This year’s Computex Taipei is expected to help participating companies seal business deals worth more than US$20 billion — the figure achieved at last year’s fair, the show organizer said yesterday.
“We expect Computex to create more business dollars this year, as a number of new products will be showcased at the fair,” Moses Yen (顏木松), executive director of the exhibition department of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA, 外貿協會), told a press conference.
Computex is the world’s second-largest IT tradeshow after Germany’s CeBIT. At last year’s event, nearly US$700 million in deals were sealed during one-on-one procurement meetings, and the whole trade fair helped conclude trade deals totaling US$20 billion, Yen said.
Fifty more companies and 205 more booths have been reserved for this year’s event, which will be held from June 1 to June 5 at the Taipei World Trade Center. The number of companies participating is 1,750 with 4,700 booths, TAITRA said.
It is expected to attract a record-breaking 35,000-plus international buyers, it said.
Into its 30th year, Computex will hold more than 100 conferences and forums. E-reading will be discussed at the “E-book Industry Trend and Design Forum,” while the “3D Technology and Design Forum” will focus on the technology’s latest developments. Cloud computing will also be featured in a forum.
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