Date of Event: Thursday, April 30th 2020

Time:11:30am PST/ 2:30pm EST

Description:

Join TIG and our industry partners to share the available options and what you can do to ease your work-from-home needs and continue to connect to your contacts and employees.

We understand how critical it is to continue operations during a crisis and we want you to know that you can count on TIG to take appropriate steps to be there to support and protect your business. It’s critical that companies have a comprehensive business-continuity plan to ensure their products and services remain available, secure, and reliable for their customers and employees.

This webinar will be led by our technology expert, David Wittmann, Director of Unified Communications.

Klarinet Solutions LLC - Brian Long | Director of Business Development
How resilient is your businesses ability to work from anywhere? Brian Long, Director of Business Development with Klarinet Solutions, will share the projected impact COVID-19 has made on the community as a whole and shaping the way businesses will change post crisis. Brian will also share how organizations; whom they deployed Microsoft Teams to, prior to the crisis were less impacted by the “work from home” restrictions and how companies can be better prepared in the future.

BluIP - Joseph Hernandez | Vice President of Channel Sales
BluIP can help you and your organization enable PSTN with BluIP Enhanced Cloud Calling capabilities and support your work- from-home initiatives during and beyond Covid-19. Learn about BluIP’s user-friendly MS Teams App- drastically simplified and accelerated enabling Enhanced Cloud Calling seamlessly and without interruption and with our easy to use step-by-step management portal, your users can start enjoying the full benefits today seamless across all user devices including PC, Mac, Mobile and Microsoft.

JABRA - Patrick Masterson | Regional Channel Manager
In these unprecedented times around the world, we are seeing unforeseen changes in society are impacting us all. For many, the sudden shift into working from home has been disruptive to both our work and personal lives. Jabra has a longstanding belief in the benefits of working from anywhere and when it comes to productivity, the right tools matter. Learn about our start of the art work-from-home headsets and smartphone headphones and learn how to create an office anywhere with plug-and-play video solutions.

Date of Event: Wednesday, April 15th 2020

Time:10:00am – 11:30AM PST

Where: Webinar

Description:

Join TIG and Microsoft for an interactive training using the magic of technology! The same compelling presenters you love, now available in your home. This 90-minute, interactive, session will focus on Microsoft Surface devices, how they work better together with your Office applications, show off key demos for using pen and touch in Windows, and how your organization can become more productive in a modern workplace. We'll also show you new collaboration technologies using the Surface Hub 2S and key tools to maintaining productivity in a mobile workforce.

Brian Westbrook - Microsoft Presenter
Brian is an Emmy award-winning broadcast technology reporter and presenter. With over two decades of IT and interactive experience, he loves breaking down complicated tech topics to empower others. His passions beyond technology include globe-trotting, photography, event planning, and crafting snarky social media posts.

Melanie Wood - Senior Surface Specialist | Microsoft
Melanie has been at Microsoft for 6 years and has spent the last 10 years working exclusively with Public Sector customers in the IT/computing industry. As the technical subject matter expert for the Microsoft Surface portfolio, she supports government agencies across California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Idaho. The mission at Microsoft is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Digitally transforming and modernizing workplaces with long-term goals of maximizing end-user employee satisfaction, talent attraction, and talent retention - all while achieving lower total costs of ownership – is a big part of empowering people and organizations to achieve more. From roadmap conversations to setting up Microsoft Surface deployment training sessions and on-site professional end-user training on Surface + Windows, the goal is to ensure that our customers have the best experiences of Microsoft. In short, she loves helping government agencies get the best overall value and experience of Windows 10 and M365 on Microsoft Surface.

Carlos Velazquez - Enterprise Sales and Transformation Leader | TIG
Carlos is dedicated to supporting California State and Local agencies develop smart, connected and integrated infrastructure that makes efficient use of resources and improves public services. For 20 years at Technology Integration Group (TIG), Carlos has lived for the thrill of seeing his clients solve their business and strategic infrastructure goals. Including the last 4 years leading TIG’s State of California - Microsoft Surface Tablets contracts team. Throughout the engagement process, Carlos is a trusted partner and advisor delivering effective collaboration and relationships to achieve client outcomes. Carlos looks forward to sharing his experiences on how TIG has helped the State of California Agencies transform and achieve their mobile and digital goals.

Agenda

• • Welcome, Introduction, and Updates
• • Surface devices for a modern workforce
• • Modern Workplace tools using Microsoft 365
• • Wrap-up, Q&A