Two weeks before the doors open on the largest business event in the Asia Pacific region, CeBIT Australia 2012, the signs are already pointing to a bumper year.
On target to attract more than 520 exhibitors and 30,000 business visitors to Darling Harbour from May 22-24, there is a huge international presence lined up, led by a 70-strong delegation from the event’s Partner Country for 2012, India.
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Jackie Taranto, Managing Director, Hannover Fairs Australia has been interviewed recently by business media publications The Australian Financial Review (AFR) and Australian IT.
Australian IT – 2012 Top 50 Influential People in Technology:
“It is doubtful that Australia would still be host to the annual CeBIT tradeshow and conference were it not for the tireless work of Jackie Taranto. As the managing director of organising company Hannover Fairs Australia, Taranto has doubled the number of visitors since the inaugural event in 2002 to 31,000, swelled exhibitor numbers from 384 to 512, and built an extensive conference program.”
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News continued to emerge from CeBIT Hannover as the event concluded. Family day on the weekend is expected to push overall visitor numbers past 300,000:
Australian IT reports that CSIRO ICT has signed up for a four year European project to design an open platform that will help the masses of sensor networks forming around the world to communicate through the internet and eventually be sold as services:
The idea, according to CSIRO ICT deputy director Darrell Williamson, is to build a platform that will allow sensor networks — everything from radio-frequency identification chips to soil moisture sensors — to communicate through the cloud (internet).
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Technology and consumer media outlets around the world are continuing to cover the exciting news from CeBIT:
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IT World Canada explains why CeBIT has succeeded where Comdex and similar technology events that no longer run failed:
Walking around CeBIT 2012 is like seeing what Comdex might have looked like had it survived.
As virtual and distributed as the IT workforce has become, there’s also a morale boost in coming together occasionally, if only to realize you’re a part of a really amazing, healthy industry. CeBIT is a good reminder to IT professionals that whatever their challenges, they’re not alone. In fact, when you’re walking around CeBIT, you realize you’re almost never alone.
Read more at The secret behind CeBIT’s success
ZDNET conveyed the message from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that companies must embrace the fact that employees work with their own technology, and that Windows 8 will help:
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The Australian Technology media has been buzzing with news from CeBIT Hannover, these are some highlights:
The Sydney Morning Herald IT Pro site covered the story of IBM’s “Watson” Supercomputer being rented out to analyse data and anticipate risk:
“IBM’s Watson computer, which beat champions of the quiz show Jeopardy a year ago, will soon be advising Wall St on risks, portfolios and clients.
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Australia will be represented by 10 companies when CeBIT 2012 opens its doors tomorrow (Tuesday March 6) in Hannover Germany.
Featuring exhibitors from over 4,200 companies, organisations from 70 different nations and a conference program headlined by some of the world’s leading commentators, CeBIT will be attended by more than 300,000 unique business visitors.
The Australian companies who will be hoping to do business include Accloud and SMS Global, both Melbourne-based organisations.
The Australian government is calling for nominations for its 2012 ICT awards, which recognise standout initiatives in eGovernment across a number of ICT disciplines.
The awards, in its seventh year, are open to federal, state, territory and local government employees and projects.
There are three prizes to be won, including ‘Excellence in eGovernment Awards’, the ‘Government 2.0 Innovator Award’, and the ‘ICT Professional of the Year Award’.
Read more at Computerworld
With ‘Trust and Security’ high on the keynote agenda at CeBIT 2012, there will be much emphasis on that very phrase in the organisation and running of the show – with a host of high profile names attending and speaking in Germany, a list which includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff, security will inevitably be high.
Read more at Installation Europe
Chairman of the Google Board of Directors, Eric Schmidt will join German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and others at the official opening of CeBIT 2012 slated for March in Hanover, Germany.
“We are very happy to have Eric Schmidt as the keynote speaker”, Senior Vice President of CeBIT at Deutsche Messe, Frank Pörschmann said, adding that , “As executive chairman of the Google board of directors Schmidt is among the international ICT industry’s most influential players.
Read more at Vanguard
