Guwahati Channel Enthralled by ITPV Partner Leadership Awards

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After organising the ITPV Partner Leadership Awards 2011 successfully in Indore, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Bangalore, Techplus Media continued with its same success story in Guwahati

Techplus Media concluded successfully the 2nd ITPV Partner Leadership Awards 2011 in Guwahati on 13th December, amidst the presence of more than 170 partners from across Assam and other surrounding states and many leading veterans from the IT industry. The awards now in its 2nd year in the region, was organised with the objective to honour the vibrant channel community of the entire North-Eastern region, to recognise their leadership abilities and to listen to some of the most prominent personalities from the IT industry.

The ceremonial lamp lighting by eminent dignitaries like Shri Anurag Goel - Secretary, IT Dept., Govt. of Assam and the Chief Guest for the evening; Mr. Pawan Agarwala of Datamation Services; Mr. Trideep Talukdar, President, NECTA; Mr. T Balamuralikrishna, Regional Head – IBM (East India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan); Mr. Jagannath Patnaik, Director, Channel Sales, Kaspersky; Mr. Rajesh K Agarwal of Simony Systems & Solutions; Mr. B L Navalakha of Lalani International; Mr. Nabarup Chakravorty, BM – Ingram Micro India Ltd. and Mr. Anuj Singhal-MD Techplus Media and Ms Kalpana Singhal, Editor-in-Chief, Techplus Media marked the beginning of the award event. Mr. R L Mazumdar, GM, AMTRON was a special guest at the event.
 
The event kick-started with some encouraging words from the man who has been the driving force behind the Techplus Media project, Mr. Anuj Singhal. Talking on the occasion, he shared, “The state of Assam and the city of Guwahati holds a very special place as far as the IT business community is concerned. Guwahati based Channel Partners are acting as a Torch-Bearer to the regional IT implementation community here. Very interesting but true is the fact that Guwahati city is one of the most rapidly growing cities in India. In fact according to a survey done by a UK media, Guwahati is among the first 100 fastest growing city of the world and is 5th fastest growing among Indian cities.”

Appreciating the initiative taken by Techplus Media, the Chief Guest for the evening, Shri Anurag Goel shared his insight on the present IT scenario of the state and how the region is gradually moving up on the IT map of the country. “I have been observing that the region’s IT activities were revolved mostly around retailing and trading. But now the scenario has to change and we should go beyond retailing if we need to capitalize on the growing IT landscape of the country. Our focus should be more on R&D and not on IT trading alone. The coming up of an IT park in Guwahati will give a fillip to the regional IT industry and more such initiatives are being undertaken for bringing in an IT revolution in the state,” he said.


Ms. Kalpana Singhal, Editor-in-Chief, Techplus Media on her part applauded the channel community of the region. In her speech, she said that Guwahati is playing a very important role in terms of pushing the IT products and solutions to the whole of Northeast region. “What channel partners are doing here is being replicated within the whole region. It is all because of the long term vision of Guwahati based IT focused partners that we have achieved so much today for this region,” she added.

There were altogether 39 categories of awards that were presented in 3 phases during the event. In addition, there were AV and corporate presentations from the event sponsors. The sponsors for the event were Digisol, Digilite, Canon, Dell, LG, Netgenie, Mercury, Shyam Networks and Uniline. Rx Infotech P Limited under the brand name of Lapcare was the regional sponsor for the Guwahati event.

On this occasion, Techplus Media felicitated one of the oldest veterans in the IT community of Guwahati for the Lifetime Achievement Award category – Mr. Namo Narayan Sikaria of Om Infosystems. The Special Award for the ITPV Business Leader 2011 went to Mr. Pawan Agarwala of Datamation Services who thanked ITPV for giving him this recognition.

The award event concluded with the vote of thanks by Ms. Kalpana Singhal and the photo session of all the winners.

Keeping the IT channel community in mind, Tech Plus Media has for the first time taken the initiative of organising this Multicity event, the ITPV Partner Leadership Awards 2011, spanning across cities like Indore, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Guwahati. The regional awards, which are designed to recognize more than 140 solution providers and 120 channel partners all across the country, have succeeded in garnering an overwhelming response. Expressing his views on this multi-city initiative, Mr. Jagannath Patnaik, Director, Channel Sales, Kaspersky said that though there is more scope for betterment, the concept of recognising partners at a regional level is very innovative and also commendable.  He also applauded the research that went into deciding the award categories and the winners for the region.  

Mr. Md Nasir, Senior Manager – Marketing, CSP Division, Canon India in appreciation of the event said that it is a good initiative started by Techplus Media and this journey should continue in order to build a good synergy with the local partners by recognising their contribution done in the field of IT. Mr. Rajesh Agarwal of Simony Systems and Solutions said that it was overall a good event and that there is always room for improvement and adding new ingredients to make it even more innovative. Mr. Trideep Talukdar, President, NECTA also appreciated the efforts that went into organising the event while highlighting the fact that there should be a clear demarcation between dealer meets and award events of this nature. Mr. R L Mazumdar, GM, AMTRON was full of praises for the mission behind the event and said the region is in need of such initiatives for development of IT. He also pointed out that the coming up of engineering and technical colleges in and around Guwahati should also be capitalized for this development to become all pervasive.


The award categories and the names of the respective awardees are given below –