Overall attendance up more than 30%: The UK’s leading IT event saw over 900 audience members watching keynote featuring Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist of Fusion-io and Apple co-founder

London, UK – 25th October 2011 – Last week the UK’s largest enterprise IT event, IP EXPO, saw a dramatic rise of over 30% in overall attendance compared to last year — an impressive rise over any single year, but especially during these challenging economic times.

IP EXPO’s exhibitor numbers were impressive, too. The show had approximately 260 exhibitors, representing a 20% increase on last year’s figures, plus a new seminar theatre. Many of the exhibitors, including Adapt, Arkadin, Atlanta Technology, Check Point Software, Centrix Software, CommVault, Datacore, Exinda, GreenBytes, HP, iStorage, iTrinegy, KEMP Technologies, Mitel, NextIO, NEC IT Solutions, RandomStorm, RES Software, Signify, VXL, Violin Memory and Virtustream to the show with product launches, customer stories and other big news.

In addition to the overall rise in attendance and exhibitor numbers, IP EXPO smashed its record for the largest audience at a single seminar.  Over 900 attendees were at Earls Court 2 on Thursday morning to watch a keynote featuring Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist of Fusion-io and co-founder of Apple. Another keynote featuring Neil Crockett, MD of Cisco London 2012, and Roger Black MBE, Olympian and Team GB 2012 Ambassador,  was also very well attended. A video recap of some of the event highlights is available online at http://www.youtube.com/ipexpo. Some of the presentations from this year’s event are available online at http://online.ipexpo.co.uk/.

Overall, the educational content of IP EXPO’s rich seminar programme and top-level keynotes was a major attraction for attendees. In spite of global economic uncertainty, IP EXPO drew in the end users, the vendors, the decision makers, and the figureheads of the IT community to the UK’s only two-day event encompassing a trade show, seminars, workshops, technology labs and panel discussions.

Steve Wozniak commented in his IP EXPO keynote that he saw the UK as being a technological community as innovative as the Silicon Valley, but without the same levels of VC funding. However, funding opportunities are being targeted by initiatives such as StartUp Britain and Technology 4 StartUp Britain Week, of which IP EXPO was a part. 

Hugh Keeble, co-founder and director of Imago Techmedia, the IP EXPO event organiser, said, “The ultimate endorsement of the show’s status as one of the leading European events is that we have real stars such as Steve Wozniak taking the time to fly from California to speak.”

He added, “I’ve been in the events business for over 20 years, and I have never experienced a buzz on a show floor like I did this year at IP EXPO. Last week we saw that, in spite of ‘Googleability’ and social networking, we all still crave the human interaction in business that only a show can provide.”

Imago Techmedia’s next technology event, Unified Communications EXPO, will take place 6th and 7th March 2012 at London Olympia. The Unified Communications EXPO explores all the latest developments in every major UC field, including cloud communications, social business, mobile communications, visual communications and voice communications. To register now for your free place, please visit http://www.ucexpo.co.uk/Register.