Since 2008, the best speakers in the congress series on topics such as IT security & compliance, virtualization & cloud computing, storage & archiving or UCC & mobility have been honored with an award.

The prizes are awarded in three categories: Those who are ahead in terms of content and have given an informative presentation with high practical value can call the prize for "Best Value" their own. Likewise, talented speakers who shine with sophisticated rhetoric or presentation techniques can qualify for the "Best of Presentation" award. Participants also have the opportunity to vote directly for the speaker they consider to be the best and present them with the "Best Speaker" award. This was recently won by Marco Crueger from Swyx and Marcus Rademacher from Aastra Detewe at the "UCC & Mobility 2009 Partner Solution Days & IT Decision Makers Congress".

The next opportunity for interested specialist dealers and IT decision-makers from user companies to cast their own vote and take part in the election will be at the IT Security & Compliance 2009 Partner Solution Days & IT Decision-Makers Congress, which will take place in September and October 2009 at four locations in Frankfurt/Hanau, Hamburg, Düsseldorf/Neuss and Munich.

IT-BUSINESS provides decision-makers from the IT channel with reliably researched background information and strategically relevant business and technology knowledge - daily on IT-BUSINESS.de and fortnightly as a high-quality trade magazine. The IT-BUSINESS Academy provides retail partners with the necessary business skills and offers an ideal platform for business contacts in the IT channel at the topic-focused "Partner Solution Days". The parent company Vogel IT-Medien, Augsburg, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vogel Business Media. The leading German specialist information provider with around 100 trade journals and 60 websites as well as numerous international activities has its headquarters in Würzburg.