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GTDC Vice Chairman Michael Long kicked off the two-day Summit EMEA event. Long, who is also Arrow Electronics president and CEO, set the tone by underscoring the breadth and depth of the content, including a Q&A with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Managing Director Peter Ryan. A leading economist, Sam Wilkin, shared an insightful regional outlook, followed by nearly 20 breakouts. Acclaimed "trendwatcher," author and speaker Adjiedj Bakas ended the agenda with his riveting talk on The Digital Transformation of Capitalism.

Breakout sessions were conducted by GTDC database partners CONTEXT, GfK and The NPD Group as well as researchers and other analysts from firms such as A.T. Kearney, Canalys, GE Capital Finance and IDC. Topics included:

The Financial Health of the IT Distribution Channel
Disruptive Technology, Cloud and Shark-fin Market Cycles
Vitality of Distribution: Emerging Revenue Opportunities Across the Value Chain
Advancing Channel Value Propositions and Programs that Really Work in Distribution
Revenue Opportunities Developed from New Panel Metrics in the CONTEXT Labs
Distribution & SCM in 2020
Responding to the Changing B2B Channel Landscape
Cybersecurity and Datacenter Trends
The Internet of Things: A New Path to European Prosperity

For more information about GTDC events, go to www.gtdc.org/gtdc-events/

About The Global Technology Distribution Council
The Global Technology Distribution Council is the industry consortium representing the world's leading tech distributors. GTDC members drive more than $130 billion in annual worldwide sales of products, services and solutions through diverse business channels. GTDC conferences support the development and expansion of strategic supply-chain partnerships that continually address the fast-changing marketplace needs of vendors, end customers and distributors. GTDC members include AB S.A (WSE: ABPL), ABC Data (WSE: ABC), Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW), Avnet (NYSE: AVT), Computer Gross Italia (SES: MI), D&H Distributing, Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM), Intcomex, Logicom (CSE: LOG), SiS Technologies (HKSE: 0529), ScanSource (NASDAQ: SCSC), SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX), Tarsus, Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) and Westcon-Comstor.