Convergent Technology Advisory with Meter
Live on LinkedIn
October 13, 2026 · 12:00 p.m. ET
40 minutes  /  live on LinkedIn  /  three things you can use

Your network works fine. Until you have to change it.

Convergent Technology Advisory + Meter

The switches are up. The firewall is fine. Nobody is complaining about Wi-Fi. Then you open a site, or a renewal lands, or a refresh cycle comes due, and you find out what the network actually costs you: four vendors, four contracts, four renewal dates, four escalation paths, and one IT team that gets blamed no matter whose equipment failed.

On Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. ET, live on LinkedIn, Convergent and Meter work through the whole model end to end. You leave knowing what a full network subscription actually includes, who owns resolution when a circuit drops at 2 a.m., how to build the five year number for your CFO, and what you can act on right now if you are already mid-contract with someone else.

Save your seat Attend live and your question gets answered in the chat. Registrants get the recording either way.
The full 40 minutes, before you register
Convergent Meter Both Host
0:00
Open
Introductions
2:00
Where It Breaks
Vendor sprawl
12:00
The Meter Model
What is included
23:00
The Convergent Role
The assessment
30:00
Objections
Risk and incumbents
38:00
Close
Next step

No dedicated Q and A block. Chat stays open the whole way through, the Convergent and Meter teams answer in it live, and the top three questions we do not reach go out by email afterward.

Why give up 40 minutes

Three things you can use the same afternoon

01

What to ask before you sign anything

What full stack actually means when the truck arrives, what gets installed and by whom, and the exact point where a provider's responsibility ends and yours begins. Including who owns resolution when a circuit drops at 2 a.m.

Segments 2 and 3  ·  13 minutes

02

How to build the five year number

Why pricing on square footage instead of per device or per port changes the CFO conversation, and what happens to the price when a site needs more hardware than the original design called for.

Segment 3  ·  4 minutes

03

What you can move on mid-contract

You do not have to wait for the renewal to start evaluating. What to map first, which components renew when, and the point in the calendar where you stop having leverage.

Segment 4  ·  5 minutes

Being under contract does not mean you have to wait three years to start making decisions. John-Frank Stubits, Convergent Technology Advisory

The full answer covers what to map first, which components renew when, and why waiting until you are 60 days from a renewal is the point where you lose your leverage. If you have a contract ending in the next 18 months, this is the four minutes to watch.

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Who this is built for, and who should skip it

This is your room

Director of IT and above

  • Organizations between 150 and 3,000 employees
  • Manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, professional services
  • Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
  • You own a network refresh, a renewal inside the next twelve months, or a decision you have been deferring since 2024
  • You have to defend the decision to a CFO, not just make it

Bring the person who signs the renewal. The pricing segment is written for them.

Probably not worth your half hour

Everyone else, honestly

  • You have a network strategy already signed off through 2028. Come back when it is up for review.
  • You want a feature-by-feature hardware bake-off. This is a conversation about the operating model, not a spec comparison.
  • You are a single site under 150 employees. The economics discussed here assume a multi-site or larger footprint.
  • You are early into a contract you like and have no intention of looking. Fair enough.

The recording goes to every registrant either way, so registering costs you nothing if the timing is wrong.

On the call

Who is answering

Chris Jones Convergent

Chris Jones

President and Chief Executive Officer

Convergent has spent 50 years helping organizations simplify complex technology decisions. Chris has led the company since 2006, with more than 30 years of his own in communications, networking and infrastructure.

John-Frank Stubits Convergent

John-Frank Stubits

Director of Sales and Business Development

Advises executive teams on cloud, cybersecurity and infrastructure decisions across multi-vendor environments. Spends most of his time helping leaders work out what the real tradeoffs are, and when the right answer is to wait.

James O'Neill Meter

James O’Neill

Channel Director, East

Runs partner recruitment, enablement and support for Meter across the Eastern United States. Previously led channel organizations at Thrive and sold cloud communications at Vonage.

Moderated by Kathleen Martin SVP AI Demand Programs, JS Group
Live on LinkedIn  /  Tuesday, October 13

Forty minutes now, or three years of the renewal you did not question

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026·12:00 p.m. ET·LinkedIn Live