COME ABOARD: The three-day IT expo that began in Vijayawada on Thursday widened students' horizons. — PHOTO: CH. VIJAYA BHASKAR.

VIJAYAWADA: A three-day `IT-Exhibition 2006' organised by Computer Society of India (Vijayawada chapter) and postgraduate centre of P.B. Siddhartha College was inaugurated by Prof. K. Viyanna Rao, registrar, Acharya Nagarjuna University, at the Siddhartha auditorium on Friday in which as many as 26 companies and service providers set up shop.

The participants included leading hardware and software companies like Zenith, Wipro, Lenova (IBM), Apple Macintosh, Hewlett Packard, ACE Solutions, training institutes like Shaft Animation Studio, ITES firms, telecom organisations and BPO companies.

Ideal platform

"This expo provides the platform for the companies to showcase their wide range of products and services. This expo also gives an opportunity to the denizens to interact with company folks and know about the usage and utilities of the products and services," said organiser Ramesh Choudary.The organisers are conducting technical sessions at the seminar hall on all three days in which industry experts and academicians will deliver lectures for the benefit of the visitors.

On Saturday, Dr. Rajesh C. Jampala, assistant director, PG Centre, P.B. Siddhartha College will deliver a lecture on `Changing paradigms of business in knowledge world' and later Mr. Rama Koteswara Rao will talk on `Embedded Systems'.

On Sunday, Mr. Vellanki Venudhar will deliver lecture on `Biometrics in information security.' A good number of students visited the expo on Friday and elicited information from the company representatives and sought demos from them.

State-of-the-art laptops, personal computers, printers and moving message display machines and several computer accessories were on display. Siddhartha Academy of General and Technical Education secretary N. Venkateswarlu and G.V. Rama Rao, chairman, Indian Red Cross Society attended the inaugural function. The expo concludes on September 3.

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