This multi-facet expo will be providing a platform to establish a network with the local and regional/ global IT-ITES industry leaders and experts to share their best practices and experiences. In this four-day-long event will be hosting more than two hundred ICT experts, analysts and representatives from top global IT firms. The exhibition this year will have several regular elements. In addition to that, Sophia- world's first social robot is going to make an appearance during this expo.

It will also have more than 300 stalls and pavilions for IT Exposition, 24 seminars and panel discussions & a ICT Career Camp- all of these aim to connect investors, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and IT workforce of the country.

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The high voltage sessions of this year's digital world are:

* Disruptive Technologies VCs are investing in which will be attended by: Fazle Kabir, Governor, Bangladesh Bank; Professor Dr. M. Khairul Hossain, Chairman, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission; Wendy Jo Werner, Country Manager, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, International Finance Corporation, IFC.

* Prospect and Challenges of Digital Currency in Bangladesh which will be attended by: S M Kamal, Country Manager, MasterCard, Bangladesh; Nick Gogerty, Chief Strategist, Lykke Asia, Singapore; M A Mannan M.P, State Minister of Finance, GoB; Mohammad Arfe Elahi, IT Manager, a2i, PMO; Subhankar Saha, Executive Director, Bangladesh Bank; Abul Kashem Md. Shirin, MD of DBBL; Debdulal Roy, General Manager, Bangladesh Bank

* Seminar on IoT by DataSoft which will be attended by Mahboob Zaman, Managing Director, DataSoft Systems Bangladesh Limited; Dr. M. Helal Uddin Ahmed, Professor & Chair, MIS Department, Dhaka University; Faruq Ahmed Jewel, IoT Expert, A2i; A N M Safiqul Islam, Project Director, SDKHTP.

* Smart agriculture, Smart Future which will be attended by: Dharani Burra, Data Scientist, CGIAR; Begum Matia Chowdhury, MP, Minister, MoA; Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, State Minister, ICTD; Dr. Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, MP; Marcia Bernicat, Ambassador, US Embassy; Anis Ud Dowla, President, BD Seed Association; Mosharraf Hossain, Addl. Secretary, MoA; Mustafa Jabbar, President, BASIS; Prof M A Kashem, Vice Chancelor, HSTU;

The ICT Division, in association with BCC, BASIS and A2i has organised this mega event. ICT Division has also collaborated with Bangladesh Association of Call Centre and Outsourcing (BACCO), e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-Cab), Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) and professional bodies including Bangladesh Computer Society, Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF), Bangladesh women in IT (BWIT) and CTO Forum.