Eastern Poland on the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2011

Eastern Poland on the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2011

This is the second time representatives of the IT sector and local administration from Eastern Poland took part in the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2011 in Mumbai.

The fairs are traditionally accompanied by a series of conferences which gather the biggest companies from the ICT and BPO sector from around the world, mainly from India, the USA and the UK as well as companies from the emerging markets e.g. Poland, countries from the MENA region, Columbia and the Republic of South Africa. This year the NASSCOM fairs were attended by, among others, McKinsey&Company ICICI Bank Ltd, Hewett Packard India, Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services, KPMG, Steria Group, Zensar Technologies CSC, Infotech, Wipro, IBM, Infotech, Cognizant, Genpact, AT&T and Cisco.
This year general NASSCOM session were devoted to development trends in the IT sector; new, interesting localisations for projects and the future and competition between China and India in the BPO sector.

Session of Eastern Poland. From the left: Ganesh Natarajan - Deputy Head and CEO at Zensar Technologies, Dariusz Karwowski - Councillor at the Trade and Investment Promotion Section of the Polish Embassy in New Delhi, Piotr Falek - President of CSF Polska, Robert Seges - Head of the Services Section at the PAIiIZ Foreign Investment Department

In fact, BPO and IT companies from India have been among the most active investors in the field in Poland. The country has been hosting project by such players as Infosys, Intelenet Global Services, WIPRO, Irevna, Zensar, HCL, TCS, KPIT and Genpact (the first company which invested in Eastern Poland - in Lublin).
On February 11th representatives of Eastern Poland met delegates of Indian companies during a special B2B meeting in Bangalore. The meeting was also attended by the Ambassador of Poland to New Delhi, professor Piotr Kłodkowski and Ashok Kumar Manoli, Secretary General for Science and IT in the region of Karnataka.
Participants took part in the fairs thanks to the Programme of Economic Promotion of Eastern Poland co-ordinated by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency in the framework of the Operational Programme - Development of Eastern Poland. Measure I.4 Promotion and Co-operation. (PAIiIZ)