Event: Channel Partners Conference and Expo 2027, co-located with MSP Summit
Dates: March 15-18, 2027
Venue: The Venetian Resort and Expo
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Host: Informa
Channel Partners Conference and Expo is North America’s largest independent event for the IT and communications channel: technology advisors, managed service providers, VARs, consultants, distributors and the vendors who sell through them. The 2027 edition marks the event’s 30th year, and Informa says it’s making its largest investment yet to rework the show around AI. Attendance is expected to pass 8,000, up from nearly 8,000 in 2026.
What changes in 2027
The announcement on November 10 framed the redesign around a $100 billion AI services opportunity that partners are chasing in 2027. The headline change is the floor plan. For the first time, Channel Partners and MSP Summit will share a more unified show floor, with a dedicated MSP Summit Hall next to the main Channel Partners Expo Hall. The organizers are also reworking the education hub, breakouts, demos, networking and entertainment so attendees spend less time walking between disconnected areas.
MSP Summit returns to Las Vegas for the seventh straight year with its own keynotes, sessions and vendors focused on managed services. The 2026 show highlighted how MSPs are moving from break-fix work into security-led and AI-focused professional services, and how satellite broadband is becoming a new line of business for technology advisors.
Who should go
This is a business event for the channel. MSP owners, technology advisors and vendor channel teams come to find partners, compare programs and work out how to package AI services their customers will pay for. Engineers looking for deep technical sessions will do better elsewhere.
Informa also runs an MSP Summit AI Symposium on December 9, 2026 at the Microsoft Technology Center in New York, and the fall MSP Summit on September 27-29, 2027 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando. The 2028 Channel Partners show is already set for March 27-30, 2028, again at The Venetian.