Photos: See who won at the CRN Channel Awards Australia 2026

The awards were held at the Hyatt Regency in Sydney on September 17.

CRN Australia held its inaugural CRN Channel Awards Australia overnight where it recognised 31 winners across the entire IT channel.

Vendors, distributors and partners were celebrated for their hard work they’ve made within the Aussie IT channel.

Here are all the winners from the Aussie IT channel’s night of nights.

Here are all the winners in pictures!

AI and Automation Vendor of the Year winner: LogicMonitor

AI Initiative of the Year winner: First Focus

Best Young Professional Initiative: Kirra Services

Channel Service Provider of the Year: Pit Stop Technologies

Channel Leader of the Year: Shaun Witherden, Kaseya

Cloud Distributor/Marketplace of the Year: Dicker Data

Cloud Vendor of the Year: Wasabi Technologies

Emerging Vendor of the Year: Wasabi Technologies

ESG Achievement Award: Smile IT

Infrastructure Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro

ISV of the Year: iasset

MSP of the Year (100+ employees): Interactive

MSP of the Year (Between 0-49 employees): Otto IT

MSP of the Year (Between 50-100 employees): Fuse Technology

MSSP of the Year: Orro

Network Vendor of the Year: Fortinet

Network Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro

Role Model of the Year: Ben Hopper, Resolution Technology (RES. Business IT)

Security Distributor of the Year: Westcon-Comstor Australia

Security Vendor of the Year: ProofPoint

Solution Provider Innovation/Project of the Year: Tecala

Solution Provider of the Year (Between 0-49 employees): MSAC Solutions

Solution Provider of the Year (More than 100 employees): V2 AI

Start-up of the Year (Founded post-2020): Sasbri Consulting

Storage Distributor of the Year: Dicker Data

Vendor of the Year: Kaseya

Woman of the Year (Non-Partner): Hope McGarry, Ingram Micro

Woman of the Year (Partner): Megan Visser, Otto IT

Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Demery, Seccom Global