FPT attend the Gartner Summit 2013

This year’s summit attracted about 700 participants who were CIOs, CFOs, COOs, Sourcing Manager, etc. from various global companies in the Fortune 1000 list such as Bank of America, Bayer, Boeing, FedEx, Nike, Prudential, T - Mobile, Toyota etc.

FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh along with leaders of FPT Software and FPT Technology Director joined this summit.

FPT is the first Vietnam-based outsourcing vendor to present at the summit.

The event covered such hot topics as vendor evaluation and selection, contract negotiation and renegotiation, vendor and performance management, Cloud and industrialized services, and re-imagining sourcing strategies.

FPT Corporation was one of six Platinum Sponsors in the 16th Gartner Outsourcing & Strategic Partnerships Summit in Orlando, United States. Within the framework of the conference, FPT hosted a roundtable discussion with heads of global leading companies under the topic “Explore Vietnam for your Application Outsourcing Needs: Scale, Agility and Expertise” and set up a booth in the exhibition area.

The roundtable discussion, chaired by Mr.Truong Gia Binh, attracted the attention of 20 senior leaders from large corporations in the world. FPT introduced Vietnam as an emerging outsourcing alternative with cost, human resources, delivering quality and professional capacity advantages, besides its own capabilities and experiences in IT services basing on Cloud Computing, Mobility and Big Data to international enterprises.

In the exhibition area, FPT introduced its cloud computing robot named Smartoshin in a word wide large-scale event for the first time. Smartoshin used the F-Voices application (developed by FPT Technology board) to chat with the visitors in English and performed F-Style dance. This event attracted more than 200 arrivals.

"As a the largest outsourcing vendor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, FPT’s participation in such a large event will help the industry leaders learn more about capacity and experience of providing IT services of Vietnamese software enterprises in general and FPT in particular, then empowering Vietnamese IT in the eyes of the international business community", Mr. Binh said.

On the sideline of the summit, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh had bilateral meetings with more than 10 senior leaders of large corporations in the world.

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