SMBiT Professionals Limited upcoming events

Melbourne - SMBiT Professionals September Meeting (30 Sep 2026)

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

SMBiT Professionals

Melbourne Chapter

Next meeting

Wednesday

30th September 2026

SMBiT Professionals Melbourne Chapter meets on the last Wednesday of the month

Dinner

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Main Event

7:00pm-9:30pm

Stay a while afterwards and have a drink and a chat

Location

Bells Hotel

Main Hall, Level 2,
157 Moray Street,
South Melbourne

Parking along Tope Street or Coventry Street

Map

Registration

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A Partner's Perspective on the Modern Cyber Threat Landscape

Alex Slade & Dominic Codsi

Alex Slade from A Corp Computers will be joined by Dominic Codsi from TrendAI where they will discuss how the cyber landscape has shifted over the past 15 years and why MSPs and vendors must evolve alongside each other. The key talking points will be centered on how confidently managing cyber risk overtime, improving vulnerability scanning and patch prioritization, and the importance of vendor integration and tool consolidation in today's world.

Fractional Leadership: Creating Better Outcomes for MSPs and Their Clients

Daniel Buckton

The presentation will explore how fractional CTO and CISO services can complement MSPs by helping clients establish clearer ownership, governance, priorities and budgets around technology and cyber risk. The fractional adviser supports the client without replacing or competing with the MSP’s technical role.

A key theme is that outsourcing technology does not transfer the client’s business risk to the MSP. Clients remain responsible for their risk decisions, while MSPs remain accountable for their agreed scope and service delivery. Independent advice can help both parties understand these responsibilities and work together more effectively.

Deidentified examples from an electrical maintenance business, a data-centre backup power manufacturer and a commercial cleaning business will demonstrate how technology governance, cyber risk and critical infrastructure supply-chain expectations increasingly affect SMBs.

Regulatory content will be brief and practical, covering CIRMP, proposed SOCI reforms affecting some MSPs and providers, and the current ransomware/cyber-extortion payment reporting obligation for businesses over $3 million annual turnover. The distinction between these requirements will also be clarified.

Round Table Discussion

Open Forum

... issues, ideas, highs, lows, great tools you have found, bring them to the table!

Registration

Sydney - SMBiT Professionals October Meeting (13 Oct 2026)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT

Brisbane - SMBiT Professionals October Meeting (14 Oct 2026)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:30:00 GMT

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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Registration

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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.

Perth - SMBiT Professionals October Meeting (20 Oct 2026)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:15:00 GMT

New Zealand - SMBiT Professionals October Meeting (21 Oct 2026)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:00:00 GMT

SMBiT Professionals

New Zealand Chapter

Next meeting

Wednesday 21st October 2026

SMBiT Professionals New Zealand Chapter meets on the Third Wednesday of the month

Main Event

4:00pm-6:00pm

NZST

This meeting will be live streamed

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Registration

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3CX is dead. Long live UCS!

Radek Tkaczyk - Technical Director

Deconstructing Service Gross Margin

Diana Drury, Dijital Team

"Am I actually making money from my services?” is the first question every MSP and TSP owner should be asking. This interactive session cuts through the noise and shows you how to answer this question by focusing on the one number that truly matters: Service Gross Margin. In this session you will learn how to calculate it properly, what is really driving it, and which levers to pull to improve performance. Get this metric right, and you will gain clear visibility into what’s profitable, what’s not, and exactly what you need to do increase your margins. This session is presented as part of the Better Business Pathway Enablement program, powered by Dijital Team.

Round table discussion

Open forum ...

... discuss issues, ideas, highs, lows, great tools you have found, bring them to the table!

Registration

Register using the link below

Adelaide - SMBiT Professionals October Meeting (21 Oct 2026)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Melbourne - SMBiT Professionals October Meeting (28 Oct 2026)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

SMBiT Professionals Sydney Christmas Function 2026 (08 Dec 2026)

Tue, 08 Dec 2026 07:00:00 GMT