New Public Shows for Paris

Exhibitions continue to make news worldwide, with launches and changes from Paris to Bangalore, including four new shows at Paris Expo and Hannover Messe's entrance into the Indian market.

• Paris Expo will launch four new exhibitions this year. The public Salon Intl. de la Tele took place June 14–17, showcasing technologies for the television industry. The Art Shopping Show, with art for less than €5,000 ($6,734), will debut at Paris Expo — Carrousel du Louvre Oct. 27–28, featuring the work of emerging artists from about 100 galleries. SIGL, an international gay, lesbian and gay-friendly fair, will launch Nov. 2–4 with an estimated 250 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees, also at Carrousel du Louvre. In addition, the facility will host the launch of the Intl. Prestige Watch Show, Belles Montres Dec. 7–9.
• Learntec will now have a Swiss edition. The international convention and trade fair for educational and information technology based in Karlsruhe, Germany, debuted an Austrian edition last year in Vienna. Learntec Forum Schweiz will take place Oct. 5 at the Raiffeisen Centre in the Stadtlounge in St. Gallen. Karlsruher Messe-und Kongress organizes the events. Exhibitors will include developers of e-learning tools.
• Kenfair Intl. will launch an Asian sourcing show, Mega Macao, Oct. 17–20, at the Venetian Macao Convention & Exhibition Center. The show, featuring the home appliance and telecommunications products of some 2,000 suppliers from all over the world, is timed to fit in with other tradeshows in China and nearby cities that are regularly attended by overseas and domestic buyers.
• Izmir, Turkey, will see the launch of an event for the installation engineering industry. Teskon, organized by the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, and Hannover Messe Sodeks Fuarcylyk's Sodex Exhibition will combine to form the new Teskon-Sodex Exhibition. It will collocate with the Intl. Installation Engineering Congress Oct. 18–21 at Izmir's Tepekule Congress and Exhibition Center. Hannover Messe Sodeks Fuarcylyk also organizes the ISK-Sodex exhibition in Izmir.
• Deutsche Messe will organize its first event in India Dec. 4–7 at the Bangalore Intl. Exhibition Centre. The show, Hannover Messe Worldwide India, will comprise three exhibitions: MDA India, Industrial Automation India and CeMat India. MDA India will focus on mechanical components, materials and fabrication technologies in all areas of manufacturing. Industrial Automation India's focus will be on technology, design and innovation for the industrial automation industry, and CeMat India on material handling and intralogistics.
• Haughton Intl. Fairs will launch Art and Antiques Dubai, an international fair devoted to the fine and decorative arts of all periods, at the Madinat Arena in Dubai Feb. 21–24. The event will have the support and cooperation of the Dubai government's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing.
• Fiera de Barcelona will launch InstalMAT, a spinoff of Construmat, May 14–17, in the Gran Via exhibition center. The show will take place in odd years, alternating with Construmat. InstalMAT is an installation materials show for installers, distributors, architects, builders and energy suppliers. Organizers expect 300 exhibitors in about 20,000 square meters (215,200 square feet).
• Index Conferences and Exhibitions Organisation Establishment will launch Intl. Character and Licensing Fair at the Dubai Intl. Exhibition Centre Oct. 28–30, 2008. The firm expects to attract 10,000 businessmen, traders and specialists to the event for international cartoon character animation, movie, games and character designs.
• Messe Munchen Intl. will now operate electronicIndia separately from publisher Electronics Today's Componex, beginning in August 2008 at the Bangalore Intl. Exhibition Centre. The annual electronicIndia will present components, systems and applications for electronics and electronics manufacturing. The shows have been organized together since 2000, but Messe Munchen said that, because of its new strategic orientation, the arrangement no longer made sense.
• Hamburg Messe and Messe Husum, in cooperation with WindEnergy Hamburg, the HUSUMwind show and the German Engineering Federation, will jointly launch a so far-unnamed international wind power exhibition in fall 2008. The event will be held in Husum, Germany.