IBS '83

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/eb057325
Published date01 September 1983
Pages3-4
Date01 September 1983
Subject MatterEconomics,Information & knowledge management,Management science & operations
Britain's largest and most comprehensive exhibition of office equipment and services, the Interna-
tional Business Show, throws wide its doors at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on Oc-
tober 18th. The Rt Hon David Steel MP is to open the show and the organisers, BETA Exhibitions
Ltd, have arranged with the Institute of Directors to stage a one-day conference on "Computer
Aid-
ed Business; how to beat the competition and win new customers". A multitude of offerings will be
on display covering everything from stationery, filing systems and furniture to audio visual aids,
microfilm, computers, inter-communication and security systems. Everything, in
fact,
that the
modern business could conceivably require.
IBS
'83
18-26 October 1983
National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
Covering 32,000 square metres of space and housing 350
exhibitors' stands, IBS '83 looks set to outshine even the
successes of previous years. The show is, indeed, the
largest and most comprehensive exhibition of its kind in
the country and has a unique quality of attendance. Of the
visitors at IBS '81, some 39 per cent attended no other
business exhibition, the proportion of senior management
had again increased from previous shows and 20 per cent
of all visitors were directors.
"It is with an eye to the high and increasing percentage of
top management", said Mr Roy D'Urban, Director of
BETA Exhibitions, "that we are delighted that the Institute
of Directors has invited leading experts to address the
con-
ference, which is aimed at assisting business leaders to
understand how they can successfully apply computer
based technology to their businesses".
The conference, to be held on Thursday, October
20th,
at
the Metropole Hotel at the NEC is to be chaired by Lord
Chalfont, former Government Minister and Director of
IBM UK Ltd. Speakers will include John Butcher MP,
Under-Secretary in the Department of Industry with
special responsibility for Information Technology; Robert
Knighton,
Manager of Systems and Methods of the Abbey
National Building Society; Walter Goldsmith, Director
General of the Institute of Directors; and Dr Hermann
Hauser, Joint Managing Director of Acorn Computers.
The conference aims to address the many problems so
fre-
quently encountered when introducing the new
technology; its theoretical potential advantages are clear
enough,
but the practical application of the theory in in-
dividual situations often proves to be a stumbling block. It
is by discussing these difficulties that the conference
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