ISODA – TS9 kicks off in Doha, Qatar

The 9th edition of ISODA (TS9) Summit gets underway by kicking off a Business Networking dinner at Hotel Ritz Carlton, Doha which is joined by around 120 plus delegates. This year, ISODA has joined hands with Indian Business Promotion Council (IBPC) which is supported by Indian Embassy – Doha to host a Business Networking Session on 31st January. The session provided a platform for ISodians to network with Qatari IT companies and Indian IT companies in Doha.

inaugurating the Networking session, ISODA Chairman, N K Mehta introduced ISODA to everyone while thanking Qatar Tourism and the Indian Embassy for facilitating the event to take place in Doha. “ISODA is a member orientated institution where every members are individual business owners. There are 200 plus business owners who have come and formed this association called ISODA. Every year they meet at some place outside India. But every time this event took place in South-Asian countries; this is for the first time ISODA Tech Summit has come to middle-east and we thank Qatar tourism and Indian Embassy here for facilitating this,” he said.

HE P. Kumaran, Ambassador of India to the State of Qatar, who inaugurated the session said, “It is a pleasure to meet you all today. As I came to know about this, I was very excited to know that ISODA is looking at Qatar as its next destination for their annual conference TS9. Today Qatar National Tourism Council, earlier called Qatar Tourism Authority has prioritized India as a major market for promotion of Qatari tourism. They have recently unveiled their strategy and some interesting things came out. Last year the increase of Indian tourists coming to Qatar was 18%; it’s quite sizable considering that we have a 700,000 Indian diaspora here. The base level of tourism from India, because of family members, relatives, friends etc visiting the Indian community here, is quite high.”

Dr R Seetharaman – CEO, Doha bank, who was the keynote speaker at the session said, “It is my pleasured privilege to be an intricate part of this interesting and exciting session. In the changing phase of the world, it is important for us to recognize that global sustainability is at stake and digitization can play a very big role and that is what we should all aim at. A great amount of transformation is taking place in the world, which is eventually leading companies to change their business strategies.”

This conference will be driven by workshops which will be focusing on providing insights to reflect and help in achieving business transformation process.