At the IT membership association’s annual conference, now taking place in Washington, D.C., President and CEO Todd Thibodeaux spoke about his own personal journey as part of a new initiative aimed at bringing more young people and adults into the tech industry.

The two-day educational and networking event touched on hot topics like the Internet of Things and and included business continuity lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey.

Prolific author, coach, trainer, and ex-MSP Karl Palachuk’s latest initiative aims to help the IT channel community grow stronger while having some fun too.

Called MSP Institute and composed of webinars, videos, and podcasts, the new educational resource provides advice and training on a variety of business, sales, marketing, and technical topics.

Chat users can now leverage remote support sessions.

IT solution providers and technology vendors gathered for two days of networking, education, and training in Ann Arbor.

The system lets customers install PoE+ ports in any environment.

The newest addition to the ConnectWise product family, which currently provides centralized control over cloud computing solutions, will soon perform similar functions for backup and security solutions from ConnectWise’s vendor partners.

In conjunction with DattoCon18, the cloud distributor says it is enabling MSPs to import data and more from the IT business management platform to the Pax8 Command Console.

TruMethods’ annual gathering of members brings together over 250 IT solution providers from seven countries to discuss business strategy for growing an MSP practice—and have some fun.