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  • ABP’s Infocom 2014 to focus on entrepreneurship

    ABP’s Infocom 2014 to focus on entrepreneurship

    KOLKATA:  The 13th edition of Infocom, an ABP initiative, will commence from 4 December.

     

    This year the focus of the three-day long conference will be on entrepreneurship. The conference will see sessions on entrepreneurs, young innovators, SME and young hackers in the information technology (IT) world.

     

    Author Chetan Bhagat, Happiest Minds executive chairman Ashok Soota, Ambuja Neotia Group chairman Harshavardhan Neotia, Ericsson India global services MD Amitabh Ray, key officials of ABP Group along with many others are likely to be the key pull at Infocom 2014.

     

    Kolkata-based content marketing strategy company, Fame Per Second, has been appointed for handling all the social media marketing campaigns including at Facebook, Twitter and the business page at LinkedIn among other platforms. 

     

    “The hashtag at Facebook and Twitter has been launched and we are in the process of launching the business age at LinkedIn. Through these pages, we aim to reach CIOs and CEOs and COO of IT, ITeS and related companies,” said Fame Per Second co-dreamer Sankha Acharya.

     

    Driving IT awareness and envisioning organisations and individuals to be IT enabled has been of prime importance at Infocom over the years. 

     

    The event is expected to bring together more than 1,000 delegates, more than 60 speakers and a number of sponsoring companies. 

     

    Apart from this, more than 100 exhibitors from across the global IT domain would display their products and services.

  • Infocom 2013 kicks off in Kolkata today

    Infocom 2013 kicks off in Kolkata today

    KOLKATA: The twelfth edition of Infocom, a three-day annual Information Technology (IT) conclave from the Kolkata-headquartered media company, ABP group, kicked off in the city today.

     
    Driving IT awareness and envisioning organisations and individuals to be IT enabled has been of prime focus of the conclave every year. Now in its 12th edition, Infocom has chosen “Empowerment” as the theme for 2013. The focus of the conclave this year would be on digital empowerment and also on empowerment with innovation and creativity.

     

    ABP managing director and CEO DD Purkayastha on the sidelines of the event said that with India envisioning to become a developed nation in the next few years, there is a growing need to incorporate the concept of creativity in our developmental planning. “And with the aid of technology we also have to drive innovations. These would be areas under focus this year,” he said.

     

    “When we talk about empowerment, the emphasis is on the fact that we want to empower individual consumers, citizens of the country as well as organizations digitally, technologically, socially, gender-wise, educationally, occupationally and many more ways. India needs young entrepreneurs,” he said.

     

    West Bengal IT minister Partha Chatterjee, who inaugurated the event said, “Despite economic downturn, the IT exports from the state stood at Rs 11,200 crore in the last fiscal year 2012-13 as compared to Rs 9,500 crore achieved in the financial year 2011-12. The IT industry gives direct employment to around 1.30 lakh IT professionals and an indirect employment to around 6 lakh people in the state.”

     

    The event is expected to bring together over 1,200 delegates, 75 speakers and 40 sponsoring companies. Besides, more than 100 exhibitors from across the globe would display their products and services.