05 March 2010: Hotel The Residency, Coimbatore

The information technology industry has truly transformed the way the world looks at India. Rapidly capturing global imagination, the success of its IT industry has placed India at the forefront of the emerging global knowledge economy. According to reports, the revenue of the information technology sector has grown from 1.2 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY 1998 to an estimated 5.5 per cent in FY 2008. Moreover, it is estimated that the Indian IT services market will remain the fastest growing in the Asia-Pacific region with a CAGR of 18.6 per cent.

A research by Gartner forecasts India as the undisputed leader in the outsourcing space in the year 2008. The Outsourcing Service Provider Performance Study 2007, undertaken by sourcing advisory firm Equa Terra, reported that the majority of UK businesses offshore all or parts of their IT functions to India and plan to continue with this strategy as India continued to be the favourite outsourcing destination for businesses in UK in terms of satisfaction.

As India becomes more and more a global playground, companies, organizations and enterprises are faced with the need to constantly upgrade themselves in all spheres and it would become obvious over a period of time that the ones that were innovative in thought and action certainly move up fast and take the first mover advantage. Innovative thoughts and ideas would be shaped only by using technology as a tool that will spearhead the same; the Innovate IT.

CII Coimbatore Zone has been organising a series of “Connect Coimbatore” Conferences over the last 9 years and each of these events have had a theme that was the need of the hour and the one that would actually change the paradigm. The theme for “Connect Coimbatore 2010” would be “Innovative ICT for World-Class Enterprises”.

This theme reflects the need for organization to use more of IT into their business to be successful and at the same time, innovatively reduce cost in this period of market slowdown worldwide. It also reflects the need for the IT companies to constantly innovate to become a more global player from presently being the fastest growing market in Asia Pacific Region.

Connect Coimbatore 2010 would have papers / presentations and case studies of IT companies that have innovated for the benefit of others and the case studies of organizations that have used innovative IT as a tool to keep themselves competitive and sustain their competitiveness.

Sessions would be

• Enablers for Growth – Platform for the Enterprise
• Enablers for Growth – Next Frontiers
• Growth Opportunities for IT & beyond IT
• Valedictory Session: What’s Next for the SME Entrepreneur & What will it take to Get There

Target Profile

We expect around 100 - 150 people to participate in this conference. The profile of the audience would be a mix of Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Existing IT Solution Providers, EDP Managers, CTO's, CIO's, Marketing Managers & Faculty Members from various sectors of the Industry & Educational Institutions across Tamil Nadu.