18th November 2025, Manchester
Managed Services Summit Why should you attend?
Returning for its second year, the Managed Services Summit Nordics builds on the inaugural event’s success, offering a premier platform for networking and insightful presentations from industry leaders across the Nordic region.
The Managed Services Summit is series of executive-level events, so you know you’ll be among the best in the sector, and those featured will explore the latest trends and developments, evolving customer requirements and how to create value through managed services – both for your own organisation and your customers
APPLY TO ATTENDIndustry Insights
Presentations will cover the latest trends, evolving customer requirements, and strategies for creating value through managed services.
01Breakouts
Attend a range of sessions led by leading specialists in the field, focusing on technical, sales, and business-related topics.
02Networking
Connect with professionals in the IT channel, including senior decision makers and industry leaders.
03Interactions
Engage in discussions, debates, and collaborations with event sponsors and peers across the industry.
04
Meet our 2025 Event Speakers
Will Garside
IT Europa
Will Garside
IT EuropaWill specialises in writing and presenting – producing a huge range of content, ranging from thought-leadership articles to white papers. He started his career as a computer engineer before becoming one of the first producers on Sky TV’s primetime technology show “The Computer Channel” – alongside also covering mainstream business and technology news. He then worked as a product reviewer and technical writer for IT Network before going to Computer Weekly to cover security, telecoms and networking. He worked for several large technology brands including Microsoft and EMC as a technical writer and media consultant and was also the editor at International Broadcast Engineer – a role that saw him deliver a huge number of detailed analysis pieces on emerging video experiences. He has also written a number of books including tech guides for Which? and several "Dummies" guides on topics including big data and storage.
Will is also a highly experienced event moderator, managing content and panels at both the IBC and NAB shows for the last 10 years.
Walter Berends
Object First
Walter Berends
Object FirstWalter Berends is a Sales Engineer with Object First, specializing in data backup and ransomware protection for Veeam environments throughout EMEA, with a strong focus on Benelux and the Nordics.
Drawing on an extensive background in IT, Walter supports partners and customers by simplifying complex challenges, delivering hands-on labs, and sharing practical solutions for secure, out-of-the-box immutable backup infrastructure.
He is recognized for his approachable manner and dedication to helping organizations improve their data protection strategies, adapting his technical advice to fit diverse environments and business needs.
Walter has worked side-by-side with channel partners at events and workshops, always striving to make technical details easy to understand and implement.
Passionate about learning from every new project and collaboration, he values knowledge sharing and teamwork above all else. Walter welcomes the opportunity to connect, listen, and continue growing in the ever-changing world of IT.
Mikael Genberg
Mikael Genberg is the artist, innovator and entrepreneur who questions common perceptions of creative processes, successes and failures in a disarming, entertaining way, leaving the audience with a smile on their face and the thought that tomorrow will be the day. Mikael Genberg has a background as a traditional artist but expanded his vision to combine artistry with entrepreneurship and projects that no one thought possible. He took the world by storm with his innovative, imaginative and absolutely stunning hotel chain. The Treehouse Hotel Woodpecker, the Utter Inn underwater hotel, the Ooops hotel, the Zanzibar underwater hotel and the Closette Chameleon are some of his unique creations. Not to mention the red house with white knots on Globen that became a popular tourist attraction in Stockholm. His most grandiose project is to put a red house with white knots on the moon! A project that has taken a long time but is now moving rapidly towards completion. A central part of Genberg's projects has always been to find forms of collaboration with complementary skills.
Holger Bladt
Check Point
Holger Bladt
Check PointHolger Bladt leads the MSSP business in Northern Europe at Check Point Software Technologies. As part of the EMEA MSSP team, Holger works closely with Distributors and Managed Security Service Providers to help them build and grow their security offerings.
With more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Holger has held international roles in sales, channel, and partner development—always with a strong focus on how vendors and partners can collaborate to deliver stronger protection for customers.
Jack Duff
Huntress
Jack Duff
HuntressJack Duff is a Senior Sales Engineer at Huntress, where he helps MSPs and SMBs strengthen their defenses against modern cyber threats. With a background in cybersecurity tradecraft and hands-on experience supporting partners across the UK and Europe, Jack specializes in turning complex attacker techniques into practical strategies that MSPs can use to protect their clients and grow their businesses.
James House
LogicMonitor
James House
LogicMonitorJames is a Senior Solutions Engineer at LogicMonitor, where he helps MSPs use AI-powered observability to reduce alert fatigue, accelerate root cause analysis, and deliver better SLAs for clients. He co-led “Mission AI Possible: The Sequel,” highlighting how LogicMonitor’s Edwin AI transforms operational visibility and incident response. James utilises his 16+ years of industry experience creating actionable strategies to drive efficiency, service excellence, and competitive differentiation in managed services offerings.
Greg Denholm
IT Europa
Greg Denholm
IT EuropaGreg Is an experienced editor in the IT and telecoms channels managing and publishing executive news interviews, features and market reports across platforms including IT Europa, Comms Dealer, and Fibre Provider. He has moderated and managed content at panels for major industry events both online and in person.
Bram Schoordijk
ConnectWise
Bram Schoordijk
ConnectWiseBram has over 16 years of experience in the partner channel, starting at Microsoft during the launch of BPOS. He later joined a Seattle startup focusing on M365 migration and management tools, expanding into EMEA successfully. Following an acquisition by ConnectWise, Bram continues to drive growth for MSPs with a passion for learning and development
Who Should Attend?
The summit provides extensive networking time for delegates to meet with potential business partners. The unique mix of high-level presentations plus the ability to meet, discuss and debate the related business issues with sponsors and peers across the industry, makes this a must attend event for any senior decision maker in the ICT channel.
Delegates
Directors and Senior Managers of Managed Service Providers
Directors and Senior Managers of Managed Security Services Providers
Directors and Senior Managers of VARs / IT Resellers
Directors and Senior Managers of Systems Integrators
Directors and Senior Managers of Managed Service Providers
Directors and Senior Managers of Managed Security Services Providers
Directors and Senior Managers of VARs / IT Resellers
Directors and Senior Managers of Systems Integrators
Sponsors
Hardware and Software Vendors
Service Providers
Distributors
Datacentre Providers
Service Providers
Distributors
Datacentre Providers
Hosting Providers
Cloud Service Providers
Cloud Service Providers
Meet our 2025 Event Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Huntress
Huntress is the enterprise-grade, people-powered cybersecurity solution for all businesses, not just the 1%. With fully owned technology developed by and for its industry-defining team of security analysts, engineers, and researchers, Huntress elevates underresourced tech teams whether they work within outsourced environments (OIS) or in-house IT and security teams (IIS).
The 24/7 industry-leading Huntress Security Operations Center (SOC) covers cyber threats for OIS and IIS through remediation with a false-positive rate of less than 1%. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting. Join the hunt at.
https://www.huntress.com/Huntress is also sponsoring
Lenovo + Intel
Lenovo is a US$69 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).To find out more visit https://shorturl.at/9sG2W, and read about the latest news via: news.lenovo.com
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
© Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/
Lenovo + Intel is also sponsoring
Gold Sponsors
Barracuda
More than 200,000 global customers trust Barracuda to safeguard their employees, data, and applications from a wide range of threats. Barracuda provides easy, comprehensive and affordable solutions for email protection, application and cloud security, network security and data protection. We are continually innovating to deliver tomorrow’s security technology, today.
https://www.barracuda.com/Barracuda is also sponsoring
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading protector of digital trust, utilizing AI-powered cyber security solutions to safeguard over 100,000 organizations globally. Through its Infinity Platform and an open garden ecosystem, Check Point’s prevention-first approach delivers industry-leading security efficacy while reducing risk. Employing a hybrid mesh network architecture with SASE at its core, the Infinity Platform unifies the management of on-premises, cloud, and workspace environments to offer flexibility, simplicity and scale for enterprises and service providers.
https://www.checkpoint.com/Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is also sponsoring
ConnectWise
ConnectWise is an IT software company empowering ITSPs to achieve their vision of success in their As-a-Service business with intelligent software, expert services, an immersive IT community, and a vast ecosystem of integrations. The unmatched flexibility of the ConnectWise platform fuels profitable, long-term growth for our Partners. With an innovative, integrated, and security-centric platform, ConnectWise enables TSPs to drive business efficiency with automation, documentation, and data management capabilities, and increase revenue using remote monitoring, security, and backup disaster recovery technologies.
https://www.connectwise.com/ConnectWise is also sponsoring
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor® offers hybrid observability powered by AI. The company’s SaaS-based platform, LM Envision, enables observability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. A Visionary on the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability, LogicMonitor provides IT and business teams operational visibility and predictability across their technologies and applications to focus less on troubleshooting and more on delivering extraordinary employee and customer experiences. For more information, visit www.logicmonitor.com and our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and YouTube.
https://www.logicmonitor.com/
Object First
Founded in 2020 by the two original founders of Veeam, Object First believes in a world where data is well protected against malicious encryption. That's why we created Ootbi - the best storage for Veeam. We did it by engineering ransomware proof and immutable out of the box backup storage that is secure, simple, and powerful!
https://www.objectfirst.com/Object First is also sponsoring
Sophos
Sophos is a global cybersecurity leader offering MDR, incident response, and protection across endpoint, network, email, and cloud. Serving over 500,000 organizations and 100 million users, Sophos defends against ransomware, phishing, and malware with managed services, a security operations platform, or hybrid solutions to support internal teams.
https://www.sophos.com/en-us.aspxSophos is also sponsoring
Silver Sponsors
Hornetsecurity
Hornetsecurity is a leading global provider of next-generation cloud-based security, compliance, backup, and security awareness solutions that help companies and organizations of all sizes around the world. Its flagship product, 365 Total Protection, is the most comprehensive cloud security solution for Microsoft 365 on the market. Driven by innovation and cybersecurity excellence, Hornetsecurity is building a safer digital future and sustainable security cultures with its award-winning portfolio. Hornetsecurity operates in more than 120 countries through its international distribution network of 12,000+ channel partners and MSPs. Its premium services are used by more than 75,000 customers.
https://www.hornetsecurity.comHornetsecurity is also sponsoring
Keeper Security
Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organisations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance. Trusted by millions of individuals and thousands of organisations, Keeper is the leader for best-in-class password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging.
https://www.keepersecurity.com
Keepit
Keepit provides a next-level SaaS data protection platform purpose-built for the cloud. Securing data in a vendor-independent cloud safeguards essential business applications, boosts cyber resilience, and future-proofs data protection. Unique, separate, and immutable data storage with no sub-processors ensures compliance with local regulations and mitigates the impact of ransomware while guaranteeing continuous data access, business continuity, and fast and effective disaster recovery. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices and data centers worldwide, more than 15,000 companies trust Keepit for its ease of use and effortless backup and recovery of cloud data.
https://www.keepit.com/Keepit is also sponsoring
Logpoint
Logpoint safeguards society in a digital world by helping customers and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) detect cyberattacks. Combining reliable technology with a deep understanding of cybersecurity challenges, Logpoint makes security operations easier, giving organizations the freedom to progress.Logpoint’s SIEM and NDR technologies improve visibility and give a multi-layered approach to cybersecurity that helps customers and MSSPs in Europe navigate the complex threat landscape.Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Logpoint has a European foundation and is the only European SIEM vendor with a Common Criteria EAL3+ certification. This demonstrates Logpoint’s strong focus on data protection and cybersecurity regulations.
https://www.logpoint.com/en/Logpoint is also sponsoring
Nanitor
Nanitor is a leading Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) solution, offering unparalleled visibility and proactive defense against cyber threats. With its innovative platform, Nanitor empowers organizations to detect, manage, and mitigate vulnerabilities in real time, ensuring a robust and resilient digital security posture.
https://www.nanitor.com
NinjaOne
NinjaOne, the automated endpoint management platform, delivers visibility, security, and control over all endpoints for more than 24,000 customers in 130+ countries. The cloud-native NinjaOne platform simplifies endpoint management, patching, and visibility for environments at any scale. It is proven to increase productivity, reduce security risk, and lower costs.
https://www.ninjaone.com/NinjaOne is also sponsoring
Pax8
Pax8 is the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support. With a global partner ecosystem of over 39,000 managed service providers (MSPs), Pax8 empowers SMBs worldwide by providing software and services that unlock their growth potential and enhance their security. Committed to innovating cloud commerce at scale, Pax8 drives customer acquisition and solution consumption across its entire ecosystem.
The Pax8 Marketplace is the only AI-powered, intelligent platform designed for MSPs. Pax8 provides MSPs with unparalleled expertise and support, empowering them to achieve their goals.
Our purpose at Pax8 is to help every small business turn their dreams into reality through the power of technology.
https://www.pax8.com
Seagate
Seagate Lyve Cloud is a simple, trusted, and efficient object storage-as-a-service built for multicloud environments. Designed for MSPs and enterprises, Lyve Cloud offers predictable pricing, no egress fees, and seamless scalability, making it ideal for backup, archiving, and AI workloads. With enterprise-grade security and full S3 compatibility, it empowers partners to unlock data value while maintaining control and compliance. Whether you're modernising infrastructure or enabling data-driven services, Lyve Cloud helps you deliver smarter, more cost-effective solutions to your clients.
https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/cloud/
ThreatLocker
Stop Ransomware! ThreatLocker® improves enterprise-level server and endpoint security with Zero Trust controls, including Allowlisting, Ringfencing™, Elevation, Storage, Network Control, Configuration Management, and Detect EDR and MDR solutions.
https://threatlocker.com/ThreatLocker is also sponsoring
IT Lifecycle Partner
RTK Group
RTK is the trusted IT lifecycle partner for global enterprises, enabling MSPs and their customers to maximise TCO across infrastructure and devices.
Our modular services span:
- Data centre optimisation
- Enterprise hardware procurement
- DC exit & decommissioning
- Global IT deployment
- TPM support
- EOSL & capacity management
- ITAD & end-of-life hardware
We ensure security, compliance, and measurable ESG impact at every stage. From extending the life of data centre assets to delivering sustainable refreshes, ITAD, and cloud exit strategies, RTK helps organisations reduce cost, risk, and e-waste, while freeing IT teams to focus on innovation, not administration.
https://rtk-group.com/RTK Group is also supporting
Media Partners
GTIA
The Global Technology Industry Association (GTIA) is the only vendor-neutral, non-profit membership community connecting and representing the worldwide IT channel. We set our members up for success by providing benefits that include trusted resources and networking opportunities. In addition, the association sets industry standards that enable companies to build sustainable, secure and profitable businesses in an ever-changing technology landscape. Internationally, GTIA represents tens of thousands of professionals from more than 2,000 MSPs, solution providers, vendors, distributors, and other companies serving the channel.
https://gtia.org/GTIA is also supporting