Dhaka:  The two-day Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Summit-2016 begins on July 28 at Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka North city.

BPO aims at creating a fluent, self-reliant industry with sustainable jobs for at least 2,50,000 new jobs by the year 2021.

‘Bangladesh is organising the summit for the second time which will give us opportunity to show our ability on ICT sector before the world,’ Convenor of a subcommittee on seminar, workshop, publicity and publication of the summit Mustafa Jabbar told BSS yesterday.

‘The summit will play an important role to develop further the information and technology sector of the country,’ he added.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division is organising the summit with assistance of the Department of Information and Communication Technology and Bangladesh Association of Callcenter and Outsourcing (BACCO).

Adviser to Prime Minister of ICT Affairs Sajeeb Wazed will inaugurate the summit to highlight the road that was travelled from the year 2008 by BPO Industry and Bangladesh and identify and discuss key points for the road ahead, M Rezaul Maksud Jahedi, Director (Finance and Administration), Department of Information and Communication Technology, told BSS.

Different local and foreign speakers will share their experiences in the summit.