Events & Meetings

As it was recommended by universally respected imaging thought-leader and EFI CRO Frank Mallozzi, CJ Cannata, Frank Cannata, and Carol Cannata all attended ITMA…

CJ and I had the good fortune to be invited to the retirement party for Roger King, the former president of EO Johnson Company in Wausau, Wisconsin. The venue…

On June 18 and 19, Canon U.S.A. held its Engineering & Solutions Summit in Princeton, NJ. This was the second time I attended one of these summits…

More than 120,000 visitors from 147 countries traveled to Barcelona for ITMA 2019, June 20-26. The exhibition is described by ITMA Services, the…

On the final morning of the recent Interact conference, held in Boulder and Denver, Colorado June 4-7, I talked with Brad, a Ricoh customer…

Never underestimate the value of a manufacturer roadshow. These regional events provide OEMs with an opportunity to get up close and personal…

For Select Dealer Group’s recent meeting in Houston, Frank and CJ Cannata assembled a panel featuring senior representatives from virtually every leading…

Frank Cannata is flanked by Jack Stargel, founder and president of Stargel Office Solutions (left) and son Tyson, who serves as VP, Star Managed Services, during…

Pulse Technology held its “Open House 2019, Presenting The Office of the Future” in May at its Chesterton, IN, location. Here, CJ Cannata is flanked by Vic Miceli…

CJ Cannata couldn’t miss the opportunity to have a photo taken with The Cannata Report’s 2018 Women Influencer Mary Jo Johnson, CEO, EO Johnson (and the Ricoh…

If you have any kind of print background, the inPrint USA conference is quite simply fascinating. Organizers describe the conference as the only exhibition in North…

The Select Dealer Group (SDG) held its annual owners meeting May 7-9 at the Houston Airport Marriott. Deb Dellaposta, president, Doing Better Business, Inc., invited CJ and…

We received an invitation from Tyson Stargel, vice president of Stargel Office Solutions, to provide a keynote address at the dealership’s annual open house. Held at Minute Maid…

Impact Optimize2019, a one-day digital business summit, has announced the addition of infamous Canadian reformed hacker, Michael “MafiaBoy” Calce to this year’s…

Kyocera Document Solutions America held its annual dealer meeting April 16-18 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand.
As the meeting took place shortly after the end of the company’s…

Know where you’ll find The Cannata Report team on January 21-24, 2020? At The Wynn hotel at the annual EFI Connect conference in Las Vegas. We have not missed a Connect conference…

One advantage of attending a regional dealer road show is intimacy. Unlike a big dealer conference, regional shows allow for more one-on-one interaction while providing many…

Konica Minolta held its 2019 dealer meeting in Newport, CA, March 4-5. The theme of the conference was “Limitless.” The Cannata Report had a full contingent—CJ, Scott, and me—in…

HP Inc.’s Kim Rivera (left) and Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, discuss lessons on reinventing an organization during…

A day and a half. That’s all it took for Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. (KMBS) to share its vision with dealers at its most recent dealer meeting, March 3–4, in…

So it seems, just like that, winter has turned into spring! Does time just simply move faster when you’re always on the road?Sharp’s recent Chicago Road Show…