Bangalore to host information industry summit

BANGALORE: An international summit to bring together an interface between the academia and information industry veterans would be held in Bangalore on 15-16 September.

Called Infovision 2005, the event is organized to provide a platform for all stakeholders in the information and content industry including IT, knowledge management, media, information sciences and management.

Briefing the media on the highlights of the summit, the event's co-chair Prof N Balakrishnan, chairman, division of information sciences, IISc said, “India needs to move up the value chain in the information industry. There is also no clear-cut policy on content and information management in the country. We hope that this summit would help in getting insights into this issue.”

The global information industry is estimated at $200 billion.

The program highlights include panels on IT and content management, knowledge management, e-publishing, search engines and data mining, e-learning and digital learning and intellectual property rights. The summit organisers expect 500 delegates to participate including academia, researchers, CEOs, CIOs, content managers and e-publishers.

Prominent speakers at the summit include Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO, Rediff.com; RA Mashelkar, director-general, SCIR; Derk Haank, CEO, Springer, Germany; P Anandan, MD, Microsoft Research India, S Sadagopan, director, IIITB and Nick Moore, chairman, Acumen Consulting and Research, UK.