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The Olympics in Rio officially kick off today, but the planning began well in advance – several years, in fact – to help turn the games into a fully connected global experience. Here we present seven ways IT is boosting the Games’ global presence in 2016.

Building confidence – personally and professionally – to advance your career and build an exceptional company culture was one of the key topics and takeaways in this year’s ChannelCon Advancing Women in Technology (AWIT) Community meeting.

Innovation in the computer industry is occurring at breakneck speed. With increasing internet capabilities and other technological advances, along with a continually escalating competitive environment, it’s extremely hard to keep track of it all. Those are a few of the points covered in the Tomorrowland: Meet the New IT session at ChannelCon 2016.

CompTIA’s Cloud Community met this week at ChannelCon, and one of the highlights of the meeting was a presentation titled “Crowdsourcing Cloud Insights: The Past, The Present and the Future.”

Two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Peyton Manning spoke at CompTIA ChannelCon at the Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood this week, stressing teamwork and adaptability in a speech that frequently drew comparisons between football and business.

CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux delivered a powerful keynote speech at CompTIA ChannelCon at the Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood on August 2, giving a frank assessment of the state of IT – particularly its talent needs and challenges – and outlining next steps.

Channel professionals typically use B2B as a reference to the general indirect model, but Austin McChord, founder and CEO of Datto, Inc. gave the term a whole new meaning in his keynote at ChannelCon 2016. In his case, it refers to the way he started his business 8 years ago, in his parent’s basement with $80,000 in debt. By the end of last year Datto was valued at a billion dollars and had become one of the exclusive "unicorn" club according to respected business experts

CompTIA IT Security Community members broke into three separate groups during their ChannelCon meeting to discussing the details of various security portfolio offerings.They discussed where each MSP sits on the security continuum (foundational, comprehensive or advanced) and then focused their efforts on defining that particular level of service.

The CompTIA Managed Services Community took their best practice discussions to the next level at ChannelCon 2016. The standing room only audience was treated to a unique experience as community leaders turned the tables and made them into expert panelists.

One of the toughest things for new IT services business owners is planning out their portfolios. What services do you need to offer to satisfy existing clients and attract new customers? Security has become one of the biggest differentiators for MSPs today and the topic of expanding those offerings created some interesting conversations in the CompTIA Partner Advisory Council meeting at ChannelCon 2016.

CompTIA partnered with nearly a dozen other technology organizations in hosting Innovation Nation events at the RNC Convention in Cleveland and the DNC Convention in Philadelphia. Innovation Nation brought public policy into focus at signature events, engaging congressional leaders, campaign officials, and industry leaders in conversations to explore how an innovation agenda might take shape in the next Congress under their party’s president.

Providers of cloud-based services and customized applications can do a great service by paying closer attention to how their customers do business; this according to the diverse group of technology end-users in the End User Commission Meeting held Monday, August 1, at CompTIA ChannelCon 2016.