The award announcements were interspersed with light quiz questions that got the crowd thinking and at times roaring with laughter at the amusing answers given by a few.

Receiving the Channel Champion Gold award, Neelam Dhawan, MD, HP India attributed HP's success to team work. “It is an honor receiving the award, which couldn't have happened with out the channel or team work between our teams at HP and the channel. We won 13 awards out of the 32 that were given out tonight. The awards we didn't get show the areas we need to work on for the following year and it is part of our immediate scorecard,” said Dhawan.

Manoj Grover of HP receiving the trophy in the Tape Drive category from Arun Kakkar, President, Ghaziabad Computer Association	Jangoo Dalal of D-Link receiving the trophy in the Wired Networking category from Manish Agarwal, President, Uttaranchal IT Trade Association. D-Link also won the trophy in the Structured Cabling category

Yogesh Sharma of D-Link taking away the trophy in the Wireless Networking category from Manish Agarwal, President, Uttaranchal IT Trade Association	Jangoo Dalal and Yogesh Sharma of D-Link India receiving the Gold award in the Commercial Terms category from Anees Khalfay, President, Trader Association of IT (TAIT), Mumbai

Jaivinder Singh Gill of Lenovo receiving the Silver award in the Commercial Terms category from Anees Khalfay, President, Trader Association of IT (TAIT), Mumbai. Lenovo also won the Silver award in the Online Support and Gold award in Relationship Management category	Ravirajan of HP receiving the Gold award in the Online Support category from Anees Khalfay, President, Trader Association of IT (TAIT), Mumbai

Manoj Grover and Ketan Patel of HP receiving the Silver award in the Relationship Management category from Anees Khalfay, President, Trader Association of IT (TAIT), Mumbai	Saket Kapur, Secretary, Progressive Channels Association of IT (PCAIT) handling the Gold award to Ravirajan of HP India in the After-Sales Support category

Yogesh Sharma of D-Link receiving the Silver award in the After-Sales Support category from Saket Kapur, Secretary, Progressive Channels Association of IT (PCAIT)	V Krishnan of HP receiving the Gold award in the Brand Image category from Saket Kapur, Secretary, Progressive Channels Association of IT (PCAIT)

Eashwari Deshpande of Intel receiving the Silver award in the Brand Image category from Saket Kapur, Secretary, Progressive Channels Association of IT (PCAIT)	Deepti Dang, Kirti Joshi and V Krishnan of HP India receiving the Gold award in the Marketing Support category from Saket Kapur, Secretary, Progressive Channels Association of IT (PCAIT)

Drawing the evening to a close, Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, DQ Channels pointed out that though the economic situation was down the mood was not which was important as that would determine how we all move forward. He also highlighted the trend of vendors moving towards the hinterlands of India and how in this aspect too vendors would need the help of the channel to succeed.

The gathering exchanged notes and caught up over drinks and dinner.

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