MSP GLOBAL 2025: Innovating the future of managed services

Discover the most ambitious MSP festival yet, focusing on growth through innovation and collaboration, with keynotes, panels, and experiences designed to empower managed service providers.

  • Monday, 20th October 2025 Posted 6 months ago in by Aaron Sandhu

As Europe’s leading festival for managed service providers (MSPs), MSP GLOBAL 2025 is gearing up for its grand return to PortAventura Theme Park near Barcelona on the 22nd and 23rd of October, 2025. Expect a gathering of over 3,500 attendees, with more than 60% representing the C-suite level, ready to embrace learning, networking, and celebration.

Themed “Grow Your Ecosystem,” the event looks to empower MSPs with innovative strategies and collaborative opportunities. With five targeted content tracks, attendees are promised a diverse range of immersive experiences and curated networking chances aimed at fostering meaningful partnerships and catalysing business growth.

Content Tracks Overview:

  • Efficiency and Growth: Uncovering scalable profit pathways for MSPs.
  • AI: Embracing AI-driven services that convert and retain loyalty.
  • New and Updated Tools: Equipping MSPs with game-changing offerings.
  • Security and Compliance: Best practices of the MSP industry.
  • Inspiration, Strategy, and Foresight: Business intelligence and tales of success and learning.

Acronis returns as the Diamond+ Partner for the third consecutive year, hosting the much-anticipated summit and offering expert insights into the evolving cyber threat landscape, leading the Security and Compliance track.

Keynote addresses—such as the ones from Acronis CEO Ezequiel Steiner and Chief Sales Officer Katya Ivanova, and Chief Information Security Officer Gerald Beuchelt—will dissect real-world cyber threats and propose actionable defence strategies, focusing on the unique security challenges face MSPs face today.

During the festival, Acronis will also host a Women in Tech panel, titled "Empowering the Next Generation of Innovators". Here, female leaders in technology will share their inspiring stories, highlighting the contributions women are making to cybersecurity and IT services.

Headline Speakers include industry stalwarts like:

  • Carme Artigas, Co-Chair of the UN AI Advisory Body (2023-24)
  • Whitfield Diffie, Turing Award-winning co-creator of Public Key Cryptography
  • Maria Galindo Garcia-Delgado, Secretary of Digital Policies, Government of Catalonia 
  • Rob Rae, Pax8’s CVP of Community and Ecosystems
  • Trice Johnson, First Genesis’s Chief Data & AI Officer
  • Jake Moore, Global Cybersecurity Advisor at ESET
  • Jane Frankland MBE, CEO of KnewStart Ltd
  • Jesse Tuttle, Ethical threat Actor
  • Ezequiel Steiner, CEO of Acronis

The unique blend of talks, guided networking, interactive sessions, and engaging entertainment that MSP GLOBAL 2025 promises will position it as the premier festival for the MSP industry.

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