FITDAK conducts AGM in Mangalore, forms new Board

Federation of IT Dealers Association Karnataka (FITDAK) has recently conducted Annual General Meeting on 21st and 22nd May 2022 at Hotel Motimahal, Mangalore. In association with DQ Channels as Media Partner, two day AGM was attended by all the district associations- AIT Bangalore, DEAL IT Mysore, DITDA Davangere, CDITDA Chitradurga, COORG IT Association, DDAIT Hubli, SITA Shimoga.

HP was the main sponsor of the event and WD was the co-sponsor. Digisol and Busy Accounting were the stall sponsors. Savex also took part as a sponsor.

Dhruba Jyothi Das from HP gave the presentation on HP products and also gave his view on the way IT dealers should plan the future of their business. Srinivas Sampangi from WD gave the presentation on WD and threw light on the leadership of WD in the storage business and also the range of products they are presently into. Suman Kumar from Digisol spoke on their company product profile. Ismail from Busy Account Software spoke regarding their range of products. Jeyalakshmi Venkatraman, Vice President, FITDAK talked on 'Future Scope for Business Enhancement in IT Industry'.

A panel discussion was also being organised moderated and panelled by Sujai Monterio and Sai Rao President - FITDAK, Malatesh State- Co-ordinator, Harish- Secretary, Sathish Rao- Secretary AIT Bangalore.

The topic given for discussion were:

1. Business Dynamics Post Pandemic How has IT business evolved?

2. Is OLS gaining momentum? How can Brick and mortar businesses counter E-Commerce?

3. Strategy to capture new clients, Advice to IT dealers.

4. Government Schemes, How aware are we?

Sai Rao felicitated all the presidents of district associations. He spoke to the gathering about the importance of being part of the association. He stressed networking of all partners across the state which would give definite benefits to the business. He said, “Sports events should be conducted regularly between associations so that members take out some time out of their busy schedule. Dealers should diversify to the new area to keep their momentum of growth. He spoke on the dearth of technically qualified staff which is the most needed thing at present.

Kaushik Pandya, President, Federation of All India IT Dealers (FAIITA) wished the FITDAK team through video call. He gave an inspirational and motivational talk to all members present and also he spoke on the online platform IT mall to be launched shortly for the benefit of all IT dealers.

Mangalore IT dealers association (MITDA) did the installation ceremony. Sudhir Shetty installed Bharath Shetty, President of MITDA and all other office-bearers. A vote of thanks was given by Murali, there continuing with the cocktail and dinner.

On 22nd May it was the AGM & Election of FITDAK 2022. Sai Rao welcomed the FITDAK EC members. Harisha presented the Secretary's report and financials of FITDAK. The election was conducted by Sujai Monterio for the new Office bearer of FITDAK 2022. Mahesh was elected as the President of FITDAK for 2022-24 and the whole team of office bearers were unanimously elected. Mahesh spoke on his views on taking FITDAK to new levels.

G.N Mahesh                  President              CITDA Chithradurga

Kumaraswamy              Vice President     Deal IT Mysore

Narendra KR                 Vice President     DITDA Davangere

Anand R                         Secretary              SITA Shimoga

JagadhishShetty           Treasurer             MITDA Mangalore

Ketan Shah                    Joint Secretary   AIT Bangalore

KP Chandrashekar      Joint Secretary   IT Coorg