address this subject in-keeping with inclusion and diversity.

Final agenda TBC.

Registration Password: CISCO

Think Ingram Micro - Partner Virtual Lunch & Learn

Friday 22nd March 2019 @ 11am-12pm

Webex

We are excited to run our first Think Ingram partner virtual lunch and learn. Agenda is detailed below. Once you register we will send you a webex invitation for the session.

1.Think Ingram Services:

Financial
Configuration
Professional
Maintenance
Managed
Lifecycle
Marketing

2. VSOC

3. Cisco Business Readiness Programme

4. AOB

For every attendee that attends to the webinar we will send you a £5 e-voucher.

Ingram Micro and Cisco Meraki FY19 Executive Partner Briefing

Tuesday 26th March 2019 12pm - 6pm

Cisco Meraki, 10 Finsbury Park London

We are pleased to invite you to our very first exclusive Ingram Micro & Cisco Meraki partner executive briefing.

Below is the draft agenda, which we will confirm timings nearer the time. We will also finish the day off with networking drinks to say thank you for your Meraki business.

Agenda:

Lunch - 12:30pm - 1pm Canapes

Welcome & Ingram Cisco Plan – Mario Cristinziano

Meraki EMEA Channel Vision & Strategy – Lisa Roberts

Meraki EMEA Technology/Product Strategy Update (SD WAN, Switching etc) – Brett Martin (EMEA SE Lead)

Cisco & Meraki Integrations – Marc Wallenberg

Meraki Partner Solution – Leo Fischer

MV Product Update – Leo Fischer

Ingram Vision/Services – Scott Murphy

Networking Drinks

Only 25 places available and will be on invite only.

SD-WAN Meraki partner training

Wednesday 27th March 2019 @ 10am - 12.30pm followed by Lunch, Ingram Micro UK, Experience Centre

Trainer: Alex Pozzi

Agenda:

Introduction – Why Meraki
Yesterday’s solutions with MPLS, Todays solutions with SD-WAN
Meraki SD-WAN demo
Monitoring and controlling SD-WAN
Q&A
Lunch

Registration Password: CISCO

Ingram Micro Presents: Cisco ICS Road Map & Intersight

Wednesday 27th March 2019 @ 11am-12pm, Webex

Join the Ingram Micro & Cisco team to find out about the latest and greatest from the Unified Computing Solutions Portfolio, where it’s headed, the latest innovations and what makes it the best solution to drive an application centric infrastructure.

Hosted by Andrew Gunyon (UCS GoTo Market Lead, EMEAR)

As a bonus we are also offering you the opportunity to learn about Cisco Intersight. Intersight is simplified and consistent infrastructure management that removes the difficulties of supporting on premise tools and appliances. Intersight scales easily and frequent updates are implemented without impact.

Ingram Micro Presents: Cisco Partner Round Table

Monday 1st April 2019 @ 12pm-5pm

Bounce Farringdon, 121 Holborn London

You are invited to join the Ingram Micro and Cisco team at our April Partner Roundtable.

The purpose of the event is to provide you with the most up-to-date and important information from both Cisco an Ingram Micro. We’ll give you the ammunition to build a thriving Cisco BU and keep you up to speed on all the newest initiatives and service offerings from Ingram Micro that are designed to help our partners differentiate themselves in a growing marketplace.

Led by Ann-Marie Dillon (UKI Leader of Software and Recurring Offers) and Scott Murphy (Director of Advanced Solutions and Cloud), this session will focus on Software. The agenda includes;

Building an Annuity model within your existing business
How to make the most of the Cisco Software Portfolio
What recurring revenue means to our businesses
How to leverage IM services and platform to transact with your end users

We are hosting this event at Bounce, an unusual venue that allows for a bit of, friendly, competition throughout the day. Details of the venue can be found here: https://www.bouncepingpong.com/locations/london/farringdon/

Select Bootcamp

Wednesday 3^rd – Thursday 4^th April, Ingram Micro UK

Who should attend: This two day course, will be focused for SE and AM within the partners.

Day 1 - Introduction to Cisco Sales

Course Objectives - AM

This class will help you understand Cisco's vision, what Cisco sells, it's channel routes to market and Cisco ONE, a new way to sell. It covers in some detail the general concepts of business outcome led selling and Cisco's approach to it, how to sell in the technology cycle, customer value proposition and the value chain and stakeholder management.

On the architecture and solutions side you will learn about Cisco's Enterprise and Digital Network Architecture (DNA) which includes but is not limited to Routing, Switching, Wireless and Mobility and Digitization. We will also discuss Cisco's Security architecture covering Cisco's approach to Security, The threat centric security model, network security, visibility, enforcement, management and more. We talk about Cisco Data Center and Cloud architectures including Cisco's Unified Data Center, Unified Fabric, Converged Infrastructures, Cloud and Multi-Cloud.

You will also learn about Cisco's Collaboration solutions around its Architecture, platform, end points, webex solutions, Conferencing and On-prem, Cloud and Hyrbid Cloud.

You will become Introduction to Cisco Sales certified if you pass the required exam.

DAY 2 - SMB Solutions SE training

Course Objectives - SE

This intensive classroom-based course will help attendees understand Cisco's vision, what Cisco sells, the Cisco Architectures and how best to plan, design and deploy Cisco solution portfolio.

Attendees will learn about Cisco’s on-premises and cloud-managed products and solutions, including Connect (Switching, Routing and Wireless); Cisco Meraki portfolio; Secure (Cisco Security including a focus on Threat Defense with Cisco Umbrella); Collaborate (Cisco Collaboration including Webex, Webex Teams and Cisco Business Edition); and Compute (Cisco Data-Center and Cloud).

Finally, attendees will review the requirements of the SMBSE exam, including exam practice and the final exam.

Registration Password: CISCO

Ingram Micro Presents: Express Security Specialisation Boot Camp (Sales)

Wednesday 8th May 2019 @ 8.30am-5.30pm

TBC

Join us for the Cisco Express Security Specilaisation Boot Camp.

The Boot Camp will be run over 2 days. The first day (this registration) is for the Sales day and is aimed at Account managers.

This is a 1 day course, which is an instructor led class and has an exam at the end of the modules.

Please note that 1 sales spaces and 1 technical space is availble per partner. Each partner that wants to sit the specialisation must have 1 person on each track.

Ingram Micro Presents: Express Security Specialisation Boot Camp (Tech)

Thursday 9th May 2019 @ 8.30am-5.30pm

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