Nasscom 2004 to focus on expanding market

Nasscom 2004, the annual event of the Indian software sector, organised by the National Association of Software and Service Companies, will kick start on February 3 in Mumbai.

The three-day event will focus on the global economic landscape, the challenges of managing a global company, the security issues facing the IT industry, and the opportunities for Indian IT industry with the changing demographic profiles of various countries such as the US and UK.

Apart from discussing global IT issues, the conference will also address technical aspects of the domestic IT industry such as open source, on-demand computing, networking and storage.

"With representation from countries like Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Nasscom 2004 will provide Indian IT companies an opportunity to explore business beyond the traditional shores of the US and the UK," the IT lobbying group said in a statement.

The Nasscom event is expected to attract around 800 delegates from India and abroad. The event will also feature over 60 speakers addressing over 20 sessions spread across the 3 days of the conference.

Key speakers include Dan Griswold of Cato Institute, Joseph Quinlan of, Bank of America, James Carafano of Heritage Foundation, Alistar Cox of Xansa, John Reed of the New York Stock Exchange and Jeff Lande of ITAA, amongst others.

"Nasscom 2004 will attract some of the best-known speakers from the industry and prominent figures from business, government and media circles to chart out the strategy for building the Indian domestic ICT market""boosting growth and computerisation among home customers", Kiran Karnik, president, Nasscom said.

The Billion Dollar Club, CEO Conclave, International analyst and Think Tank Summit, Security Imperatives and Global Trade, Customer Speak (International CIOs) , Indian ITES BPO outlook, country forums, domestic market forum and CIO roundtables will be some of the features of the event.