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Forging new relationships
Wednesday November 26th 2008. Posted: 12:40
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Members of the BT delegation were among 600 business and government leaders attending the summit
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The World Economic Forum summit in India has enabled BT to forge new relationships with companies and opportunities for future collaboration, according to BT executives attending the event.
The India summit brought together more than 600 business and government leaders with an agenda of Securing India’s Future Growth. A BT delegation took part in an intensive programme to drive business, corporate social responsibility and public relations objectives for BT in India and around the world. BT added its own perspective with the launch of its Sustainable Development Index - an assessment of business performance in India. The BT delegation consisted of BT Innovate chief executive Matt Bross, BT Asia Pacific president Allen Ma, BT India chairman Arun Seth, BT Asia Pacific chief operating officer Kevin Taylor and BT chief medical officer Paul Lichfield Arun said: "The India Economic Summit is unrivalled as a platform for BT in India. Over the last four years, it has been instrumental in positioning the company and securing business through speaking roles, media activity and numerous private meetings with government and corporate leaders." Matt said: “It was abundantly clear our global customers - from finance to manufacturing to energy - all want to collaborate with BT and use our networked IT services worldwide. The summit demonstrated that, even in difficult financial times globally, opportunities are being created.” Kevin said: "In two days, I had 15 hours of client meetings and many new relationships - many with people who have a clear desire to work with us and develop joint customer opportunities, which we will follow-up.” Allen said: "I am pleased to see from the sessions, and from our business meetings, there is still optimism and a strong willingness to collaborate at both government and private sector levels, and to avoid protectionism despite the difficult economic situation.”
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