SMBiT Professionals
Brisbane Chapter
Next meeting
Wednesday
14th October 2026
SMBiT Professionals Brisbane Chapter usually meets on the second Wednesday of the month
Dinner
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Main Event
6:30pm-8:30pm
Stay a while afterwards and have a drink and a chat
Location
Pineapple Hotel
706 Main St Kangaroo Point QLD 4169
This meeting will be live streamed
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3CX is dead. Long live UCS!
Radek Tkaczyk - Technical Director
3CX has long been the king of VoIP and IP based PBX systems in the SMB market, but with years of constant company failures, dwindling technical support and a CEO/founder who is getting increasingly aggressive and actively rejecting channel partners from their ecosystem, MSPs have had enough. Much like VMware, which went the way of the dodo, it seems that 3CX is following the same trajectory. But for those channel partners who are searching for an alternative to 3CX, there is salvation in another cloud hosted phone system solution, NetVault UCS. Built on a technology stack of 5 proven layered technologies, NetVault UCS provides an alternative from 3CX that is better, faster and cheaper. In this session Radek will demonstrate the slow demise of 3CX over the last 5 years, and demonstrate how NetVault UCS can integrate into almost any small business.
Estate and Succession Planning for IT & Managed Services Business
Janina Byrne - DLC Legal
Most owner-operated IT and managed services businesses run on the owner's client relationships, credentials and technical knowledge. This session looks at what happens to the business — and the family behind it — if the owner is suddenly out of the picture through death or incapacity, and what can be put in place now to avoid that.
The session covers:
Personal estate planning essentials — Wills and what happens without one, Enduring Powers of Attorney, superannuation death benefit nominations and testamentary trusts
Business succession structures — buy-sell agreements and how they are funded, shareholder and partnership agreements, and reducing key-person dependency
Traps specific to IT and MSP businesses — assignment and change-of-control clauses in client and vendor contracts, and digital asset and credential registers
Current tax developments — the small business CGT concessions and the reforms taking effect from 1 July 2027
Attendees will leave with a five-item action list to work through.
The session is general information only and is not legal, tax or financial advice.