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Resellers, vendors and distributors come together for 2017 CRN Fast50

[Photos] Fast networking and panels with Cisco Meraki, HPE, Microsoft, Rhipe, Telstra and Lenovo.

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The 2017 CRN Fast50 awards kicked off with a panel discussion of top technology companies and our Fast Networking session, which this year included carnival games, air hockey and more!

Pictured: Lenovo’s Mayur Baruah, Roslyn Paterson and Claire Operie

KeyPay’s Kristian Reynolds, Sarah Yancey, Paul Duran and Georgie Gilbert

Sachin Verma (Oreta), Rajitha Rajasingham (Oreta), Leonie Visser (Telstra) and Nathan Belling Insync Technology

The Telstra team in front of the high flyer: Charlotte Schraa, Mert Mustafa, Mark Ansell, Glenn Smith and Leonie Visser

Geoff Hughes (Venn IT Solutions) and Rob Merkwitza (RIoT Solutions)

Nick Jacka (Basis Networks) and Kristian Reynolds (KeyPay) have a go at the ring toss while Lenovo’s Clair Operie and Nathan Knight watch on

Ingram Micro’s Sarah El Ali has a go at the ring toss

The AlphaSys team check out the air hockey

The mini golf challenge is put to the test

Hayley Imlay (Calibre One) has a go at the mini golf

Modality Systems’ Cecilia Huang and Sayeh Woods

Grace Leung (AlphaSys) tries her luck in the cash grab machine, while Cisco Meraki's Emma Falson looks on.

Lauren Borg (PCS Australia) has a go at the cash grab while Lincoln Goldsmith (Cisco Meraki) and Eamon Ridgeway (CRN) watch on

Steven Kiernan (CRN), Lincoln Goldsmith (Cisco Meraki), Charlotte Schraa (Telstra), Nathan Knight (Lenovo), Anita Sood (Microsoft), Pat Devlin (HPE) and Warren Nolan (rhipe)

Leading IT solution providers gathered at The Weston on 30 November for the 2017 CRN Fast50, which commenced with a panel discussion of the awards' top sponsors

The discussion was led by speakers from Cisco Meraki, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, Rhipe, Telstra and Lenovo (which sponsored the awards in partnership with Nutanix)

CRN editorial director Steven Kiernan hosted the discussion

Anita Sood, Microsoft ISV and next generation partnerships lead

Microsoft's Anita Sood offered example of Australian IT service providers diversifying into building their own intellectual property

Telstra's head of global partner management Charlotte Schraa

Charlotte Schraa revealed how Telstra is taking agile development methods through its 'Design Dojo' initiative, with product co-created with channel partners

Lincoln Goldsmith, Cisco Meraki channels director, APJC

Lincoln Goldsmith explained how Cisco Meraki took onboard continuous user feedback to identify which platforn upgrades to prioritise

Pat Devlin, HPE's director, enterprise territory group, Australia

Pat Devlin discussed some of HPE's cutting-edge technology, such as composable infrastructure and The Machine, its memory-driven computing archtecture

Nathan Knight, ANZ head of SMB & channel sales, Lenovo's data centre group

Nathan Knight spoke about some of the programs Lenovo has put in place to improve speed to market for partners, such as proof-on-concept products and ways to get pricing out to market faster

Rhipe chief commercial officer Warren Nolan

Rhipe is helping independent software vendors to scale via its channel partners and cloud marketplace, Warren Nolan explained

Jessica Ross (Invarosoft) and Vai Le (ConnectWise)

Datto’s Christopher Georgiades and Haytham Shokry with Comwire IT’s Lee Shrimpton

Enosys Solutions’ Joseph Mesiti and George Soumilas

Adrian Toole (Somerville Group) and Adrian Thake (HP)

Solarwinds MSP’s Hamish Boot and Nicholas Kim

KMT Group’s Matt Dixon with Telstra’s Mark Ansell and Mert Mustafa

ICT Networks’ Rob Kingma and Amanda Dark

Andrew Heading (Alibaba Cloud) and Peter Vasey (LogMeIn)

Touchpoint Technology’s William Freeman, Andy Perry and Ashley Stewart

Datto’s Kelly Hoyle and Pete Eidon

Nick Verykios (Arrow) and Warren Nolan (rhipe)

Calibre One’s Damien Hartwell, Rebecca Hartwell, Carley Sawford and Rob Blenkinship

Engage Squared’s Justin McPhee and Tom Hiscutt

Andrew Assad (Arrow) and Jarrod Bloomfield (Ngage Technology Group)

DeepInstinct’s Justin Peters, Rob Forsyth and Stuart Fisher

AlphaSys’ Michelle Lim, Tiana Cooper and Grace Leung

Dell EMC’s Richard Johns, Stuart Anderson and Helen Wilkinson

Cisco Meraki’s Lincoln Goldsmith, Larry Agbottah, MJ Robotham, David Davey and Emma Falson

Microsoft’s Claudia McIntosh and Anita Sood with Vibrato’s Emily Grinton and James Bannan

Basis Networks’ Tom Allan, Nick Jacka and Jakub Szkandera

Andrew Diamond (Nutanix) and Tasha Soltonovich (Ingram Micro)

Ingram Micro’s Tash Soltonovich, Sarah El Ali, Atish Singh and Jan Bielecki

Alibaba Cloud’s Aaron Condon, Andrew Heading, David Green and Steve Chen

Nathan Belling (Insync Technology) and Leonie Visser (Telstra)

Gavin Ng (StorageCraft) and Peter Huynh (rhipe)

LogMeIn’s Robert Findlay and Larry Lai

Vai Le (ConnectWise), Brenton Nicol (Connectwise), Ajit Ambalavaner (Honeylight Consulting) and David Vo (Honeylight Consulting)

Jamie Warner (Invarosoft), Jessica Ross (Invarosoft) and Kathleen Grahame (StorageCraft)

Reseau’s Christopher Uchanski and Dragan Calic

Enable Professional Services’ Rick Huynh and Bruce Hara

Arrow’s Michael Calderero, Matt Wardie, Roger Rivera, Sam Chandra Joe Knock and Andrew Assad

Cloud Plus’ Daniel Thomas and Katie Brown

Lee Shrimpton (Comwire IT) gets into the air hockey

Calibre One’s Douglas Stephens, Steve Wemyss and Tom Hamilton

Solista’s Angela Moutinho and Noel Allnutt

Ruckus Wireless’ David Fenner, Carl Jefferys and Kat Power

Rebecca Hartwell (Calibre One) takes on the ring toss

The AlphaSys team: Grace Leung, Michelle Lim, Tiana Cooper, Andrew White and Rob Alexander

Chris Greatrex (Artis Group), Margaret Welna (Artis Group) and Robbie Upcroft (Insentra)

Matt Krosch (Generation-e), Gordon Pettigrew (Generation-e), Dan Johnson (Outware Mobile) and Nicolette Moore (Melbourne IT)

George Lantouris (Schneider Electric) and Vishal Nayak (APC by Schneider Electric)

Jason Baden (Ruckus) and Aaron Condon (Alibaba Cloud)

Nortec IT’s Tikki Norris and David Norris

Sliced Tech’s Julie McClure and Daniel Hoffman

Angus Mansfield (XCentral), Jennifer Lilley (rhipe) and Marnie Cleary (rhipe)

Dane Meah (Info Trust), Andrew Heading (Alibaba Cloud), Simon McKay (Info Trust) and Jennifer Lilley

Skyfii’s Jackson Kerr and John Rankin

EFEX’s Blair Hatherley and Andrew Herrman

Commulynx’s Sieghardt Muehlich and Stephen Knights

The 2017 CRN Fast50 awards kicked off with a panel discussion of top technology companies and our Fast Networking session, which this year included carnival games, air hockey and more!

Pictured: Lenovo’s Mayur Baruah, Roslyn Paterson and Claire Operie

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Resellers, vendors and distributors come together for 2017 CRN Fast50

[Photos] Fast networking and panels with Cisco Meraki, HPE, Microsoft, Rhipe, Telstra and Lenovo.

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