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8:00 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMWelcome to Build IT LIVE
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBreak
11:00 AM - 1:00 PMWorking Genius Session 1
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PMWorking Genius Session 2
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMBreak
4:00 PM - 6:00 PMWorking Genius Session 3
6:00 PMPub Crawl

8:00 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMBreakout Session 1
Building Winning Teams
Determining Productivity: What numbers matter and how to measure them.
M&A
Five-year plan for maximizing your exit valuation.
Business Growth & Financial
Finance 101: Best-in-class numbers.
Leadership & Strategy
Bad leaders: Effects of bad leadership-toxic leadership scale.
Security & AI
RISEN Framework: How to use Chat GPT.
9:50 AM - 10:30 AMBreakout Session 2
Building Winning Teams
Getting team health right: Beyond foosball tables and kombucha.
M&A
Leaving your legacy after the sale.
Business Growth & Financial
How fast should your company grow or how not to grow yourself broke.
Leadership & Strategy
Debate: Back to the office or not back to the office.
Security & AI
NIST CSF 2.0 or SOC2: Which one is right for your organization.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBreak
11:00 AM - 11:40 AMBreakout Session 3
Building Winning Teams
Team resiliency: How to effectively train your teams to be resilient.
M&A
State of M&A in the Channel: Take-aways from 2022-2023 or top M&A trends for 2024.
Business Growth & Financial
Risk management: Understanding and developing KRIs.
Leadership & Strategy
Leading in the new era of perpetual organizational change: Why does change fail?
Security & AI
Part 1: How to prepare an incident response plan (IRP).
11:50 AM - 12:30 PMBreakout Session 4
Building Winning Teams
Innovative approaches to finding talent: When traditional methods don't work.
M&A
Should you stay or should you go? How to exit gracefully.
Business Growth & Financial
Building operational resilience.
Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Coach: Unique Ability Part 1
Security & AI
Part 2: How to run an effective tabletop exercise on a budget.
12:30 PM - 1:40 PMLunch
1:40 PM - 2:20 PMBreakout Session 5
Building Winning Teams
Corrective action planning.
M&A
Life with PE: Good, bad or ugly?
Business Growth & Financial
Effective succession planning in simple terms.
Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Coach: Unique Ability Part 2
Security & AI
NIST CSF 2.0 _opportunities for growth: vCIO as business leader.
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM Breakout Session 6
Building Winning Teams
Problem solving: Design thinking.
M&A
How much money do you need to exit? A calculator for you to determine what is the right number.
Business Growth & Financial
Performance management: CSF, OKR, KPIs--OH MY!
Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Coach: Unique Ability Part 3
Security & AI
Current state of AI: The impact on the Channel and how to prepare for it.
3:10 PM - 3:40 PMBreak
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM Breakout Session 7
Building Winning Teams
Creating superfluid teams: Why adaptability is important.
Business Growth & Financial
Co-Managed IT: How to guide.
Leadership & Strategy
Are you leading or just managing? Transformative v. transactional Leadership.
Security & AI
To AI or Not to AI: How to decide and what to do.
4:30 PM - 5:10 PMBreakout Session 8
Building Winning Teams
Pay gaps driving away your best employees: How to build a fair salary structure.
Business Growth & Financial
A new way to compensate sales teams.
Leadership & Strategy
Building healthy organization as a sustained competitive advantage.
Security & AI
Reality of cyberinsurance.
5:20 PM - 6:00 PMBreakout Session 9
Building Winning Teams
Building trust: Single most critical element of teams.
Business Growth & Financial
Capacity planning.
Leadership & Strategy
Leading multigenerational teams.
Security & AI
Shadow AI: Developing use policies.
6:30 PMHosted Dinner

8:00 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMBreakout Session 10
Building Winning Teams
Building trust: Single most critical element of teams.
Business Growth & Financial
Next-gen B2B sales: Changing the game with AI/Automation.
Leadership & Strategy
My shit smells like roses: How to lead without Ego (empathy).
Security & AI
Future of regulation and compliance in cybersecurity.
9:50 AM - 10:30 AMBreakout Session 11
Building Winning Teams
Values based hiring model.
Business Growth & Financial
How to build effective scorecards.
Leadership & Strategy
Increase productivity by decreasing meeting fatigue: How to use an effective framework.
Security & AI
Risk mitigation and BCDR: A case study of MSP and back-up vendor sued.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBreak
11:00 AM - 12:50 PMMainstage Presentations
12:50 PM - 1:00 PMBuild IT LIVE Awards
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 7:00 PMOffsite Experience