IIT 2007 Global Conference Blog

It was a great event with a lot of media coverage…Check it out

SF Chronicle
SJ Mercury
Time

I am sure there are tons more articles…If you want me to include other links like, leave them in comments.

This piece in FT by Ed Luce, highlights the growing influence of the Indian community in the US political landscape:

Influential Indians lend weight and wealth to Clinton cause

Indian-Americans for Hillary - a group that supports Mrs Clinton’s 2008 campaign - will host a fundraising event in New York on Sunday that could net the former first lady between $500,000 and $1m. Among other wealthy Indians, Lakshmi Mittal, the London-based steel magnate, is expected to attend.
With all the presidential candidates scrambling to meet their second quarter fundraising targets by the end of this month, Mrs Clinton’s ties with the increasingly wealthy 2.3m-strong Indian-American community could prove very helpful.

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The web team has released the new web design…I think it looks great…What do you think? What else can we do to improve the site?

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President of University of California, Robert C. Dynes, has been confirmed for the closing keynote for the IIT 2007 conference on Saturday, July 7th.

Robert C. Dynes is the 18th president of the University of California, a post he has held since October 2, 2003. A first-generation college graduate and a distinguished physicist, President Dynes served as the sixth Chancellor of UC’s San Diego campus from 1996 to 2003. He came to UC San Diego in 1990 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. His numerous scientific honors include the 1990 Fritz London Award in Low Temperature Physics and his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

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Things are shaping up nicely for a really rocking conference…So have you registered yet?

Fareed does a great interview with Rajat Gupta where he talks about Pan IIT, India, Global economy, Global fund…Great job by the chairman of Pan IIT…

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No More…Check out the latest news about baby sitting services at the IIT event…

On-Site Baby Sitting Services
Baby Sitting services will be provided by a Licensed, baby care service from the Bay Area, whose contact information will be provided shortly (Details will soon be here). All registrants to the IIT 2007 Conference who want to avail themselves of baby sitting services during the conference should contact and make arrangements privately and directly with the service provider. The physical location will be on the event premises.

So don’t let the baby situation hold you back…And don’t deprive your kids from networking with other high powered IIT babies … Register here.

Below are some of the pictures from the past IIT events…

IIT 2004 - Delhi

IIT 2003 - Cupertino

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Great piece from MoneyControl about IIT 2007

A set of luminaries Senator Hillary Clinton, Jeff Immelt (CEO, GE) & Arun Sarin (CEO, Vodafone) will be keynote speakers at the IIT 2007 Global alumni conference, to be held in San Clara (Bay Area, California) on July 6-8, 2007. Over 4000 attendees are expected to attend the conference that is being organized by PanIITInc. Conference chair Sanjiv Sahay said, “The theme of the 2007 conference is Transforming the World through Technology”.

Sanjiv added, “It will showcase the impact of the IITs and its alumni in driving innovation, creating new enterprises, and enabling social transformation in both India and the US”.

Some of the finest brains including Nobel Laureate Arno Allan Penzias (1978 Nobel Prize in physics), CMU President Jared L. Cohon, McKinsey’s Rajat Gupta, Keynote CEO Umang Gupta, leading VC Vinod Khosla, Headstrong CEO Arjun Malhotra, entrepreneur and philanthropist Kanwal Rekhi, iGATE’s Sunil Wadhwani and other luminaries from around the world will look hard at the future, explore the frontiers of new thought and technology, and identify the next big forces and trends that will sweep across the world. In addition, the conference will provide an opportunity to discuss the cutting edge technology issues like Clean Technology and Web 2.0.

So let me just repeat it for emphasis…be there or be square