ITEX’08 (The 19th International Invention Innovation & Technology Exhibition 2008)

ITEX’08 (The 19th International Invention Innovation & Technology Exhibition 2008) organized by MINDS (The Malaysian Invention and Design Society) will be held from 9 to 11 May 2008 at the KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center). There will be a full-day seminar on Intellectual Property and Innovation on 10 May 2008. For map and directions to get to KLCC, refer to bottom of post.

ITEX (International Invention Innovation and Technology Exhibition) will be a great platform for innovative individuals, universities, research institutions, companies and corporations, even schools, to showcase whatever inventions, technologies and innovative products that they may want to introduce to the Malaysian public.

From what I know of ITEX, if you want to exhibit your inventions, technologies or products, you will have to rent booth space, the rental of which will depend or area (or I vaguely remember that the area of one booth is fixed, and if you want more space, you will have to rent more than one). I am not sure if this year, the MINDS-Henry Goh Environmental Innovation Award is still on, but if it is, and you won, you will probably get a free booth space based on my experience in 1988 (I won the MINDS-Henry Goh Environmental Innovation Award for 1988, the very first one I think, and got a free booth in Sunway Pyramid to exhibits items which helpd me win that award).

The notice from MINDS did not mention if visitors need to pay entrance, but again from experience, entrance for the public is free.

If you want more details, contact

Aida HM Ali

Secretariat of ITEX 2008

Malaysian Invention and Design Society ( MINDS)
C-3A-10, Block C, Damansara Intan,
No.1, Jalan SS20/27, 47400 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Website: www.minds.org.my
Email: tso [at} minds {dot} org {dot} my
(replace [at} with @ and {dot} with . and get rid of the space)
Tel: (603)7118 2062/2064
Fax: (603)7118 2063

Map to KLCC Kuala Lumpur Convention Center

Below is the map to KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center). Click on map if you want to see an enlarged version:



My suggestion is to take public transport instead of driving there. You will save lots of parking charges, avoid frustration of hunting for the place and crawling through traffic jams and perhaps wasting hours searching for your vehicle if you somehow forgot where you parked your vehicle. If you take the Putra LRT, get someone to send you to the station, or perhaps drive to one of the LRT station with lots of parking space, take the LRT to KLCC, get off there. There will be an underground tunnel to take you to the KLCC shopping mall next to the Petronas Twin Tower and then there will along tunnel plus escalators to eventually take you to the KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center). Go early as it may take you some time to find the place.