Aidan Fitzgerald (Ingram Micro), Vlad Mitronevski (Dicker Data), Kaaren Lewis (HP), Marty Suminic (Dicker Data)
HP has awarded its top performing New Zealand enterprise partners at its annual Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Partner Executive Conference. 60 Hewlett-Packard enterprise partners came together in picturesque Queenstown, New Zealand, for the event.
Five HP partners walked away with awards recognising their business excellence. Klikon Solutions nabbed the partner of the Year 2015 award; Dicker Data was awarded distributor of the Year 2015; Datacom Systems Australia picked up the New Style of Business Partner of the Year 2015 award; Dimension Data Australia was named Strategic Business Partner of the Year 2015; and NEC IT Services Australia took home the Software Cloud Partner of the Year 2015 gong.
With the theme “Transforming for Growth”, the three-day conference also brought together thought leaders, analysts and leading solutions providers to discuss current and upcoming trends, and share ideas on best practice in innovation, business technology solutions and consumption models.
Partners enjoyed unprecedented access to HP executives and experts from industry and business.
Connecting with other South Pacific channel partners was also key to sharing ideas around how to remain competitive and sustain growth.
Some other highlights of the conference included a keynote address from Hewlett-Packard Asia-Pacific and Japan enterprise group senior vice-president and managing director, Jim Merritt, and HP Australia channel, SMB and alliance indirect sales director, Kaaren Lewis.
