VARINDIA to host Star Nite Awards for Indian Tech Industry

As we reach the end of the year, we have one more round of insights to share before Christmas on how the Indian technology industry is performing and how the global tech companies are considering India as the growth region. The annual event to be attended by 700 delegates from across the country.

The virtual event is the testimonial of true convergence of the Top 35 global as well as Indian Technology companies with 45 magnificent speakers in the daylong session, which is going to start today from 9.00 am and will continue for a period of continuous 12 hours. The marathon tech event is going to witness many key announcements from the technology leaders of India and abroad. COVID has been the catalyst forcing every technology companies to engage online, and it has exposed brands’ digital channel shortcomings.

Against this backdrop, VARINDIA is organizing a Virtual Event, where the event is presented by Vodafone Idea Ltd, whereas the Principal partner of the event is Dell Technologies and the Platinum Partner of the event is IBM India, Infrastructure partner is Hitachi Vantara and the Innovation Partner Palo Alto Networks, Cyber security partner is Kaspersky. In the other category of Gold partners the sponsors are TeamViewer, Sophos, Fortinet, Aruba - an Hewlett Packard company, Vertiv, AMD, NTT- Netmagic and the networking partners are Redhat, Acer, Western Digital, SonicWall, D-Link, Commscope, Acronics, Crayon Software, R P Tech, Veeam, RAH Infotech , Bitdefender and BD Soft.

It will start with the Partner empowerment and the knowledge session by Savex Technologies, the 3rd largest technology distributor in the country along with other six OEMs which includes Acuutech, Airslate, Checkpoint Software, Tableau Software and Yotta Infrastructure. The welcome address will be offered by Mr. Anil Jagasia, Chairman, Savex Technologies and others key speakers of the session are: Ms. Margie Gradwohl, Sr. Director Partner Marketing - airSlate Inc. , Mr. Bhavesh Mehta , CTO & Founder- Acuutech , Mr. Nagarajan C, VP, Product - Vembu Technologies, Mr. Nilesh Mistry, General Manager, Partner Ecosystem - Yotta Infrastructure Solutions , Mr. Shivin Sharma, Commercial & Partner Business India & SAARC - Check Point Software, and Mr. Pankaj Gauba, Regional Vice President,SEA & India- Tableau Software.

It will be followed by two panel discussion sessions, one is with the leading technology experts (CIO/CTO) of the country - Mr. Vijay Sethi, CIO, CHRO and Head of CSR- Hero MotoCorp Ltd.

Mr. Jai Daga, VP-Technology- Sony Pictures Networks Ltd.

Ms. Lata Singh, Executive Director(IBM Partner Eco-system)- IBM India

Ms. Puneet Kaur Kohli, CTO- Universal Sompo General Insurance

Mr. Rishi Mehta, Advisor-Digital Transformation, Welspun USA and the topic of the panel discussion is on : are Digital Transformation brings opportunity for the Partners

The second panel discussion session will be on the Key Challenges and Opportunities On Digital Transformation, where the leading VARs from the Indian tech industry are going to speak on their journey during pandemic and they are :

Mr. Ranjan Chopra, CEO & MD- Team Computers

Mr. Tarun Seth, Managing Director- Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic

Mr. Atul Gaur, Director- Savex Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Vishal Bindra, CEO- ACPL Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Ms. Prarthana Gupta, CEO- Cache Technologies

Mr. Ashis Guha, COO- RAH Infotech

Both the sessions will be moderated by Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Chief editor, VARINDIA

All the speakers are going to address on how the newer technologies brings fast track digital transformation. Ms. S Mohini Ratna, Editor Varindia is going to unveil the technology landscape in India on how the tech world has helped us in driving during this pandemic and she will also talk on this year's Channel leadership survey conducted by VARINDIA.

Covid-19 is one of the biggest disaster mankind has ever faced in recent times, bringing disruption to the human life worldwide. With no vaccine or treatment currently in place, containment & social distancing has become the only solution to prevent the spread of highly contagious virus. We at Kalinga Digital Media is committed to support and help the Indian VARs and partner to generate business and gain momentum. This time we are going to recognise Top 100 Eminent VARs of India.

A best Partner programme expects its partners to be innovative and to have capabilities for business model innovation that can be extended across geographies. Partner programs vary from company to company based on their size, volume and expertise and corporates are spending billions of dollars to grow the partner business annually by giving direct access to all the critical business tools and information they would need to do business with their customers and partners. The event will announce how 40 Best OEMs are being selected as the leader in their respective industries. This year 25,300 votes are executed on our website www.varindia.com to choose the winners in this Star Nite Awards.

Mr. Ajay Sehgal, EVP- Enterprise Business (Channels & SOHO Business)- Vodafone Idea Ltd. Anil Sethi, VP & General Manager (Channels)- Dell Technologies, Mr. Ajay Mittal, Chief Digital Officer IBM India/SA, Mr. Anupan Nagar, Sr. Director, Channel & Alliances- Hitachi Vantara, Mr. Sanjay Zadoo, Country Manager, Channel Business- Vertiv Energy India, Mr. Sanjeev Mehtani, Country Manager Sales-Acer India Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Krunal Patel, Director-TeamViewer, Mr. Rajeev Abichandani, Channels Business Lead - India & SAARC- Fortinet, Mr. Nishant Sharma, National Manager, Channels (India & SAARC – Sophos India, Mr. Pradeep K Nair, Country Channel Head- Aruba India, Mr. Sanjay Zadoo, Country Manager, Channel Business- Vertiv Energy India and Mr. Pankaj Dessai, Country Manager – Channel & SMB, Commercial BU, AMD India are the speakers of the event.

The event will witness the Movers and Shakers (OEMs) in the Indian market and for the first time VARINDIA is going to announce the Channel Chief of India. These Channel Chiefs brings revolution for bringing the technology and partner eco-system engage. At the end, the event will talk about how the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) of the tech companies are working hard to bring newer innovations to keep the market rolling.

Finally, the tech event can’t be more meaningful until there are key takeaways from the event, the tech session is addressed by six top technology experts in India and they are Mr. Sunil Sharma, Managing Director(Sales)- Sophos, Mr. Dipesh Kaura, General Manager(South Asia)- Kaspersky, Mr. J N Mylaraiah, Director, Sales, Enterprise, India & SAARC – CommScope, Mr. Prince Dhawan, AGM, Sales and business development- NTT, Netmagic, Mr. Harpreet Bhatia, Director, Channels & Strategic Alliances( India & SAARC)- Palo Alto Networks and Mr. Bikramdeep Tambar, Cortex Sales Head – India jointly address the session and finally Mr. Valan Sivasubramanian, Manager, Systems Engineering- Fortinet.

Finally, lets discover on how the leading technology companies are evolving a customer-centric approach through omni-channel capabilities built on customer data and insights.