Egypt, one of the world`s fastest growing locations for global outsourcing, will be showcasing its ICT industry at NASSCOM, India`s Leadership Forum in Mumbai from Feb 11-13, 2009.

The forum has long been India`s premier global meeting for the IT-BPO industry and this year sees Egypt`s Information Technology Development Agency (ITIDA) as a platinum sponsor.

Egypt will be strongly represented through its own country seshsion and will have a delegation of both multinational and local Egyptian outsourcing companies, including Xceed, Vodafone, Teleperformance and Raya, on-hand to demonstrate Egypt`s strong position as a global service delivery location and a leading partner of India`s outsourcing industry.

Amin Khaireldin, strategic advisor and board member of ITIDA, along with other delegates from ITIDA, will be speaking at the NASSCOM Leadership Forum on the emerging importance of Egypt in the global outsourcing market.

Commenting on the benefits of Egypt as a global service delivery location, Amin Khaireldin said, ``Egypt is well placed to be the next location for geographical expansion for Indian outsourcing companies and we are proud to be associated with NASSCOM.``
 
Currently Indian direct investment in Egypt totals USD 800 million in more than 200 Egyptian companies and with its relatively large and burgeoning talent pool of IT professionals, the Egyptian outsourcing sector has received strong support from its government to develop the industry further. It is projected that the Egyptian outsourcing sector will generate revenue of more than USD 1 billion by 2010, four times the 2005 revenue.

Last year, ITIDA signed a number of memorandum of understandings and letter of intents with Indian bodies and companies including NASSCOM and three of India`s top five IT/BPO companies to extend the collaboration between Egypt and India.