WCIT 2008 "Best Ever"

The outgoing chairman of WITSA George Newstrom in a May 19 , 2008 press release described WCIT 2008 as the best ever world congress on IT.

“By any measure this was the largest and best ever world congress on IT,” he said during the WCIT Opening and Related Events press conference on May 19.

Newstrom’s comments were based on the tremendous response of global IT companies in attending this year’s world congress on IT in Kuala Lumpur.

He was also impressed by the fact that WCIT 2008 garnered more than US$10 million of sponsorship in cash and in kind.

The WITSA chairman noted that at WCIT 2008, there are:

· More than 70 institutional partners;

· More than 90 participating countries;

· More than 100 speakers;

· More than 3000 delegates;

· More than 2000 business-to-business meetings;

· More than 50,000 participants; and

· 100,000 square feet of exhibition space.