| CEBIT | |
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| Status | Defunct |
| Genre | Computer Expo |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Venue | Hanover fairground |
| Location | Hanover |
| Country | Germany |
| Inaugurated | 1970 |
| Most recent | 2018 |
| Attendance | 120,000 (2018)[1] |
| Organized by | Deutsche Messe AG |
| Website | www |
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CeBIT was acomputer expo which, at its peak,[when?] was the largest[citation needed] and most internationally representative.[according to whom?] The trade fair was held each year on theHanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, inHanover, Germany. In its day, it was considered a barometer of current trends and a measure of the state of the art ininformation technology. It was organized byDeutsche Messe AG.[2]
With an exhibition area of roughly 450,000 m2 (4.8 million ft2) and a peak attendance of 850,000 visitors during thedot-com boom, it was larger both in area and attendance than its Asian counterpartCOMPUTEX and its no-longer held American equivalentCOMDEX.CeBIT is a German languageacronym forCentrum fürBüroautomation,Informationstechnologie undTelekommunikation,[3] which translates as "Center for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication".
The final CeBIT took place in 2018.
CeBIT was traditionally the computing part of theHanover Fair, a big industrytrade show held every year. It was established in 1970, with the opening of theHanover fairground's new Hall 1, then the largest exhibition hall in the world.[4] However, in the 1980s the information technology and telecommunications part was straining the resources of the trade fair so much that it was given a separate trade show starting in 1986, which was held four weeks earlier than the main Hanover Fair.
The number of visitors for the new exhibition increased to 830,000 in 2001, but by 2007 the CeBIT expo attendance had shrunk to around 200,000,[5] then attendance rebounded to 334,000 by 2010.[6] The 2008 expo was marred bypolice raids of 51 exhibitors forpatent infringement.[7] In 2009, the U.S. state of California became official Partner State of Germany's IT and telecommunications industry association, BITKOM, and of CeBIT 2009. focusing on environmentally-friendly technologies.[8]Twick.it was presented at CeBIT 2010.[9]
From 2007 till 2013, the fair acted as the World Championship (Grand Final) ofIntel Extreme Masters. The championship was reallocated toKatowice, Poland in 2014.[citation needed]
On 28 November 2018, Deutsche Messe AG announced that due to declining visitor and exhibitioner attendance, CeBIT would be canceled for the foreseeablefuture.[10][11] This makes CeBIT 2018 the final event.[12]
As CeBIT continued to grow quickly and was becoming too big on its own, it was decided to concentrate on the professional market, while the home and entertainment market was given a separate show,CeBIT Home, during summer, planned to be biennial. However, after being held twice (in 1996 and 1998), the 2000 CeBIT Home (had originally been scheduled to be held inLeipzig due to theExpo 2000 being held in Hanover) was cancelled and the project was abandoned.
Since 1999 the CeBIT sponsorDeutsche Messe AG ("German Trade Show, Inc.") has organized trade shows outside of Germany bearing the CeBIT name:
Running over a five-day period inHanover,Germany, the CeBIT Global Conferences (CGC) are staged congruently with the CeBIT exhibition. The conferences are dedicated to providing a 360° overview of the digital industry's four core markets: IT, Telecommunications, Digital Media and Consumer Electronics. Noted industry figures and researchers from across the globe are invited to speak on the latest relevant trends and innovations as well as their impact on society and the working world. The conference is divided up intokeynote speeches, talks and panel discussions. The CGC conferences are produced by Deutsche Messe AG, with the German BITKOM association acting as the CGC patron since 2009. In 2014, the CGC were staged with 140 speakers on three stages with a program of 70 conference hours and 3000 participants. Target groups of the conference areCXOs,managers, experts, visionaries and out-of-the-box thinkers, Conference languages are English and German.[citation needed]
Recent conferences have featured the following keynote themes:
The motto of the CeBIT Global Conferences for 2011 was "The Power of Creativity and Innovation".
Over the past years, speakers at the CeBIT Global Conferences have included Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California;Kevin Turner, COO, Microsoft,Craig Barrett, Chairman of the Board, Intel, Jon Iwata SVP Marketing & Communications, IBM,Reid Hoffman, Chairman and CEO, LinkedIn; Mukund Krishna, CEO Suyati Inc; Scott Durchslag, COO, Skype;Werner Vogels, Vice President & CTO, Amazon,Stewart Butterfield, Co-founder of Flickr.com,Michael T. Jones, Chief Technology Advocate, Google & Founder of Google Earth;Mark Kingdon, CEO, LindenLab.[citation needed]
CeBIT was a platform for recognising achievement by ICT businesses, particularly in Australia.[15] The awards include the Excellence in Communications Award, the Advanced Retail Technology Award, the Innovative IT Security Award, and the Early Innovators Award. Notable past winners includeMotorola,[16]McAfee[17] andeWAY.[18]
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