ITAO holds its 13th Annual General meeting

The IT Association of Odisha [ITAO] held its 13th Annual General meeting (AGM) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. ITAO members from all over Odisha attended the meeting and participated in the election of new office-bearers and Executive Body with much enthusiasm.

There were four special points for the meeting – Annual Accounts presentation, New EB Committee to be elected for 2018-2020 session, discussion of new challenges in the IT industry and adding more members into ITAO.

There is a growing interest within the IT industry in Cloud Storage and Integrated Solution Provider. Members urged to provide specialized capabilities for organizing, training, analyzing and visualizing information into such sectors.

Members reviewed the performances and agreed that the activities of ITAO need to be more proactive and diverse. In a highly interactive session, several suggestions on how ITAO can evolve to meet the challenges were discussed by Ansuman Patnaik and Pritish Gupta.

Aswini Mohapatra, Arun Sutar and Bhrama Prakash Mishra coordinated the election process in forming the New ITAO Executive Body for 2018-2020.

The members also discussed ITAO's involvement in different annual activities and national level Association activities. Outgoing Office-bearers thanked all the members and assured support for all events of ITAO. President Srinibash Tripathy thanked all the members for the responsibility given to him and he assured to take ITAO to greater heights.

New Secretary Rakesh Mohapatra, incoming Vice-President Prakash ch. Ray and newly-electged Treasurer Alok Mohanty expressed their gratitude to the members of ITAO. Former ITAO Secretary Dayananda Ratho assured everyone help, guidance and cooperation from his side for the new team.

Highly successful AGMs and involvement of members in all the ITAO's events and activities was making ITAO stronger and new members joining the Executive Committee made it more energetic and active for all the future activities of the Association.