LCCI to promote ICT with expo

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is imperative that it lends its experience and expertise to the field of specialised exhibition where it has discovered that there is a wide gap waiting to be filled.

In choosing which of the sectors to commence the series exhibition, the chamber said it considered the area of activity that had recently “revolutionised” business transformation and growth, improving the standard of living and communities through innovations.

“We thus arrived at promotion of Information and Communication Technology and telecommunication sectors,” the LCCI stated in a statement.

The statement read, “The LCCI, by providing this platform for players in the ICT and telecommunication sectors, is opening new vista of opportunities, which can only be created by a proactive and forward-looking organisation like the chamber.

“ICTEL Expo 2015 will therefore mark the beginning of LCCI’s new venture into the specialised exhibition sphere. With its years of experience in organisation of trade promotion activities, there is no doubt that it will be another success story for ICTEL EXPO.”

The Vice President and Chairman, Trade Promotion Board, LCCI, Dr. Michael Olawale-Cole, signed the statement,

It added that the ICTEL Expo 2015 was a professional trade show that focused on ICT and telecommunications industries, stating that the ICTEL Expo 2015 would take place in Lagos, from April 15 to 18, 2015.

“The Expo gives a 360 degress view of the ICT industry and gives top visibility to sweeping trends innovations as well as providing an excellent networking opportunity for business decision makers, innovation managers, enterprise solution providers, startups, ICT academics, Original Equipment Manufacturers , investors, venture capitalists and other players in the ICT and telecoms sectors (indigenous and international).”

Olawale-Cole said in choosing the sectors, the LCCI was quite aware of the revolutionary roles ICT and telecommunications were playing in the advent of a new sphere of business relationship and development.

“With the incursion of ICT and telecoms, it will no longer be business as usual. It has dawned on business people that you either embrace this technological evolution or ignore it at your own peril,” he said.

“ICTEL Expo is designed as an opportunity for professionals, top players, investors, students, regulatory agencies and venture capitalists in the ICT industry to meet the larger business community and other end users to showcase the inherent value of embracing new technologies in ICT and telecoms.”

He added, “With the top quality of players and stakeholders in the ICT and telecoms sectors present here today, I am confident that the LCCI has struck another positive chord within the business community.”

Meanwhile, the President, LCCI, Alhaji Remi Bello, has said that at the inauguration of the present Trade Promotion Board in February 2014, he charged the board to expand its portfolio and come up with a new product to reinforce and intensify LCCI trade promotion activities.

“I am happy that the board took this challenge seriously and has unveiled a top-notch business event tagged: ‘2015 ICTEL Expo,” he said.