The Softcat News Team
Softcat's annual Partner Forum reached new heights last week, drawing over 350 attendees from the IT channel to CodeNode in London. This significant event brought together partners, vendors, and distributors to discuss the Softcat strategy for the upcoming year and to celebrate collective success.
Keynote speakers Graham Charlton, CEO; Mark Forster, Chief Technology Officer (CTO); Ant Cowen (CRO), Chief Revenue Officer; and Richard Wyn Griffith, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), took the main stage to outline our customer proposition and future plans.
Meanwhile, Al Wynn, Business Transformation Director, and Anushka Davies, Head of Employee Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, spearheaded our second Sustainability Symposium, and CTO Mark launched the inaugural Tech and Services Workshop with his team, highlighting our multinational offerings for FY25.
The Sustainability Symposium welcomed 70 industry leaders to collaborate on driving better environmental and social outcomes in the IT channel. Additionally, the Tech and Services partner workshop saw 89 guests engaged in discussions on the future of Softcat’s technical capabilities and services portfolio.
Richard Wyn Griffith, CCO, said Softcat was proud to have expanded its Partner Forum this year.
He added: “It was great to get so many of our key partners in one place to share with them how we plan to take the opportunities across our market together.”
The event also celebrated the Softcat Partner Award winners:
· Distribution Partner External Account Manager of the Year: Mark Blunt, Ingram Micro and Matt Osborne, TD Synnex
· Distribution Partner of the Year: TD Synnex
· Growth Vendor of the Year: NetApp
· Multinational Services Partner of the Year: Park Place Technologies
· Outstanding Contribution: Matt Stevenson, HP Inc.
· Partner Account Manager of the Year: Dave Duerden, Nutanix
· Rising Star Vendor of the Year: Netskope
· Services Partner Account Manager of the Year: Freskida Doqi, 11:11 Systems
· Services Partner of the Year: Ultra Support
· Services Partner Rising Star: Dufrain
· Specialist Distribution Partner of the Year: Exclusive Networks
· Sustainability Distributor of the Year: TD Synnex
· Sustainability Growth Partner of the Year: Exertis
· Sustainability Services Partner of the Year: Equinix
· Sustainability Vendor of the Year: Cisco
· Vendor of the Year: Lenovo
