Here are the winners for the CRN Channel Awards Asia 2026

Ingram Micro and Tech Data won two awards while HP was named vendor of the Year.

The CRN Channel Awards Asia 2026 celebrated the success of vendors and partners in the channel ecosystem in a night filled with excitement and joy as the best of the best were announced as winners. The awards ceremony, now in its second year in Singapore, was held at the Pan Pacific Orchard in Singapore.

In his keynote speech, Aaron Raj, Editorial Director at CRN Asia shared that the Asian technology channel ecosystem undergoing rapid transformation, driven by artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud adoption and evolving customer demands.

“The region is moving towards a more mature, AI-focused and outcome-driven channel ecosystem, where vendors and partners are working more closely than ever to address the evolving needs of businesses across Asia,” he said.

There were 28 awards being presented in this year’s ceremony, with 25 of the awards being decided by an esteemed panel of judges. The judges not only highlighted the strong quality in submissions in this year’s entries but were also impressed by the variety of vendors and partners participating this year.

HP Inc retained its crown as Vendor of the Year, picking up the award again in the same category it won last year. Ingram Micro bagged the Infrastructure Distributor of the Year and Most Innovative Distributive of the Year awards while Tech Data was named Distributor of the Year and also Security Distributor of the Year.

Veeam’s David Weekley was named Channel Manager of the Year with Cisco’s Joyce Moy, picking up the Women of the Year Award for the vendor category. ESET’s Parvinder Walia was named the Role Model of the Year.

There were also three special awards handed out at the ceremony. They included two Editor’s Choice Awards for Most Sustainable Data Center Vendor of the Year which was presented to Equinix and Reseller of the Year for World Wide Technology.

Zebra Technologies Christanto Suryadarma was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Awards for his accomplishment in the channel, with a career spanning nearly four decades.

The sponsors for the CRN Channel Awards Asia 2026 include Cisco, Proofpoint and CrowdStrike. Partners for the awards were Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, HPE and Lumen Technologies.

Here is the full list of winners at the CRN Channel Awards Asia 2026.

AI and Automation Vendor of the Year
Salesforce

AI Initiative of the Year by a Non-Vendor
Winner - Cloudmile

Highly Commended - Logicalis Asia Pacific

AI Initiative of the Year by a Vendor
Winner – KnowBe4

Highly Commended - Google Cloud APAC Mid-Market Partner Team

ASEAN Distributor of the Year
Crayon

Best ESG Project of the Year
Lenovo

Best Marketing Campaign for AI Adoption
Dell Technologies

Channel Manager of the Year
Winner - David Weekley, Veeam

Highly Commended - Pritpal Singh Kohli, Cisco

Cloud Marketplace of the Year
Pax 8

Cloud Vendor of the Year
Commvault

Distributor of the Year
Tech Data

Editor’s Choice – Most Sustainable Data Center Vendor of the Year

Equinix

Editor’s Choice – Reseller of the Year

World Wide Technology (WWT)

Emerging Vendor of the Year
Blaize

Indian Distributor of the Year
Redington Limited

Infrastructure Distributor of the Year
Ingram Micro

Infrastructure and Storage Vendor of the Year
Arcfra

Lifetime Achievement of the Year

Christanto Suryadarma, Zebra Technologies

Most Innovative Distributive of the Year
Winner - Ingram Micro
Highly Commended - SiS Technologies Pte Ltd

MSSP of the Year
Lumen Technologies

Network Vendor of the Year
HPE

Reseller Innovation Project of the Year

Keppel Technology

Role Model of the Year
Parvinder Walia, ESET

Security Distributor of the Year
Tech Data

Security Vendor of the Year
Winner – Palo Alto Networks

Highly Commended – CrowdStrike

Security Vendor of the Year for Best Partner / MSP Progam
Winner – Proofpoint

Highly Commended - Saviynt

Vendor of the Year
HP

Woman of the Year (Non-vendor)
Chen Hong, Singtel

Woman of the Year (Vendor)
Winner – Joyce Moy, Cisco

Highly Commended - Anjul Ray, AWS and Serene Ng, Trellix


Congratulations again to all the winners.