Around 2.5 Cr people log on to BTS2020; B2B meeting turns grand success

Bengaluru: The flagship technology event Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 concluded on Saturday with a high note as the first virtual format widened its reach with the participation of around 2.5 crore visitors and overwhelming success of the B2B meetings.

Interacting at the valedictory function of the event, DCM Ashwath Narayan said the event platform and its social media extension helped to garner more global attention than expected.

“Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 brought a total virtual footfall of around 2.5 crore visitors. This overwhelming response shows its global reach and importance,” said the minister.

The BTS 2020 virtual exposure got wide visibility as the inaugural event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke also live-streamed on BTS virtual platform as well as BTS YouTube channel along with other session.

Moreover, Facebook helped the event to reach 5, 42,156 people, besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi Facebook Pages also saw good traffic.

BTS 2020 campaign on other social media like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram brought a total reach of 88,57,614, besides impressions of 1,33,19,232 (1.33 Crore) and unique clicks of 50,997.

Business delegates

The event had a total 8,507 registered business delegates along with total attendees of 19,381 for the keynote, conference, awards and quiz competition attendees. On the conference front, Bengaluru Tech Summit had 12 keynote sessions on 93 sessions via 4 tracks.

On the B2B meeting front, there was a total 312 of them including IT, Biotech Inova Platform and BTS Platform B2B meetings.

The event had the participation of members from the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) from 25 countries with 731 delegates. Besides 10 ministers from foreign countries as delegations, the event also witnessed the announcement of 8 MoUs with overseas countries.

The BTS2020 expo also attracted 248 participants who put up virtual booths. GIA Expo participants from Australia, Canada, USA, Bavaria, UK and NRW-Germany also had their booths. The expo also had 146 startups showcasing innovation in IT, Electronics, IoT, Healthcare, Medtech, Agritech, Fintech, Edutech, Mobility Sectors etc. Corporate, R&D and institutions like Biocon, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Dassault Systems, ACT, VM Ware, Intuit, IIIT-B, IISc also participated,

The event also had lab to market participants like NewSpace India Ltd. ( ISRO Company), C-DAC, BIRAC, MSME CoE ( IISc) and Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Raman Research Institute, National Atlas Thematic.

Besides total expo visitors (delegates) 9,870, Bengaluru Tech Summit also had 10,104 interaction at booth level. It is interesting to note that 70% of the interactions were done by people in the age group of 21 – 35. Also, 24% females also participated at the event.