19th

Star Nite Awards 2020Venue: Virtual Event

18th,Friday, December 2020

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About Star Nite Awards

The VARINDIA Star Nite Awards (SNA), is popularly recalled as theDNA of Channel, is an annual event for the IT channel partners inIndia. The event brings together leading technology vendors,distributors, MSPs, solution partners and resellers to discuss onindustry trends, forge new business relationships and create businessopportunities. Conceptualised in 2002, SNA has become an industrybenchmark for recognising vendors performing in the Indian IT channel(B2B) space.

In its 19th edition, the Star Nite Awards this year invited 500 partnersand VARs to the Channel Empowerment Session ( Organised by SavexTechnologies)-3rd Largest Technology Distributor in India. Followed bythe Super Session and VAR Symposium which started from the morningto evening, where they learnt on how to get ahead, stay ahead, and leadyour business through the digital revolution. This event is the perfectplatform to strengthen partner engagement and business networking.

Star Nite Awards 2020 attracted over 1460 attendees (includingVARs/Partners) from 20 different cities in the country. It is an uniqueopportunity for vendors and partners to come together in an entirelynew way. There are key leaders from the most influential businessleaders and partners in the country had attended the day long session.

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2020 is an unprecedented year where our lives and businesses areimpacted. With this pandemic, companies are hit with many obstaclesand challenges. Organisations need to transform to ride through thisperiod of uncertainty. VARINDIA had organised an unique session(PARTNER EMPOWERMENT SESSION ) along with SAVEX Technologiesalong with Six OEMS( Acuutech, Airslate, Checkpoint Software, Tableau,Vembu Technologies and Yotta Infrastructure),addressed the entireaudiences on the road map of Savex( On its roadmap on thedistribution, Services and moving to cloud) and its strong alliance withthe vendor ecosystem to manage the key aspects of this journey—operations automation, business resiliency and digital transformation.The session was attended by 800 delegates.

Channel Empowerment Summit by Savex

Ms. Margie GradwohlSr. Director Partner Marketing

airSlate

Mr. Bhavesh Mehta CTO & Founder

Acuutech

Mr. Nagarajan CVP, Product

Vembu Technologies

Mr. Shivin SharmaCommercial & Partner Business India & SAARC

Check Point Software

Mr. Pankaj GaubaRegional Vice President, SEA & India

Tableau Software

Mr. Nilesh MistryGM, Partner Ecosystem India

Yotta Infrastructure Solutions

VAR Symposium

Digital commerce is shaping how marketers approach partnersand suppliers. It is advised to target the right VARs, who areworking as a single point of contact between multiple IT vendors,to make it easier for organizations to purchase and manage avariety of technologies.

The VAR Symposium which is the preconference, worth USD 10Billion worth cumulative capital, saw key decision makers ofVARs attending the event. The daylong session includeddiscussions on new business strategies to discover how tocapitalize emerging customer needs. At the end of thesymposium 100 VARs were recognised in 16 different categoriesstarting from System integrators, solution partners, Sub-distributors VADs and Telecom Service partners who convergedand shared ideas and drove discussion on the planned topic toshape the industry.

In the midst of global uncertainty and digital growth, the needfor cybersecurity is greater than ever. We have invited about 12OEMs as the speakers to address the day long session and thereare many take-aways for the partners. Also organised a specialsession on the Tech Talk, where the Tech Icons has unveiledmany facts and incidents.

Dr. Deepak Kumar SahuVARINDIA

Afternoon Session Speakers

Mr. Krunal PatelTeamViewer

Mr. Rajeev AbichandaniFortinet

Mr. Nishant SharmaSophos India

Mr. Pradeep K NairAruba India

Mr. Sanjay ZadooVertiv Energy India

Mr. Pankaj DessaiAMD India

Panel Discussion Session -I

Moderated by Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu,Editor-in-chief- VARINDIA

Topic : Digital Transformation brings opportunity for the Partners

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

VARs and Partner attended the Star Nite Awards

VARINDIA events are the benchmark among IT Companies

and partners (VARs) for creating a single platform for

discussing & introducing new technologies and sharing

feedback to bridge the gap between vendors and channels.

IT serves as a major resource of business intelligence for

VARs (Channels) that controls 80% of the average business in

the country and always tries to be innovative and futuristic in

its approach with respect to the content.

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22%

10% 4%

Executive Management (MD, CEO, President, Proprietoe)

Corporate Management (Vice President, GM)

Senior Management & Middle Management

Junior & Entry Level Staff

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5%

14%

31%5%

16%

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Vendors

Distributors

SI/NI

ASPs/ISPs/ISVs

19th Year of Star Nite Awards (SNA)

Popularly recognised as the

1. Partner empowerment Session by Savex Technologies

2. Address by the OEMs

3. Address by the designated Channel Chiefs Of India

4. Recognizing Top 100 Eminent VARs of India

5. Recognizing 10 Eminent CMOs Of India

6. OEMs to get recognized in 50 different categories

7. 3D product display stalls

8. Panel discussion with VARs Of India

9. Panel Discussion with the CIO/CTO

10. Tech Talk by six OEM’s

Super Session

Panel Discussion Session II

Moderated by Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Editor-in-chief- VARINDIA

Topic: Challenges and Opportunities On Digital Transformation

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, CEO- RAH Infotech

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EVENT SUMMARY

18th December 2020

Venue: Virtual

Top Award Categories

Ms. S Mohini Ratna

VARINDIA

Mr. Ajay Mittal

IBM India/SA

Mr. Anil Sethi

Dell TechnologiesMr. Ajay Sehgal

Vodafone Idea Ltd.

Mr. Anupan Nagar

Hitachi Vantara

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It is a fact that the

world has changed as

digital transformation

started taking shape.

Along with this the

type of leadership that

is required will also

change

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simple philosophy -

One mile of road can

lead you to cover

only one mile. But

one mile of runway

can take you

anywhere

For citizens to know

what initiatives the govt.

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to know what projects

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Dr. B K Murthy

Scientist G & Group Coordinator- MeitY

S N Tripathi, Director

Indian Institute of Public Adminstration, GOI

Rajesh Aggarwal

Director General, Skill Development Ministry , GOI

Technology is growing in leaps and bounds. We outlined the top trends across theIT spectrum. In this 19th edition of VARINDIA Star Nite Awards (SNA), we havezeroed down on the segments which have shown how the technology is gettingtransformed through enablers called VARs. We have followed a very clear and

transparent voting process in shortlisting the winners. The total respondents

were 25,399 who have voted on our website (www.varindia.com)

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that collective alignment toward a commonobjective is a critical component required to achieve worthwhile outcomes andsustainable, long-term success. Inaugural ceremony SNA 2020

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Mr. Sunil SharmaSophos

Mr. J N Mylaraiah

CommScopeMr. Prince Dhawan

NTT-Netmagic

Mr. Dipesh Kaura

KasperskyMr. Harpreet Bhatia

Palo Alto Networks

Mr. Valan Siva subramanian

Fortinet

Recognition of Powered CMOs of India

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PRESS RELEASE

Article https://varindia.com/news/varindia-

to-host-star-nite-awards-for-

indian-tech-industry

Channel Chief

https://varindia.com/2020/chanelch

ief2020/edm.html

Image Gallery

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Result of winners can be seen – Criteria and ranking wise :

https://varindia.com/news/channel-leadership-survey-2020

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