Tech Pac peddles Fortunes at Bangkok

Tech Pacific's annual congregation of vendors and partners under the banner

'Fortune 100' was held at Bangkok from October 2-3 and saw the participation of

over 270 partners. The distributor has a channel network of over 6,000 partners.

Addressing the opening session of the event, K Jaishanker, CEO of Tech Pac India

outlined the purpose of the event, "For us, it is an opportunity to share

our performance and roadmap with business partners. Vendors would be able to

meet partners from upcountry locations and outline their roadmap. Partners would

benefit from the technology sessions and marketing



initiatives undertaken by players."

In light of the tough time seen by the industry, Tech Pacific kept

"Value, Focus, Growth" as the theme of the event. The conference had

three parallel tracks: solutions, upcountry and traditional track. Each track

had a representative participation from the channel community.

Top

IT vendors like Sun, IBM, Cisco, HP, Symantec, CA, Citrix, AMD, Kobian, Epson,

APC, Iomega, TVSE, Microsoft, Targus, Palm, Samsung, 3 Com and CA. All of them

communicated their plans and strategies to a focussed group of resellers. The

solutions track saw the presentation of white papers on security, server

consolidation, edge computing, application deployment, business continuity,

disaster recovery, IP telephony, etc. Some 100 resellers attended the upcountry

track from 47 C and D category towns. Tech Pac's focus of this track was to

understand the challenges of this growth segment and provide the necessary

business enablers.

This also gave vendors a rare opportunity to meet and interact with the

partners from smaller places. The traditional track was targeted at the

sub-distribution partners with presentations on new growth opportunities and

promotional offers by vendors such as HP, Samsung, Epson, AMD, Kobian and

Iomega.

BALAKA BARUAH AGGARWAL