International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2008
January 7-10, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
The Consumer Electronics Show is considered as the inevitable informatics tradeshow. The first exhibition was born in New York City in 1967 (200 exhibitors and 17.500 attendees) and kept developing over the years. It occurred in January 2008 in Las Vegas and was the meeting point of 2.500 exhibitors spread on 13.000 square meters, and 130.000 visitors.
It was a trade-only show and was not open to the general public. There, many previews of products were introduced, or new products were announced. Indeed, many of the product you use daily came into light during this event the past years: video player, CD-player, RDS system, DSS system, the Home Media Server, the DVD Blu-ray, and other audio products, new technologies, games, home cinema, smart vehicles, wireless technologies.
During CES 2008, you could attend free conferences offered by public figures. One of the highlights was Bill Gates’ keynote speech – look here - in which he announced his retirement from his daily duties at Microsoft, and presented how his last day with Microsoft would be like.
To see videos about the show, click here.
For more information, click here.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
2500 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201-3834 USA
Phone: (866) 233-7968 (USA), (301) 631-3983 (International)
Fax: (703) 907-7601
CESinfo@CE.org
http://www.CE.org/
ISE 2008 - Integrated Systems Europe
January 29-31
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ISE is the leading pan-European show for Professional AV and Electronic System Integrators, offering exhibition and conference about the latest electronic systems technologies and solutions, up to date market information and an education program, made of sessions led by the exhibitors. If you want to attend them, do not forget to register or take a look at the ISE 2008 Visitor Brochure (English).
ISE is the initiative of two major electronics industry associations, CEDIA® and InfoComm International®, and is now the largest tradeshow in Europe for the AV systems and Electronic Integration market, receiving in 2007 twice as many visitors as the year before, coming from 99 countries. Expecting even more attendees in January 2008, ISE has foreseen a bigger number of exhibitors, regional pavilions, displays, attractions and educational sessions.
You will find there over 400 exhibitors, a comprehensive education program, manufacturers workshops, the IMCCA collaborative conferencing pavilion, the digital signage (in action and on display), the ISE home theatre, the residential solutions area, international pavilions, and the networking pavilions and events.
For more information, click here.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
USA & other countries
Mr Mike Blackman, Managing Director
Integrated Systems Europe
Mozartstrasse 60
D-85521 Ottobrunn
Germany
Phone: +49 89 638 7929-0
Fax: +49 89 638 7929-29
mblackman@iseurope.org
United Kindom, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Scandinavia, France, Latvia
Mr Ian Morrish, ISE Sales manager
57, Durleston Park Drive
Great Bookham
Surrey, KT23 4AJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1372 454366
Fax: +44 1372 453199
imorrish@iseurope.org
CeBIT 2008
March 4-9, 2008
Hannover, Germany
CeBIT Hannover, the world's largest and most influential ICT tradeshow, is a business-to-business event that presents a complete range of technology products and solutions. CeBIT 2007 featured the main display categories of Business Processes, Communications, Digital Equipment & Systems, Banking & Finance, future parc (emerging technologies), and Public Sector Parc as well as such special displays as Forum SMEs and Planet Reseller.
CeBIT offers you the best possible opportunities for getting together with the people you really need to talk to. More than 350,000 of the 480,000 visitors to the show in 2007 were professionals, many of them authorized to make buying decisions. Visit http://www.cebit.de to learn more.
Hannover Fairs USA organizes a number of USA Pavilions and Exchange Pavilions that offer cost-effective turnkey exhibit packages. E-mail cebit@hfusa.com for more information.
Because of CeBIT's importance, the Commercial Service has developed the Corporate Executive Office (CEO) program. The CEO is an “office away from home” concept, which, since its inception in 1990, has been successful in assisting U.S. companies find distributors at CeBIT. Find out more about the CEO program at CeBIT. The Commercial Service also provides a number of services to American companies free of charge.
Trade Show Organizer contact:
Ulrike Hammer, Hannover Fairs USA, Inc.
Phone: +1 609-987-1202
uhammer@hfusa.com
http://www.cebit.de
http://www.hfusa.com/cebit
CTIA Wireless 2008
April 1-3, 2008
Las Vegas, USA
The goal of this global market place is to connect wireless with the visitors. It will be the convergence of ten of thousands attendees, 1.100 exhibitors, dozens of industries and more that 40.000 specialists in wireless, coming from 125 countries. These providers, users, developers, buyers and manufacturers will get the opportunity to exchange ideas, create partnerships and collaborate, in a 400,000 square feet-big area, representing a $500 billion global industry.
Also, several animations will take place, such as courses sessions and conferences, which public figures will attend. Last year, for instance, attendees at the third and final day of CTIA WIRELESS 2007® were treated to a standing-room-only keynote session that featured former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton.
To participate to the event, you have to register here.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
1400 16th Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 785-0081
Fax:(202) 785-0721
mgreeson@ctia.org
http://www.ctiawireless.com
SVYAZ-EXPOCOMM
May 12-16, 2008
Moscow, Russia
Co-located with ITAB, this is the 20th presentation of Russia's largest and most successful international exhibition and conference for telecommunications, information technology and wireless/broadband technology.
Awarded Signs of the World Association of Exhibition Industry (UFI) and the International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (IUEF), this exhibition takes place at the Exhibition Complex CJSC Expocentr. Around 650 exhibitors will be spread on approximately 25,000 square meters. The exhibition can be attend in real but also online, thanks to their website, on which you can find up-to-minute information about exhibitors, visitors, programs, announced company events, photos, etc.
The reasons of organizing such an exhibition are diverse. Indeed, the Russia's telecommunications/IT market exceeds the $20 billion mark, foreign firms achieve 60% market share, Moscow needs modern networks and the Russian Internet access expands to 15 million subscribers. To view a report on important information concerning the IT market in Russia, go on Russian IT Business. SVIAZ/EXPO COMM MOSCOW is at the center of this technology rich environment and deals between international and Russian professionals (oil and gas companies, banks, and manufacturing firms). Russia currently spends more than $2.5 billion annually on telecommunications equipment yet imports of foreign-made products account for 60% of the equipment market. For further information, go on http://www.expocomm.com.
This year, the Russian government has selected SVIAZ/EXPO COMM
MOSCOW 2008 to be the promotional platform for Russia's
nationwide deployment of a Global Navigation and Satellite
System, known as the GLONASS program. This project is currently a
national priority, supported by highest levels of government, and
will be at the center of the tradeshow.
Last year, up to 80,000 visitors came to the events to see the
latest products and services from telecommunications/IT
technology suppliers worldwide.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
Closed Joint Stock Company Expocentr
Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya, 14
Moscow Russia 123100
Phone: (+7 495) 256 51 66, 255 28 33
Fax: (+7 495) 609 41 68
sviaz@expocentr.ru
http://www.sviaz-expocomm.ru
Company E.J. Krause & Associates, INC (USA)
Leninsky Prospect, 45, offices 420-421
Phone: (+7 495) 223-2272, 223-2271, 223-2270
Fax: (+7 499) 135-1246, 135-1247
harrington@ejkrause.com
info@ejkrause.ru
www.ejkrause.ru
www.ejkrause.com
www.expocomm/moscow.com (English)
InfoComm 2008
June 18-20, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
InfoComm International offers tradeshows, conferences, regional meetings, classroom training and “webinars”. This international audiovisual business-to-business event is the leading marketplace for display, projection, audio, conferencing, lighting and staging, digital signage, Internet streaming and networked presentation and communication systems. The conferences include more than 250 courses (June 14-20), Institute for Professional Development classes (June 14-20), intensive one-day sessions and 2-4 hour courses.
More than 31.000 visitors attended InfoComm in Anaheim in 2007, 14.591 of them were service providers and 7.058 were institutional and corporate technology buyers. It seems that the event is being more successful year after year, with an increase of 18% from 2006 to 2007.
At the exhibition, you will get the opportunity to discover more about:
- NSCA: June 18-20, 2008, the NSCA pavilion will offer courses in education track. If you want to attend this, do not forget to subscribe. For more information, go on FAQs for NSCA Attendees and FAQs for NSCA Exhibitors.
- NXTcomm: June 16-19, 2008, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom) present a tradeshow for information and communications technology suppliers. This pavilion is free of charge for the InfoComm visitors.
- InfoComm Projection Shoot-Out® Software Volume 2.0: this software, available through Extron Electronics, is a software disc set designed to enhance the sale of video displays, in order to offer the ability to the purchasers to create their own comparisons of display products using a diverse range of photos, graphics, test patterns and video segments.
Anyone who registers to the mailing list in January, at membership@infocomm.org or customerservice@infocomm.org is invited to take part of the events, in the North and Central Halls of the Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
Jason McGraw
Senior VP of Expositions
Phone: 800.659.7469 or +1.703.273.7200 ext. 3310
jmcgraw@infocomm.org
customerservice@infocomm.org
NXTcomm08 – Broadband Wireless World
June 18-20, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Present at the leading business-to-business market place InfoComm 2008, in the Las Vegas Conference Center, NXTcomm delivers the entire ecosystem of network-enables voice, date and video; they converge their key players of communications, technology and service making.
They offer over 200.000 net square feet of exhibit space to over 20.000 visitors from more than 100 countries, including over 500 exhibitors from around the world and 475 members of the press and analyst communities. NXTcomm proposes as well a panel of more than 100 keynotes addresses, sessions and conferences, which will be provided by AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall L. Stephen, at InfoComm 2008, from June 16 until June 19.
Moreover, NXTcomm08 recently announced the creation of special products zones, such as IPTV Studio, content showcase, Green Village and the B/OSS Court, which will be featured at the exhibition, at the same time as IMS Forum, PICMG and ITU/GPON pavilions.
Finally, NXTcomm08 has been chosen to participate in the U.S. Commercial Service’s International Buyer Program (IBP). This is designed by the government and the industry in order to stimulate U.S. exports, trough the promotion of U.S. Industry exhibitions worldwide.
For more information about NXTcomm08, go on http://www.nxtcommshow.com/. Their pavilion at the InfoComm in the Las Vegas Conference Center is free of charge for all visitors; please register on membership@infocomm.org or customerservice@infocomm.org .
Exhibit Contact information:
Nxtcomm, LLC
2500 Wilson Blvd, suite 300
Arlington, Virginia 22201
Fax:703.907.7746
sales@lightreading.com
IBC 2008
September 11-16, 2008
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Run by the industry for the industry, IBC is striving for being
the world's best event for everyone involved in the creation,
management and delivery of content for the entertainment
industry.
IBC2007 welcomed 46.964 visitors and over 1,300 exhibits from over 120 countries, which made this the largest IBC ever. The demand for more exhibition space, particularly in the areas of IPTV and Mobile are testament to the fact that IBC is not standing still.
IBC returns to the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, with the conference opening on 11 September and the exhibition running from 12 to 16 September 2008. The website http://www.ibc.org is the best source of information about last year’s event and will provide data about the next ones.
Companies will be showcasing in the RAI the latest technology and foremost business ideas in broadcasting and new media. In the halls of the centre, the visitors will receive the support they need to find rapidly what they desire to see the most.
Besides, visitors are invited to intend IBC Conference, which aim is to provide information, production techniques and technological developments. IBC is open to any professional proposals, but the offers containing overt commercialism and product sales pitches and/or non-specific proposals from PR agencies will not be considered.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
IBC
Fifth Floor
International Press Centre
76 Shoe Lane
London EC4A 3JB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 78324100
Fax: +44 (0)20 78324130
show@ibc.org
Smau, International Fair of Information and Communication Technology
October 15-18, 2008
Milan, Italy
Smau, the 45th International Exhibition of Information & Communications Technology, is a business-to-business event. Devoted to the ICT industry, it provides real business opportunities to the professional audience, specialists, corporate decision makers, public administration officials and self-employed professionals. This will be held at Fiera Milano New Rho Pero Exhibition Center, in which the traditional exhibition areas will be complemented by special initiatives, combining display areas and seminar programs.
Thanks to this event, the audience will meet opportunities to expand their global business, meet new partners, develop new contacts and identify new business opportunities on a national and international level, but also on the Italian market.
Last year, 476 exhibitors participated to the 44th International Exhibition of Information & Communications Technology, with a total exhibition area of 35,000 square meters. Besides, around 45,000 qualified professionals and more that 1,500 accredited journalists came over. Nearly 32,000 professionals pre-registered on line and used the advanced web services designed to make their visit to the exhibition easier.
Alongside the traditional exhibition areas, special initiatives were devoted to specific targets and designed to allow visitors to explore and try out the latest technological products, an e-academy was addressed to information and training with over 140 seminars, and numerous conferences. You can look at the Official photos of Smau 2007 and videos on Smau Channel.
Tradeshow organizer contact
Smau Organizers' Office – International Sales &
Promotion
Via Merano 18
20127 Milano, Italy
Phone: +39 02 28313.252
Fax: +39 02 28313.235
international@smau.it
http://www.smau.it
CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia 2008
October 7-12, 2008
Istanbul, Turkey
CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia is the largest and most widely known ICT trade fair in southeast Europe and the Black Sea region. It now ranks the sixth place amongst the ten biggest ICT trade shows in the world. CeBIT Bilisim covers the entire spectrum of information technology, telecommunications, software and ICT-related services. The fair trade also provides an opportunity to compare equipment, systems and complete solutions offered by hundreds of competing companies using demonstrations and live-presentations. Visit http://www.cebit.de to learn more.
With more than 950 companies from dozens of countries, CeBIT Bilisim is an important trade fair for discovering current technological innovations and enabling visitors to identify business trends within the ICT industry. The majority of the visitors come from the business world. In 2007 the trade fair was visited by thousands of top-level executives. So CeBIT Bilisim creates several opportunities for everyone interested in expanding their business base and tapping into new markets. At the trade fair there is also a section called “Business world” which is limited to business people. Last year this section was very well attended by ICT professionals, top executives from the vertical industries, international business partners and entrepreneurs. Visit http://www.cebitbilisim.com for more information.
Eurasia is organized by HIF A.Ş. (Hanover Fairs Interpro Uluslararası Fuarcılık A.Ş), established in the partnership of Deutsche Messe AG in Istanbul (DMAG) and Interpro A.S.
Tradeshow organizer contact:
Hanover Fairs Interpro International Fairs A.S.
Phone: +90 (212) 334 69 69
Fax: +90 (212) 334 69 70
info@cebitbilisim.com
http://www.cebitbilisim.com
Laser 2009
June 15-18, 2009
Munich, Germany
The international trade fair LASER, also known as the World of Photonics, is both a global center and a showcase for the optical technologies sector. In 2009, it will take place at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. It will focus on the latest products, applications and trends in photonics and pave the way for the transfer of new technologies in industrial applications.
In 2009, they will focus on the theme “light at work”. It is where market leaders and innovative startups will present the entire spectrum of solutions related to the key technology of photonics, such as products, systems and technologies as well as their applications in the widest variety of sectors. More than 1,000 visitors - from Germany and abroad – are expected.
LASER achieved its best results ever in 2007, with 1008 exhibitors, 25.000 visitors and all the world's leading manufacturers on hand.
Tradeshow organizers contact
LASER. World of Photonics Visitor Hotline:
Phone: +(49 89) 949-11468
Fax: +(49 89) 949-11469
http://www.world-of-photonics.net
info@laser.de