The DQ Week Awards Night Dazzles Bengaluru

Almost 450 channel partner and vendor representatives turned up on a balmy
evening in Bengaluru to felicitate the channel partners from South India. The
10th annual The DQ Week awards night was organized in Bengaluru for the first
time in association with Association of Information Technology (AIT). The event
kick started with Anil Pant of Sify unveiling the company's latest offering-the
thin client solution. This was followed by a dazzling evening wherein 56 channel
partners from across South India were honored in various categories. Jayessh
Mehta, President, AIT through his presentation, gave insight about the various
activities of the association to all present. In a first, AIT, the official
voice of the channel in Bangalore, also took the opportunity to present The DQ
Week with a memento in recognition of bringing the awards to Bengaluru, and for
its work in highlighting the concerns of the channel community.

The first ever AIT-The DQ Week Upcoming Entrepreneur of the Year trophy was
won by Manish Choudhary of Computer Gadgets and Peripherals. The evening also
saw a lucky draw by HT Impex. The awards night was sponsored by Sify, Agile
Labs, D-Link, Microworld, Delta Peripherals, Gigabyte, Epson, R&M and HT Impex.

Jayessh Mehta (extreme right), President, AIT presenting a memento to The DQ Week team comprising (L-R) Ibrahim Ahmad, Shivangi Yadav and Shyam Malhotra in appreciation of bringing the awards to Bengaluru, and for its work in highlighting the concerns of the channel community

 

Alok Ohrie, President, EMC-India & SAARC giving away the Gold award for Best SI, Chennai to V Murali of Precision Group	Alok Ohrie, President, EMC-India & SAARC giving away the Silver award for Best SI, Chennai to Girish Madhavan of Quadsel Systems

 

Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia (L) & Jayessh Mehta, President, AIT giving away the first ever AIT-The DQ Week Upcoming Entrepreneur award to Manish Choudhary of Computer Gadgets and Peripherals, Bengaluru (R)	Sanjay Jotshi, Director-Enterprise and Channels, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks giving away the Best SI award for Cochin to Nortech Infonet

 

AJayessh Mehta, President, AIT making a presentation	Anil Pant, VP-Channel Sales, Sify unveiling thin client solution

Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, Cybermedia giving away the Silver award for Best SI for Bengaluru to Jayessh Mehta of Future Businesstech	Nandakumar, GM-Bengaluru, Redington India giving away the Gold award to S Karthikeyan of Bloom Electronics, Coimbatore

Anoop Nambiar, Country Manager-Business Partner Organisation, IBM India/South Asia giving away the Gold award for Best SI, Hyderabad to Cache Peripherals	Anoop Nambiar, Country Manager-Business Partner Organisation, IBM India/South Asia giving away the Silver award for Best SI, Hyderabad to T Kishan of K Computers