Infosecurity Europe?s Success Drives Move to New Venue

Infosecurity Europe’s Success Drives Move to New Venue

Infosecurity Europe Moving to the Much Larger Venue of Earls Court
in 2009

(14.05.08) - After 13 successful years of hosting Infosecurity Europe at Olympia and following the phenomenal success of this years show, which saw a 4% increase in visitor numbers to 12,500 (pre ABC audit), Infosecurity Europe is moving to the much larger venue of Earls Court in 2009.

This year’s Infosecurity Europe showed that one area of IT budgets that is not going to be cut with any imminent downturn is information security, with a huge number of organisations flocking to the show to arm themselves with the latest technology. This view of the market is supported by analyst reports out this week which predict that the information security market will continue to grow till at least 2012 in spite of any economic downturn. The 2008 exhibitors had already booked up 75 % of the space for next year’s event at Earls Court by the end of the second day - showing that there is great support for the move to Earls court from the Industry.

Claire Sellick, Infosecurity Europe Event Director said "With year on year growth which has positioned Infosecurity Europe as the most successful and largest information security event in the UK, we are now ready to move to the much larger venue of Earls Court. It’s a very exciting time for the information security industry with all the predictions for the future from the analyst community saying that it is set to grow despite any economic downturn. Earl’s Court will enable us to design an event with far more space that can be used to create more interactive theatres, discussion areas and networking forums."

The FREE education programme once again proved to be extremely popular with standing room only in many of the seminars and keynotes. Over 100 speakers presented from around the globe including Adam Laurie, Alan Paller, Bruce Schneier, Professor Fred Piper, and Professor Howard Schmidt.

Key pieces of industry research released in the Keynote Theatre included the 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the UK Government and the (ISC)² Global Information Security Workforce Study 2008. (Infosecurity Europe: ma)