First Central Asia CIO Summit kicks off in Kazakhstan
By Aynur Jafarova
The first Central Asia CIO Summit, organized by IDC, kicked off in Kazakhstan's Rixos Borovoe hotel on September 5.
Building on 5 years of successful IDC CIO Summits in the Middle East and Africa, IDC is now launching its CIO Summit Series in Central Asia.
The Central Asia CIO Summit, which is being held in Kazakhstan on September 5 - 6, is the most important ICT event in Central Asia in 2013.
It brings together more than 80 ICT directors from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The event draws leading ICT companies.
"Today the organizations enter new round of their development with the use of innovative technologies, approach to business method and management of various processes, by using better 'clouds', mobile technologies, social networks and 'big data'. Now it is very important to stay in know of recent developments and global trends in order to understand how it will affect the information technologies in the organization and thus, its further activity," regional director of IDC Andrei Beklemishev said.
According to him, it is very important for being ahead of not only local, but also regional as well as global competitors.
Such topics as business intelligence, data management, cost optimization and cost management, and IT management are being discussed at the event.
Executive Vice President of IDC International Business Units Philippe de Marcillac, IDC Senior Vice President Steven Frantzen, IDC Vice President Robert Farish, and Vice President and Regional Managing Director of IDC Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, Jyoti Lalchandani, attended the event.
The Central Asia CIO Summit is a unique ground for the representatives of various countries to share their projects during the summit sessions, to discuss innovative trends in the IT sphere during panel discussions, to hold individual meetings and to get answers to key IT questions for development of modern companies and organizations.
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