Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)– Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) will hold a ‘US-Bangladesh Technology Summit’ in New York on October 13 this year.

The Summit will be held from 11:00 am to 3:30 pm at Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City, USA aiming to attract NRB professionals and entrepreneurs in USA to invest in Bangladesh as well as to provide technological support.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith would be the chief guest at the event. Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed, will be present, the organizers said.

A number of non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) IT entrepreneurs and professionals based in different states of USA will take part at the event.

The state-run Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and Outsource World are the co-organizers of the event with a number of US-based business chambers and NRB associations – Greater New York Chamber of Commerce, US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce, US Bangladesh Partners, US Bangladesh Technology Association and Network of Young Bangladeshi American Professionals – working as the partners of the event, they added.

A number of non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) IT entrepreneurs and professionals based in different states of USA will take part at the event.

BBN/SI/AD-24Sept10-9:35 pm (BST)