“One of the key things here is that I’m actually having time, true time, to sit down and talk with a manufacturer and gain the knowledge that I truly need to make the proper decisions for what’s best for my company. And it will bring value back to them.”

“We would be remiss to think that because we are security professionals that we know everything that’s out there and we know the best way to do it and we have a good system in place and that’s always the way we’re going to do it.  SecurityXchange is a good opportunity to have exposure to different technologies and different companies than we work with everyday.”

“I can’t afford to take time at work to bring vendors in to talk to them. So by the busy schedule, I got a lot done today. I got more done today than probably I’ve gotten in a month at work.”

“The two days to take out of the normal schedule has been very valuable for me in that it gives me the opportunity to have some direct time, in very quick blocks, with several different manufacturers, several different technologies. And even though its two days, in a different setting it would take several weeks to have that exposure to those folks if you tried to do that outside of this type of environment.”

“With the number of people that I was able to speak to today, my guess is that we would have set up meeting times that would have been bumped by emergencies.  The fact that I was able to be here a straight 8 hours; and the 40 minute sessions were absolutely perfect because everyone had to get to the point. There were introductions, what we needed, what they had to offer, and we got right to the meat of it. So, much more effective than if people traveled to my organization, sat down, only to experience interruptions that normally occur on any given day. So it was far more productive to be here.”