DIAMOND SPONSORS

Tanium
Tanium offers a proven platform for endpoint visibility and control that transforms how organizations manage and secure their computing devices with unparalleled speed and agility. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations, including half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and four branches of the US Armed Forces, rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently and effectively, and remain resilient against disruptions. Tanium recently ranked 7th on the Forbes list of “Top 100 Private Companies In Cloud Computing For 2019”, 10th on FORTUNE’s list of the “100 Best Medium Workplaces” and 18th on the UK’s Best Workplaces list.
SAP
As the Experience Management powered by the Intelligent Enterprise, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best.
Their machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and advanced analytics technologies turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition.
Their applications and services enable more than 437,000 customers to operate profitably and adapt continuously. With a global network of customers, partners, employees and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives.
PLATINUM SPONSORS

AHEAD
By weaving together advances in cloud
infrastructure, modern applications and intelligent operations, AHEAD helps
enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. AHEAD
modernize infrastructure – architecting and deploying workloads across
public clouds, data centers, and edge locations based on requirements
specific to your digital business. They create cloud-native applications –
delivering better software faster, while simultaneously reducing the
complexity of your development pipeline. And they help technology
organizations run smarter – integrating service management, monitoring, and
analytics platforms to improve your efficiency, user experience and
security.

EDCi
In September of 1979, Electroline, Inc. opened its doors, serving as a local distributor of electrical wire, cable and specialty products. Over the next decade, Electroline’s customer base grew significantly, and in 1989, Electroline Data Communications, Inc. (EDCi) was established to meet an emerging need in Wisconsin.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, EDCi grew and adapted to maximize efficiency and customer satisfaction, as technology continuously changed. From a core expertise of LAN/WAN computer communications, EDCi specializes in aligning information technology with the enterprise business strategy. Through their partnership and certifications with leading technology providers, including Citrix, Cisco, Genesys, IBM, Microsoft and Vertiv, EDCi’s customers receive the highest quality products and services the industry has to offer.
Over the past 40 years, EDCi has grown into an enterprise-wide solution provider, supplying product and services to corporations in Wisconsin, across the country and the globe. EDCi has proven excellence in strategic needs assessment, project management, design, installation, risk management, training and post-sales support, setting them apart from the competition and ensuring business needs are met today and in the future.

WMEP
The Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) enhances the success of Wisconsin’s small to midsize businesses by expanding their capabilities to grow, be innovative and achieve operational success. Their talented consultants, world-class approaches, diverse partnerships and unique engagements created more than $3 billion in impact for manufacturers across the state. WMEP would be honored to assist with your organization’s achievement of its goals whether they are top or bottom line, people or certification focused.
GOLD SPONSORS

eGain
eGain's omnichannel customer engagement solutions power digital-first experiences for leading brands. Infused with AI, machine learning, knowledge and analytics,
their award-winning platform helps clients automate and optimize customer journeys via virtual assistance, messaging, social, mobile, web and contact centers.

Optiv + Gigamon
Optiv is a security solutions integrator delivering end-to-end cybersecurity solutions that help clients maximize and communicate the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs. Optiv starts with the core requirement of every enterprise - risk mitigation - and builds out from there with strategy, infrastructure rationalization, operations optimization and ongoing measurement.
Optiv partners with Gigamon who is the first company to deliver complete network visibility and analytics on all information-in-motion, from raw packets to apps, across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
They aggregate, transform and analyze network traffic to solve for critical performance and security needs, including rapid threat detection and response, freeing your organization to drive digital innovation. In short,
Optiv enables you to run fast, stay secure and innovate.

SmartAction
SmartAction® is the contact center industry’s leader in purpose-built AI-powered Virtual Agents for customer service. At SmartAction,
they utilize powerful technology and thoughtful CX services to deliver frictionless conversational AI experiences over voice, chat and text. As a result,
their clients are able to free up their live agents to handle higher priority conversations.
Just ask their CX-obsessed clients including AAA, DSW, Electrolux and Choice Hotels, whose reviews rank SmartAction as the #1 Virtual Agent provider on Gartner Peer Insights.

Snowflake
Snowflake’s cloud data platform shatters barriers that have prevented organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value from their data. Thousands of customers deploy Snowflake to advance their businesses beyond what was once possible by deriving insights from their data by all their business users. Snowflake equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications. Snowflake: Data without limits.

Zendesk
Zendesk is a CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships. From large enterprises to start-ups, we believe that powerful, innovative customer experience should be within reach for every company, no matter the size, industry or ambition. Zendesk serves more than 150,000 customers across hundreds of industries in over 30 languages. Zendesk is headquartered in San Francisco and operates 17 offices worldwide, with a Midwest office in Madison, WI.
SILVER SPONSORS

AE Business Solutions + Okta
AE Business Solutions is a Wisconsin based leading IT and Workforce Management company serving enterprise organizations throughout the Midwest. AE partners with Okta to provide your organization with a full Identity and Access Management platform. The Okta Identity Cloud gives you one trusted platform to secure every identity in your organization. The AE Business Solutions team works with your team to make sure that Okta is fully integrated within your organization, and is there to provide best practices once the integration is complete.

Healthy Minds Innovations
Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc. (HMI) was started in 2014 by world-renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Richard Davidson. HMI is a non-profit affiliated with the
Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison driven by a mission to translate science into tools to cultivate well-being.
HMI takes the discoveries and insights gleaned from the Center’s research - as well as that of our own scientific team - and translates them into tools that help people around the world learn and build skills of well-being. These tools include a donation-supported app, the
Healthy Minds Program (which uses podcast style lessons and meditations to support increased awareness, connection, insight and purpose), and their workplace program
Healthy Minds @Work
(a science-based program that offers a suite of tools to improve well-being in the workplace).
In addition to creating products and services and sharing them widely, HMI also manages philanthropic activities, public speaking engagements and special initiatives that bring this work to the world.
HMI’s aim is to share this work as widely as possible, reaching the farthest corners of the globe to realize the vision we share with the Center: A kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.

ProActive Solutions
ProActive Solutions is a proud women-owned
independent technology provider supporting enterprise
clients nationwide. They are experienced with all major
IT manufacturers such as IBM, DELL EMC, Cisco, HPE,
Nutanix, VMWare and others. The Proactive Solutions team
has a broad and in-depth array of skill sets in
hardware, software, services and infrastructure design.
Solutions include cloud-oriented configurations, both
public and private, as well as sophisticated
architectural capabilities around servers, storage,
virtualization, backup, recovery and hyper converged
configurations in very complex data center environments.
TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

Sonic Foundry
Trusted by 5,200 educational institutions, corporations, health organizations
and government entities in 65 countries, the Mediasite Video Platform quickly
and cost-effectively automates the capture, management, delivery and search of
live and on-demand videos. Mediasite is the video on demand partner for the UWEBC annual conference.

Fabric
Fabric (formerly Spaces) is the platform partner for the UWEBC annual conference.
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