 This is JSATV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSATV. We are coming at you live from the show floor at the channel partners evolution show in our nation's capital Washington DC and I have the pleasure to have with me Mr. Rick Reed. Rick is the senior vice president of sales for channel partners. You might recognize channel partners this is this is the guy. Rick thank you very much for being with us on JSATV. Well thank you for being here it's it's it's my pleasure. So I've only had one interview before you but the the the reviews are glowing so far about the show. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about the show and why it's so important to the folks here. Go yeah be more happy too so we're here at channel partners evolution and I'm glad to hear that. If you can see behind us it's a it's a vibrant show floor so this week in Washington DC we have over 2700 overall participants a record number of sponsors and exhibitors with 100 and over 150 so it's just it's a great way for partners to connect with top suppliers and vendors to learn more and help drive revenue growth inside the channel. Excellent Rick so what what's different this year than maybe from from last year. You know what that's a great question so first and foremost we're sitting next to one of our new experience areas mobility city sponsored by AT&T. We also have the IoT experience zone sponsored by core and we have the cloud computing lab sponsored by Cinex so the the idea of these is for a person you can go to one area one experience zone for 15 20 minutes and learn from six to eight different sponsors about those specific solutions so it's something our attendees have asked for our sponsors have asked for and we think we delivered so we're looking forward to the feedback. Outstanding Rick thank you so much what can our viewers expect from channel partners say in the next year what's going to change what's going to be new. Well you know what our shows are just going to continue to grow and that's not only with the support of our sponsors but also the channel as a whole so we have two events planned again in 2017 we always have our spring show in Vegas channel partners conference in Expo and then we'll have channel partners evolution once again in Charlotte next year in 2017 so please join us it'd be great. You got it Rick thank you so much for joining us today we appreciate it. All right you're welcome thank you. You got it and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV we will see you soon.