 Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for tech telecom and data center professionals Buffy hierarchy this and we are coming to you live from channel partners 2023 in Las Vegas and joining me today is Chad Hadar He is the VP of channel and alliances for talk desk, and he is also a CRN channel chief Well, congratulations. Thank you and welcome to JSA TV Chad Thank you for having me happy to be here. Yeah, so talk desk I know many people already know but for those that don't you want to tell us a little bit more about talk desk and a little bit about your Explosive channel growth over this past year. Yeah, happy to do that So a talk desk is a full suite contact center platform born in the cloud We are maniacally obsessed with making customers happy and focused on Helping businesses modernize their customer experience while managing their bar mind and As far as the channel the last couple of years We've leaned in quite a bit with our partners So we've been partners with many of the attendees of this event for a long time but like I said the last couple of years we've leaned in quite a bit and We've engaged our partners in helping us close deals We've rolled out industry-leading spiffs and a one-of-a-kind Rewards program power play power play. I love that. Why don't you tell viewers a little bit more about that power play program? Yeah, happy to do so. So power play is a is a first in the industry type of rewards program Okay, right basically we reward our partners We wanted to recognize them for bringing us business and we reward them for that business by bringing them Into up to three times the value in opportunities of direct talk desk deals So basically the more they sell the more we bring them into the opportunities And it's a win-win for everybody and I got to tell you we've been talking to all the partners we rolled it out in October and Every single meeting we've been in everybody's so excited about the program. Well, it sounds super exciting and there's no better way to reward channel partners then with you know some of those incentives and Opportunities that you're doing which does sound like you said like a one-of-a-kind opportunity in the channel Yeah, we're very excited about the program We've seen explosive growth in pipeline and opportunities closed I actually just had the best quarter. We've ever had in the channel We just closed our Q1 and we're all very pumped about that. Wow Congratulations, and there's also so many other things to congratulate talk desk about Especially with being named into Gartner recently. I want to tell viewers a little bit more about that Gartner Recognition and what it means to your company. Yeah, so look we're we're very simple to deploy We have over 70 integrations that are out of the box that we can basically Customize the the platform and the system where it's clicks versus code. Okay, but in addition we also have Industry specialists right that are available to our partners and customers to help them deploy Industry-specific solutions. All right So this Gartner Nomination it was for peer insights customers choice, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Congratulations. That's huge. Yeah We're very proud of that. Yeah, I mean it sounds like your team is doing a really great job there between the Spiffs and the power play and that Gartner prestigious recognition So can you talk a little bit more about some of the developments that you see coming up the road for talk desk? Yeah, specifically when it comes to the channel a hundred percent So look, it's no secret that automation and AI are revolutionizing customer experience. So true, right? We've been talking about it. Yeah all day Yeah helping our customers along that way is very very important And what's even more important is making sure that we enable our channel partners so that they can help their customers Along that journey to get there faster and with confidence All right. Yeah. Yeah, is there anything else that you want to add today? All I can say is for those that are familiar with talk desk Continue coming and for those who are not please visit the website talkdesk.com and you know The team here is here to answer any questions. We're on LinkedIn Feel free to find me reach out and connect and happy to see you around Yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us. Your team is doing an amazing job Thank you. Congratulations and for having the best quarter the Gartner recognition the power play Yeah, it sounds like it could be a game here in Las Vegas. Yeah, right. That's right Yeah, so enjoy the rest of the show will do and thank you viewers for tuning in to another fabulous episode of JSA TV live from channel partners 2023. Happy networking