The gala, at which awards the best solution providers in the country, was preceded by two workshops.
In the first, David Reid, former CEO of Epic Information Systems based in Manitoba, talked about how to sell your channel business for a premium.
In part two, David Senf of IDC Canada discussed the major areas of growth for the Canadian channel, namely cloud and big data.
Around 200 attendees participated in the evening portion of the gala, which recognized IT providers in 14 categories.
Attendees followed along online on Twitter using the #CDN100 hashtag.
Jeremy Erlick, vice president of central region sales for Compugen Inc., accepted two awards on behalf of his company.
Melanie Forletta attended on behalf of Tech Data Canada, on the of the evening’s sponsors.
Entertainment was provided by Grammy Award winning Soul Stew.
Sandi MacDonald of Dell Canada.
Jaclynn Cawkell of Digitcom Canada.
Eric Gardiner, Softchoice, Paolo Del Nibletto, CDN, and Joel Hoidas of Softchoice.
Herman Yeh of Northern Micro Inc.
Lloyd Bryant received CDN’s first ever Lifetime Achievement Award for his work at HP Canada.