2nd VARINDIA WIITF - 2012 an Astounding Success

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2nd VARINDIA WIITF - 2012 an Astounding Success

Kalinga Digital Media organized its 2nd Western India Information Technology Fair (WIITF) -2012 on 22nd March, 2012 in the City of Dreams - Mumbai. The event was marked by the presence of Government PSUs, corporates, heads of IT Assocations and IT experts. The Fair was inaugurated by Shri Savitur Prasad, Principal Controller, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India; Shri Raj Prem Khilnani, Director General of Police, Commandent General, Home Guards and Director, Civil Defence, Maharastra; Anand Swaminathan, CEO, Zicom Electronics; Chetan Hingu, Country Sales Manager - ESSN, HP India; Tushar Sighat, CEO, D-Link India; Pratik Raj Sharma, Security Consultant, Checkpoint Software; Sunil Kripalani, Vice-President, Global Sales & Marketing, Microworld; Tadigadapa, Srinivas S, Director - Sales, Intel; Champakraj Gurjar, President, TAIT; Harinder Salwan, Secretary General, ISODA; Chetan Shah, Governing Board, ASIRT; Rohit Srivastawa, Managing Director, Clubhack India; Anuj Jain, Managing Director, Eurotech Technologies; and Tarun Lalwani, Director, Telexcell Information..

Addressing the audience, Shri Savitur Prasad, Principal Controller, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, said, "Technology is an important part of defence, but India lags behind in this area. It is important to converge IT with defence."

Shri Raj Prem Khilnani, Director General of Police, Commandent General, Home Guards and Director, Civil Defence, Maharastra, spoke at length on "Surveillance and IT Convergence".

Throwing light on the objective of the Second WIITF, Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Managing Director, VARINDIA, Kalinga Digital Media Pvt. Ltd., said, "Mumbai is the hub of distributors and system integrators in the country. They only can drive the business objective of the corporate in innovation methodology. For instance, by remembering the date 22nd March, 1993 when Intel shipped its first Pentium chips (80,586) featuring a 60 MHz clock and 64-bit data path. So in the span of 17 years, it has become a history having leadership position with innovation."

The event comprised of ground-breaking presentations by IT corporates and thought-provoking Panel Discussion on "Key Trends driving Business Innovation". The Panel discussion was extremely involving and highly praised by the august audience.

Speaking on Security as a Service, Anand Swaminathan, CEO, Zicom Electronics, said, "Security as a service is a whole new concept and Zicom has become one of the most integrated parts."

Chetan Hingu, Country Sales Manager - ESSN, HP India, said, "Product innovations are always connected to IT and it is good to stay in touch with IT."

The event concluded with a Vote of Thanks by Deepak Kumar Sahu. The event proved to be a fruitful networking arena for the IT entire IT ecosystem in Mumbai. The event spelled business and amusement for all.


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