L V Muralikrishna Reddy, President of Indian Technology Congress Association informed that Shri. H.D. Kumaraswamy Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka has consented to Inaugurate the 6th edition of Indian Technology Congress-2018 on Wednesday, 5 September 2018 @ 09:30 hrs NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru. ITC-2018 is a flagship event of the Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA), focuses on facilitating collaboration between technology professionals from the industry, R&D laboratories, government, academic institutions and other professional bodies.
With six consecutive years of successful conference delivery with global stature, Indian Technology Congress is back this year with the theme, “Technology First: Make India Innovate, Excel Globally and Prosper”. The event being organized in Bengaluru on 5th & 6 th September 2018 aims to enable insights into technological and operational issues to better understand the realm of modern digital technologies.
The event is unique with the following features: India’s untapped potential for technology necessitates the coming together of technology experts and thought leaders in various fields to explore contemporary technologies. It is a great platform to connect technology end-users with practitioners and plan strategies to deliver solutions for societal challenges. Every business is being transformed through digital technologies. It is imperative for every organization to identify key trends, harness digital opportunities and create value for customers.
The contemporary business environment makes it crucial for business leaders and CXOs to attend technology promotion events to engage with interdisciplinary domain experts to gain an understanding of contemporary technology developments and assess pathways for deriving sustainable competitive advantage. ITC-2018 is gearing up to witness technology researchers, technology entrepreneurs, technology professionals, technology investors, academicians, policymakers and students who get to network, exhibit their technologies, attend roundtables, paper presentations and share a storehouse of knowledge.
The key themes for 2018 include Transforming the Enterprise for a Digital Age, Digital Manufacturing: Defining India’s Vision 2030, Challenges of Driving Digitalization in Public Sector Enterprises, Digital Technologies: Drivers of Transformation in Educational Excellence, Leveraging Technology and Bytes for Indian Energy Security and Agritech. The event is expected with great participation by leading and renowned global professional bodies-World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), amongst others.
‘Techgurus’, ‘Techpreneurs’, and subject matter experts from six participating countries (India, France, Canada, Czech Republic, Israel and the United Kingdom) will be sharing their technical knowledge, best practices, and experiences. With over 800 delegates having participated in the two-day technology event previously, this time the organizers are expecting about 1200 delegates to participate in ITC-2018. The event will also have around 40 exhibition booths that should provide enough space for presentations and demonstrations of recent quantum leaps in engineering research and development.