US-Bangladesh Tech Investment Summit will be held at Silicon Valley of San Francisco in the United States on May 7 to promote the investment
opportunity in Bangladesh IT industry for the US investors.
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services and USA-based Indus Enterprise will jointly organise the summit, sponsored by Agrani Bank.
‘This summit is specially designed to attract US investors to Bangladesh IT sector,’ BASIS president
AKM Fahim Mashroor told in a news briefing at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday.
He said the summit would offer the US investors of Silicon Valley an idea about the scopes and opportunity of technology boom in Bangladesh in precise manner.
‘The global IT firms still choose India or Philippine as their IT investment destinations which have already become high-cost markets. Now we need to tell them we can deliver similar services in cheaper rates,’ he said.
‘It will create many small and large business to business communication as more than 50 Bangladeshi IT firms will attend the event to promote their products and services,’ BASIS senior vice-president Shameem Ahsan said.
He said the summit also had a secondary objective to spread the outsourcing potential of the country to the US investors.
‘But our basic focus this time is to draw foreign investment,’ he said.
When asked whether the ongoing political tension could affect the summit, BASIS general
secretary Russell T Ahmed said, ‘This is the right
time as we need to promote that our country has
positive images to offer to the world.’
‘We believe the summit will open a door to US investors and help attract foreign investment which is our core purpose to sponsor this event,’ Agrani Bank chairman Khondoker Bazlul Hoque said.
Organisers said the key policymakers from the Bangladesh government and Silicon Valley senator will attend the summit besides the IT professionals.
newagebd
-With New Age input
