Our September 2022 sponsoring partners included some of the tech world’s leading, most innovative companies. They were at the Summit to answer your questions, provide useful information, and offer solutions to some of your most pressing challenges.
Gold
Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software-as-a-service that’s affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end-user. Unlike legacy software, Freshworks builds tech that works for everyone, making it easy for IT, customer service, sales, marketers, and HR to do their job and delight their customers. More than 50,000 companies use Freshworks’ SaaS to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM).
Silver
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s platform protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures 2018 list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, Seattle, WA, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Darktrace (DARK.L), a global leader in cyber security artificial intelligence, is on a mission to free the world of cyber disruption. Breakthrough innovations in our Cyber AI Research Centre in Cambridge, UK have resulted in over 100 patent applications filed and research published to contribute to the cyber security community. Rather than study attacks, our technology continuously learns and updates its knowledge of ‘you’ and applies that understanding to achieve a state of optimal cyber security. We are delivering the first ever Cyber AI Loop, fueling a continuous end-to-end security capability that can autonomously spot and respond to novel in-progress threats within seconds. Darktrace employs over 2,000 people around the world and protects over 7,400 customers globally from advanced cyber threats. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ in 2021. To learn more, visit https://darktrace.com.
Bronze
Carbon60 is an MSP dedicated to helping businesses maximize the performance and security of their core application infrastructure with an agnostic cloud approach using public and hosted private clouds. As a highly recognized AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold Partner, Google Cloud Partner, and one of Canada’s largest VMware service partners for managed private cloud hosting solutions, we have the experience and the expertise to support organizations wherever they might be on their cloud journey.
Chrome Enterprise provides the OS, browser, and devices your business needs to cloud-power your workforce.
Productiv is on a mission to align IT, finance, procurement, and business leaders to unlock the most value out of their SaaS portfolio at scale. More than a SaaS management solution, Productiv aligns teams with trusted data to proactively govern and drive operational efficiency while increasing employee engagement across SaaS applications. This data-driven approach combines billions of employee app usage data-points with vendor contract and organizational data, enabling teams to easily come together to optimize spend, manage renewals, and rationalize SaaS portfolios with automated workflows.
ISACA® is a global community advancing individuals and organizations in their pursuit of digital trust. For more than 50 years, ISACA has equipped individuals and enterprises with the knowledge, credentials, education, training and community to progress their careers, transform their organizations, and build a more trusted and ethical digital world. ISACA is a global professional association and learning organization that leverages the expertise of its more than 165,000 members who work in digital trust fields such as information security, governance, assurance, risk, privacy and quality. It has a presence in 188 countries, including 225 chapters worldwide. Through its foundation One In Tech, ISACA supports IT education and career pathways for underresourced and underrepresented populations.
Partner
TECHNATION is the industry-government nexus for technology prosperity in Canada. As a member-driven, not-for-profit, TECHNATION unites Canada’s technology sector, governments and communities to enable technology prosperity in Canada. TECHNATION champions technology prosperity by providing advocacy, professional development and networking opportunities across industry and governments at all levels; connecting Canadian scale-ups with global tech leaders; engaging the global supply chain; and filling the technology talent pipeline.
TECHNATION has served as the authoritative national voice of the C$230 billion ICT industry for over 60 years. More than 44,000 Canadian ICT firms create and supply goods and services that contribute to a more productive, competitive, and innovative society. The ICT sector generates more than 671,100 jobs and invests C$8.0 billion annually in R&D, more than any other private sector performer. For more information, visit www.technationcanada.ca or follow on Twitter @technationca and LinkedIn.
IDC is the most trusted IT research advisory firm in the market. IDC’s IT Executive Programs support businesses globally in the Digital Transformation (DX) of their organizations. Our IT advisory services not only advise on the technologies underpinning digital transformation (e.g., cloud, analytics, IoT, mobility, 3D printing), but also on effectively leading and executing Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives across both IT and the line of business. For over 50 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to enable clients to achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research, and events company. Learn more at https://www.idc.com/itexecutive
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