ANUSH NARASIMHAN
SAN FRANCISCO, AUG 26
The Indian Institute of Technology Bay Area Leadership Conference 2022, an initiative of the IITians of all IITs in San Francisco Bay Area, will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Saturday.
The day-laong conference brings together IIT alumni, industry veterans, leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, engineers, and other like-minded attendees around this year’s theme, “Reshaping the World in Transition.”
- The IITians in San Francisco Bay Area are coming together and organizing a Bay Area Leadership Conference
- The conference is open to all professionals and is not restricted to IITians.
Eminent speakers from Stanford University, Google, VMware and other companies will cover topics on storytelling, the future of sustainability, quantum computing, the democratization of AI, thriving in a multi-cloud era, and more.
There is a new message (graphic info) which is going viral among the Indian community in India and abroad is the immigrant founders who founded two or more unicorns in the US. The BusinessToday infographic has listed ten immigrants who founded two or more unicorns. What brings the moment of pride among the diaspora is the fact that four out of ten listed are from India. And interestingly, all of them are from IITs.
The list runs like this Mohit Aron, Jyoti Bansal, Ashutosh Garg and Ajeet Singh. All the three are from Delhi IIT and Ajeet from Kanpur. The list is expanding or will expand soon. It is a known fact that IIT alumni is a close-knit community who like to help each other. This goes beyond helping personally to mentoring their clan in starting new ventures. As a step towards this end, the IITians of all IITs in San Francisco Bay Area are coming together and organizing a Bay Area Leadership Conference this Saturday.
The leadership conference, is the largest IIT networking event on the West Coast. The conference is open to all professionals and is not restricted to IITians. IIT Bay Area is bringing together industry veterans, company founders, visionary investors, and trail-blazers to share their stories and vision that will inspire every one, according to Amit Gupta, president of IIT Bay Area.
Jyoti Bansal, who successfully steered two unicorns, AppDynamics and Harness, will be there to mentor his fellow IITians. The speakers and panelists include who’s who in the corporate US. There is ample time for the alumnae to meet with their old friends, classmates, and alumni in person. They can interact with fellow attendees to explore and expand their career. They can also explore opportunities in startups founded by fellow IITians. There will be a show case of startups founded by IITians.
(Anush Narasimhan, a 10th grader at Summit Denali Public School, Sunnyvale, CA, is an intern at navjeevanexpress.com)
