About EPLS

The European Partner Leadership Summit is a two-day event that will provide you with business, sales management and industry updates, as well as best practices to support your business growth.

On this site, you will find information about this year’s conference, links to register, hotel booking and travel information, and answers to any questions you may have about the conference.

 

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Venue

This year's event venue is centrally located and provides access to the Philopappos Hill and the Acropolis Museum, with stunning views of the Parthenon from the rooftop terrace.

As guests of Siemens, you will receive a discounted rate of €200 per night.

Please plan on arriving on Monday, 23rd January at your leisure and depart on Thursday, 26th January.

If you have any further queries, please contact the Siemens Event Team at epls.sisw@siemens.com.

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Agenda and Event Information

Tuesday

Wednesday

Opening - 8am

General Session

8:15

Leading Transformation
Becoming agents of change

Brenda Discher

8:35

Own the future -
Be the change

Bob Jones

8:55

EMEA Zone Update +
Partner Update

Edwin Severijn

Opening - 8am

General Session

8:15

Igniting our SaaS Future

Jeff Zobrist

8:45

Follow the thread
to the money!

Brian Allison
Martin Hasenstrauch

9:15

Growing strong in SMB

Alon Shaham

9:35

Partner Success Story FORCEBIT start-up

Jurgen Chanterie | Adopt ID

Break - 9:25

Break - 9:45

General Session

 

10:00

Enabling organizations to innovate & accelerate business transformation

Tim Srock

10:20

Partner Success Story on Teamcenter and Mendix

CLEVR
ditwin

10:35

Hunting for innovation and talents. How to partner strategically with universities

Natascha Eckert

11:00

AWS & Siemens partnership
Xcelerator as a Service

Rebecca Gunn | AWS
Tim Wormus | AWS
Dr. Tobias Hartenstein

11:20

KEYNOTE: Leadership in a
Fast Changing World

Eddie Obeng

General Session

 

10:10

Xcelerator for Partner Excellence

Ryan Morris

10:30

Partner Success Story: ALM Expansion and Flip at Radiometer Medical

Pasi Ahola |Taipuva
Tapio Tuomola | Taipuva

10:40

Advanced Systems Engineering: Understand the benefit for your clients and leverage the potential for portfolio expansion.

Dr. Sven Kleiner | :em engineering methods

11:10

Industrial Additive Manufacturing
Trends and Chances

Christoph Hauck | toolcraft

11:25

Successful Partner – Partner Collaborations in the Medical Device Industry

avasis
ZNT

11:40

Electronics is everywhere!

Elmar Dukek

12:00

Partner Success Story
All changes in Athens - a local success story

Paul Double | EDA Solution

Lunch - 12:05

Lunch - 12:10

General Session

 

13:30

LAER & Accelerate XaaS Execution - XaaS Success with Outcome Based Selling

Ryan Morris
Jim Gregory

13:55

Speed up
your road to revenue

Jesse Staats | The Linq Group
Jim Gregory

14:20

Enabling for Success

Andrew Finnis

14:40

The Power of Ecosystems

Michael Kirchgaessner | MHP

General Session

 

13:30

The future of lead generation: The Vision
and best practices of Cards PLM & Prospex

 

Bart Stuve | Cards
Filip Torkar | Prospex

13:50

Partner Success Story
Latitude

14:00

Monetizing Customer Success

Bill McInnis

14:30

Partner Success Story
Institute of Aviation

CAMdivision

14:40

Digital Enterprise - Empowering industry to design and produce sustainable products

Magnus Edholm

Break - 15:00

Breakouts

 

15:10

Building a XaaS Professional Services Practice

Chris Carter
Scott Dibben
Oliver Droske

15:10

LAER & XaaS
XaaS Success with Outcome Based Selling

Ryan Morris
Jim Gregory

15:10

Accessing the Rapid Partner Growth Program to unlock your SMB market potential

Abdul Ludhi
Andrew Finnis

15:10

SAP + Siemens: The journey so far and how it will increase customer value

Gareth Webb | SAP

15:10

EMEA Go To Market Update
EMEA Partner Update & GTM

Martijn van Lieshout
Jasper Wildeboer

Breakouts

 

15:10

Getting Started with
Customer Success

Bill McInnis

15:10

Understanding LAER and
how to effectively
position for Expansion

Chris Carter
Oliver Droske

15:10

REPEAT: Expanding your Customers
Footprint using BPA

Scott Dibben

 

15:10

Business Planning for XaaS

Jim Gregory

 

15:10

The power of Mendix
in the manufacturing world

Sebastian Bersch

Breakouts

 

16:10

Expanding your Customers Footprint using Business Process Assessments (BPA)

Scott Dibben

16:10

XPE Real-World ARR tactics

Ryan Morris

16:10

Don´t lose customers because you can´t support their needs

Daniel Morris

16:10

Social Selling: Effective
Digital Selling Strategies

Yorin Lansu | The Linq Group
Benedict Russell

 

16:10

Appronto: The value of Mendix for Manufacturing companies
Netribe: Partner Success Story

Bas van der Horst | Appronto
Ilic Simonazzi | NetribeGroup

Breakouts

 

16:10

Monetizing Customer Success & Onboarding your Customer

Bill McInnis

16:10

Selling X SaaS Solutions
Panel Discussion

 

16:10

Business Model
Digital Enterprise

Magnus Edholm
Jan Pawlewitz

 

16:10

Crossing the bridge to SaaS

Genis Passola
Martin Kraus

 

16:10

Commercialize your domain expertise with Mendix Fireside chat with ISV leaders + partners share success

Manish Marotkar

SPONSOR EXPO - 17:00

SPONSOR EXPO - 17:00

COUNTRY DINNERS - 19:00

AWARD DINNER - 19:00

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If you have any questions about your registration, hotel booking, or logistical details, please contact our Global Events Team.

 

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