03 - 04 March 2011: Hotel The Residency, Coimbatore

The Indian information technology (IT) industry has played a key role in putting India on the global map. Over the past decade, the Indian IT-BPO sector has become the country’s premier growth engine, crossing significant milestones in terms of revenue growth, employment generation and value creation, in addition to becoming the global brand ambassador for India. According to a research report published by National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), ‘IT-BPO Sector in India: Strategic Review 2010,’ the IT-BPO industry is estimated to aggregate revenues of US$ 73.1 billion in FY2010, with the IT software and services industry accounting for US$ 63.7 billion of revenues.

The report estimates export revenues to gross US$ 50.1 billion in FY2010, growing by 5.4 per cent over FY2009, and contributing 69 per cent of the total IT-BPO revenues. Software and services exports (including BPO) are expected to account for over 99 per cent of total exports, employing around 1.8 million employees. IT services is expected to grow to 4.2 per cent in 2011 as companies coming out of recession harness the need for information technology to create competitive advantage. domestic IT-BPO is expected to grow by 15-17 per cent during FY11. The industry witnessed a healthy growth in 2010, led by growth in the core markets and supplemented by significant contributions from emerging markets. Growth drivers include a thrust on platform BPO, Analytics, Finance & Accounting, Remote Infrastructure Management, ADM, and Cloud Services.

The data centre services market in the country is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.7 per cent between 2009 and 2011, to touch close to US$ 2.2 billion by the end of 2011, India will see its number of internet users triple to 237 million by 2015, from 81 million registered in September 2010, according to a report titled 'Internet's New bn', Internet penetration rate in India is expected to reach 19 per cent by 2015, up from the current seven per cent.

TRAI is targeting a 10-fold increase in broadband subscribers to 100 million by 2014. The country has 10.29 million subscribers now. will have 100 million broadband subscribers by 2014. Overall India PC market sales touched 27.9 lakh units during a 27 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) and an 18 per cent quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) increase. Desktop PC sales accounted for nearly two-thirds of total PC sales at 1.67 million units, representing a 15 per cent increase y-o-y. The sales of Notebook computers grew at 52 per cent y-o-y to cross 1.11 million units for the quarter, according to research firm IDC India.

CII Coimbatore Zone has been organising a series of “Connect Coimbatore” Conferences over the last 10 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 work for the eleventh edition of Connect Coimbatore has now commenced which is scheduled for 03 – 04 March 2011 and we are certainly motivated to do a larger event, in the backdrop of Coimbatore’s emergence as a preferred destination for ICT investments and the IT Park of the Government of Tamilnadu that was inaugurated very recently. The theme for “Connect Coimbatore 2011” 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.

Sessions would be

• 3G & Trends in Convergence
• Embedded Systems
• Special Plenary on Scaling Software Businesses
• Emerging Opportunities
• ERP for the SME
• Enterprise Application for Cloud