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Adding a new feather to its cap, VARINDIA, the monthly IT magazine brought out by Kalinga Digital Media Private Limited (KDMPL), successfully organized the third edition of Eastern India Information Technology Fair (EIITF) - 2012 in the City of Joy - Kolkata. The event comprised of two sessions - afternoon and evening, wherein it witnessed a lot of discussions and expert opinions on the talk-of-the town technologies ranging from Cloud, Security, Surveillance and Virtualization.
The theme of the Afternoon Session was: "Challenges in providing affordable solutions to SMEs". This acted as the end-customer networking session with customers across Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, FMCG where they got together to meet the various industry leaders, share their market perceptions and exchange ideas being presented by LG, VMware, Check Point, eScan and Envent.
The evening session kick-started with the auspicious lamp-lighting ceremony graced by Shri. Prabir Kumar Das, Managing Director, WEBEL, Government of West Bengal; Shri Susanta Mazumdar, IAS, Special Secretary- IT, Government of West Bengal; Shri Manjit Nayak, Additional Director, STPI, Government of India, Kolkata; and B. Hari, President, COMPASS. The lamp-lighting ceremony also witnessed the confluence of important stakeholders of the country like Arjun Kumar Dutta, Trade Commissioner, Canadian Trade Office; Ahn, Hospitality Business Head - Asia & Australia, LG (Korea HQ); Hemendu Sinha, Business Head - B2B, LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.; Rajeev Keshri, Regional Manager - East, VMware India Pvt. Ltd.; S. Ravi Shankar, Head- Enterprise Sales, Microworld Software Services Pvt. Ltd.; V. K. Bhandari, Chairman, Supertron Electronics Ltd.; K. L. Lalani, Chairman, Lalani Infotech Ltd.; Pawan Jajodia, Past President, COMPASS; and Utpal Das, Managing Director, Gazelle Information Technologies.
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| Shri Susanta Mazumdar IAS, Special Secretary- IT, Govt. of West Bengal shared with the gathering the ample opportunities in the state across the verticals. | Chandan Roy VP - Unisecure Solutions Pvt. Ltd. talking about the significance of Surveillance infrastructure in place in particular LG solutions. | S Ravi Shankar Head Enterprise Sales- Microworld Software Services Pvt. Ltd. shared with the audience Cloud Security by eScan. |
Shri Susanta Mazumdar, Special Secretary - IT, Government of West Bengal, during his address, rekindled the spark amongst the audience. He gave people confidence about the State and the vast opportunities offered by it. Adding to this, Shri Prabir Kumar Das, Managing Director, WEBEL, Government of West Bengal, confirmed WEBEL's support to the IT and ITeS investors in the State.
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| Sumantra Sengupta Manager-Sales (East), Envent WorldWide talking about the exciting peripheral range for Envent. | Shri. Prabir Kumar Das Managing Director, WEBEL, Government of West Bengal sharing the WEBEL's support to IT & ITeS investors in the state. | B Hari, moderating the power packed panel discussion where they brought to light an important yet neglected concern- the need of varied "skill sets" for the development of the nation. |
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| Hemendu Sinha Business Head - B2B, LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd, sharing the multiple offerings of LG, one as a CE and another as an IT solution company. | Satya K Mohanty Channel Manager, Check Point Software Technology talked the end-point security. | Rajeev Keshri Regional Manager-East, VMware India Pvt. Ltd. sharing company's expansion plans for the region the light of their setting up of office in Kolkata. |
The event also witnessed corporate presentations by the representatives of LG Electronics, VMware India, Check Point, eScan (Microworld Software Services) and Envent World Wide. If LG shared with the audience their various solutions available across the market segments then Chandan Roy, Vice-President, Unisecure Solution (P) Ltd., talked about how surveillance systems in the premises kept the fraudulent ideas from the minds of mischievous people at bay. If Check Point shared their various solutions which provide complete data security, then at the same time Micro World talked about Security over Cloud. VMware threw light on the concept of virtualization.
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B. Hari, President, COMPASS, chaired the panel discussion on "Digitizing SMEs in West Bengal". The panellists included Shri P. K. Das, Managing Director, WEBEL, Goverenment of West Bengal; Hemendu Sinha, Business Head - B2B, LG Electronics India; Rajeev Keshri, Regional Manager -East, VMware India; Utpal Das, Managing Director, Gazelle Information Technologies; and Debabrata Bhadury, Chief Outreach Coordinator (IT), CDAC. In the midst of power-packed discussions, the panel agreed that India missed the chance of being an electronics hub unlike China, Korea and Taiwan. But realizing the loss, the Government and the entrepreneurs have started working towards it. The delegates also exuded confidence that though covered with dark clouds, the Indian IT industry which is a "Sunrise" industry is not going to witness any sunset. It can be said without a shadow of doubt that the clouds will soon evaporate.
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| Q&A round : The Gathering posting question to the speakers post - Presentations |
The EIITF 2012 culminated on a positive note with every attendee having answers to their long- bothering business problems. And Kalinga Digital Media hopes to see some more success stories in the next edition of the event.
