First Central Asia CIO Summit to Be Held in Almaty

Today, IDC Central Asia and Azerbaijan has announced the first event of Central Asia CIO Summit, scheduled for September 5-6.

The Summit promises to be the most important IT event in 2013 in Central Asia, which gathered more than 80 IT directors from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This event will bring together leading IT companies in the world. International experts IDC talk about the latest trends of the IT market, new trends and innovations.

This is a world class event, where great ideas are converted into achievable plans, CIO will gather leading companies of the Central Asian region, will showcase the latest trends in the ICT market, as well as thematic panel discussions will be held with IT directors and senior executives from leading ICT suppliers.

Key speakers IDC:

- Philippe de Marcillac, President, IDC International

- Steven Frantzen, Senior Vice President, region EMEA, IDC

- Robert Farish, Vice-President, CIS, IDC

- Jyoti Lalchandani, Vice-President and Regional Managing Director, Middle East, Africa and Turkey, IDC

The main topics of the summit are Business Intelligence, Big Data, cost optimization and cost management, the latest threat vectors: the protection of enterprise data centers in 2020, the provision of IT services, the role of CIO in 2020, IT-management and optimization, enterprise mobility .

Summit Partners - Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Kazkhtelekom, Check Point, VMware, Microsoft, Comparex, Cyber-Ark, Canon, IBM, NetApp, Vision Solutions, Citrix, McAfee, Juniper Networks, Konica Minolta, Business Applications Software, Airwatch, SmartCom.

Information support - from companies Computerworld, Alpha, total.kz, Profit, National Business, Infocity.az, AzerNews, ICTNEWS, Kazakhstan Today, Trend.az, Kommersant.uz, biznesinfo.az, Kursiv.

Additional information is available at CIOsummitCA2013.com. - 17D-