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Upstream & Downstream Oil and Gas Exhibitions & Conferences 2011, Abuja – Energy Technology Event

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June 21-23, 2011

Venue:  ICC, Abuja

Event website

 

The Upstream and Downstream Expo, is the first ever oil and gas technology event of its kind in the West African sub region that will bring together over 2,000 key industry players and visitors.
The event will be holding at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja; Nigeria’s most prestigious hotel, and is expected to be hosted by Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and other Governmental Agencies of West African states. It is expected to be declared open by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

Nigeria at present produces gas for the international market at the NLNG Bonny Island production trains, with two other Liquefied National Gas plants being built at the Brass Island and Olokola.
And the region’s potential is increasingly promising in the world gas market. According to a survey in 2009, Nigeria alone had proven natural gas reserves of 5.24 trillion cubic feet, giving the area one of the top-10 natural gas endowments in the world. This means, it has the potential to generate close to 10 billion U.S dollars yearly from sales of gas alone.

 

Nigeria and Ghana have a combined crude oil installed refining capacity of about 500,000 barrels per day. In addition, the Nigerian Government has also approved the building of three new refineries in the country, thus, re-enforcing the region as one of the largest markets in Africa.
OPEC World Energy Model, forecast that, world oil demand will rise from 76 million barrels per day in 2000 to 103 million barrels per day in 2020; West Africa region has been targeted as a clear player in the years ahead, especially from the offshore blocks.

 

With the display of modern technology and equipments in this dynamic petroleum and gas industry, it is expected that, the event will serve as the window for further developments and growth of the market in the region, making U & D Expo the ideal place for concluding contracts, equipment delivery, as well as, expansion of companies’ potentials.

 

The conference segment will pay attention to methods to tap the huge benefits accruing from oil and gas resources, reserves and high hydrocarbon production.

 

 

The conference will also discuss topics on how to reshape government energy policies and legislations such as the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB and the Nigerian Content Act 2010, with a view to expanding Exclusive Economic opportunities, Exploration zones, Licensing of Operators in West African Countries.

 

Accordingly, oil and gas experts from across the globe have indicated interest to present papers and facilitate discussions on several topics, which will be published before the take-off of the event.

Benefits of attending
By participating in the West African Exhibitions and Conferences, you will not only be part of the event and concluding contracts, but will also:

*Have direct access to principal oil and gas companies’ decision makers
*Network with practitioners who influence key decision makers and leading buyers and sellers of Equipments and technology products
*Discover new softwares and technologies to boost operations
*Learn from leading experts in our conference segments addressing new acts and legislations
*Benefit from advanced learning opportunities through detailed case study
*Interact in group problem solving sessions with IOGCs (International Oil and Gas Companies) – raise your company’s profile and win contracts
*Participate in exclusive functions with technology experts, governmental officials, regulators and senior IOGC members
*Discuss and advance upcoming projects by exchanging business ideas with future development.

 

Attendance is free to all oil and gas industry major players, as well as government functionaries from West African States.

There Is Technology In Aba – The Shoe Designers Make Things Happen. What Roadmap Do You Have For Them?

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As we push for the movie industry, we also want to help elevate one of the most innovative shoe making businesses in Africa. The Aba shoe industry in South East Nigeria produces quality that nearly compares with the Italian brands like Shoe Finale. They lead the African market, and yet they have no presence outside the continent. We want to take this global.

 

We can do this for Aba and Nigeria. The initial strategy could be well branded website and then promote the products in US stores where they can fetch premiums and make the guys better. We got some small, but noticeable support coming from a guide by ShoesFella, on the benfits of a proper work shoe.

 

We need networks and outlets where people can go and buy Nigerian made shoes and watch Nigerian movies when they are opened right in US, Canada and Europe. A solid distribution network that will take advantage of the sophistication, quality and low price these brands bring.

 

This is an open ended question – Tekedia has no expertise and not interested whatsoever. But if you are looking for a business plan, this a good one.  As you create the supply chain, you can also help the Aba guys improve. After all, we do make some things – movies and shoes,  at least.

Ideas and Technology Can Make Nollywood Better – Sends Yours Here

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Nigeria has the largest movie industry in Africa. It produces more movies than Hollywood every year. It is a very dynamic and competitive industry, yet, it has not made inroads except in Africa. Could someone develop a plan to showcase this tradition to the world because it needs to happen?  Nigeria needs a model and a plan. South Africa is just doing well with its products nominated in all these top awards in the US. How can Nigeria do this? What technology or plan can help them?

 

We think this is technology and branding  problem? They must improve the production, but that is only possible  if they really make money from the videos with all the piracy in the nation

 

Get the comments out.

 

IDC Cloud Computing & Datacenter Roadshow 2011, Lagos – How to Build Your Own Cloud

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Date:
 May 18, 2011
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Venue: Eko Hotel & Suites 

 

Event website

 

Cloud computing is reshaping the IT marketplace, creating new opportunities and catalyzing changes in traditional IT offerings. IDC expects spending on worldwide Public IT cloud services to grow almost six-fold, reaching nearly $55.5 billion by 2014. IDC expects adoption to be accelerated by the cost-cutting mantra of most organizations today and it promises to reinvigorate growth and open up large new opportunities in the global IT market. Indeed, with increasing pressures on budgets, the need to consolidate and rationalize infrastructure, as well as the growing need to economically and quickly provision services to a mobile and distributed work force, it is just a matter of time before cloud computing becomes the de facto computing model.

 

At the core of the cloud are datacenters that enable the provisioning of storage space, avail server processing power, and allow networking capability and use of software. Inherent in datacenters are myriad issues that need to be addressed effectively including maintenance, availability, security and scalability. At the periphery lie some challenges including other supporting infrastructure like power and availability of skilled resources to manage computing in a new environment. Overall, a measured and strategic approach is needed, irrespective of the level of maturity within an enterprise, when considering cloud computing options.

 

Organizations in the MEA region can already start their journey towards the cloud by re-looking at the way their Datacenters are built. In order to be ready to adopt services from the cloud, and maximize the benefit of a service oriented delivery model, organizations in the region need to consolidate, virtualize and secure their datacenters. It needs to address servers, storage, and power management. This approach to the datacenter, does not only reduce complexity, simplify management, but also breaks the association with hardware and allows for easier provisioning of services (private cloud) or the integration of services from a public cloud provider.

 

This Roadshow will share the latest perspectives on new “cloud-enabled” IT models – that leverage software-as-a-service, “mash-up” application models, next-generation on-premise systems, and very large, global solution marketplaces – to “democratize” IT access, and finally allow organizations to out-innovate and out-execute their competitors, not based on the size of their IT budgets or skills, but on the power of their ideas and the agility to execute on them quickly. It will alsol bring together various experts and end users to address key issues and challenges when considering the cloud model

 

This half-day event will include end-user case studies and presentations from industry-leading experts, supported by IDC’s research and analysis of cloud and virtualization trends in the Middle East. It will also provide an ideal industry platform to engage and map out areas of concern as well as take steps towards addressing such challenges by mutually exploring ways to increase efficiency, reduce costs, innovate and increase business competitiveness.

 

Key areas identified by IDC, that will be addressed at this conference include:

· Virtualization and the Cloud: The Benefits and Perils of Moving Between the Two

· Roadmap to the Private Cloud

· Process Management : Getting The Most Out of Server Virtualization

· Desktop Virtualization: Can Mobility & Business Continuity be Compatible?

· Can Storage Virtualization Tame Data Growth?

· Managed Datacenter Services and the adoption of Private Cloud Technologies

· Is Security the Greatest Differentiator Between Cloud Suppliers?

· Securing Mobile Services

· Management of Secure Power Supply to Datacenters

 

The IDC Cloud Computing & Datacenter Roadshow 2011 is designed for senior IT and line of business executives evaluating and making decisions and looking at how they can use services for benefit to the business to communicate, collaborate and engage with its customers. This informative event is designed for IT Managers, Senior IT Decision Makers, IT Directors & Project Officers, IT Administrators / Engineers, Systems Architect/Designers from some of these industries:

* Banking & Finance

* Energy & Utilities

* Government bodies and Associations

* Telecommunications & Media

* Business Services

* Medical & Healthcare

* Manufacturing , Wholesale & Retail Trading

 

Attendance cost: Free For IT End Users (Not Free For ITConsultants or IT coys)

 

Event organizer: IDC

Register for the IDC Cloud Computing & Datacenter Roadshow 2011

Is Your ‘Blackberry’ a Blackberry?– When Fake Devices Take Over Lagos

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For most foreign brands like Nokia and Blackberry, the greatest threat to their businesses may not be competitors like HP and Dell, but fake products that are dumped in Nigeria. It is easy to get ‘Blackberry“ at prices lower than the main Blackberry. As devices become hot sellers, counterfeits jump up. That is what Nokia has been fighting all these years in Nigeria. You product is in the market, everywhere, yet you cannot see that in the revenue stream.

 

We have a solution for these companies – come to Nigeria and build your plants. That way, you can easily adapt. Follow what Star larger beer did by simply eliminating that problem through re-engineering of the bottles. It used to be that everyone drinking beer was drinking Star, yet at month end, they could not see any revenue. People were buying 33 and other cheaper brands and bottling them in Star labels. But when the bottle was changed, the revenue went up because anyone drinking star now is actually contributing to the brand revenue.

 

The game will not stop anytime soon because the people hired to curtail this problem may not see it as a big problem. We mean the Nigerian police. You need to move them to take this serious. You have to be innovative to protect your brand and now is the time to plan building a regional plan where you can simply tell government, we make this product in Lagos and none can be imported. The customs guys will easily follow that since they will know the product ideally should not be coming from outside the country. If there are smugglers, maybe, you change your casing and use that to get the fake ones from China out of ‘competition’. But if you do not do that, Blackberry will continue to lose market share to ‘Blackberry’.

 

Nigeria is a huge market. We have nearly 930,000 active Blackberry handsets now – about 1.1% of the total active 83m active handsets users in the nation. How many are fake BB may decide how far BB can compete as the day of Apple approaches to challenge their true dominance in business smartphone sector.

 

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