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From
Engineer to Leader
Location:
Grand Ballroom C
Moderator:
Dilip Saraf
(Executive Career Coach, Author)
Panelists:
Ajit Gill
(Entrepreneur-in-Residence, US Venture Partners), Waqar Hasan
(VP Engineering, Yahoo), Nimish
Mehta
(Sr VP, SAP), Murali
Rangarajan (COO, e4e)
As individual
contributors
grow in their roles, they are promoted to managerial positions.
Although this transition is one of the most significant events in both
the life of a person affected by it and for the organization that
promotes them, most organizations do not prepare their aspiring
managers to be effective leaders. Many fail to make the transition from
being a technical expert to being a leader who inspires others to
perform in ways that are transformational and that make a difference in
the way the organization creates an impact. This panel is about making
this transition effectively and about providing tools and rules for
becoming an inspiring leader. The panelists will
share their personal stories and secrets of how they made this critical
transition.
Social
Entrepreneurs: The New Breed
Location:
Grand Ballroom A
Moderator:
Josh Becker
(General Partner, New Cycle Capital)
Panelists:
Priya Haji
(CEO, World of Good), Pablo
Jenkins (Director, Endeavor), Neerja
Raman (Sr. Research Fellow, Stanford Univ.), Gunjan Sinha
(Chairman, MetricStream & Children Family Health International)
Do you want to
change the
world? Can you build a profitable business while making a lasting
change? More than $1.4 trillion is being invested globally to solve
social issues. Big ideas to reconstruct social and economic systems
were once considered the domain of non-profits and philanthropies.
Today, a new generation of entrepreneurs is using their technology
& business acumen to build profitable enterprises with the
purpose
of driving social change. At this session, you will hear directly from
successful entrepreneurs, executives and VCs on the business models
that power these organizations and the metrics used to determine their
success.
Transitioning
successfully from Engineering to Consulting
Location:
Grand Ballroom B
Moderator:
Steve Hamm
(Sr. Writer, BusinessWeek)
Panelists:
Harsh Manglik
(Chairman and MD, Accenture India), Harikesh Nair
(Asst. Prof., Stanford Business School), Bhanu Singh
(Partner, Bain & Company Inc.), Manoj Singh
(CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Asia Pacific Office),
If you are on a
technical
track and are considering a career change into Consulting, this session
is for you. You will learn what the job content really is, how to best
leverage your IIT background and alumni-network, what development steps
you should take to position yourself, the best insertion strategies,
and the pros/cons of making the career switch.
Venture
Capital and Entrepreneurship Climate in India
Location:
Grand Ballroom D
Moderator:
Robyn Meredith
(Sr. Editor, Forbes)
Panelists:
Anil Advani
(Of Counsel, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP), Alok Aggarwal
(Chairman, Evalueserve), Gunjan
Bagla
(Managing Director, Amritt Ventures), Sumir Chadha
(Managing Director, Sequoia Capital, India), Ben Mathias
(VP, NEA, India),
Given the explosive
growth
of the high-tech industry in India as well as the rapidly expanding
economy, the opportunities for entrepreneurs in India have never been
better . Major VC firms are also setting up offices in India, focusing
on high tech as well as less-traditional sectors. This session analyzes
the current state of the entrepreneurial climate in India, the unique
challenges and opportunities of starting a business in India, and the
extent to which the infrastructure is in place to support new business
ventures.
Do’s
and Dont's of Attracting Venture Capital Funding
Location:
Grand Ballroom E
Moderator:
Sanjay Subhedar
(General Partner,
Storm Ventures)
Panelists: Andrew Braccia (Principal Investor, Accel),
Navin Chaddha
(Managing Director, Mayfield Fund), Div Harish (CEO, Loadstar
Sensors), Maha
Ibrahim (General Partner, Canaan Partners), Ravi Mhatre
(General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners)
What should you know
before you approach a VC? What are the criteria VCs use to evaluate a
company when deciding whether to provide initial as well as follow-on
funding? Learn what it takes to attract venture investment, as well as
how to maximize your company’s valuation.
Web
2.0 and Beyond
Location:
Grand Ballroom F
Moderator:
Om Malik
(Founder, GigaOM.com)
Panelists:
Venky
Harinarayan (Partner, Cambrian Ventures), Bradley
Horowitz (VP Product Strategy, Yahoo), Rakesh Mathur
(CEO, Webaroo), Matt
Mullenweg (Founder, WordPress),
Web 2.0 is the most
used
(and abused) buzzword in the lexicon today, but what does it really
mean? Is this a bubble 2.0? Has technology been tapped out or can we
expect something even more wonderful in the near future? Join a panel
of business and technology wizards who have founded several successful
web 2.0 ventures and learn about this wonderful new field as you gear
up for the inevitable Web 3.0
Challenges
and Rewards serving as Faculty in the US and India
Location:
Grand Ballroom G
Moderator:
Arun Majumdar (UC Berkeley)
Panelists:
Nitash Balsara (Professor, UC Berkeley), Dhrubes Biswas (IIT
Kharagpur), D.B
Phatak (IIT Bombay Dean)
Besides the
four-month
vacations, focus on cutting-edge research, access to the youngest and
brightest talent, what are some of the challenges and rewards serving
as a faculty member in public and private universities in the USA? How
do these contrast with opportunities at the IITs? What can alumni do to
help our IITs with recruiting the best faculty members and
collaborating with them on key projects? Join a stellar panel of
accomplished IIT alumni-faculty exploring some of the key elements of
being a PROF!
Clean
Energy: Life Beyond Fossil Fuels
Location:
209/210
Moderator:
Ira Ehrenpreis
(General Partner, Technology Partners)
Panelists:
Paolo Bosshard
(Energy Assesment Analyst, Stanford GCEP), David Brewster
(President and COO, EnerNOC), Dave Edwards
(Research Analyst, Morgan Stanley), Charles Gay
(GM, Solar Business Gr., Applied Materials), J.B.Straubel
(CTO, Tesla Motors)
Clean energy has
been
gaining mind-share at a tremendous rate in recent years. Hear from
successful proponents of various renewable energy alternatives like
wind, bio-fuels, hydrogen, and solar energy about if and how we can
wean away from fossil fuels.
Cutting-edge
research at IITs - the students' perspective (Part 2)
Location:
203/204
Presenters:
IIT Delhi: "Smart
Bicycle Vending" - Rohit
Goel, Siddharth
Eswaran (guided by Prof. M.
Balakrishnan)
IIT Guwahati:
"Bio-mimetic Oxidative Extraction of Bromide as Tribromide from Sea
Water" - Sahid
Hussain, Saitanya
Kumar Bharadwaj (guided by Prof.
M. K. Chaudhuri)
IIT
Madras: "Microbial Fuel Cells" - Tushar Sharma
(guided by Prof. T. S. Chandra and Prof. S.Ramaprabhu)
For the first time
ever,
hear it from the current students at your IIT! Which are the key
research projects on-campus? How about the student-led events such as
TechFest? How are the on-campus students driving a huge surge of
innovation on your campus? How are they collaborating across campuses?
How can we help as alumni? These students represent a sample
of
the best work being done on each campus that will transform the world
through technology. See how they are taking the IIT brand to the next
level.
Pan-IIT
Update (Part 2)
Location:
Grand Ballroom H
Moderator:
Arjun Malhotra
(CEO Techspan)
The IIT-alumni
global
network spans thousands of stellar individuals worldwide, and yet, is
one of the most untapped resource available to most of us - as alumni.
The iit50 in Jan'03
celebrated our first major alumni-led IIT global event in San Jose,
California. Since then, we have had one major IIT-alumni event either
in India or the USA. As we grow and mature the IIT-alumni movement,
join the steering council members share their vision, perspectives and
thoughts going forward.
Life
Beyond Technology: Breaking the glass ceiling
Location:
Great America JK
Moderator:
Sarah Lacy
(Author and Freelancer, BusinessWeek and Fortune)
Panelists:
Sheila Hooda
(Sr. Managing Director, TIAA-CREF), Vani Kola
(General Partner, NEA India Ventures), Carol Mills
(Board of Directors, Adobe Systems), Selvi
Stanislaus (Executive Officer, Franchise Tax Board)
There has never been
a
better time than the 21st century to be a woman.
Women can
now aspire to the highest position in all spheres: be it corporations,
politics of academia. But what does it take to get there? Join our
panel of women leaders and achievers discussing their approaches to
realizing their career aspiration, while balancing family expectations
and personal interests.
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