MPTCTA, BITOAA members to attend Confed summit

Chennai : Confed-ITTA will hold its second annual reseller summit this
year in Kodaikanal. The two-day event will take place on December 13 and 14,
2008. PN Prasad, VP, Confed-ITTA informed that around 750 plus resellers from
Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and dealers from Madhya Pradesh are expected to
attend. Recently Bhoj Information Technology and Office Automation Association (BITOAA)
and Madhya Pradesh Telecom And Computer Traders Association (MPTCTA) recently
became a part of Confed-ITTA, initiating a national chapter of Confed. He also
said that the dealers from various associations in North and East had shown an
interest to attend the event. "We have also invited all associations across
India to join us in this summit and grow together," Prasad averred.

The theme for the year has been set as 'Expanding Horizons.' "The focus will
to train members on up-selling, cross-selling, value addition, bringing more
products and services to their existing customer base, increasing revenue
through service and support activities, venturing into training etc," Prasad
informed.

Intel, HP and Microsoft were the principal sponsors for the summit that took
place in Ooty last year in November. Samsung was the co-sponsor while K7
Computing and Western Digital were the event sponsors. This time Confed has sent
invitations to all vendors requesting for their support in the summit.

Prasad said that members of Confed have benefited by coming together and
reviewing their operations, focusing on profitability, cooperating among
themselves to avoid price cutting, working closely with vendors to resolve
service and support related issues.

"Confed-ITTA also organized GT2GT (Get Together to Grow Together) event in
Madurai inviting all vendors and discussed various problem areas and explored
possible solutions.

SUMMIT2008 will give an opportunity to members from various towns to meet in
a single place, network and exchange notes, talk to vendors directly, relax, and
acquire skills to improve profitability and stay competitive," he added.

S Karthikeyan, President, Confed-ITTA claimed that the basic aim of the
summits conducted by Confed is to unite the members and strengthen the
relationship between channel partners and vendors. "Through our every attempt,
we aim to strengthen the relationship between vendors and channels. Even this
year we aim to keep a step ahead in terms of strengthening the relationship. We
have learnt our lesson from the last year's summit. This time we look forward to
making the event even more successful," Karthikeyan said.

He also stressed the need for every partner to attend this summit. "There is
a necessity for every partner to attend this summit, as everyone would get a
shoulder to share their burden and support each other," Karthikeyan averred. S
Prakash, Secretary, Confed-ITTA claimed that the summit will provide opportunity
for more resellers to be a part of Confed and pave the way for the formation of
more number of associations from B and C-class cities.

This event will also see the new team of Confed-ITTA taking charge under the
leadership of PN Prasad as President for 2009-10.