On February 25th, Ultimate Partner hosted its annual Executive Winter Retreat in Boca Raton, Florida.
We were excited to welcome Nina Harding, CVP, Americas Global Partner Solutions, as that year’s keynote speaker. Nina shared key customer insights during a period of rapid transformation and highlighted the critical role partners played in driving meaningful business outcomes.
She was joined on stage by a strong lineup of Microsoft leaders—Katharine Kennedy, Jason Rook, Erwin Visser, and Steve Cohen—each bringing a real-world perspective on what it took to build successful, durable partnerships. These leaders helped partners focus on the drivers of momentum:
- Translating AI strategy into actionable partner plans
- Understanding how marketplaces had come to dominate transactions
- Leveraging ecosystem orchestration as a competitive advantage
- Navigating a buyer who thought, evaluated, and purchased differently
