Next Year's Fourth Annual Show Scheduled for Feb. 2-4
 

 
The third annual SUPERCOMM INDIA went into the record books February 4-6, with nearly 15,000 visitors attending and 137 companies participating as exhibitors, sponsors and speakers. The exhibition and conference growth parallel the immense opportunities and positive changes in India itself.  
 
The three-day exhibition featured companies from 15 countries displaying on a nearly sold-out trade show floor. Both Canada and Korea produced impressive national pavilions, with a total of 24 companies participating. First-time exhibitors included Tata Group and LG, with very large stands, as well as returning companies such as Motorola, Tekelec and Tellabs, each with larger booths than the prior year.  
 
The two-track conference attracted 325 delegates, speakers from 11 countries, and crowded sessions in larger rooms than last year... generally drawing 60-75 people in each concurrent program, which featured three to five panelists.  
 
Big-name sponsors included BSNL, Reliance Infocomm, Tata, LG, Canada, VocalTec, Lucent, Cisco and Microsoft. In addition, there was particularly strong support from host government India, the U.S. government's Department of State and Department of Commerce, and the Canadian government, which served as supporting country and hosted a gala reception/dinner.  
 
The inaugural ceremony/opening plenary featured addresses by many luminaries from India, Canada and the United States: Lucie Edwards, high commissioner of Canada to India; Ambassador David Gross, U.S. State Department; Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Commerce Department; Jan Skora, director general, Radiocommunication and Broadcasting Regulatory Branch, Industry Canada; V.P. Sinha, chairman and managing director, BSNL; Kishore Chaukar, managing director, Tata Industries; Eugene Delaney, executive vice president, Motorola, and president-global relations and resources organization; B.B. Anand, president, Reliance Infocomm; and Michael Kennedy, chairman of TIA.  
 
Other key participants during the three days included Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Sons; Shyamal Ghosh, administrator-universal service obligation, India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT); J.M. Mishra, advisor-operations, DoT; P.K. Garg, wireless advisor, DoT; S.D. Saxena, director-finance, BSNL; S.C. Choudhary, director, BSNL; James Aslanis, general manager, DSL Technology Center, Texas Instruments; Anil Kripalani, senior vice president, global technology marketing, Qualcomm; Rangnath Salgame, president India and SAARC, Cisco Systems; Kanwalinder Singh, CTO, Lucent Technologies India; Ravi Sharma, managing director and country senior officer, Alcatel in India and Nepal; Amajit Gupta, industry manager of communications sector, Microsoft; and Rajiv Sharma, CEO, Bharti Infotel.  
 

 
TIA Chairman Michael D. Kennedy, senior vice president and director, Global Government Relations, Motorola Inc. addresses inaugural session at 2004 SUPERCOMM INDIA. [Click on picture for larger view.]  
 
Mark your calendar now for the fourth annual SUPERCOMM INDIA, again in New Delhi, February 2-4, 2005. For additional information, contact Hank Wieland at (703) 907-7709 or email hwieland@tiaonline.org.