ABITA to hold first IT Expo later this week

Gujarat CM to inaugurate the expo virtually

Ankleshwar and Bharuch Information Technology Association
(ABITA) is holding its first ever annual IT exhibition from December 27 to 29.
Interestingly, the association has planned a unique inauguration of the expo.
"We have invited and got a verbal confirmation from Narendra Modi, Chief
Minister, Gujarat. The uniqueness would be that he would not be physi-cally
present but thro-ugh video conferencing equipment from his residence inaugurate
the function," revealed Manish Shroff, Presi-dent, ABITA.

The main sponsors of the event include Intel, Canon and ISP GNFC
online (Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company). The organizers of the event
have invited channel partners from the neighboring region also like Jagalia,
Panoli, Dahej and Vagra.

ABITA will be incurring an expenditure of Rs 6 to 7 lakh but is
not expecting any profit, as this is its first expo. "This is the first
time we are holding an expo, therefore, a lot of promotional expenditure has to
be incurred in the form of advertising in end user and trade magazines,"
pointed out Shroff.

ABITA is also expecting a crowd of over one lakh during the
three day period, which will include both end-users and corporates. The Bharuch
IT forum is involved in the expo, there-fore, there would a lot of participation
from the SOHO segment and corporates also.

Totally, there are 55 stalls from dealers across Ankleshwar and
Bharuch. The products on display would vary from wireless, blue tooth, infrared,
high end networking equipments, PCs, servers, printers etc.

The ABITA members actively involved in the expo activities
include Harish Joshi (Chairman), Paras Patel (Secretary), Kalpesh Balwadi,
Mayank Mehta, Palkin Zamindar, Irshad Gaud, Naem Surajwalla and Vikant Dave.

Nancy Sudheer

Mumbai