Industry Voice: Five Ways to Successfully Reach Your AI Destination

If your destination is using AI to accelerate your business and create new customer offerings – how do you figure out the best plan for getting there?

As someone who navigated a six-month tour of 13 countries in 2024, I know a thing or two about effective planning. And spreadsheets. And international SIM cards!

I also know that sometimes (as with my upcoming trip to South Korea and Japan) you need a guide with some insider knowledge. And it’s in this spirit I’d like to introduce you to Cloud Champion and how it will become your companion in successfully reaching your AI destination.

Plan your AI path with Cloud Champion!

Cloud Champion is our all-in-one digital partner training portal, giving you access to a rich library of Microsoft and TD SYNNEX-developed content. If you’ve not registered yet, here’s five ways it’s already helping hundreds of partner professional chart a course towards success:

1. Training you can trust

The training on Cloud Champion is the training that we give to our own teams. With business development, sales and technical content searchable by Microsoft Solution area and area of interest, you can immediately pinpoint the learning path or online course that best suits your needs.

From CSP 101 fundamentals for new starters, to deep dives into Copilot for Microsoft 365, Cloud Champion makes continuous learning simple.

Combining content from Microsoft and TD SYNNEX, it makes sure we’re talking the same language and meeting the same standards (and it can all be found in the same place!).

2. Intelligence on Azure & CSP incentives

When you’re working hard to build your business, it pays to make sure you understand exactly how to maximise the incentives you’re entitled to. Cloud Champion lays out a clear path of incentive information to make sure that you don’t get lost.

With resources including the EMEA Incentives Podcast, a walk-through of the Partner Incentive experience, and links to register for information on the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner programme, you’ll be able to focus on making the most of what’s available today, whilst planning for what’s to come.

3. Fair access to information

There’s no paywall to access, no restriction on numbers, no ‘Platinum’ level. Given part of the aim of AI is democratising access to information, this professionally produced platform puts everyone on a level playing field.

This includes the Monthly Partner Update videos where the BDM team share the key areas that will resonate with your business ambitions, prospects and customers. And the best part of this is that it doesn’t matter what your partner status is. No missing out, no problem if you’re not BDM-managed.

4. No worries navigation!

What I like personally about Cloud Champion is it’s simple enough that anybody can navigate it – whether you’re onboarding a new starter or upskilling a member of the technical team. Based on the feedback so far, our intention is to translate some of our popular in-person workshops including MSP Evolve into a rich online learning path – making the business of building a roadmap to AI easier still.

5. Access to experts

The past year has seen us working with Disruptive Live to create some incredible online events featuring some seriously impressive speakers. This month, we’re going big with Destination AI – taking place on 25th June between 10:00 and 14:00 then available on demand. This professionally produced event features:

Stuart Wilson, Senior Research Director, EMEA Partnering Ecosystems at IDC sharing how you can:

Barry Turner, Senior Consultant at ISSI (the organisation that conducts Azure Specialisation audits) breaking down the audit process and how TD SYNNEX and ISSI can support your route to certification success.

Apay Obang-Oyway, Partner Sales Director, sharing how you can use Microsoft’s AI Transformation Framework to drive AI-powered business outcomes across employee experience, customer engagement and innovation.

Laxmi Korada, Director, Global Partner Technology at Microsoft Global taking you beyond Copilot and into the world of using AI agents to build intelligent systems that automate processes and boost productivity.

Andy Brown, Senior Business Development Director for Data and Applications, explaining how the TD SYNNEX team are primed to help you:

And, if you sign up for Destination AI, you’ll automatically be taken through the registration process for Cloud Champion which is a simple sign up.

Ready to go?

Sign up for Destination AI: https://tdsynnex.cloudchampion.co.uk/c/td-synnex-destination-ai-your-journey-into-the-future-of-innovation

Sign up for Cloud Champion: https://tdsynnex.cloudchampion.co.uk/

This article is sponsored by TD SYNNEX.