CRN editorial director Steven Kiernan opens CRN Pipeline 2018 in Sydney with a look back at some of the top stories of the past 12 months.
The conference was held on 3-4 May at the Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific.
Delegates take in the opening keynote
Telstra’s Charlotte Schraa presents on the telco’s partner program
Charlotte Schraa (Telstra) hosts a panel with Modality Systems’ Justin Morris and Digital Armour's Maria Padisetti
Delegates pack in for the the Telstra boardroom session
Taking in the Telstra boardroom session
Daniel Jurczyszyn (Fronde)
David Humphrey (Premier Technology Solutions)
Brad Engstrom leads the VMware roundtable
Stephanie Challinor (AC3)
Mark Pace (Sterling IT) and Lauren Borg (PCS Australia)
Luigi D’Alessandro and Belinda Stevens (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Acronis’ Neil Morarji, Edith Kan and Andre Charlton
Robbie Upcroft (Insentra) and Antony Price (Connectwise)
Rui Gago (rhipe) and Brad Culbert (Bistech)
Chris Cruikshank and Jared Hirst (Servers Australia) with NBN Co’s Keith Masterton
Mia Distribution’s Matt Milne and Calibre One’s Darren Gore
Brendan Sit and Gary Rosewarne (HPE)
Aruba’s Benson Duong, Paul Christoforatos and Joy Chen with CRN’s Steven McDonald
Datto’s Peter Eldon and James Bergl
Sean Bloch (IT Manager on Demand)
Susan Sly (Lueur) came on board CRN Pipeline as a speaker and Impact Awards judge
HP’s Adrian Thake and Nathan Matthews with CRN’s Sean Fletcher
Wade Smith (F5 Networks), Reuben Mei-Edwards (Diversus Group) and Rodney Thorne (F5 Networks)
The rhipe coffee stop returned to keep guests going
Matt Dewsnap delivers the rhipe presentation, taking the audience through the big themes driving technology today and the partnership opportunities the cloud distie is taking to the channel
Security expert Troy Hunt tells Pipeline guests about his experiences running personal breach checking website haveIbeenpwned.com
Hunt was was anonymously contacted by a data trader who had access to 1.3bn Australian Red Cross Blood Service records, including his own. The huge breach made headlines around Australia.
Peter Eldon (Datto), Paul Mangano (Mangano IT), Lauren Escalona and Taylor Feigl (Datto)
Jim Durand and Tara Newman (RapidFireTools)
Tamika Sercombe and Craig Bovaird (NBN Co)
Guests sit down for the HPE boardroom
Guests at the HPE boardroom enjoy discussion with a great view of Manly Beach
Troy Hunt and Robert Findlay at the LogMeIn boardroom
Mark Pace (Sterling IT) and Scott Atkinson (BigAir)
Jason Garland (Secure Access)
Peter Stein (Datacom), Tristan Warner (eNerds), Jamie Warner, (Invarosoft) and Darren Gore (Calibre One) at the rhipe roundtable
Discussion at the rhipe roundtable
Kyle Bunting hosts the TPG roundtable
Brett Lobwein leads a HPE roundtable
Discussion during the Aruba boardroom
Josh Gardner leads the Aruba boardroom
Michael Giusti (Harbour IT) and Scott Atkinson (BigAir)
Brendan Sit takes the stage to present for HPE
Aruba’s Tony Smith gives his presentation on the latest opportunities in enterprise networking
CRN’s Steven Kiernan sits down with HPE’s Brendan Sit and Aruba’s Tony Smith for a panel discussion
Brendan Sit on the HPE and Aruba panel discussion
Harry Kassianou (AC3)
Dean Calvert (Calvert Technologies), James Bergl (Datto), Paul Mangano (Mangano IT) and David Lulham (Aliva)
Nate Cochrane directs discussion on the Huawei roundtable
The Huawei boardroom
Robert Kingma (ICT Networks)
Consultant Susan Sly delivered a presentation on how she works between the IT team, line of business and technology suppliers, which she describes as 'hostage negotiation'
Steven Kiernan sits down with CRN Fast50 2017 winner RIoT Solutions’ Rob Merkwitza about fast-tracking growth.
Jan Belecki speaks during the Ingram Micro roundtable
Opening the presentation on day two was the Honourable Victor Dominello, Minister for Finance, Services and Property
A packed house in Manly for Minister Dominello, who discussed how the NSW government is bringing digital services to citizens
Minister Dominello discusses the NSW digital drivers licence
Brad Howarth presented his session, “If you're standing still, you might be going backwards”
HPE’s Gary Rosewarne, Luigi D’Alessandro, Brendan Sit and Oceane Rime with Triforce’s Abbas Aly
Sean Bloch (IT Manager on Demand), Jamie Warner (eNerds and Invarasoft) and Brad Howarth
TPG’s Kyle Bunting and Rodney Baurycza
Steven Kiernan hosts a panel discussion with rhipe CEO Dominic O’Hanlon
The closing speaker of CRN Pipeline 2018 was Neil McMurchy, Research Vice President in Gartner Research and part of the Technology Go-to-Market team
Gartner’s Neil McMurchy discussed how Pipeline attendees could fast-track their sales model into the 21st century.
CRN editorial director Steven Kiernan opens CRN Pipeline 2018 in Sydney with a look back at some of the top stories of the past 12 months.
The conference was held on 3-4 May at the Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific.