the diverse government departments,” Khokhar said, adding “shows like this help us to do it the best way.” For Atul Kumar Singh, ITS, Director (IT/MIS) in the Ministry of Defence, the InfoComm India inaugural event is a pleasant setting of systems and Atul Kumar Singh, solutions. “It’s really ITS, Director (IT/MIS) good to see such in the Ministry of a vast range of ICT Defence solutions coming together, all under one roof,” he said, adding, “we get to see first-hand, and also have the hands-on experience with diverse range of products; that helps us a lot when we plan information systems for our departments- which is very very critical. InfoComm India has done a great job of getting them together.”
130 Not Out on Debut (a little cricket lingo)
The event’s coming for the very first time and getting along with 130 exhibitors itself is regarded as a ‘big score.’ By a generic perception, with the national fiscal scenario not being very encouraging, getting such numbers from exhibition, as well as visitor community was commendable. Plus programming of the show content with some of the most useful technology subjects sought to be presented by a good mix of local and global players was a very inviting proposition, felt many a visitor.
IdeasAhead. “We got to see some very fascinating technologies,” they said, adding, “the tech sessions too appear to be well conceived. That’s very commendable effort.” According to All Wave AV Managing Director Kuldip Kamat, “the event is good in that it churned out a good mix of products and programming. “Knowledge dissemination is very critical in this industry,” he said, adding, “the cutting edge products on show can be better understood if only their technology and modes of use is explained. The emphasis given to this aspect by this show is great.” According to Saisiva Balasubramaniam, Director at Prompt AV, the show is a welcome event. “Our industry needed a focused show like this,” he said, adding Hiten Desai, Country Manager-Cue Systems “we have been India (left) with Saisiva used to see many Balasubramaniam, tradeshows that Director-Prompt AV are mix and match of many things where one has to search for the possibility of relevant system. A show like this brings all the relevant systems onto one common platform making it easy for professionals and users to choose their pick.” Says Hiten Desai, Country Manager at Cue Systems India: “Being a manufacturer, I could sense the upbeat mood among the exhibitors. That’s an achievement. More, that we find a fine combination of quality visitors from different fields shows the efforts that have gone into making it as also vantage from the industry.”
Babu Prasad, Shyam Shankar, Sugunakar Naidu, and Swaroop Ramakrishna with Barco India MD Abel Garamhegyi (centre)
“It’s very pleasing to see so many exhibitors taking to the show with their latest and best,” say Shyam K Shankar, CEO and Sugunakar Naidu, Director at Bengaluru-headquartered AVSI major
Prajesh Dalal of Genesis IT (left) with Sumant Bhalla of HCL
According to Prajesh Dalal, Naitonal Sales Manager at Bengalurubased Genesis IT Innovations Limited, the show
is a welcome event for not only the diverse range of products brought onto single platform, but also the knowledge imparting tech sessions. “Being a focused AV show, the event helps the industry players and users come together and know what is available and what is needed.” “We liked the show particularly for the fact that there were no casual (junk) crowds – common for most other shows – who distract the exhibitor’s Jaleel H Sabir of The attention from serious business Sound Room interactions,” lauds Jaleel H Sabir of Hyderabad-based The Sound Room, representing dnp Denmark at the show. “We had very quality visitors who understand what we have on show. We also had time to go around the show and understand what others have; in fact we were able to close some good business deals with some exhibitors,” he said, adding, “that was very pleasing.” Perhaps, a summation of the generic mood of the exhibitor community came from Kramer India chief Bharath Kumar. Bharath Kumar of “Fantastic,” was Kramer the acclamation. “It’s the best show in the country in recent times, worth the investment coming here.” According to him, day one brought high quality visitors while day two had a good mix of people. Day three, though heavily discounted, still fared better. “I guess it’s a money spent well exercise,” he said. “Two years ago, I clinched a couple of big deals on the show floor itself; this time we haven’t had such successes. Yet, we had what we wanted- quality visitors and wellorganized event. That’s great.” “We couldn't ask for more for the inaugural launch of InfoComm India,” said a pleased Richard Tan, summing up the event on last day. “Booth space