IFSEC is back – and with ‘a 15% growth rate’ over last year it promises to be more impressive than ever. Monday 21 May to Thursday 24 May are the all-important dates for your diary, when the exhibition takes over Halls 6, 19 and 20 at the Birmingham NEC.
Over 500 companies representing approximately 100 countries will be at the show, displaying every type of security product, service and technology. Technology companies will cover everything from number plate recognition software for CCTV through to sophisticated biometric systems.
Watch out for companies like Complus Teltronic, who will be demonstrating simultaneous voice and video transmission over ISDN for on or off-site monitoring.
What’s on
With live demonstrations to see, new products and seminars, it’s hard to know where to start at IFSEC. If CCTV is your thing then a visit to The CCTV Village is a must. You will find the largest gathering of CCTV equipment anywhere, and will have all your questions answered.
Also of enormous interest is The Intruder Alarm Village. Live demonstrations led by the world’s leading intruder alarm companies will make this a worthwhile visit.
Personnel Solutions, an initiative in conjunction with SITO, will introduce the training and human resource services available to security companies for retaining, training and developing their most valuable asset.
Meantime, the Business Development Area is an ‘open theatre’-style arena where you can attend free presentations by exhibitors, with product demonstrations on the latest innovations in the industry. Plus there are pavilions dedicated to exhibitors from South Africa, Scandinavia and North America.
On the social side, a popular networking event during IFSEC week is the Security Industry Dinner and Awards Presentations at the Metropole Hotel within the NEC Complex on the first night of the event (May 21).
Awards are presented during the evening to honour the best new innovative products developed since February 2000, and are judged in the six categories of access control, CCTV, intruder alarms, electronic communication security, physical security and services.
The dinner is open to anyone within the industry, and individual places or whole tables can be booked through United Business Media International. Contact Mirriam Clift on 020 8987 7620 for further details.
