Bangladesh IT companies participating in NY Global Sourcing Forum

FE Report

Top executives from 12 leading Software and IT services companies from Bangladesh are participating in Global Sourcing Forum & Expo, New York, the premier IT Outsourcing event of USA which will be held at Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, USA on November 11-12, 2009 with a Country Pavilion supported by Export Promotion Bureau and BASIS, the national association for Software and IT enabled services of Bangladesh. This is going to be a grand participation of BASIS member companies in USA for the 2 nd time. Global Sourcing Forum draws a large number of senior business executives in USA who are responsible for the overall IT procurement of their companies.

Mr Zainal Abedin, M.P., Member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce will lead the government delegation while BASIS Vice President Mr Shameem Ahsan will lead the BASIS contingent as Team Leader. Mr Monoj Kumar Roy, Joint Secretary (Export), Ministry of Commerce, Mr Shafquat Haider, Director, FBCCI and BASIS and Mr Kawser Jamal, Coordinator, BASIS team at GFSE New York will be in the delegation.

BITS Solutions Ltd., Databiz Inc, Devnet Limited, Global Web Outsourcing, Infinity Technology International Ltd., Inspiring Through Information Web (ITIW), Mazumder IT Limited, SW Multimedia Ltd. , US Software Ltd. are participating as Exhibitors and Daffodil Computers Ltd., DataSoft Systems Bangladesh Ltd. and Ethics Advance Technology Ltd. will participate as visitors.

There has been a rising global confidence in Bangladesh and its IT Industry in the recent years. Goldman Sachs recognized Bangladesh as one of the Next Eleven (N-11) - a list of eleven countries having strong potential for becoming the world's largest economies along with BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), with highly promising outlooks for investment and future growth. European Commission has recently included Bangladesh as one of the top IT Outsourcing destinations in the world.

BASIS contingent is bearing the slogan "Bangladesh: Asia's Emerging IT Services Destination" during this exhibition. EPB and BASIS will also organize a seminar on Bangladesh IT Industry on November 12 at the fair venue where top executives from US IT Companies, IT Associations, Chamber of Commerce and media will attend.