ARN Innovation Awards 2020: and the finalists are…

ARN is proud to announce the finalists for the 2020 ARN Innovation Awards, featuring a stellar line-up of individuals, partners, vendors, distributors and start-ups.

Over 180 organisations submitted more than 400 nominations this year, with over 200 finalists across more than 130 organisations in the running to win in this year’s Awards, which play host to the most competitive and comprehensive selection of leading innovators across Australia.

Reflecting the depth of the local ecosystem, this spans value-added resellers, managed service providers and system integrators, alongside independent software vendors, start-ups and born-in-the-cloud players. Together, more than 70 partners made it into this year’s stellar finalists list. 

Completing the finalist line-up, more than 50 vendor organisations are also in the running this year, in addition to 13 distributors.

Since launching in 2007, the 14th running of the Awards will continue to celebrate and reward excellence across the Australian channel.

The line-up will recognise customer value and innovation, spanning start-ups, partners, distributors and vendors.

Specifically, the Awards will honour the channel across 10 categories - Start-up; Partner Value; Emerging Technology; Homegrown Innovators; Vendor Value; Distributor Value; Personal Innovation; Corporate Citizen; Channel Choice and Hall of Fame.

The winners will be revealed at the ARN Innovation Awards 2020 virtual event on Wednesday, December 9, as our industry is applauded by its peers when leading ICT organisations and outstanding professionals are recognised for their excellent work and performance.

PARTNER VALUE

Enterprise Partner

• Advent One

• Brennan IT

• Data#3

• Ekulus

• Insight

• Thomas Duryea Logicalis

• Versent

Mid-Market Partner

• ASI Solutions

• blueAPACHE

• Computer Merchants

• InfoTrust

• JCurve Solutions

• Kiandra

• Oreta

• Outcomex

• The Missing Link

• Tquila ANZ

SMB Partner

• Calibre One

• eNerds

• LOOKUP

• Powernet Group

• Solutions2Success

• Surety IT

Customer Value

• AC3

• Adactin

• ASI Solutions

• Comscentre

• Data#3

• Lancom Technology

• LOOKUP

• Outcomex

• PwC

• SixPivot

• Veritec

• Zag

Collaboration

• Arinco

• DXC Technology

• Sparx Solutions

• Tquila ANZ

START-UP

Specialist

• Brontech

• Invarosoft

• Muval

Customer Value

• Arinco

• Datarock

• Glüh

Company

• Acusensus

• Arinco

• Cognian Technologies

• NEXION Networks

• The Australian Institute of ICT (AIICT)

Entrepreneur

• David Lee; Chris Padgett, Arinco

• Callum McDonald, CSW-IT

• Lorenzo Coppa, Glüh

• Fergus Creese, My Careers

• Paul Glass, NEXION Networks

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

Cloud

• Arinco

• Exigo Tech

• Insight

• Levitar

• NEXION Networks

• PwC

• Sourced Group

• Stax

Smart Technology

• Cevo

• DiUS

• Exposé

• Fujitsu

• NEC

• Outcomex

• OutThought

Digital Transformation

• Cevo

• Complexica

• Data#3

• DiUS

• DXC Technology

• Entag

• Insight

• Kiandra

• Versent

HOMEGROWN INNOVATORS

Service Provider

• Adactin

• Brennan IT

• Green Light Worldwide

• iQ3

• Macquarie Cloud Services

• Mangano IT

• Oreta

• Secure Agility

• Versent

ISV

• eMite

• FirstWave Cloud Technology

• iasset.com

• JCurve Solutions

• Pactflow

• Pronto Software

• SixPivot

• Stax

Distributor

• Dicker Data

• LEADER

• NEXTGEN Distribution

• rhipe

DISTRIBUTOR VALUE

Specialist

• emt Distribution

• Exclusive Networks

• Tech Data

• Tradewinds Technology Brokerage

• UpFlow

• Wavelink

• Westcon-Comstor

Software

• Arrow ECS ANZ

• Dicker Data

• Ingram Micro

• NEXTGEN Distribution

• Tech Data

Hardware

• Arrow ECS ANZ

• Dicker Data

• Ingram Micro

• LEADER

• Westcon-Comstor

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VENDOR VALUE

Hardware

• Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

• Dell Technologies

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• HP

• Lenovo

• Poly

Specialist

• APC by Schneider Electric

• Avaya

• ConnecWise

• Datto

• Glüh

• Lexmark

• MaxContact

Security

• Attivo Networks

• BlackBerry

• Claroty

• CrowdStrike

• ExtraHop

• Kaspersky

• LogRhythm

• Malwarebytes

• Mimecast

• Pulse Secure

• Sophos

• Trend Micro

Networking

• Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

• Cisco

• Citrix

• CommScope

• Extreme Networks

• Silver Peak

• VMware

Software

• Nintex

• Salesforce

• SolarWinds

• Veeam

• VMware

Cloud

• Amazon Web Services

• Microsoft

• OVHcloud

• Salesforce

• VMware

Telecommunications

• 8x8

• Aussie Broadband

• NBN Co

• RingCentral

• Telstra

• Vocus

PERSONAL INNOVATION

Channel Excellence

• Shabeel Shah, Arrow ECS ANZ

• Emma Harris, Cisco

• Sam Lloyd-Green, Cisco Meraki

• Peter Eldon, Datto

• Sandeep Sharma, Dicker Data

• Sunny Gandhi, Lenovo

• Gabe Marzano, NEXTGEN Distribution

• Hydar Al Ammar, Seismic

• Tony Heywood, Tradewinds Technology Brokerage

• Neels du Plooy, VMware

Technical Excellence

• Rob Collins, BlackBerry Spark

• Steve Mactaggart, Cevo

• Geoff Tyerman, Comscentre

• Etienne Oosthuysen, Exposé

• Simon Ryan, FirstWave Cloud Technology

• Gandhi Sivakumar, IBM

• Paul Smithdale, Insight

• Ben Sullivan, NEXTGEN Distribution

• John Jurkov, The Missing Link

• Carl Gunness, VostroNet

• Muhammad Awais Khan, Westcon-Comstor

Management Excellence

• Vaibhav Mittal, Adactin

• Andrew Assad, Arrow ECS ANZ

• Justin Lowe, ASI Solutions

• Kevin Salerno, Aussie Broadband

• James Bergl, Datto

• Jon Lang, DDLS

• Simon Banks, Dicker Data

• Salma Datenis, Sourced Group

• Zoaib Nafar, The Missing Link

Marketing Excellence

• Carineh Grigorian, Arrow ECS ANZ

• Shalini Karthikeyan, Cisco Meraki

• Marie Scott, Datto

• Anna Christensen, Exclusive Networks

• Amanda Har, Insight

• Danielle Peate, Lenovo

• Vanessa Cremona, Rackspace

• Victoria Zorin, rhipe

• James Bright, Tech Data

Sales Excellence

• Brigitte Auguste, Araza

• Hetal Dave, Bridged Group

• James Lewis, Cevo

• Damien Richeux, Exigo Tech

• Paul Friend, The Missing Link

CORPORATE CITIZEN

• Barhead

• NEC

• Oreta

• P-TECH

• SixPivot

ARN congratulates all the finalists and thanks everyone who submitted nominations for the 2020 ARN Innovation Awards. All winners, including those in the Channel Choice, Hall of Fame and Emerging Tech - IoT categories, will be announced during a virtual event on Wednesday, December 9.