High-tech industry delighted with CeBIT 2011


High-tech industry delighted with CeBIT 2011

A highly successful CeBIT 2011 has fired up the international ICT industry. More than 4,200 companies from approximately 70 countries participated at CeBIT 2011, including many companies, which returned after a break of several years, such as Canon, Epson, HP, Motorola, Oracle, Siemens Enterprise Communications, and Xerox.

CeBIT 2011 hosted 339,000 visitors from 90 countries. The CeBIT Global Conferences also netted a positive response, attracting a total audience of 8,000 industry professionals for the keynotes and panel discussions. Over 30 international speakers appeared, among them EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Ford CEO Alan Mulally, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs, leading US blogger Chris Pirillo, Shmuel (Mooly) Eden from Intel, and Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, National Chief Technology Officer of the Republic of Korea.

 

As the featured CeBIT Partner Country in 2011, Turkey was represented with national pavilions in five separate halls. The group of over 90 Turkish exhibitors rated their participation at CeBIT a success, drawing even more international visitors than anticipated. Turkey¿s highest-ranking representative was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo¿an, who opened CeBIT 2011 on Monday night along with German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, before an audience of 2,500 VIPs from around the world.

 

Twenty Bulgarian companies also took part at CeBIT 2011, presented at Bulgaria national stand at the expo with AvantX Technology as one of the participants presenting their highly successful digital signage system Wizzy Cast. The Bulgarian national stand was supported by the Executive Agency for Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) through the Operational Program ‘Development of the Bulgarian economy’.

The next CeBIT will be staged from 6 to 10 March 2012 in Hannover.