1. Sanjiv Bhavnani, Chief Mentor, Mentorpreneur Advisors kicked off the summit with a session on building valuation for your company and ways of attracting investment.

2. In a session which witnessed the most heated discussions, S Karthikeyan, Founder President, Confed-ITA discussed the burning issue of levying of tax on backend and incentives by the government and called for the formation of a national association to effectively project the channel partners cause.

3. Anil Gupta, National Head-Sales, Microworld holding forth about the products and plans of the company

4. VK Bhandari, MD, Supertron discussed the benefits and challenges of being a national distributor and held forth on the things that one encounters while evolving from a sub distributor to a larger national role.

5. Paras Shah, MD, Neoteric delivering the keynote on 'Transforming Businesses' on the first day of the summit.

6. Deepak Kumar, GM-Research, IDC discussing the trends for the year 2009.

7. Akash Sutane, VP, Panache, made a presentation about the advantages of the small form factors and the amazing capabilities that their products offer.

8. Amitansu Satpathy, Director, Best Power Equipment (BPE) talking about the harm that businesses face because of the power crisis in India and the solutions that BPE has to offer to offset the same.

9. Prasanto K Roy, Chief Editor, DQ Channels took a session on how green technologies and products can enhance businesses.

10. ALL EARS: Delegates listen in rapt attention as the sessions progress

11. Brijen Shah of Dikibi Technologies, Pune elucidates on a point during one of the discussions

12. Vivek Singhania of Computers India, Ranchi raises a point during the tax discussion while PK Sinha of Astric Computer, Patna listens.

13 Alok Gupta of Softmart Solutions, Delhi makes a point as others listen in rapt attention

14. RAPT ATTENTION: The Delhi delegation comprising (right to left front row): Rajesh Budhwar, Spark Technologies, Taposh Chatterjee, Peripheral Solutions, Bharat Bhushan, RR Systems, Somesh Narang, Elcom Trading, Charanjeet Taneja, Softech Computers; (back row): Kapil Wadhwa, Champion Computers, Ajaya Kumar, Park Group and PK Sharma, Comnet Vision listen in rapt attention.

15. David R Willems, International Business Development Manager, Leviton in a conversation with Moolchand Jain of Mahavir Computer, Chennai

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