Scenes From Synnex's First Varnex Conference

Distributor Synnex launched its Varnex community recently with its first conference, held in San Antonio, Texas. The event brought together more than 120 solution providers and dozens of vendors. Here are some scenes from the show. Pictured here, Steve Jow, Synnex's senior vice president of sales leads his team of resellers during the opening night's Wild West Olympics team building event.

Gary Isaacs from IBM, David Cardwell from Lexmark, Rodney Clark from Microsoft and Gary Koopman from Hewlett-Packard participated in Varnex's Vendor Executive Panel moderated by Stegner.

Gary Isaacs from IBM answers a question from solution providers attending the Varnex conference in San Antonio.

Who would have thought that everyone took tug-of-war so seriously?

Lok-yi Meetze from Oki Data met many solution providers throughout the conference, including the Varnex Vendor Pavilion.

Who knew that solution providers had other natural talents during the Wild West Olympics, such as the cowboy hat tossing contest.

Larry Schulze from Taylor Business Group delivers a presentation on compensation strategies to solution providers.

Frank Maguire, one of several keynote speakers at the conference, autographs his book for conference attendees inside of the Xerox booth.

Matthew Lee (in hat) president of FASTech and team work together to beat the clock at Western Pictionary.

Manufacturers, solution providers and Synnex executives take a break from the Wild West festivities to pose for a photo.

Walter Santiago from A Fluent Vision leads a business workshop on how to enhance a reseller's value proposition.

There was plenty of buzz in the Varnex Vendor Pavilion, including many solution providers stopping to see HP.

Greg Wieking from Synnex's PRINTSolv division details how reseller partners can incorporate a print managed service into their business model.

Bob Stegner, senior vice President of North American marketing, kicked off the conference looking "cool" on the Harley and proclaiming that "He's already back," following a spoof based on Terminator 2.

Stegner congratulates the purple team for their Wild West Olympics gold medal.

Dil Singh from Diltex talks to Sandi Stambaugh about Synnex digital signage solutions.