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Follow UsBANGALORE: Asia’s biggest international ICT (Information and Communication
Technology) event, BangaloreIT.com promises to be a great success emulating last
year in terms of participation and visitors to the event.
In a press conference, formally launching the event, Government of Karnataka
Minister of State for IT, D.B. Inamdar said, "BangaloreIT.com 2002 promises
to be the biggest ICT event in Asia. We have already got an excellent response
from companies and global governments to participate in the event. It is our
endeavor to facilitate companies and global governments to do business in
India."
Governments of Germany, Singapore, UK, Sri Lanka, Korea, Japan, Mauritius and
Bangladesh, Taiwan, Belgium and USA have confirmed participation, stated,
Government of Karnataka, IT Secretary, Vivek Kulkarni. A press release also
noted that states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Delhi and Haryana have also
confirmed participation. To avoid the IT event fall on Diwali, which is on
November 3rd, the dates of Bangalore IT.Com this year have been
advanced to October 28th to November 1st, instead of the
regular dates of November 1st to 5th.
According to Bangaolore IT.com event manager CyberExpo Managing Director
Pradeep Gupta, about 30 per cent of the space has already been booked by about
50 companies. "This year the response level is higher with inquiries coming
in from all quarters," he added.
"This year’s event is targeted at a larger audience highlighting the
emerging sectors within IT like BPO, e-governance and banking and finance, which
are added to the 13 pavilions this year. The others include IT Nations, Tech
States, STPI, Telecom and Networking, Software Solutions, Bioinformatics,
Yuva.com, Spectrum, Infrastructure and BizInt," said Kulkarni.
In line with Karnataka's special emphasis on Bio-informatics, the Institute
of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) will offer an exclusive
short-term training course during the five-day event. The IBAB course will focus
on fundamentals of Biotechnology for senior management. The participants of the
course will get an insight into Bioinformatics software, platforms, wet lab
experimentation, DNA sequences, etc. The course is for exclusive participants
who would be specially invited by the organisers. The course would be held at
the IBAB institute in Whitefield.