NEWS
Canon honours channel community for
exceptional performance
and innovative selling practices. The
event, held under the theme ‘Be Story
Ready’, celebrated the achievements of
channel partners in KSA in the last year
with an award ceremony with over 150
key Canon channel partner attendees.
Venkatasubramanian Hariharan, B2C
Business Unit Director at Canon Middle
East, said: “Our partner community is
seeing accelerated growth and success
with the broad Canon portfolio. These
annual awards serve to recognise
innovation and success, and also inspire
the community to play a part in every
image in the Kingdom”
C
anon Middle East, a leader in imaging solutions, reinforced its
commitment to channel partners in KSA at its annual Imaging
Inspired channel partner event.
Held at the Mövenpick Hotel, Riyadh, the event brought all its KSA
channel partners under one roof highlighting business performance
Canon Middle East also introduced its channel partners to Canon’s
Cloud Services that are designed to bring people closer together:
Irista, a cloud-based image management platform that stores files
(images and videos) at full resolution, and a photo-sharing cloud-
based platform called Lifecake, which is targeted at young mothers
and mothers-to-be.
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STC CEO wins industry award
has to offer with its Excellence Awards.
“Under his leadership STC has continued
to grow and retain profitability,” Telecom
Review Summit said in a statement.
“Khaled Biyari has made sure that
digitisation is addressed for the future at
STC and that STC will focus on keeping
up with the variables of cloud computing,
information security, the Internet of things,
digital financial services, and digital media.”
This year there was some stiff competition
with 302 nominations for the Telecom
Review Excellence Awards.
Winners were chosen based on the
demonstration of recognised skills within
specific sectors by an independent panel of
15 experienced industry veterans.
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) Group CEO
Dr Khaled Biyari has been named as the
‘Industry CEO of the Year’ at a ceremony
www.intelligentcio.com
in Dubai. The award was provided by the
Telecom Review Summit which each year
honours the best the ICT/telecom industry
STC is a Saudi Arabia-based
telecommunications company that offers
landline, mobile, internet services and
computer networks.
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