MVAS Africa was an event for the Mobile VAS community of the African continent. This year's event tackled prospects in the region, arising from emerging growth and affluence in the region. This annual event was an opportunity for Mobile VAS professionals working in Africa or for the African operators to share best practices, new technologies and applications.

During the two conference days, VAS experts and experienced operators talked about evolving business models as well as various platforms to enhance Value Added Services.

As India's biggest and most respected LTE event, the show formed a unique platform to meet with the global broadband ecosystem in one location. This year's event attracted over 600 business delegates from India & APAC region, coming together to share best practice, seeking inspiration and guidance on the future of broadband services, and the technology that underpins them.

This Summit helped in restructuring IT re-investment strategies by providing the participants with content that would solve daily challenges, validate future plans and set the department up to maximize business capacity and competitive advantage while maintaining tight control over IT spending. It also provided an ideal platform on the key issues & trends in the Indian enterprise marketplace focusing on the new needs and requirements of enterprise customers and discussed their issues and concerns, and showcased the relevant new products, services and technologies.

InfoCom Tech Bangladesh 2012 - a knowledge based telecommunications, Internet, Broadband, satellite & Broadcast platform, where leading exhibitors, industry experts, key buyers and influencers congregated under one-roof with an objective to discuss the future perspective of ICT sector in view of opportunities and challenges associated with new technologies. It also brought the government, policy makers, potential investors, operators, manufacturers, infrastructure providers, content providers, academia and non-governmental organization together at a common platform to envision the future of broadband with the imperatives required for enhancing its penetration in Bangladesh.

The APRICOT (Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies) is a prestigious regional event of the ICT industry, which began in 1996. APRICOT has provided a unique and successful educational forum for Internet builders in the region to learn from their peers and other leaders in the Internet community from around the world. APRICOT has now clearly established itself as the Asia Pacific's premier regional Internet Summit where related organizations come together to meet and host their annual general meetings, including APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre), APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association), APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Forum), APCAUCE (Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), and APstar.

Held annually, the ten-day long summit consisted of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums all with the goal of spreading and sharing the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.

The objective of the conference was to discuss new technologies for location based services, its applications, advantages, disadvantages, and how the industry can transform these tools in an approach channel with the end customers.

Into its successful 11th edition - The convention created the best MVAS forum in India that offered a useful & powerful forum for participant's to:

• Examine what types of innovative service offerings are most appealing to Indian consumers.
• Develop marketing strategies in order to incite the user to use advanced data services.
• Develop innovative marketing tools for boosting the penetration of Mobile VAS usage in smaller cities and rural areas.
• What is the untapped potential for mobile content and entertainment in India?
• Mobile games - location tracking - mobile banking - mobile advertising - content security.
• Worldwide Trends in VAS & the implications for India.
• The Role of Mobile Operators in delivering mobile content.
• Future Models for mobile content commerce & distribution.
• The Role of Aggregators, Labels & third party content providers.
• VAS as a tool for improving customer & brand loyalty.
• What is the role of Network Equipment Vendors - who need to understand what features service providers need and tune themselves in the Indian Environment.