SLT powers Infotel 2011

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Sri Lanka Telecom has come forward as the Pinnacle Sponsor of Sri Lanka’s flagship ICT Expo Infotel for the second consecutive year.

Infotel 2011 will be held from 2 to 5 December at the BMICH and is organised by the Federation of Information Technology Industry of Sri Lanka (FITIS) in partnership with Ministry of Telecommunication and IT and ICTA. This will the eleventh exhibition in the series and first event after organisers decided to hold event annually.

Sri Lanka Telecom will also showcase its cutting edge ICT technology in a large exhibition space in the telecommunication pavilion of the exhibition.

At last year’s Infotel, Sri Lanka Telecom pavilion attracted large crowds to experience its cutting edge technology such as Television experience 2010 through ADSL technology.

This year’s exhibition will be a large corporate CIO meeting place too as organisers expect to invite thousands of CIO’s, IT professionals and small and medium size entrepreneurs. Exhibition will also include large enterprise software exhibitors and trainers and has even gone beyond boundaries to feature areas such as Cloud based services, Virtualisation, ERP, Business Systems, office automation.

IT/BPO and telecommunication sector which too has become part and parcel of the ICT industry. Expected is expected to be one of the largest ICT/BPO career fairs too.

Infotel 2011 offers an ideal platform for ICT stakeholders in Sri Lanka and the neighbouring South Asian Region to explore and capitalise the new growth and wealth creation opportunities in the country. One of the key highlights of the Infotel 2011 Expo is the participation it has been elevated to an international expo level and corporate CIO meeting place, says President of FITIS Hardware Chapter and Chairman Infotel 2011 Main Organising Committee Wasantha Weerakkon.

Speaking on the main objectives of this year’s Infotel 2010, CEO FITIS Damith Hettihewa said, “Key objective of the exhibition is to mobilise all citizens towards achieving national ICT objectives set out by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Mahinda Chintahna Vision for the Future and Ministry of Telecommunication and IT, namely Creating a Knowledge Hub, 75 per cent ICT literacy and US$ 1 billion ICT related exports by 2015.

Although Infotel has been a bi-annual event in last 18 years, this is the first time we are hosting this event on an annual basis after significant success we had last year.

This year’s Infotel Expo will be unique as it will not be limited to a showcase of ICT product and gadgets but will be an ICT Expo of international standards and a meeting place for corporates, buyers, seller , recruiting companies, career seekers and IT enthusiasts alike.