This year, the Zimbra APxJ Partner Summit was in Anantara Siam, Bangkok, Thailand. The one and half day event was packed with presentations and sharing sessions, with over 100 attendees from across the APxJ region.

Below are some highlights of the event.

Key Event Highlights

Brent, Erynn, John, Vikas, Ryan and Tarang joined our event to share the latest happenings from Zimbra. We had a special guest from The Radicati Group, Sara Radicati. Sara gave the outsider perspective of Zimbra in the email market space. Last but not least, Paolo and Alberto from Zextras gave a special demo on some of the roadmap features of Zimbra.

	Brent Rhymes, EVP, Enterprise Sales & Marketing, Synacor, Inc.
	Marcus Teo, Regional Vice President and General Manager, APxJ, Synacor, Inc.
	Sara Radicati, President & CEO, The Radicati Group, Inc.
	Erynn Petersen, VP, Email & Collaboration Product, Synacor, Inc.
	Paolo Storti, CEO, Zextras

The day continued with breakout tracks, Zimbra Bytes and a Partner Showcase.

Zimbra Bytes gave Partners the opportunity to learn more about the Zimbra team whilst the Partner Showcase featured sponsoring Partners sharing about their successes with Zimbra.

	Vikas Agarwal, VP, Global Support, Synacor, Inc.
	Ryan Monahan, Director, Worldwide Channels, Synacor, Inc
	Kasem Pornananrat, Country Manager, rhipe Techmnology (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
	Naisiew Yeak, CEO, Cloudhappen Global Sdn Bhd
	Wishnu Wardhanu, Chief Technology Officer, PT Jabetto Maraya

On Day 2, we held Zimbra APxJ Sales Accreditation and hosted an Extensibility & Zimlet session. 14 Partners passed the Sales Accreditation.

	John Eastman, VP, Product Development, Synacor, Inc.
	Tarang Khandelwal, Software Engineer, Synacor, Inc.

Thank you to our Sponsors

Gold Sponsor
	Rhipe, The Cloud Channel Company
Silver Sponsors
	PT. Jabetto Maraya
	Cloudhappen Global Sdn Bhd
	Softde’but Co., Ltd
Sponsors
	Softnext Technologies Corp.
	Unifosa Corp.
	iZeno Pte. Ltd.
	Innefu Labs Pvt Ltd
	Ingram Micro (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Technology Partner
	Zextras

Partner Appreciation Dinner

The Partner Summit ended on a high note with a Partner Appreciation Dinner during which awards were given to deserving Partners in recognition of their contributions towards the growth of the Zimbra business in the APxJ region.

	APxJ Distributor/Aggregator of the Year 2016 Rhipe Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd From left: Kasem Pornananrat (Country Manager), Patara Yongvanich (Managing Director) and Brent Rhymes Details: The Zimbra APxJ Distributor/Aggregator of the Year Award recognises the significant contribution by the Partner towards the growth of the Software Distribution business in the region within the fiscal year 2016.
	APxJ Partner of the Year 2016 PT. Jabetto Maraya From left: Wishnu Wardhanu (Chief Technology Officer) and Brent Rhymes Details: The Zimbra APxJ Partner of the Year Award recognises the significant contribution by the Partner towards the growth of the overall Software Resale business in the region within the fiscal year 2016.
	APxJ BSP of the Year 2016 Internet Thailand Public Company Limited Name: From left: Mrs. Morragot Kulatumyotin, (Managing Director) and Brent Rhymes Details: The Zimbra APxJ BSP of the Year Award recognises the significant contribution by the Partner towards the growth of the overall Hosting business in the region within the fiscal year 2016.
	APxJ Emerging Partner of the Year 2016 Unifosa Corp. (商丞科技) From left: Kevin Ke (VP Head of Business Unit) and Brent Rhymes Details: The Zimbra APxJ Emerging Partner of the Year Award recognises the significant effort by the Partner in generating growth of the Software Resale business in the region within the fiscal year.
	APxJ Award of Excellence 2016 Logix InfoSecurity Pvt. Ltd. From left: Abhay Shukla (Head of Technical Support), Prashant Mudbidri (Director) and Brent Rhymes Details: The Zimbra APxJ Award of Excellence recognises the significant effort by the Partner in generating potential growth of the Hosting & Software Resale business in the region within the fiscal year 2016.

Special thanks to all our Partners, speakers and attendees. See you next year!

For more event photos and to download the event slides, view here https://info.zimbra.com/zimbra-apxj-partner-summit-2017