ITCN Asia has been organizing the largest IT & Telecom extravaganza of Pakistan, since the past eight consecutive years. This year it will be the 9th annual exhibition ITCN Asia 2009, at Karachi’s Expo Centre for consecutive three days, from August 11-13, 2009. The main purpose of this event is to provide the user community with world wide exposure of technology equipment, machinery as well as associated solutions as the most powerful brands of the world will showcase “their state-of-the-art products and services”. ITCN Asia 2009 is a one-stop shop where you can “test drive” all the products on your hit list. The event attracts future investors, policy makers, telecom giants, software engineers, financers, consultants & of IT professional.

This year Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Pakistan, in collaboration with Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan (Pvt.) will be sponsoring and organizing this event. ITCN Asia started off as a country event but now it has changed into a regional event transforming Karachi, capital of Sindh, into a regional IT hub, towards which major IT Industries from all over the world are continuously being attracted.

This year, PSEB is sponsoring the participation of twenty-nine member IT companies. These international and regional suppliers will be displaying their latest products and services. Their names are as follows:

• A2Z Creatorz,
• Bits Protection,
• Boundless Technologies,
• Business Beam,
• ClearCube Middle East,
• Cure MD,
• Efrotech Services,
• E-INGTECH,
• Ensign Communiqué,
• Excellent Solutions,
• Global Technologies,
• Infotech (Pvt.) Limited,
• Lumensoft Technologies,
• Marriala Consultants,
• Moftak Solutions,
• Plexus (Pvt.) Limited,
• RASG Consulting,
• RASTEK Technologies,
• RTE,
• Sabri Technologies,
• Server4Sale,
• Sidat Hyder (Pvt.) Limited,
• Softech Microsystems,
• Softech Systems,
• Supernova Solutions,
• Systems Limited,
• Tracking World (Pvt.) Limited,
• Volmax (Pvt.) Limited and
• Webiz Media (Pvt) Ltd.

All these companies will be showcasing their products and services at the ITCN Asia 2009. Major companies participating are U.K, USA, Canada, China, France, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, and U.A.E., with over 45,000 trade visitors. With major countries participating in this exhibition Pakistan’s IT Industry has been given a major opportunity to show the talent it has and expose their products and services.

With the growing IT sector of our country many training programs are being implemented under Public Sector Development by the PSEB, providing great opportunities as the industry requires Human Resource, Space and Bandwidth. And such events and exhibitions have been extremely beneficial since they have brought Pakistan in the centre of international market. The growing number of member companies every year proves that yes Pakistan has a rising IT Industry.