Under the patronage of the "velosuisse" association, the first Infotech Romandie took place on January 10 and 11, 2012 and the second and for the time being last counterpart to Infotech Lucerne was held on January 15 and 16, 2013. Infotech Romandie followed the tried-and-tested event schedule from Lucerne. The Crêt-Bérard training center in Puidoux in the canton of Vaud also hosted technical workshops and business management seminars, all in French. The French-speaking specialist dealers were able to attend around 30 seminars.

For the first Infotech Romandie, BMC, Bucher and Walt, Biketech, Grandjean, Komenda, Polar, Scott, Amsler, Chris Sports Systems, Fuchs-Movesa, Intercycle and Tour de Suiss Rad hosted seminars and workshops. At the second event, Cuag, Mavic and Mondia joined the group of suppliers. Around 135 participants attended the first and second Infotech Romandie events respectively.Lack of participants
"Too few participating specialist dealers in 2012 and 2013 are the reason for the cancellation of Infotech Romandie," says Roland Fuchs, spokesperson for the Velosuisse association.
"The lack of interest is offset by high financial and personnel costs on the part of the providers. A significant increase in the number of participants currently seems unlikely, so velosuisse has decided not to hold a third edition at this time," continues Fuchs.

More crowds in Lucerne?
Infotech Lucerne will take place on January 8 and 9, 2014. The registration process starts in mid-November and the event is always booked out quickly due to limited capacity at the Army Training Center in Lucerne. The discontinuation of Infotech Romandie is likely to exacerbate the bottlenecks at the German-language bicycle industry training course.

A preview of the Infotech Lucerne program will follow shortly on ride-business.ch.

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