Launch Webinar

1. Launch Webinar

2. Agenda 3. Value Proposition • Review ‘The Story’ • Target customers & highlight info 4. Partnership & next steps • Logical Operations + Packt • Q&A 1. The Story - Change - Opportunity 2. Packt Courseware - Features and formats- Topics & tech covered 3

3. The Story “Change & Opportunity in Tech Training”

4. “The Great Unbundling of the Tech Stack” 1990s Tech market driven exclusively by large vendors 2000s Huge growth of the internet & Open Source technology

5. The Story – ‘Change’ Changing industry and technology market Changing working culture and skill requirements As a result, training has to adapt to embrace this change

6. The Story – ‘Opportunity’ Businesses are adopting new technologies to gain advantage Help them move first into offering training on these topics Deliver practical, real world material on the newest tools

7. ‘Change’

8. Open Source & emerging technologies are increasingly relevant in the enterprise world

9. “Organizations will continue to be faced with rapidly accelerating technology innovation that will profoundly impact the way they deal with their workforces, customers and partners,” Mike J. Walker Research Director

10. The demand for new toolsets and skillsets is growing

11. > Annual survey into developer life & tech industry > Skill up 2017 - we spoke to 4,731 devs & tech pro’s

12. Top Technologies & Tools Notepad++ Linux R Docker Excel Python Git VS Code Eclipse Java

14. As a result, the way people learn and train is adapting and evolving

15. Importance of Education Styles

16. Time Spent Learning

17. It’s about the right tools to solve the problem - it’s about choice

18. Motivations for Learning

19. Skill Up Summary • Skill Up - what do developers want from their learning? • Problem solving potential • Flexibility • Choices over toolsets and technologies • Time efficiency • Pick & Mix Culture - how are developers working? • Still a solid core of traditional vendor tools & languages • Emerging & disruptive technologies grow in popularity • Training needs to increasingly incorporate and reflect this

20. ‘Opportunity’

21. Your customers - both the key decision makers and the developers themselves, are searching to evolve their stacks and their capabilities

22. “46% of organisations believe there is a growing IT skills gap - only 1 in 3 have a formal plan in place to address this” “74% of organisations say that technology is a primary factor in achieving objectives” Skills Gap Report 2017

23. How much choice do you have over the tools you use at work? Kakul Srivastava VP Product Management "It's the developers who are driving the revolution" ‘Why the Enterprise fell in love with Open Source’May 2016

24. Increasingly, they are using a wider tool set, incorporating open source technologies with traditional vendor offerings

25. What are the three most useful tools in your stack? “Open Source is the norm” "A lot of large enterprises view being open source as an essential way of propagating the use of their technologies, and they're open sourcing stuff quickly." Sam Lambert Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering ‘Has Open Source gone mainstream?’Sep 2016

26. They will look to their training provider to help them upskill in these new areas, and to maximise the opportunity of using these new tools

27. Tech Adoption Hype Curve Emerging v Enterprise When does a tech or tool go from ‘new and exciting’ to ‘business critical?’ Where does your customer want to be? Where is your product offering?

28. However, we know the world won’t change overnight, and there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to training in new technology

29. Why do you want to learn?

30. It’s about evolving your offering to incorporate the best of these new tools, complementing your existing strategies, products and services

31. “List no more than three trends that you think will have the biggest overall impact for consumers and businesses over the next 12 months…” Machine Learning Big Data Artificial Intelligence Data Science Cloud Computing Deep Learning Cloud Computing Dev Ops Cloud Continuous Integration Virtual Reality Internet of Things Containerisation Open Source Big Data, AI & Machine Learning Automation Containerisation

32. Allow your partners to: EXPLORE the emerging technologies that will help them succeed in their journey of digital transformation

33. LEARN with curated journeys through these new and evolving skills

34. USE practical knowledge in a real world context, leveraging these new tools to drive efficiency

35. Story of Change & Opportunity +

36. Packt Courseware

37. Despite the increasing growth and relevance of digital content, we know sometimes there’s no substitute for instructor led and classroom training “Looking to enable your partners to achieve great things with new and emerging technology in an interactive, classroom scenario?” Packt Courseware is accessible, useful and practical - bringing tech experience and insight into personalised classroom environments.

38. Courseware - Core Elements Packt Courseware is composed of high quality, peer-reviewed technical workbooks with accompanying instructor notes and presentation material. Student assessments. Bundled as an extra for your students, we source the best companion material our technical experts have to offer. Ideal for self-driven study after a session. Bonus companion material. A student workbook. We include assessments within the workbooks, as well as provide separate exercise worksheets and benchmarking tasks to help keep students engaged and on track. This is the entire supporting material for the training session in one comprehensive and user-friendly package. These comprehensive and fully-editable slides let you tailor and naturally extend our off-the-shelf package to your own tonality and style. The instructor workbook. Full instructor slides. This is an edition of the student workbook that’s filled with practical tips and guidance for instructors delivering the course material.

39. Features & Benefits Everything you need to deliver high impact technical training on emerging technologies What does a Packt course look like? > Typically 2 or 3 days in length > 6.5 hours of instructor led teaching per day > Structured with clear sessions & learning objectives > Full of activities, discussions & exercises Why is it effective? > Practical, hands on, real world knowledge > Problem solving and project orientated > Written by expert practitioners in their field > Engaging & interactive for instructors & students

40. Topics & Technologies Creating material on the new & emerging technologies that are driving digital transformation and are increasingly important for enterprise 2017 • Web Development • Cloud • DevOps • Already core skills for enterprise, place of crossover (‘battle ground’) between emerging tools and traditional enterprise tech 2018 • Data Science • Blockchain • AI & Machine Learning • Creating courseware on the emerging tools to become increasingly relevant and adopted in enterprise world Flexible editorial team and responsive pipeline - 4 month turn around time • Feel free to share requests with your LO Account Manager

41. First Product Why are these technologies important? Why are these skills in demand for enterprise? • .NET has been reinventing modern web programming ever since it was unveiled 17 years ago. • Backed by the powerhouse that is Microsoft, .NET has seen a multitude of transformations and improvements over the years to become the web development framework of choice for thousands of enterprise applications worldwide. • Now that the .NET Core Framework has been open-sourced, it is only expected to improve further to become more powerful, capable, and reliable than ever.

42. Roadmap Packt’s Beginning ILT products are ideal for existing developers who need to transition to a new language or tool.Packt’s Professional ILT products are aimed at developers who have already been using a particular language or tool.

43. Roadmap Packt’s Beginning ILT products are ideal for existing developers who need to transition to a new language or tool.Packt’s Professional ILT products are aimed at developers who have already been using a particular language or tool.

44. Value Proposition for customers

45. The Story – ‘Change’ Changing industry and technology market Changing working culture and skill requirements As a result, training has to adapt to embrace this change

46. The Story – ‘Opportunity’ Businesses are adopting new technologies to gain advantage Help them move first into offering training on these topics Deliver practical, real world material on the newest tools

47. Target Customers & End User Profile If you are a training provider who... - offers IT & developer learning solutions - are getting requests from clients you can’t meet - wants to move first into offering new solutions Who partners with businesses that… • employ developers • are undergoing digital transformation • want to upskill their teams to increase efficiency & drive value End User Profile • A developer looking to learn and evolve their web dev skills, allowing them to build cross platform applications. • “It is imperative that a prospective student is well acquainted with basic object-oriented programming principles. Additionally, it is advised, though not necessary, that one possess a very basic idea of the .NET stack before commencing with this course.” (specific to first product)

48. Highlights - Value Proposition Courseware Everything you need to deliver high impact technical training on emerging technologies • Combining Packt’s publishing insight & experience with Logical Operations’ training market expertise • A fresh and exciting proposition for the training market • Help your customers keep up to speed with the tools that are driving digital transformation • Key differentiators • Unique coverage of emerging topics & technologies • Practical, real world skills taught and applied

49. Partnership & Next Steps

50. Next Steps • Contact your Logical Operations Account Manager to discuss how you can begin adding these courses to your offerings • Begin onboarding • Create landing page and prepare outbound marketing campaigns (email, social, PPC, etc.) • Sales training with LO • Prepare Instructor • LAUNCH and become the EMERGING TECHNOLOGY training provider in your region!