How to improve GITEX
1. Ban all PR bunnies and trade visitors, and allow one, smiling, mute company representative per stand.
2. Make a thousand clones of the angelic young dishdash Mohammad working in the press centre, and strew them throughout the halls to exponentially increase happiness and helpfulness.
3. Feature some innovative technology that wasn't first introduced in Japan two decades ago: such as a human teleportation system from distant carparks to the main atrium.
4. Provide jet-speed bulldozers for media to get around quickly, levelling any boring stands obstructing their pathway.
5. Allow only companies freely giving away expensive, space-age gadgets to exhibit their wares, and pass a law that if journalists express admiration of a 90" LCD display or platinum-cased supercomputer, it automatically becomes their property.
2. Make a thousand clones of the angelic young dishdash Mohammad working in the press centre, and strew them throughout the halls to exponentially increase happiness and helpfulness.
3. Feature some innovative technology that wasn't first introduced in Japan two decades ago: such as a human teleportation system from distant carparks to the main atrium.
4. Provide jet-speed bulldozers for media to get around quickly, levelling any boring stands obstructing their pathway.
5. Allow only companies freely giving away expensive, space-age gadgets to exhibit their wares, and pass a law that if journalists express admiration of a 90" LCD display or platinum-cased supercomputer, it automatically becomes their property.
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there are teleportation systems, that dont transport humans?
SHITEX is still the un-cencored version of the artificial microprocessed Les Miserables, starred by bottom graduates from the geek farm who tried sell e-commerce in the desert 6 years ago.
The pen section is happenin this year.
I heard that Sheikh Mo was there. Have you ever had a chance to meet him or any of the Dubai Royals?
SD,
LOL @ "90" LCD display" - while you're at it, admire it twice. I'd like one myself.
I've never been to Gitex myself (hate the crowds!!!) But I guess I have to go this time ( to the airport expo one). Cant seem to get ear phones for my Ipod from anywhere. The ignorrant clot in "Virgin" swears that they dont come loose !!! So Gitex is my last hope. If I can squeeze some time out of work ie.
Cant seem to get ear phones for my Ipod from anywhere.
Don't buy the same ones that come with the iPod, from what I've read they are not tremendously good. Loose non-iPod earphones you can get from anywhere like Plugins or Virgin in the Bur Jamman.
have a competition and showcase entries of multimedia/animation by local students..live presentation and winner to be selected by panel judges and audience...seen it in NICE..another big IT show..very well done indeed!
Guys - have you tried the divine little Mac store at the Binned Potato Mall*? Not seen it myself, but I hear they're stuffed with heaps of iPod extras, most of which you don't need but will probably end up buying anyway.
* That's Ibn Batuta Mall, for those not down with the Dub-town lingo
GITEX - Geek Infested Territory Exhibition!!!!
have an entrepreneur's corner..where anyone with any new innovation be given 6 mins to pitch..to potential buyers and investors
Don't it make more sense to say:
"Geek Infested Technology Exhibition"?
I have been to Gitex on several occasions and actually was able to get myself an entry pass at the age of 16, turned out the only proof they needed of ID at registration in the crowne plaza ballroom was a business card. being the smart person that I was had several printed with a false job description! fooled them didnt i, well that was 5 years ago! and even after all that trouble I realize Gitex is way overrated.
funny thing here in kuwait flights going to kuwait are all booked up and apparantly hotels in dubai are full?
lol i have no comment!
Actually, ibn Battuta attempted to get to Gitex, or so it is written, but found himself stranded on Sheikh Zayed road for two years and was forced to go to China instead.
There, though, he did find iPod earphones.
Actually all the truly cool kids are calling the mall Ibn Cock. Find a Filipino and ask them why.
I agree with what one poster had mentioned in the 'limerick' thread. GITEX is a complete HYPE. Does anyone seriously think that the companies are interested in showcasing new or emerging technologies? People flock there like gullible fools when all they need to do is just check on the internet and find out all the information they can. I've been to several exhibtions worldwide including the CES in Vegas and numerous trade shows in Europe like CEBIT. GITEX is not a patch on those. Most of the visitors here from surrounding countries come here on a 'company paid vacation' for one thing and one thing only.. and its a word that rhymes with GITEX.
AHA! please refer to the comments about prostitutes in the 'skin deep' thread. And you entirely right, by the way.
Gitex is nothing like CeBit in Germany, for example, that showcases genuine world firsts and tech innovations. All the products are rehashed from US and Europe, and are repackaged in a way that may make a quick buck, then they go and get a word that rhymes with buck.
Dubai is a trading port; for old IT, for sex, anything really
I am one of the exhibitors at GITEX. The worst thing about it has to be the rampage of men looking to get some entertainment from the cam girls/booth babes and whatever else they are called. Its sick and revolting and I wish people like them could be shot at sight.
One managed to get my mobile number (business card I guess) and called me 6 times until after midnight. :( Cant get worse than this.
What i don't get is why people exhibit when they all say the same thing "we get no return what so ever and neither do we benefit. We exhibit becuase we have to and it won't look good if we don't". All the stress, planning and money which is ploughed into exhibiting - purely for the sake of keeping up appearances. Most of the products are old. It kinda resontates through this city - big marketing hype, but low on delivery.
I am quite sure if one of the large MnC's decided not to exhibit next year, customers would not think they are going under! If anything, they will earn more respect.
LOL@Anna's remark about shooting. I'll make sure to stay out range. :) Seriously though I can well imagine how annoying this persistent crude behaviour is. the last time I went to GITEX was 4 years ago. At 11 am we have 'delegates' walking in completely devoid of their senses after the previous nights/ early morning escapades trying to hit on the booth girls, who to their credit either ignored or answered them in a professional manner.
How to improve GITEX?
Cancel it.
Exhibiting or visiting this farse is of cource for the same reason as any other exhibitions which is a free getaway from the boring office back home and of a chance to fraternize with the bunny-girls.
Actually, when you really want to speak to some from the stand about their product, she or she has not recovered from the hangover although it's 3.30 in the afternoon.
Take a walk on Computer Street in Bur Dubai....these shops dont care about their walk in customers when GITEX is on at the other end of town.
The less cool amongst us call it I bin tootin' - which applies as much to drivers excess use of the horn as much as it does to ridiculous and childish fart jokes. Little things... :)
hey SD - i c ur blog's attracting tonnes of the "wannabe famous like SD" crowd...
snigger..giggle...
hey, i'm i right in guessing ur in the media ? journa 'haps ?
;-)
I am not famous, thank god! This place got a bit too much notice after the July block/unblock, but things have died down a lot now, and there is just a (usually nice) crowd of regulars/other bloggers that drop by.
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Gitex is not that bad, the only thing i don't like about this year is the lack of any break-throughs.
Except for that funky robot at the Sony stand, everything else is old news.
One thing I was really looking forward to is the heavily anticipated announcement of the new Telco -
too bad no one knows when will it be launched. No one knows that it will be co-owned by Dubai Government. No one knows that it will be run by TeCom (DIC telco body). No one knows that it will be headed by Mr. Sultan Osman -Mobinil ex CEO- AND no one knows that initially, it will only offer Internet and GSM service in some areas...
so if anyone knows anything about it .. will you let me know :)
I made the same mistakes for the last 4 years; visited the GITEX!
I think GITEX gave technology a new meaning,
and why do we support it?
Technology is not
Bouncing balls
Huge plasmas
Fashion show
Freebies Hunters
Today the last GITEX day,
I can say PROUDLY I didn’t done the mistake again,
And I would not do it again. GO TEX
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