January 16, 2008	Wednesday	Muharram 06, 1429

ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) is organising networking events in Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, Palo Alto and Chicago, which are the hub of IT activities in USA.

Networking sessions and meetings have been arranged with the leading Blue Chip brand companies, Chambers of Commerce and Government entities in collaboration with Texas Trade Council (TTC), Organisation of Pakistani Entrepreneurs in North American (OPEN), Pakistan’s Embassy in USA and various other local partners, a spokesman of PSEB said on Tuesday.

The main purpose of these meetings and networking sessions in USA was to promote the incentives and opportunities offered by Pakistan IT sector, rectify the misconceptions generated by media about Pakistan, foster business collaboration with American IT companies, the spokesman explained.

Earlier, PSEB arranged various country-focussed networking events in London, Manchester and Glasgow in UK, and Dublin in Ireland.

With an IT Industry worth more than $2.8 billion, including annual IT exports exceeding $1.4 billion, Pakistan was eyeing to increase the size of its IT sector to over $11 billion by 2011.