The heads of the Telecommunication Administrations of a number of the states have already confirmed their participation at the 12 th International Telecommunication and Information Technologies (IT) Exhibition BakuTel 2006 to be held in the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex in October. According to the Telecommunication Ministry, Turkey, Slovenia, Moldova, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and others have confirmed their participation at the forthcoming arrangement.
Such large-scale IT corporations like Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard (HP), Ericsson, Intel, Alcatel, etc are also expected to participate at BakuTel 2006:
In addition, the visit of Luis Sanz, General Director of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) is also expected to take place at this period. He was invited to take part at the International Conference devoted to the topic Special Economic Areas are a New Trend in Azerbaijan`s Stable Development to be held within the forthcoming exhibition Notably, Azerbaijan`s Telecommunications Ministry became an associative member of the Association in April 2006.
Totally 120 companies, including 15 American IT corporations are expected to participate at the forthcoming arrangement.
The main topics of the event are as follows:
-Telecommunications and Networks,
-IT and Office Technologies,
-Cable and Wireless Communication,
-Satellite communication and Technologies,
-Equipment and Broadcasting Technologies,
-Banking Technologies and Services,
-Security Systems,
-Broadband Communications and Technologies,
-Software and Automated Mechanisms Systems: E-Business and E-Government.
The first BakuTel was held in 1995, and since that time is held annually. Last year`s BakuTel presented more than 100 companies from different countries.
Bakutel 2006 is organized by the international exhibition company ITE Group PLC and its exclusive partner in Caucasus - Iteca Caspian LLC jointly with Azerbaijan`s Telecommunication and IT Ministry.
For the first time the exhibition will be held under the protection of Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev this year.