The 17th ITCN Asia 2017 – Pakistan’s biggest international exhibition and conference on Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunications held on 19-21 September at expo center Karachi.
The event witnessed huge participation from visitors. The exhibition featured numerous conferences, including a Telecom Summit and a PSEB CEO Forum, besides a moot on the ‘Digital Security for Media’ and another on the ‘Role & Importance of ICT in HEIs.’ It also featured exclusive conferences on ‘Information-Security’ and Financial Technologies (FinTech) to analyze the evolving trends & challenges in these fields.
Nearly 70 experts and international speakers made speeches and presentations to explore new verticals and provide extensive information on the latest innovations in the digital world. These conferences attracted an audience of more than 700 delegates, including CEOs, CIOs, CISOs and other senior officials.
The concurrent events of this year’s forum are; Security Asia, Fire & Safety Asia, Lights & LED Asia and Consumer Electronics Asia.
The ITCN Asia’s scope was greater than all its previous annual events, with numerous new features added to it. It occupied over 150,000 sq feet of exhibition area, and more than 600 international & domestic brands with 150+ foreign delegates and participants from more than 25 countries. Over 50 startup companies and experts along with 100,000+ visitors graced the event expectedly.
This forum was supported by the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of IT & Telecom and Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA).
“ITCN Asia provided a collaborative environment to find better solutions and facilitate public/private partnerships,” said Ismail Shah, chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), addressing the ITCN Asia 2017 as guest of honor.
The Platinum Sponsor of this conference was HIKVISION, whereas brands and enterprises such as JAZZ, NAFFCO and Megaplus are the Gold-Sponsors. The Silver Sponsors included successful companies such as Samsung, Microtech, Optimum Technology, SFFECO GLOBAL, Dahua Technology, Haseen Habib Trading (Pvt.) Ltd, Emirates Firefighting Equipment Factory LLC (Firex), Xclusive Solutions and KEDACOM, whereas the Bronze Sponsors are: 3M, Minerva, Vivanco, ABM Data Systems (Pvt.) Ltd, Fakhri Brothers, Tech Smart IOT and Americom Technology.
The strategic partners of ITCN Asia include: PTA, PSEB, P@SHA, KPITB, ICT Forum Pakistan, The Nest I/O, ISACA – Karachi Chapter, TECH Pakistan, IEEE- Karachi Section, Department of IT-Government of Sindh, Usman Institute of Technology and Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, whereas IBA was the knowledge-partner and the official Web-Partner was A2Z Creatorz.
