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Press Area / March 2010 - Piemonte, one of Italy’s most innovative regions, returns to CeBIT in Hannover
Piemonte is exhibiting at CeBIT (March 2-6, 2010) for the fourth year running. With 13 exhibitors (11 companies and 2 research centres) this region of North Western Italy is once again participating with the largest group of the Italian delegation coordinated by ICE in the Future Park (Hall 9). The delegation is led by Think Up, a project offering international buyers a fast track to meet and develop business with a selection of 80 top class ICT companies from Torino-Piemonte, promoted and supported by the Torino Chamber of Commerce and managed by 3 technical partners: Piemonte Agency for Investments, Export and Tourism, CSI-Piemonte (Consortium for Information Systems) and Torino Wireless Foundation.Solutions for the financial world, for document management, for security and for manufacturing controls; technologies applied to the agri-food sector; solutions for cloud computing and innovative business continuity products are only some of the technologies that Think Up companies are presenting at CeBIT. A sample of the fertile IT world in Piemonte, which comprises over 8,000 companies, boasting a unique tradition and multisector know-how in the field, and the birthplace of major enterprises such as Vodafone, Infostrada, Seat, Telecom and Olivetti.
Piemonte also plays an important part on the stage of Future Talk, a forum dedicated to the future prospects of the ICT world. 2 Think Up companies have been selected by the Fair organisers to present their technologies on March 4 and 5: Intellisemantic, with a new semantic search engine, and Csp, with an innovative multitouch screen.
11 of the exhibitors, plus another three visiting companies, will also take part in the technological brokerage events, a programme of B2B meetings organised by the Enterprise Europe Network, of which the Torino Chamber of Commerce is a member of.
The leading Think Up names that are at CeBIT include Isaacrobot (Polytechnics University of Torino), which presents the Isaac Robot I2, a humanoid robot capable of playing football, created by a group of students from the Department of Robotics. It combines sophisticated mechatronic and computer technologies and has already won important international acknowledgements, including the victory at the RoboCup, the international football championship for robots that is held every year in a different city.
From 2000 to 2008, the number of ICT companies in Piemonte almost doubled, creating a rich and varied sector: 37.4% operate in the field of hardware production, 15.6% in other ICT services, 8.4% in telecommunications and 8.2% in the production of films, videos and television programmes. Taken together, the Piedmontese companies in this field have a more robust organisational structure than the business system of the region as a whole, and they are able to operate successfully on foreign markets. Piedmontese exports of goods in the ICT sectors in the first nine months of 2009 amounted to Euro 324.4 million, 6.4% of the Italian total (Euro 5,076 million). Worth mentioning is that a number of business ventures were born thanks to the companies’ presence at earlier editions of CeBIT in Hanover.
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