PCQuest SMB Forum 2007

In December, PCQuest concluded yet another successful 10-cities event aimed

at helping small and medium businesses in India to get empowered with IT. This

time, we went to non-metro cities, viz. Lucknow, Coimbatore, Baroda, Bhubaneswar,

Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Nagpur, Puducherry, and finally Indore. The event

went off very well, beginning in the evening and concluding with cocktails and

dinner. The event was a mix of seminars and hands-on demos by experts from

PCQuest and its partners, namely Lenovo, SAP, Intel, Hughes, and APW President.

PCQuest presented on empowering your business with IT, a hands-on demo on how to

conduct online surveys, and a talk on Open Source and Free software. Lenovo

talked about how SMBs can realize their potential. Intel covered technology for

business success, while APW President talked about IT infrastructure monitoring,

management. SAP's focus was to help SMBs steer themselves to a winning track,

while Hughes talked about broadband for business. The event was well-attended,

with 75-100+ senior delegates from SMBs present in each city.

Apart from presentations and demos, the event was livened up with a quiz that

fetched the audience some exciting prizes.