World Congress on Information Technology Chooses E.J. Krause to Manage Event
December 13, 2013
E.J. Krause & Associates has been chosen as the event management company of the 2014 edition of The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT).
The event will be held Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Expo Guadalajara in Mexico, the location chosen by the event’s owner - World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA). It will be the first country in Latin America to hold the event.
WCIT Mexico 2014 is organized in conjunction with WITSA and The Mexican Chamber of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CANIETI), managed by E.J. Krause & Associates/
“E.J. Krause & Associates is excited to be a part of this benchmark event. Technology innovation, market trends, and creativity are propelling the ICT industry in unprecedented ways,” said Ned Krause, CEO of E.J. Krause.
He added, “WCIT has played a key role in advocating the industry’s growth and promotion. Currently, the Mexican ICT market is one of the most promising for wireless products and services. AMITI and CANIETI have been great facilitators enhancing public and private domestic expansion in Mexico and abroad.”
WCIT, an event for theinformation technology and communications sector,brings together a global audience from approximately 80 countries.
More than 3,000 international leaders in business, government and academia will come together to share and discuss cutting-edge technology, emerging issues, as well as economic and social trends that are effecting business models around the world, according to show organizers.
The three-day conference and expo will have the theme, “Creating Collaboratively in the Digital Age”, which reflects the critical role ICT-based innovations are playing in transforming everyday life.
WCIT Mexico will feature several business opportunities including a high level conference program, B2B meetings, seminars, innovative showcases, and much more.
“The Mexican Chamber of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CANIETI), incorporates the industry’s most relevant corporations, companies and institutions, linked strategically by general and specific goals, all under one representation with national and international scope. CANIETI runs MexicoIT, the leading IT industry program dedicated to showing, representing, and promoting Mexico’s current technologies, talents, and capacities across IT global markets, to position Mexico’s IT industry at the global market,” said Dr. Amado Espinoza, Chairman of WCIT 2014.
He added, “With Mexico becoming the ICT center of Latin America, WCIT Mexico 2014 is the ideal venue for businesses to promote the global development of the ICT sector.”
E.J. Krause also runs EXPO COMM series of events for the IT Industry, with events in Japan, Russia, Indonesia and Mexico, to name a few.
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