Super Session (morning session) sets a new benchmark in driving Partner Transformation

Pictures from Left to right: Mr. Kaushik Pandiya, President- FAIITA; Mr. Bhanu Uday, Co-Founder- Beyond Security Asia; Mr. Ashish Guha, CEO-RAH Infotech; Dr. Ramesh Subramaniam, Motivational Consultant; Dr. Harold Dcosta, CEO- Intelligence Quotient Security; Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Editor-in-chief-VARINDIA and Mr. Vipin Tyagi, E.D - C Dot

A total of 125 VARs including MSPs, Integrators, Solution Providers and VARs converged, shared ideas and initiated discussions that define the current partner ecosystem in the country

The VAR Symposium 2019 continued the momentum which was set into motion by VAR Symposium 2018. The coming together of key VARs from across the country along with the sales and marketing professionals from selected corporates and technical leaders set the stage ready for this year’s Symposium. The day-long session witnessed new business strategies being discussed, with a special focus on how to maximize partner profitability, thereby steering their business transformation. A total of 125 VARs including MSPs, Integrators, Solution Providers and VARs converged, shared ideas and initiated discussions that define the current partner ecosystem in the country.   

The theme for this year’s event was "Partner Transformation”, and the discussions during the day revolved around this topic. The event commenced with the lamp lighting ceremony in the august presence of guests like Vipin Tyagi, ED – C-DOT; Harold D’çosta, CEO – IQSS; Harold Dcosta, Dr Ramesh Subramaniam – Motivational; Kaushik Pandiya, President – FAIITA; Dr. Deepak Kr. Sahu, Editor-in-Chief, VARINDIA and S Mohini Ratna, Editor – VARINDIA.

Dr Deepak Kr. Sahu, Editor-in-Chief, VARINDIA kick-started the event by giving his inaugural speech in which he highlighted the fact of how digitisation is creating tremendous opportunities for economies across the globe. “As a media house, our focus has been Technology, that is at the forefront of everything we do. I think most organisations acknowledge the fact that IT can play an important role to deliver value and competitive edge to the organisation. Many organisations consider such slowdown situation as best opportunity to sharpen their strategy using IT. However, the focus is more on direct tangible outcome projects rather than intangible.”

Harold D’çosta, CEO – IQSS delivered the first speech of the day who spoke on the opportunities in the cyber space in terms of various avenues which could be there for the VARs.

Vipin Tyagi, ED – C-DOT spoke on how satellite links are the primary means of connectivity to remote and far-flung regions of the country and that they are the backup links for large number of terrestrial connectivity in the mainland.

In a first of its kind that was introduced at this year’s VAR Symposium was the Super Session - that witnessed five partners giving their presentation and speaking on Business Transformation; the speakers were Vikas Bhonsle, CEO – Crayon Software Experts India; Manjeet Singh, Sr. VP (Sales) - RAH Infotech; Satish Arora, Zonal Head (North) – Savex Technologies; Prince Dhawan, Assistant General Manager – Sales & Business Development, NTT – Netmagic and Ranjit GK, CEO & MD – Vaibhav Inc.