RIVIERA MAYA, MEXICO – The Yucutan Peninsula may be under the imminent threat of Hurricane Rina, but that hasn’t stopped top Avaya executives and many members of its partner community from arriving in the area for the Avaya’s first-ever Americas International Partner Conference here this week.

Instead of a worldwide partner gathering, this year Avaya’s splitting it up geographically – last week it was Bangkok for AsiaPac, this week Canada and Latin America get their turn here, and over the next few weeks, the U.S. and EMEA will host their events.

We caught up with Avaya Canada channel chief Renzo Dipasquale before the event kicked off Monday evening to get his thoughts on Canada’s role at the new show, what parnters can expect, and much more.

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