Photos: CRN Kickstarter 2023

CRN Kickstarter 2023 welcomed IT and digital service providers for breakfast today to hear about key upcoming opportunities for IT businesses.

Hosted at the Four Seasons Hotel, attendees received a preview of CRN's Kickstarter report, which looks at business opportunities for IT and digital services providers in FY22-23.

Guests also heard several panellists speak about important business topics for 2023, including the outlook for MSPs, cyber and risk, selling to government, the rise of digital and edge IT prospects. 

The event was sponsored by NinjaOne, Netskope, LastPass, Ingram Micro Cloud and AWS.

Panellists Matt Paull (Netskope), Gerardo Barranquero (Avocado Consulting) and Tony Vizza (KordaMentha) discussed partnership opportunities and how the IT channel can deal with the challenge of corporate governance issues.

Frank Zeichner (IoT Alliance Australia) explained the edge IoT integration opportunity.

Anthony Woodward (Logicalis) discussed government IT and changes to whole-of-government IT sourcing.

Panellists Jaideep Thyagarajan (Gartner), MJ Robotham (NinjaOne) and Nigel Murphy (The Channel Company)

Damon Rees (Better as Usual), Malcolm Alder (GHD Digital) and Velvet-Belle Templeman (iTnews and Digital Nation)

Michelle Zamora and Damon Rees (Better as Usual)

Craig Sims (Converged Communication Network Applications) and Sunny Varma (AWS)

Michael Delayney (MyEmpire Group) and Malcolm Alder (GHD Digital)

Dominic Tusa (CRN) and Michelle Lewis (MobileCorp)

Michael Koukourou (Control Z) and James Vouthivong (Lastpass)

Michelle Lewis, Anna Acopian and Gavin Lo (MobileCorp)

Frank Zeichner (IoT Alliance Australia) and Tony Vizza (KordaMentha)

Paul O’Connell (AWS) and Felix Schmitz (Darumatic)