Plan B deserves an A+: The HPE – Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Virtual Summits

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Plan A was working great. We had already presented seven HPE - Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Roadshow Summits from January through March in the Americas, Europe and Africa. Attendance at each was excellent. Reactions from customers and prospects at every stop were extremely positive. Then came the Coronavirus … and Plan A came to a very abrupt stop, at least for now. We decided to postpone the remaining stops, reflecting the strong commitment both HPE and Microsoft have to the health and wellbeing of attendees.

So now, it’s on to Plan B: The HPE – Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Virtual Summits.  And from the way I see it, this Plan will earn super-high grades for excellent content, outstanding presentation values, and highly-relevant information that will help make your journey to digital transformation a lot easier.   

Here’s the Plan

The Virtual Summits basically offers you the same content as the live Summits, but in a slightly shorter format. Sessions at each of the four “stops” include:    

• Keynote – Ignite innovation with HPE & Microsoft Hybrid Cloud
• Combine the best of Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc to create new powerful applications
• HPE Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack: Integration from Edge to Cloud
• HPE & Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Partners – Insights & expertise from Micro Focus, PTC, Zero Down and Kognitive Sparks
• The right cloud starts with the right mix - The top three questions customers ask about hybrid cloud adoption
• Azure delivered as a service – an introduction to HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud

These topics and the expert presenters all made excellent impressions at the live sessions. I am confident they will do exactly the same during the Virtual Summits.

Note that like the live Summits, the virtual versions will include presentations from mutual HPE – Microsoft partners who will share their specialized expertise and solutions with you. Expect to hear from Micro Focus, PTC, Zero Down, and Kognitiv Spark. Also expect to be impressed.

Throughout each virtual Summit, Subject Matter Experts from HPE, Microsoft and our partners will be available to answer your questions via live chat, making sure you get targeted responses to your most important questions and issues, including the very specific benefits our solutions can bring to your organization.

Our Plan for You        

It’s simple and straightforward. Just pre-register. An HPE representative will contact you with information on how to attend once you have completed the pre-registration form. Then, on the day of your session, go to your “new normal’ workplace – which can now range from a home office to the upstairs hall closet and anything in between – and log on to the session. The time and date of the sessions currently planned include:

• AMS: May 7  -  9;00 a.m. PT /12:00 p.m. ET
• Europe: May 13 – 2 p.m. CEST/UTC +2
• Asia - Pacific/India/Japan:  20th May 2020, 10.30 a.m. SGT | 11.30 a.m. JST | 8.00 a.m. IST   
• Middle East and Africa: June 3 - 11 a.m. GST/UTC +4

Note that we will soon make a virtual hybrid cloud summit resource page available to all attendees that will host the four webcasts. The page will also provide access to all sessions as well as to a number of deep dive sessions to cover topics in greater detail for people looking for more information.

Comprehensive, content-rich, convenient: that’s how we’ve designed our Plan B HPE – Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Virtual Summits. And that’s why we’re convinced they should be on your “A” list of events to attend.

More information on the Standard Summit Roadshow, as well as videos of specific sessions is available on the Roadshow page.

Complete information on the HPE – Microsoft alliance and the impressive joint solutions we offer can be found on our Alliance page.